Now becky quick. We begin with the weather we cant change it or improve it, though we can complain about it but as Steve Liesman found thanks to big data and supercomputers meteorologists could make predictions with greater accuracy and that could have a huge impact on local economy. Better weather is this weeks cover story. Reporter in develops companies, our smartphones warn us, but people around the globe lack even basic forecasts. But with super compute going ibm launched graph, a forecasting model. It says that graph will provide accurate forecasts not for a few places, but for the entire world. This model is named after the ancient god that ruled the super sky. It puts 12 trillion pieces of weather data every day for 26 million location around the world. The super computer is so fast, this massive model provides new forecasts every hour were getting down to kind of the Cellular Level of the thunderstorms now where we werent able to do that before and with that information we can
A lot of people will be relaxing lot more and gets into this complex mission. This is going to take six hours to get everything deployed into three different orbits. A very complex mission. Elon musk said it is the most complex mission that spacex has done so far. I cannot hear what you are saying from the sound of the rocket. I cant take my eyes off of it, it is mesmerizing. Talk to us about what this means for elon musk. This has been such a pet project of his. Spacex is performing incredibly well. This is more of the military side of things. They have this Successful Program to deliver payload to the International Space station. This is falcon heavy. Rockets attached toit taking people potentially mars missions. It has been used so many times before. It is an important step for the longerterm. I am sure elon musk will be hoping this mission goes incredibly well and they are able to successfully land the ande components factors take that falcon heavy for it the program. Manus good to
A controversial extradition bill again to the territories the chief executive calls wednesdays demonstrations a blatant organized riot protest organizers call for another mass demonstration on sunday. Plus the football womens world cup in france germany will almost certainly reach the knockout stages of the tournament after a hard fought one to win over spain. Im sumi so much got its good to have you with us we start with what could be another escalation of tension in the gulf region 2 oil tankers have reportedly been attacked in the gulf of oman near the strait of hormuz but a crews of both vessels have been evacuated theres a report that one of the tankers has sunk but its owner says it hasnt now the alleged. Attacks come at a time when tensions between the u. S. And iran are running high. To oil tankers in the gulf of oman damaged under mysterious circumstances their crews forced to evacuate its an incident reminiscent of the widely criticised sabotage attacks of last month. The nor
Asia. Coming to you live from new york city and hong kong. We are counting down to asias major market opens. Paul the top stories this hour, asian stocks poised for the next open with chinas july activity data ahead. Argentinian assets and in freefall with the government valuing the peso is a political outsider shakeup the election race. Chinas property crisis is rippling into the 3 trillion Wealth Management industry. Miss payments on Investment Products highlighting wide arrests. We meet the man who could be taiwans next president. He tells us exclusively how he plans to reissue voters and maintain peace. Shery look at how u. S. Traders are issuing. We are seeing outside after we saw major indices in the new york session gaining ground. Tech stocks leading the gain, seeing the best day in two weeks. It was low volumes across the board. We are talking about august as a slow month. Even small moves can make a big difference. The russell 2000, smaller stocks, falling to that onemonth lo
hello and welcome everyone. i m michael holmes in atlanta. appreciate your company. we begin with breaking news, and concerns about a possible widening of conflict in the middle east. the u.s. and uk have been striking houthi targets in yemen following a surge of attacks by the iran-backed rebels against commercial vessels in the red sea. have a look at these images that came in a short time ago, showing american fighter jets taking off from the uss eisenhower aircraft carrier. a senior u.s. military official says it is unclear what percentage of who the assets were destroyed inside yemen, but said the amount was significant. houthis say they retaliated. we are told u.s. and coalition forces hit more than 60 targets at 16 of the locations, and those targets included the militants radar systems along with storage and launch sites for ballistic myself, cruise missiles, and drones. i can show you where they are located. you can see there on the map, the u.s. has carried out s