Both banks reported betterthanexpected results but they warned there are still risks looming for the economy. Today our swing state economy series continues from here. The state of florida, were now in Pinellas County which could actually endp deciding the election. It is really the Battle Ground of all battlegrounds. Well talk coming up why that is the case from here in Clearwater Beach. First the news, fox Business Team coverage of todays top stories. Blake burman is the a the white house. Hillary vaughn reporting on the Supreme Court hearings from capitol hill. Both Jackie Deangelis and susan li are in our new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you. Reporter connell, when it comes to covid relief here in washington there is seemingly a disconnect on both end of pennsylvania avenue. Lets start with the other side up on capitol hill because Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell today suddenly announced that he would be putting up for a vote next monday a 500 billiondollar relief pac
todd: hurricane ian plowing through western cuba yesterday knocking out power to the entire country and devastating the most important tobacco farms in the country used to produce cuba s iconic cigars. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus, our reporters are live across florida this morning, we begin with senior meteorologist, janice dean who is tracking it from our studio. janice: they just upped the winds, that is a strong category four storm, the pressure has dropped by 10 millibars. it is strengthen as it approaches the coast, we r expecting landfall this afternoon. heightened awareness to the storm surge and for hours it will batter the coast and interior sections of florida. rain and wind and storm surge will impact coast of florida and inland will flood two-story homes at the coast. you don t have time, you can hide from the wind, you have to run from the storm surge. wind gusts in excess of 100 mile per hour for dura
The kid and it wont be a mess meet a woman making ginger bread houses since the 1860s. Boy is she tired. Also, lauren is over at santa headquarters, good morning, lauren. Reporter hi, guys speaking of help, hgtv stepped into help here at deptford mall, they want to make this experience as fun and interactive as possible when waiting to see santa we will walk you through it coming up. You know what they have there . They have a naughty and nice detector. You stand there and it determines if you are naughty or nice. Sam, eric, dan, okay, all right who is naughty, who is nice do that at your own risk thisser calling people out. Department forward mall. I would be afraid to go over there. Can you put a price on your holiday spirit . Apparently you had can. Not cheap. So the scientists, new researchers showed americans would be willing to pay, 250 to feel as excited as they were when they were a little kid running downstairs or up from the basement. And see the tree and all of the gifts, 25
Continues to be whether one of the buildings will collapse. Today is tuesday, february the 20th, good morning, im jim donovan. Im rahel solomon. Katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things this morning, good morning, guys. Good morning, of course happy tuesday. Yes, sim, speaking of the fire that happened in old city. Roads are still closed, yes, and it happened sunday morning , still block on the area. More on that, and of course visibility issues, speed restrictions in play because of fog. Right. It is reasonable old wide, too , you wont escape this anywhere in the entire delaware valley, this morning, and i actually think it will get worse before it gets better. Typically with this set up the worse of the Poor Visibility right before the sun comes up. Once that happens, thats when youll start to see the sun do its part to help scour out the fog and cloud cover. Here is that advisory everyone is in it, it will last until at least 10 00 a. M. This morning. So into and beyond the typ
Follows the release of the white paper from his Firm Yesterday on Procter Gamble in which they have a 3. 5 billion stake. Lets see if we had set up for what appears to be a lower open at this point. The broader averages down ever so slightly. Things were mixed to a certain extent some what mixed action there as for euro zone indices, they have been done and you can see again mixed because i like to add germanys dax is up ever so slightly the ten year note yield has been the story for the entire week and it still is at 2. 05. Of course pressuring equities when you think about the financials theres wti and brent. Lets get to our road map this morning. It does start with that hurricane. Hurricane irma bearing down on florida and government Officials Say it will devastate the United States. Plus that massive data breach equifax reporting a cyberattack potentially compromised the personal data for nearly half of all american adults. And nelson peltz unveils his plans to shake up Procter Gam