Us on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Then we got to the Porn Starriness. Trumps defense, i never slept to Stormy Daniels and didnt pay her to be quiet. Michael cohen paid her to be quiet. Hes such a great guy who i hope is torn apart by wild dogs. And i only paid him what i thought were legal fees. If i did anything at all, i did everything, which i didnt do, to protect my wife from finding out about the things i never did. Stephen colbert. Well go through the consequential day in court in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial with his former fixer and Attorney Michael Cohen on the stand. It will continue today. Well have expert legal analysis on the testimony and what we should expect in a few hours. Also ahead, well go through major developments in gaza. Israels military battling regrouped Hamas Terrorists in the north while weighing a fullscale assault on rafah in the south. Plus, the latest from ukraine and the surprise visit today by u. S. Secretary of state Antony B
Reverend Cecil Williams. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news good morning and thanks for waking up with us monday morning. Im darya and james, we are waking up this morning to some gray skies as you can see behind us here. The sun not quite as powerful as we at the club. The clouds are capped right over the bay those clouds. Can they create a little block between us and the sunshine this morning for a lot of spots, including san jose worry, as you can see, it is a blanket of the low gray overhead. So that is affecting areas not just right along the coastline. Were seeing some Poor Visibility in the north bay in some spots along the bay shore, too. So just make sure that youre ready, especially for some dense fog along 101 and then highway one as well. By late morning, were seeing more and more peeks of sunshine along the bay shore. But that fog remains pretty stubborn at the coast. Is this onshore breeze isnt really letting up much today. That is
But today, we see how metas outlook drag markets into negative territory after disappointing markets. But we have that outlier in hong kong where they hang seng, as you know, has been among the top performers globally this week, and hang seng tech is actually pulling ahead as well, but we are seeing a lot of concern for the japanese currencies, so lets take a closer look at what we are seeing on dollaryen. It has breached the 155 level. Take a look at how it has gone past remember when 152 seemed to be the line in the sand. We have gone way past that now. This is the weakest level we have seen dollaragain since june 1990. Then it was just a matter of a couple of days before it moved past to 160. The finance minister speaking in Parliament Saying they are watching very closely, but they cannot say much for now. What . Because we have the boj decision that is due tomorrow. Its not expected to change anything on rates, but given how weak japanese currency has been, it might send some hawk
Republican candidates apart from few headtohead explosions that we could have done without, there was more agreement on issues than disagreement, energy, inflation, over regulation, wokeness. China warnings. Biggest division was probably over ukraine. You could be unfair. And say there were no magical moments lines, but you know they are hard to come by, here is one memorable line from Ronald Reagan to remind everyone of what a memorable line sounds like. Governor reagan is against such a proposal. Governor, there you go again. Larry that one is still playing 40 years later. At different points in the debate, i think each of the candidates had their moment, i know that pundits are scrambling to pick winners and losers, but i dont think that anyone stood out, there may be some minor polling hiccups here and there, but the big picture does not change, former President Trump is still the overwhelming favorite to win g. O. P. Nomination. I dont think that debate last night, changes mr. Tru
Candidates. Theyre all smart people. Theyre all conservatives and apart from the few headtohead explosions that we all could have done without there was far more agreement on issues than disagreement. Energy, inflation, overregulation, wokeness, china warnings the biggest division was probably overukraine. You can be unfair there were no magical moment zinger lines but they are hard to come by. This is memorable one from Ronald Reagan. Governor reagan typically is against another proposal. Governor . There you to go again. Larry there you go, that one is still playing 40 years later. At different points during the debate each of the candidates had their moments. The pundits are scrambling around to pick winners and losers. Honestly i dont think anybody totally stood out. I dont think there were any real breakout, breakouts. Some minor polling hiccups here and there but frankly the big picture doesnt change. Former. President biden donald trump is overwhelming favorite to win the gop no