Half of america. Social security numbers, birth dates, home addresses, phone numbers, even credit card numbers all in the hands of criminals. Ive heard from working families in massachusetts and all across the country since then. The equifax is a nightmare. At best it is a giant hassle. Time on hold with credit reporting agencies, fees for this service and that service, confusion about whats been stolen and what to do about it. At worst, it could be ruinous, a lifetime of responsible spending and borrowing wiped out by Identity Theft and fraud. People are outraged and rightly so. Bad enough that equifax was so sloppy that they let hackers into their system, but the companys response has been even worse. First, equifax hid the information about the breach for 40 days 40 days. Equifax gave criminals a 40day head start to use the information they had stolen while the rest of us were left in the dark. And then, when equifax fine lily decided to disclose the breach, they didnt call or send
Been used multiple times. The withstands picked up over winds picked up overnight. Ktvus alex savage is live. Reporter good morning to you. We are feeling those winds. It will be calm for a moment and then we get some real strong gusts thats starting to pick up. These are the northeast withstands. Theyre dry that are blowing into this area and its really caused this fire to pick up in intensity and its pushed it closer in here to the Sonoma Valley. Im going to step out of the way and give you a live look here. These are the hills kind of east of sonoma and for perspective, were on east napa street, just east of eighth street. For people familiar with this area, were start of the city that has been e vac voted. The evacuated. Those foot hills is close to the area of lovel valley road. There are homes come we dont know that have burned but there are homes in the Sonoma Valleys itself as this fire started to creep closer into the town of sonoma itself. I want to bring in Rockland Fire Dep
Yes. A busy earnings day. Also awaiting whole food reports in a major board shakeup. What to do with the grocery stock. Shares fractionally lower now. And you heard, boeing halted flights of its 737 max jets because of engine issues that surfaced over the weekend. Well have breaking details and the stocks suffering as a result of that anournnouncementannounc we begin with the story the whole country is talking about, fallout from president trumps surprise dismissal of fbi director james comey last night. Eamon javers and amy on capitol hill. Eamon, you first. Sanders here at the white house finishing up a briefing within the past hour or so. She made a number of points including that the president is going to meet with the new acting director of the fbi today. The search for a successor is beginning today. She also said that the president s thinking on this began mucherer than we learned when this news officially broke last night. What she said i think its been an erosion of confidence
The media loves this. The New York Times says Party Fissures have been exposed in an embarrassing setback for republicans, end quote. And here is a dire warning from the conservatives, if g. O. P. Senators blow this, say hello to Single Payer Health care. I repeat, this is not good news. However, yet again, political paralysis has not spilled over to the markets. The modest gain for the dow expected right there at the opening bell today. But the markets are getting nervous. And an another 100 point drop for the dow yesterday, all the big five Technology Stocks took a hit yesterday and there were modest rebound today, but thats not much. A modest rebound. Wait, theres more. Gas down again, see that smile . The white house calls out cnn and sarah palin sues the New York Times. Big day for politics and for your money. Varney company is about to begin. Now, the headline there was the collapse of venezuela and, yes, its really in crisis. Look at this. The countrys president maduro claims th
Board seat hes going to join us for a live and exclusive interview in this hour. Blue apron down almost 7 this morning as the stock is further from its ipo price a lot more on jeff besos competitive muscle. Stocks are looking to make more history 68 in total and next week will be even hotter. Make or break and some companies are real stand out i look at microsoft and think they can deliver theres negative commentary about ibm. Obviously this is the last Conference Call for ge lets see what they have to say. This is a make or break week it always has been this sets the tone for the quarter. It is a kind of remarkable time because a lot of these companies are very international and we have really good numbers out of china last night europe is coming back. Some will be saved by overseas retail sales over there. The estimates though, 68 for the quarter. It was 66 at the beginning of the quarter so we havent had them as they normally do. No, thats a big change the domestic economy is strong