There. The cac in france down by close to 1 . In italy the ftse was down by 2. 19 . The dax is off by just ov over. 60 . Also, well check out crude oil prices today. Crude oil after a big rebound you can see is down by 1. 25 . Wti for july, that is a new contract, is now trading at 47. 81. Okay. We have a big top story to talk about this morning. A potential deal, jer m bayer o a deal valued at 62 billion to buy monsanto. Lets talk to bayers ceo about th this, werner baumann, your decision came about how . Monsanto received a private offer from us. It was out in the open and we want to explain to the public and to shareholders what the content of the offer is and why it is so attractive to shareholders. Should we be taking your public stance as one where there are private negotiations are taking place, or should we take you going public to educate the public on what is going on and to put pressure on monsanto . Well, we are early days at this point in time. And we have submitted our of
Concerned after hearing a woman was attacked while walking her dog. It is pretty crazy that Something Like that happened around here. Scary. That is not something you would think about in a quiet neighborhood. Reporter the woman told officers she was walking on foundry street around 6 00 a. M. Thursday. A man came up behind her and kicked her. She told police she lost consciousness briefly fns. But that she may have been sexually assaulted also. The woman was able to get away, getting help at a nearby hospital. And im out at that time, yes. I have never seen or heard anything like that before. Reporter officers were back in the neighborhood friday patrolling the area. Police say the welcome was unable to give a suspect description. Ryan sloan says his wife normally walks their bassett hound around the neighborhood. Since this attack, not anymore. She seems pretty upset about it. She normally walks the dog by herself every day. Im pretty sure that wont be check over my back. Nancy now t
We have Team Coverage this afternoon. We want to begin with Spencer Christian with our accuweather update. Spencer . A serious soaking as we stated earlier is whats been happening all day long. The heaviest rains through the central part of the bay area. Most of the day, the heaviest rain has been up in the north bay. Now its shifting eastward, walnut creek and san ramone, pockets of heavy rain and larger pockets farther east towards antioch and discovery bay. Right around san mateo, were seeing a line of steady, heavy rain moving on shore, as well. Lets take a look at whats happening in the north bay where the river is Russian River, a Flood Warning has been issued from tomorrow night at 9 30 to monday night at 9 30 and is virtually this entire expanse of the Russian River. So the rain has been heavy there and will continue to be problematic. The next storm is catching up with the current storm, so thing also be messy. On the storm impact scale, the next storm will be a two or three.
Now the markets, after session lows down across the board, 1. 5 . The falling price of oil is bringing down energy stock. 1. 4 . P 500 is down the nasdaq is down 1. 6 . We did get good u. S. Retail sales data and Consumer Sentiment. As well as lower unemployment numbers. That is not to turn this around. For every one stock of, 8 stocks are down. For the week on this friday, the worst performance since november 13, we are down by 3. 5 and 70 points. The index is going 20 six sessions without back to back games. The record is 28 days. That was set in 1970 him and he hit it in april of 1994 and again this march. Two more days and we will tie it again. Three days, and it will be a new record. Oil, a lot of superlatives in the market. Nymex crude is down 2. 9 . It is down for the sixth day in a row. This is its longest losing streak since march. It is the lowest since february of 2009. Natural gas is falling, it had broken below the two dollar mark, and it has risen above that at two dollar