On one of las vegass busiest highways. With the last rain falling overfour months ago, the oily roads mixed with the fresh water have become a lethal recipe for disaster. In the driving seat is sergeantjohn arias, from nevada highway patrol. Hes using waycare, software that alerts him to an incident as soon as its reported via someone calling 911 or through driving apps like waze and it provides him with details and the best route to get to the scene. Itll tell me the location, what kind of accident, if its debris, how long its going and if theres any responders that are assigned to the call that are on their way. It constantly updates him on the situation as it develops. Having a robust system in place doesntjust help with weather related collisions. With our route 91 shooting that we had at mandalay, for the portion that we handled in the highway patrol, its really getting the public thats on the strip off the highway as quickly as possible, or closing off the freeway so we can have
From highway 4 to the maze, just under 20 minutes. But its definitely getting crowded out there. Minor slowdowns as you approach the Richmond San Rafael bridge. But still an easy ride across the span about 5 minutes. So thats looking good. You can start to see those slowdowns along the eastshore freeway into berkeley. Then at the bay bridge toll plaza, wow thats crowded. We have metering lights on, about drivers from the maze into San Francisco. And the backup is stretching towards the foot of the maze. Expect delays this morning. A low pressure area that came through yesterday will continue affect our forecast today. Today is the last full day of summer. Clear skies at Mineta International airport with an air temperature of 57 degrees. Winds under 10 there but the winds have been fluctuating. Santa rosa at 47. Sfo winds to 15. 16 San Francisco. 10 in berkeley. Also in novato. And a wind under 10 Miles Per Hour in fairfield. Temperatures today unseasonably of l in the 60s to the mid si
Shanghai composite up by 0. 2 . The dax is down by 2 . The tenyear yield, 2. 24 . A couple of big headlines were watching. First one, crude prices. Wti crude trading higher after the ministers of saudi arabia and russia agreed needing to extend the cuts. Including russia agreed to cut output. Deciding whether to extend that agreement. A lot of folks will be watching for that. Also, a big developing story out of north korea, the Company Announcing the missile that carried a heavy Nuclear Warhead is capable of hitting targets in the pacific. The latest launch was widely condemned by the u. S. , japan and south korea. The white house calling north korea a, quote, fragrant menace. And urged allies to enforce stronger sanctions. And then on this weeks agenda, it say big week for retail earning. Those earnings have been not so hot. Home depot and tjx. And wednesday, target and l brands. Thursday, walmart and gap. Also getting results from cisco, alibaba and campbells soup. And some disruptio
If you check out crude oil, which is probably the biggest market story weve been watching for a week or so crude Oil Yesterday was up slightly to 42. 74. This morning up to 42. 84 youre still talking about wti below 43 a barrel. Americas 34 largest banks did well in the stress test. The results show even during a large recession large banks would be well capitalized and could support homes and businesses when times are tough. The second part of the stress test will be released next wednesday. There are talks about whether things might have loosened up a bit with the fed. Doug parker says he is not happy with Qatar Airlines plan to buy a 10 stake in the company. Parker telling phil lebeau he found out about it yesterday parker telling cnbcs phil lebeau he found yesterdays offer confusing, adding why an airline were aggressively fighting would want to take a stake makes no sense he wonders if the motivations were misguided and ill conceived. They have been fighting over policy in washing
Good morning and welcome to squawk alley. Carl and kayla l. A. Are off today but we have a secret weapon, an anchor you know and love who es unafraid to step in, kelly evans joining me at post 9. Thanks for having me. Donald trump lighting up twitter in the last 24 hours sparking debate from everything from china and a possible Nuclear Arms Race with russia to the militarys overruns. Eamon javers is in our Nations Capital with all the details. Good morning, john. An astonishing 24 hours, starting with that tweet donald trump put out about expanding u. S. Nuclear capability. That provoked a flurry of reactions including this morning on morning joe on msnbc in which mika brzezinski, the host there, said she had a chance to speak to donald trump off camera on the phone and he told her what he meant in his tweet. Heres the way she framed it this morning. Its getting a lot of attention. Mika asked the president elect while we had the opportunity, what his position was on trying to clarify t