there. you can see the details of the clouds. thinks going to move the length of the bahamas, potentially devastating affects for them. unfortunately a lot of warm water to travel, and we do think the storm will intensify yet again possibly to a category 4 within the next 12 to 24 hours. cat 3 as we head into thursday. category 4 towards friday, category 3, brushing or on top of cape hatteras as a major hurricane. we are dealing with hurricane force winds 200 miles away from the storm and a quick wab he will could be the difference between tropical storm winds or hurricane winds. 12 inches of rainfall on top of record-setting rain across the northeast. jenna, the northeast, you need to be paying attention and maybe make other plans this weekend. no beach weekends unfortunately. jenna: jon got a little tearee i d when you said the ham tons. i don t know if he was e-mailing
the losses we saw in the month of june, already people are coming in with the expectation we could get good numbers today. it looks like the market is up by 14 or 15 points. auto sales could come in with positive surprises the i.s.m. could come in better than we thought at the beginning of the week and maybe consumer confidence will be better too. we ll see how it goes. they are out at the ham tons but still watching and markets are still moving. june stunk, it s now july. we ll see. becky quick at cnbc world headquarters. happy independence day. you too. could there be room for an independent candidate in the 2012 presidential race. we re looking at the growing power of the independent voter and what issues are most important to them. first a look ahead at the president s schedule, not much going on. going to camp david this weekend, which also means we re not seeing him on the golf course this weekend. you re watching the daily rundown on msnbc. that s the way, uh-huh, uh-h
he s almost a member of british royalty. he s loved here. obviously. this is the front page of one of the newspapers today. he s marrying nancy shevell. a new yorker. he met her in an exclusive ham tons. just to give you some numbers, they have been together for four years. this will be their third marriage. she s the second american that he s to marry. of course, his first wife, linda mccartney, who very sadly died of breast cancer, you know. he s trying to find love since then with heather mills. that went terribly. now he s trying again. so someone wrote in the song all you need is love. i think so. apparently he likes the new york girls. his first wife, great love, she was from scarsdale, new york. they are not far from where he
let me show you the front page of one of our newspapers here, though. front page news. wed for the third time. it says he told friends that he couldn t be happier. after his last troubled relationship, they think that this one is going to be all right. friends describe them as the perfect couple. paul mccartney appeared with nancy shevell at a ball last week he already asked her to marry him. the girlfriend of four years will become his third wife and second american woman he has married. they met at the exclusive ham tons where they both own houses. the british newspaper this morning splashing the news across the front pages. sir paul declaring once again that he needs somebody. but this is not just anybody. nancy shevell gets along well with mccartney s children. amazing. reporter: she s a new york businesswoman with her own
met nancy in the ham tons. exactly. he clearly loves american women. he spent a lot of time in new york, obviously. he is an international superstar. as well as being loved here in the uk. he s 68, by the way. quite a few years past that time when he once would be sending valentine. she is 51. a lot younger. friends reportedly say there is great chemistry between them and they are great for each other. he doesn t look 68. he keeps looking younger and younger. i don t know what his secret is. she looks fantastic, too. a great looking couple. best of luck to them and we will talk to you again. up next, only one day left to get your mother s day shopping done. this year americans are spending more money on mom. we will take a look at those popular gifts when msnbc saturday returns. aaah! [ airplane engine whines ] [ grunts ] [ dog barking ]