Succeeded. In a surprise move, the worlds second largest economy devalued its currency by nearly 2 against the u. S. Dollar. Its largest devalue situation in 20 years. A weaker yuan would make chinas goods more affordable to foreign buyers so its being interpreted that chinas economy is in jeopardy of a deeper slow down which sent stocks tumbling. The dow jones fell to 17,402. Nasdaq dropped 65 and the s p 500 sank 20. Commodities also came under pressure since china is a big buyer of them. Oil fell to a sixyear low, down 4 to 4308 and a report from opec showed output increased to a threeyear high in july. And its not just stocks and commodities that are reeling. The impact could be wide reaching. It was a shot literally heard around the world. On a down day, chinas devalue situation of the yu a n is an anchor that dropped bonds and commodities yields around the world. I think screaming that china is in trouble, weve seen a series of data points out of china of a serious slow down. Rep
The heat again. This beautiful shot by our photographer andy heat wave number four is on the horizon. Hi, good evening, im ukee washington. Jessica is off tonight with only a few more week of summer on the calendar, this one will have you feeling the heat big time. Meteorologist kate bilo joins us now outside on the sky deck with when the rising temperatures are going to kick in and how high theyll go. Kate . Ukee, being outside right now its hard to believe were talking about a heat wave theres a beautiful breeze outside. Its not all that uncomfortable at all. In fact its a beautiful friday night. Weve got new moon, a starlit sky out here in philadelphia and all across the region, but tomorrow the mercury starts to rise. And once it rises into the 90s there it will stay for several days. Lets take you out to storm scan3. Not a whole lot going on outside there are some showers and storms back across the great lakes a few of those could try to sneak up towards the poconos tomorrow. Most
Its hard to believe were talking about a heat wave theres a beautiful breeze outside. Its not all that uncomfortable at all. In fact its a beautiful friday night. Weve got new moon, a starlit sky out here in philadelphia and all across the region, but tomorrow the mercury starts to rise. And once it rises into the 90s there it will stay for several days. Lets take you out to storm scan3. Not a whole lot going on outside there are some showers and storms back across the great lakes a few of those could try to sneak up towards the poconos tomorrow. Most of them will miss us but something to keep an eye out for maybe a few more clouds bubbling up in the afternoon. Otherwise its a very comfortable friday night. Were at 76 at air pot. 67 in millville. Flip those numbers a around. 72 at the Atlantic City airport and 71 in allentown. Mount pocono 64. At this time last night many spots were already down into the 60s. You can see the difference. Little bit of a southwest flow has kick up and th
Too. First time in the studio. Yes, our new team here. I love that. It is hot not just today, nicole but it will be the next five days we have lower 90s out there. If you like the the heat, this is your time. We will take it it is august. It is august after all. Time for the heat everybody. We will see it kick in as we head in the weekend today. The first day of the 90s streak. Heat wave on the way. Lets look at the current temperatures. Were already at 70 degrees in philadelphia you can see 62 mount pocono. Sixtysix in Atlantic City. You know it is 70 degrees and this early in the day that were heading somewhere. Live Neighborhood Network shows you that 70degree narc in bethlehem. We have 68 in bensalem. Birdboro69, and cinnaminson, 68. We will see a sloppy mess to the north and west. That ace weak cold front trying to make its way toward us. The it will not be very successful. We will see a lot of sunshine. But take a look at these numbers, saturday and sunday, sunny and in the 90s,
Harry thompson voices of the Northern Plains refers to the many different ways that life on this part of the country has been recorded. Either through letters or diaries or journals or photographs or objects as well. By the many, many different varieties of cultures that have lived here. What we wanted to accomplish and emphasized in the material you see in this exhibit is that more information can be gathered by just using the records we have on the second floor, our research core. The archives themselves, and also the research library. 40,000 volumes on the american west. Human habitation of the plains would date from well before the current era. Most anthropologists date north American Indians as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Plains culture. What you will see in this exhibit is much more recent, from about 1700. It is still precontact. Date contact periods in this part of the country from the french expedition along the Missouri River, the Andre Brothers and their father.