A delayed tax bill gop leadership in the white house putting off an announcement on tax reform as wrangling over how to pay for it continues. And tech is back on capitol hill for their role in the 2016 election and russias role we want to bring you up to speed on yesterdays deadly terror attack. Contessa brewer is in Lower Manhattan for us reporter good morning. Investigators are looking to see whether the suspected attacker had scouted this area in particular ahead of time or was he familiar with it because he was an uber driver Sayfullo Saipov left a note inside that rented home depot truck proclaiming isis lives forever in arabic. It was a home depot truck that he rented in new jersey. Investigators found at least one knife in the truck Law Enforcement believe saipov acted alone mowing down cyclists and pedestrians for 20 blocks. Its a very popular park path. And it ended, this attack, with a crash into a school bus very close to the World Trade Center near an elite Public High Scho
Uncertainty including the delay havee tax reform bill, we stocks. The bull is marching on. Btv 287,e a look at this represents the monthly gain for the dow. The dow has had its best months since february. The same thing for the nasdaq going to july. A strong october. Look at october of 2016. Big decline. October was a strong month. We have been having a strong thirdquarter earnings season. Oil tradingave higher after a bullish api report come a helping big names trade higher. Nearly 55 a barrel, pretty amazing. Above the 50 mark, psychologically important. In the best longest winning streak since july, we have some big earnings movers. Lets take a look at what some of the top stocks were. Including estee lauder and concorde resources. Earnings by put up 25 25 . Resources, clorox, their view is the midpoint trails estimate, but lots of strength here for these companies. Fueling those records, breaking news on the middle east. Its alliess asked for financial assistance, trying to repleni
Korea higher by a percent overnight. Looking at the action in the European Equity markets. The futures picture here, the dax higher by 1. 6 italy up by 1 green arrows across the board. Looking at the action in crude wti, highest level yesterday since february of 2017 today up by 1. 2 55 is the level. Brent is at 61. 59, up by more than a percent we will have more on the strong markets in a moment first were getting new details on yesterdays terror attack in new york city. Eight people are confirmed dead. Dozens of others injured after a man deliberately drove a truck down a bike path in lore manhattan. Lets get toContessa Brewer live on the scene with the latest good morning good morning the home depot truck used as Deadly Weapon still sits in the intersection behind me, blocked off by crime scene tape and surrounded by investigators. This is a tactic that isis has called for, turning everyday vehicles into Deadly Weapons and it was successful yesterday. Eight people dead. The number o
For you. I want to say that traffic is still very light in the bay area on 80 westbound, back of filled, fairfield and vallejo. The solano commute looks good if youre driving into vallejo and the carquinez bridge or on highway 37 toward marin county. This is a look at the east shore freeway. Between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze we have a nice drive. No major problems at the bay bridge toll plaza. A little bit of a backup but nothing major. We had a brush fire northbound 280 near race street. A were blocking one lane. They are all gone now and traffic is still very light. At 4 31 am, lets go back to the desk. The penalty phase of the sierra lamar murder trial starts today. Jurors will decide if the 26 yearold man convicted of her death will get life in prison for kidnapping and killing sierra lamar. Azenith smith talk to a legal analyst who says testimony will be very emotional on both sides. It affected me in a way that i felt like i lost a sister. I was close to her in
Like well get a positive open, but things reversed yesterday. Financials in particular. Europe you ask, jim, you didnt, but ill show it to you. All five of the big markets. You can see spain is the only loser thus far this morning. Continued strength in the euro markets. Eurozone look i think that draghi im not kidding, no conspiracy theory, keeping the euro lower. Theyre not happy with our president. A lot of unhappiness in a lot of places. Our road map starts with President Trump, as he is expected to withdraw from the paris agreement. The major names opposing the decisions and what elon musk said hell do if the president does withdraw. One of the companies by the way hewlettpackard coming up. Well have ceo meg whitman. Shell join us in an exclusive interview. The earnings which were reported after the bell yesterday. Opaque somewhat given a lot of a good word for it. I said difficult. You have to understand opaque is even more by the way its auto sales day. Out this hour, ford and g