Tonight to gain support in a state he barely lost in 2016. Well bring you any breaking comment from the president on china trade and Everything Else, if and when he stops and talks to reporters on the white house south lawn. Millions in the dark in california. Power outages extending for a second day. The reason behind what seems like a drastic measure. Maybe if there is a better solution. A new red flag for Social Security. The new numbers that have critics sounding the alarm. Melissa fox Business Team coverage. Edward lawrence at the office of the u. S. Trade representative in washington. Gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lets kick it off with edward. Reporter melissa, im looking over my shoulder any minute that door will open. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin has come out of there already. Appears the talks are wrapping up for the day. There is a lot of movement, the Chinese Trade Team will be leaving here. This is this round of facetoface talks, both in mara
President biden will head to israel tomorrow in a show of solidarity and to push for the release of americans being held hostage by hamas her hes coming here at a critical moment for israel, for the region and for the world. Overnight, israel amassing more soldiers and equipment at gaza ease border. Thousands of u. S. Troops now on notice to deploy. So whats next for the war and americas involvement . Well go oneonone with a Top White House official. Breaking overnight. The gunman in a brutal terror attack on soccer fans in belgium, tracked down and killed by police. What investigators just revealed about a possible mote i have. Decision day. The house set to vote on a new speaker after republicans meet behind closed door to drum up support for jim jordan. After two weeks of chaos on capitol hill, will it finally come to an end . Were live with the latest. Urgent manhunt. Inside the search for four inmates, including a murder suspect, who escaped from a georgia jail. How they got out a
Donation of 1 million. The details on his report at least initial 6 billiondollar request. Harvey wrecking havoc on the energy sector. Gas prices surging long lines forming at the pump. Major impact ahead on the busy travel weekend coming up. Futures are showing gains across the boards, dow, s p 500 and the nasdaq there, the dow and s p up in august, that was the fifth straight month of gains and the nasdaq up two months in a row. The nasdaq closed at alltime high yesterday. Investors, of course, eyeing the august jobs report due two and a half hours from now. Economists are expecting 180,000 jobs were added last month, tun employment rate Holding Steady at 4. 3 . We will bring you special coverage of the job report beginning 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. In the meantime, in europe lets check stocks there, england, france and germany we have gains across the board firing on all cylinders around the globe. In asia overnight markets were mixed with nikkei and shanghai heading higher. At home
Market is back up to momentum today with dow industrials set to up 13 points, nasdaq, s p up a fraction. Ftse is down a quarter of a percent. But the cac quarante in paris and dax index in germany are up. In asia markets closed mostly higher. Nikkei average in japan best performer up about 1 . Breaking news right now, new Orleans Police officer shot and killed in the line of duty. Shooting took place during routine patrol, we have the very latest developments out of new orleans earlier today. The devastation in california meanwhile spreading, the death toll from mass i have wild fires now rising to at least 31 making this the deadliest week of wild fires in the states history. Hollywood Sexual Harassment scandal expanding, head of Amazon Studios facing accusations and actress slamming at jeff bezos over twitter. Plus new questions over Harvey Weinstein, report saying that his contract essentially allowed for Sexual Harassment, the explosive details ahead. All the stories coming up this
Bezos, hes now the second richest person in the world. Right behind bill gates. And bezos has around 79 billion. He made 3 billion just overnight. Lets not forget google. This is extraordinary. Thats revenue up every single quarter for seven straight years, thats a juggernaut. That stock also going straight up at the opening bell today. All right, thats money. Now, politics. It takes longer than 100 days to drain the swamp. Oh, yes, it does. No vote on obamacare today, or tomorrow. It may be next week. And the left, no growth plan for the democrats. The New York Times and democrat leaders call the president s growth agenda, a give away to the pitch. They dont like it. Your money looking good. Politics and that swamp is still there. But its friday and were glad youre with us. Varney company is about to begin. Aint no stopping us now were on the move all right, okay, ill go with that. It seems like theres no stopping, certainly no stopping the big, big tech names that have been on such a