Fourth quarter profit rising 3 . U. S. Strength offsetting weakness elsewhere. News corp. Swings the 4th quarter loss but beats estimates as cost guiding in its News Division does pay off. You are watching worldwide exchange. A second hour of our show. Futures higher across the board in premarket trade. The dow up about 58 points. Nasdaq up 55. Positive earnings could help the index move higher but the chinese yuan extending its losses for the third day despite wednesdays intervention by the central bank. We have been keeping an eye on asian markets that did close higher across the board. What does that mean for the global index but right now its higher by 14 or 15 points on the day. We are slightly higher in todays trade. A big move to the upside. A rebound if you will. The german markets have been impacted by that move taken by the central bank to devalue the currency but some of those names coming back in todays trade. Thats helping the german index move higher by 1. 5 . The french
Mateo bridge just past the toll plaza and this is stacked up already for the monday morning commute. We are more delays to tell you about but first lets check the weather with Neda Iranpour. I am watching the doppler to show you what is going on, a lot of lightning strikes happening right now, some strong bands of rain coming through and places to the south, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara along the 101 and interstate 5, this strong sell picks up south of monterey, this is not necessarily our region but all of this is moving north and is expected to reach her area tonight. Look at these lightning strikes west of king city, soledad, and monterey could be next. It is causing some swirly conditions when it comes to winds, some coming out of the east and northeast and north winds, west winds, we are feeling the breeze. 10 mileperhour winds and san ramon just picked up southwest winds at 70 Miles Per Hour, this tends to happen, alejo 15 mileperhour winds coming out of the southwest, berke
Area into tomorrow we will cover the entire bay area. We are running well above where we were 24 hours ago on almost 11 double digits. You can see all the cloud cover so look for cloudy to mostly cloudy days. Eventually pushing in tuesday and wednesday meaning we have the possibility of lightning and thunder storms. 70, 80, 90s. Very muggy today. You have a couple things going on. Sal, what we have going on. We are starting on the ultimate crash because of a motorcyclist crash. I want to let you know how very slow it is on 580 and 205. Much slower than normal. Whether it is you are driving or perhaps you are waiting for someone coming in from the valley to get to the worksite, they are going to be late. I would say legitimately so because of the slow traffic caused by the motorcycle wreck. Not on 680 we had a truck that was there in the lanes. That has been cleared, however southbound traffic is still slow leaving pleasanton northbound 680 should start recovery. San mateo bridge we had
Steve on the ultima pass. We are just off of that westbound 580. We have a motorcycle accident westbound 580 just before the north exit. This had been already a slow commute but now it is even slower involving a motorcyclist in a construction truck because it is construction going on on the ultima pass. Now 205 is backed up a lot more than it normally is in 580 is very slow. If you drive from tracy or you are driving in lets say from even further than that and use the tracy triangle you need an extra 20 minutes just to stay on schedule. Hearing this you may want to even leave the house a half hour earlier. Downstream livermore and dublin looks pretty good all the way into castro valley. 880 and oakland looking good in both directions. At the bay bridge we are getting a little bit of a crowd. Seconds ago as south was talking officials in florida announced irma has been downgraded from hurricane to a Tropical Storm moving towards the western florida peninsula. Made landfall yesterday as
Thank you for joining us this morning. Good morning im david clark. There are reports of 10 deaths in cuba. It is moving toward southern florida. It made landfall as a power category 4 hurricane with 130 miles an hour winds. We do have video from jacksonville florida. Look at this, most of the downtown is flooded. Look at this water. Part of investigation gas station collapsed. There are Tornado Warning for parts of south florida. Here is more with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning, dave. The mayor telling people if they are stuck in their homes put a white flag out. Now of course; this is a Tropical Storm, it is still very dangerous at the winds here in orlando still doing a lot of damage. Never have i seen anything like this. Reporter Hurricane Irma knocking out power. I didnt think it was going to be this bad. I thought it was going to die down. Reporter people are seeking cover in shelters. Even those safe spot are running into trouble with supplies. We wont be able to move