A new holiday began in 2014. Part of the move to force people to take vacation days. They dont like to do it over there so they keep making more and more national holidays. This is about encouraging people toll of appreciate japan hes mountains. Shanghai was down half a percentage point. In europe and some of the early trading there, youll see most of the markets are in the green. The dax is up half a percentage point. The cac in france is up. 70 . The ftse down just. 30 . Crude oil prices as scott mentioned, look, its a pretty big deal. Iea warning its going to take a while to work it off. Wall street journal says saudi arabia hit output. Wti down this morning. Scott. On the agenda today. Kohls and macys reporting before the opening bell. Join in the 8 00 hour. Then after the bell, nordstroms releasing results on the data front. Weekly jobless claims are out. 8 30 eastern time. And export prices for the month of july. Among the stocks were watching today. U. S. Prosecutors have opened
Worlds fastest man yet again. Coming from behind to beat Justin Gatlin in the 100 meters. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 15th. From abc news, this is world news now. The amazing photo thats going viral this morning of bolt in front of everybody else smiling at the camera. We begin this morning, though, with the massive flooding in southern louisiana, especially around baton rouge. Theres a federal disaster declaration for four parishes with at least five people dead. The body of a woman whose car was swept away was recovered late last night. The numbers are simply staggering. More than 20,000 people have been rescued from their homes, and 10,000 spending this morning in shelters. Also rescued the approximately 1,000 drivers and passengers stranded for 24 hours or more on interstate 12. The National Guard used their helicopters throughout the day to deliver food, water, and medicine to those stranded as well as to remove people from their positions and bring th
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On the courts and the garbage cans fighting. Abc 15 live drive was out and about, keeping an eye on the wet roads. And a slippery commute across the east valley. And people in mesa, chandler, gilbert and into queen creek. They all had to deal with the slick conditions and even standing water. Rushing water. And not too much water gathering on the streets in phoenix, but definitely enough to get your car nice and dirty. Air 15 captured more drivers dealing with water on our roadways and you can see the cars making waves there. A reminder that if the water looks too high, turn around and dont drown. I did wash my car yesterday, iris. And that is why its raining. I know. A lot of folks washing the car because of the dust we had this week. This morning, the rain coming down and its coming down in some spots. I want to show you this live view with the mayo clinic valley cam and this is in north there over paestewa peak. And we still had flood alerts in affect, rather. A flood advisory for t
Today. It will be warmer than yesterday. That will be the trend over the next few days. Heading into the weekend and looking for a hot one, effort inland areas. Getting a look outside now at all of our microclimates. Its 67 in the trivalley. And 51 degrees in the north bay. The same start we had recently with low clouds near the coastline and mostly clear skies. It all clears out today with some more sun and up to 9 is degrees in the trivalley. Well lack ahead to this weekend coming up. Mike is still tracking whats happened earlier in San Francisco. We had a full closure of a connector ramp. Critical one. I was worried about this transition from southbound 101 basically off of octavia getting on to eastbound 80, your skyway 80 toward the bay bridge. Connector three minutes ago reopened. I suspect on the lower deck. If you want to stay clear of remaining activity take fourth. Good onramp. And tracking issues on the east shore freeway. There are a couple of crashes there. Well see what w