And teen vaping warnings. Hear from an 18yearold who says he got a hole in his lung from over using ecigarettes as the cdc looks into 94 possible cases of severe lung illness associated with vaping. Monday, august 19th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I think this is the metal falling and thats when i real ooilzd the trampoline was up in the tree. Severe weather across the northern u. S. In pennsylvania nine people were hurt when a Lightning Strike sent a tree toppling on to a tent at a swim club. Federal Authorities Say they recently foiled at least three mass shooting plots. Authorities arrested three different men in three different states. An Iranian Oil Tanker caught in a standoff with the west set sail from gibraltar after a court released it. The president says he is interested in buying greenland. Protesters poured into the streets of hong kong in a peaceful demonstration. Id like to see hong kong worked out in a very humanitarian fashion. I hope presid
Fleeing danger in libya but also violence related injuries where people have been struck with guns or were beaten with sticks. Or had thought of liquid or on them. It was extremely clear about all of these people on board the ocean biking right now is that they have gone through a traumatic experience both during their time in libya and over the course of their time at sea many of them were at sea for days before being rescued by the russian boinking and now theyve been stuck on board for over a week and are clearly left in limbo without a clue as to whats going to happen next. The italian in terry minnesota. Has been empowered by a law which allows him to fine and confiscate these vessels but also to continue to deny them entry where does that leave your position what is your Long Term Plan can you continue to operate these rescue ships will you eventually be faced with the prospect of having to dock in libya which youre trying to avoid our fate rests in the hands of the authorities a
Overnight that washington could be delaying easing up restrictions on huawei as part of the trade war deepening tensions potentiallimentpotentially ment and we have the s p 500 and the dow coming off some highs yesterday. Overnight in asia, we had some interesting news out of japan. Theyre changing the way theyre buying maturities across the yield curve. We have the nikkei higher by 0. 4 we have red arrows on the hang seng and shanghai. New china data overnight that showed food prices surging 9 , largely in part due to a surge in vegetable and pork prices european equities, down arrows across the board the dax is down by 0. 9 . Treasury yields, this has been the focus all week, yesterday the intraday on the tenyear yield was 1. 793 we are seeing extraordinary moves on a daytoday basis. Getting close to the twoyear feeling it feeling it feeling it little resecessionary feeling i. We have one other piece of Corporate News to bring you. Uber shears undehears unde s uber shears undhares un
The nikkei was off by. 10. Hang seng managed to edge higher by 1 3 of a percent. Shanghai comp down. 4 of a percent. Over in europe, take a check there. We have red arrows aside from italy which is managing a. 6 percent of a gain. The dax is down by half a percent. As for treasury yields, it seems to be in focus it has been in focus as we are waiting. Fed chair jay powell might say about a potential rate cut in july the twoyear now 1. 925 . Quite a steep rise considering that the recent low is 1. 696 . 195 on a close. Amazing yields. Obviously stretched lower in trade news, top u. S. Officials, talks back on the hill the first high level talks with the chinese counterparts yesterday. They continue to try to work out a trade deal people close to the conversation say both sides are going to continue talking but that existing tariffs could be, in their words, the new normal. Netflix is losing another high profile tv property next year friends is moving to warner streaming service hbo max.
Your future. Now, becky quick we begin with the booming business of cannabis but with those potential riches come this is reality theres a much bigger boom in the black market of weed that is crippling legal sales. Whats going on inside dispen dispensa dispensaries melissa lee as our lead story investigation, weed killers. Reporter its a weekday afternoon in los angeles the epicenter of cannabis in the united states. This busy dispensary is open for business hi. Reporter but if everything looks normal, it isnt this is, in fact, an unlicensed, illegal dispensary part of the booming black market in california and around the country. Its what the cannabis industry says could be the biggest threat to sky high expected revenues. The Legal Cannabis market in air very short period of time is going to grow from 0 to somewhere in the neighborhoo of 50 to 75 billion. Reporter that optimism faces this reality an estimated 70 billion in illegal marijuana sales nationally seven times the legal mark