150,000 mark as texas, california and florida see record fatalities. Infections spike in china, hong kong and japan as well. Hill. Tech titans on the the ceos of amazon and alphabet and Facebook Face a virtual grilling over antitrust. Haidi lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures opening flat, slightly higher that by. 1 . This after we saw u. S. Stocks extending gains in the regular session, the dollar declining estate as dovish as possible. The s p 500 gained more than 1 , adding to the july rally. 11 sectors were higher with tech leading the way. As i mentioned earlier, we are seeing that big tech antitrust showdown in congress ongoing at the moment. Nasdaq composite and at 1. 4 high. At a oneweek. The dollar weakness really resumed with the fed sticking with low rates. Look at what oil is doing. It has been the weak dollars supporting oil prices. We continue to see these gains of 41 a barrel. It was also propped up in the new york session by the biggest decli
Coverage from capitol hill including senator Marsha Blackburn in just a moment. Mean while carlos ghosn describing a government plot against him in marathon two hour press conference. We have that and so much more on making money. Iran appears to be standing down. The United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the iranian regime. These powerful sanctions will remain until iran changes its behavior. Charles President Trump laying out the next steps in his conflict iran after a missile attack on u. S. Bases in iraq. Senators are be to be briefed in moments. One of those senators Marsha Blackburn joins me now. Senator, thanks for joining me. Good to be with you, thank you. Charles it has been a remarkable 24 hours, hasnt it . It has been a remarkable 24 hours. I have to tell you give a lot of credit to our troops and to the president. I appreciated his comments today. I think our allies also appreciate that he is increasing sanctions on iran. I have t
Still in the vehicle, so they went back in the water. They pulled out hendrix as well. The woman was hospitalized, hendrix was not hurt. T ma crashed into the water in the first place. There is deep sorrow in south korea because of the death of another young star. 27yearold actor cha inha was found dead overnight at his home in seoul. He recently started a popular romantic comedy. Cha is the third young korean star to die in just two months. The other two were members of kpop bands whose deaths were treated as suspected suicides. The nations shipping companies bracing for a busier than ever holiday season. With today being National Package protection day, consumers, couriers, even local law enforcement, are coming up with innovative ways to take on socalled porch pirates. Heres abcs eva pilgrim. Hey, get away reporter theyre devious. Hey, put that down reporter sneaky. Theyre ready to spoil your holiday season. Porch pirates, scrooges who gleefully steal packages from your front stoop.
Bought on black friday and cyber monday so is your smart tv spying on you . Plus the peloton tv ad thats raising eyebrows and certainly raising conversation amid a growing controversy early today starts right now good to be with you. Im Frances Rivera and im cori coffin the impeachment inquiry is officially in the hands of the House Judiciary Committee this morning. Democrats will now try to take their case on why President Trump deserves impeachment by first laying out the constitutional groundwork here now, in just hours a bevy of constitutional scholars will be testifying at the judiciarys first public hearing on whether the president s actions are worthy of removal from office. And underpinning the case is the ruinous new report release the by the House Intelligence Committee. Nbcs tracie potts joins us with the very latest from d. C and tracie, this report really serves as a road map for impeachment for democrats. Reporter exactly, cori its 300 pages this is the report from the Ho
Now at 5 00, treacherous. Heavy rain pounding the bay area. So that means your morning commute will be put to the test. Good morning on this wednesday, december 4th. Jobina will have a look at the commute in a few minutes. First we get over to meteorologist mike nicco. Lets show you live no, well start with the storm impact scale. Our exclusive way of showing you are what to expect out of this storm today. Up to a third of inch is possible with ponding on the roadways during the morning commute. Altamont pass was foggy yesterday, its wet today withstanding water. Between livermore and dublin, we have a downpour hitting that area. Another part of the east bay is getting a downpour, highway 4 from Discovery Bay to pittsburg. The rest of us have a lot of green until you get into the santa cruz mountains, that will move into the south bay. Heres jobina with a look at the commute. Good morning. A live look at the richmondsan rafael bridge. You can see the rain is coming down from our video