It could come down this hour. Were monitoring reports from the white house for any news. And the biggest private employer in the country making a huge announcement today. Walmart handing out bonuses, boosting its minimum wage thanks to tax reform. So what are the naysayers saying now . First to the markets, the dow closing at a record high for the fifth time this year. Chevron, boeing, intel, caterpillar, they are among the biggest winners. For more lets go to Nicole Petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, what is driving the markets today . Pretty amazing across the board optimism is back. Yesterday we talked about a few, to the downside, just fractionally. Today a different picture. As you can see dow, nasdaq, s p, russell, transports, all at record highs. Oil, an interesting story as both west texas and brent crude move to highest levels in three years. We look at chevron winner on Dow Jones Industrial average, hitting alltime high after an outperform reading
Students were gathered in a common area, witnesses say hundreds of students took off running and others eventually taken to a middle school nearby where parents could pick them up officials checking for damage after a magnitude 7. 9 earthquake hill of the gulf of alaska, 200 miles southwest of anchorage, it triggered us who know me watch along the california coast in a synonymy warning in southern alaska. That was the sound of emergency sirens going off in kodiak, alaska, 170 miles southwest of the center, even though it was the middle of the night the roads were crowded as people followed polices orders to seek Higher Ground. One voter try not to panic as he discussed his evacuation plan. I name is nathaniel, i am on a fishing vessel in kodiak in the harbor, we are about to take off and go to deeper waters. There have been reports of injuries, schools were open as emergency shelters as a precaution, 500 evacuees made their way into one high school. Us to know me watch cat to cancel 3
Karen is in Bennett Valley and said, steve, it smells like there is fog coming up from pat aloma. Spot on. I know exactly what shes talking about. If you thought you smell fog or something in jail is if we get a northeast wind things could erode rapidly. Thunderstorms yesterday popped up. I will mention is again today. Its hard to pinpoint those. The delta breeze picked up and is starting to decrease again. 50s on the temperatures. More so than we have seen. Everybodys running cooler today. Bigger fog bank. I dont think it will hold. In Southern California we have the low cloud so 60s, 70s, 80s by the bay. 90s to near 100 inland. I really want to drop temperatures a little bit but it so hard in this pattern. Depending on your proximity to the coast, a 40 degrees difference. Thats why people will drive to the coast. On saturday we had a lot of people driving. Sunday and the whole weekend. I get how people feel. This mornings commute has been not affected by the weather. It has just been
Council voted this weekend to unanimously sucker punch the rogue nation to the tune of 1 billion. Historic sanctions target everything from north koreas ability to trade coal, iron, led, seafood and guess what . China and russia joining the counsel, their hand finally forced by kim jonguns latest round of missile test just ten days ago. But is it all too little too late . Retired Lieutenant General served eight tours in the pacific region, hes with us on whether kim jongun is now really ready to go to war. And weve go on this breaking news. Bitcoin dramatically spiking to a new alltime high at this hour. Just as a controversial cryptocurrency leaked one of the most infamous lobbyists to ever walk the streets of dc is watching a new bitcoin reality show to help a bitcoin startup in congress not to kill the currency in its infancy. Jeff is here in a fox business exclusive. Plus, elon musks latest power play, it involves junk. And the top trade you should be making from your lawn chair. P
Today and its only going to get nicer this weekend. Indeed. Sun block, water, sun shades youre going to need it all. For your friday into saturday looks like its going to be the warmest day and we just havent been able to kick the winds. For our north bay hills and our east bay hills. Most of us experiencing that wind yesterday and for today were going to continue at least for the next few hours. Although i have seen it improve in many spots. If youre going to tahoe lake wind advisory here goes until 6 00 this afternoon and then the weekend looks good with the winds calming down there and the winds calming down here as well. Fairfield had a calming winds just some and these are northerly winds. When you have freeways like i80 that travel east to west, west to east youve got that wind right up against the side of your car. So especially for the high profile vehicles you may experience some difficulty driving out this morning. Novato reporting 15 miles an hour. Even the bridges. The san