Death toll tops 2100. An urgent search here in the United States, an escaped killer is taking new steps to try and blend in. Plus a victory for spanish soccer players, this kiss is out. Details. On life news. And it is 7 00 a. M. In morocco where many have spent yet another night outside after fridays powerful and deadly earthquake. More than 2100 people have been reported killed and rescuers continue to dig through the rubble in a frantic search for survivors. The 6. 2 quake is the strongest to hit morocco in over 120 years. Near the quakes etch center in the Atlas Mountains scenes of destruction and devastation with homes and small villages reduced literally just to piles of rubble. Rescuers in morocco are still digging through that rubility and of course they are clinging for hope that they will find survivors. Many who did make it through are sleeping outside in alternates. More from marrakech. Reporter still grappling with the aftermath of the 6. 8 earthquake. Marrakech, families
Year im Brian Sullivan welcome. Power lunch begins right now she works hard for the money so hard for it, honey im Michelle Carusocabrera at the New York Stock Exchange back in rally mode, the markets, highest in three days been all three indices on track for a positive week. Dow jones industrial average higher by triple digits. These days only a gain of half percent. How much of a rally over the last year. Goldman sachs, two names leading the dow higher Goldman Sachs and chevron hitting a threeyear high, by the way. Energy, outperforming, etx, xle on pace for its best in the year and all big winners. Alltime highs, home depot, c t caterpill caterpillar, fedex, and big loser, pg e due to california wildfires. Beginning the hour with breaking news on the fed Steve Liesman joins us with more. Thanks. Cnbc learned from sources familiar with the situation that leary lindsey commit considered fed vice chair job, lindsey interested in exploring the job. We dont know what status the discussio
Fighrs have bn defending a Syrian Border town against possible attacks by Islamic State forces. In early 2015, the kurds, backed by western airstrikes, managed to end and i. S. Siege of the town. Kurdish fighters finally town in 2015. During the occupation, Islamic State fighters massacred several thousand civilians. In october 2017, a syrianbased alliance led by kurdish fighters captured the capital of the Islamic State since 2014. The Islamic State caliphate has now collapsed, but Turkish Forces have launched a campaign against kurdish fighters in Northern Syria. Have the kurds been betrayed by the west . Your Opening Statement said in essence you do think they have been betrayed or at least led on by the u. S. Coalition. Would you say that the u. S. And its allies willfully turned a blind eye to the claims and interests of the kurds in their eagerness to work with them against Islamic State . Daniel to be honest, i think the deal was clear from the beginning. A kurdish friend recent
I want to start with finance, first of all, the Digital Currency world. While we spend time talking about bitcoin, theres another that you guys have been looking into. Reporter part of this is the crypto boom and maybe the receding of said boom that has created a lot of confusion. It seems like bitcoin is a hot thing, and then ethereum and ether. Where i supposed to get into am this . Another one that has caught a lot of attention recently is ripple, so we wanted to take a hard look at ripple. One of the things we did is, in talking to the Banking Community because ripple says it is a banking solution they say you dont know what this is for. Xrp, the Digital Currency affiliated with ripple, the thing is sort of like, what is this going to be for . Theres still reason to be really skeptical. Carol it makes you scratch your head a little bit because we know the Financial Community says we are new to digital currencies, doing collaborations or looking at blockchains. We know theres activi
Hottest day of the year so far. Yeah exactly angie. The forecast high today at Reagan National 98 degrees. When you combine the heat and humidity this afternoon, temperatures are feeling like theyre around 100 degrees because of the extreme heat and humidity. The Weather Service with a weather heat advisory. This will run through 8 00 p. M. This evening. The current heat index in the 70s and 80s. Already feeling like its 82 degrees in washington. Feeling about 72 in frederick. So heres your feels like temperature at 9 00 a. M. Already feeling like its in the upper 80s. If you want to go for a run do it now. By noon, feeling like its 100 degrees. 102 in washington. Coming up, im showing you what it will feel like in your neighborhood. Thanks. As you said a heat wave is on the way today. If you walk outside its going to feel like its more than 100 degrees as amelia just mentioned. Dozens of cooling center will be open in maryland as well as virginia and we put a comprehensive list togeth