The senate currently is in 30hour debate period before voting on Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch. Melissa back to the markets, the dow pulling back in the final hours of trading. Lori rothman is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori, what is behind the downturn . Reporter politics, melissa, summing it up. Markets broke 2 30 p. M. Eastern that steps are underway to remove Bashar Alassad in syria, in response to the chemical attack earlier this week. That changed sentiment. We saw a pretty significant reversal. The dow gave up 200 points. Today it was about 85 points. The dow managed to hold on to 15 of those points. Some of the gainers were the banks also. Politics, the chief Economic Advisor gary cohn says that he does back the separation of the big wall street banks and commercial banking from investment banking, socalled glasssteagall which was originally repeal in 1999. He is in favor of doing that but no real Firm Commitments to it, so banks did hold on to the gains
And other leaders in the united nations. Brent it is good to have you with us. We begin with the situation in syria. The u. S. President donald trump has hinted at a possible intervention in the country after a suspected gas attacon a rebeheld tn they are left week. At least 70 people were killed. There are claims of that russian planes hit a chemical depot held by rebels. Correspondent these men are carrying gathering chemical samples from the streets. They say they are also doing tests for chemicals on animals found in the area. They hope to preserve evidence that can be used in an investigation. Western leaders believe that the evidence is already overwhelming. Obviously there is a cocktail of chemicals. Quartering, other substances and you see the pictures, it is terrible. That is Bashar Alassads regime. Correspondent at the u. N. Headquarters, special investigator echoed that comment. War, when more women and children die than grown, armed men is a very dirty war. A war where chil
Speeds begin to accelerate, as a cold front comes through from 8 00 to 11 00 and well begin to see the rain locally heavy at times and check out the wind speeds, hour by hour from 8 00 and look at Half Moon Bay and livermore by 11 00, wind speeds above 40 Miles Per Hour with some higher gusts in the hills. Were tracking this storm for you hour by hour in our full forecast. A chance of thunder and a second storm arriving now for tomorrow evenings commute. The timeline on the storm in our full forecast at 5 16. Well hold fon a wild ride in the next 24 hours. As the storm moves in, track the conditions specific to your area with our bay area app. Access our live doppler radar, the same ones the meteorologist use and go to detailed forecast for your neighborhood. Well a swarm of activity outside of the county jail in redwood city. Take a look, a high profile murder case with the recordsetting bail. 70 million in total bail. Tiffany li is accused of killing her ex boyfriend. She walked out
And hilltop wind speeds have potential to get above 60 Miles Per Hour. So the issue there, down trees on roadways and Power Outages are possible and in addition to heavy rain at times and isolated thunder and how much of this will stick around for tomorrow mornings commute in the full forecast in about eight minutes. Thanks, rob. Like so many local cities, it is tough in orinda, a string of trouble for the scenic east bay spot from sinkholes to mudslides thrk could be another this could be another frustrating few days. We are in orinda with the latest this evening. Chuck . Reporter it is raining here steadily for the last 45 minutes. And a steady rain could only make this situation worse. A mudslide a month ago that roared into this house, turning it into a red tag property, is now just beginning to get some work done on it and now the storm comes and with a lot of work yet to be done. Paul hopes this the new storm doesnt restart a mudslide that lambed into his home a month ago. It see
Can i just quickly to ask you if the Chemical Attacks crosses a red line for you . That crosses many, many lines, beyond the red line. President trump talks tough on syria. This is a time for President Trump to show the world hes not president obama. With syrian instead of a policy, instead of action theres just blame. Blame doesnt solve the problem. The country is safer with Steven Bannon not on the National Security council. This is just a Natural Evolution to ensure the National Security council is organized in a way that best serves the president. On capitol hill today, after weeks of fighting over Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch democrats are set to filibuster. Judge gorsuch will be justice gorsuch. We are talking rain and quite a bit of rain. Whoa, whoa the latest round of Severe Weather that swept across the south is moving into the midatlantic. Its going to be developing even more as it heads towards the east. President trump defending bill oreilly in the wake of Sexual Hara