Pete it is the 9 a. M. Hour of fox Friends Weekend. We start with this fox weather alert. Massive tornadoes tear through americas heartland leaving behind destruction in iowa e and nebraska amongst many other states. We have the latest updates. Will and its new york versus trump returning on tuesday after extabloid publisher david pecker claimed he never if used the term catch and kill with the former president. Carley plus, more americans say theyre being shamed into tipping even for coffees and selfservice kiosks. We have your responses on tipflation. The final hour of fox Friends Weekend starts right now. Will to a fox weather alert. Right now 55 million americans r alert one day after massive tornadoes tore across americas heartland. Carley at least 59 twist thers in texas, kansas, oklahoma, iowa and the hardest hit state has been nebraska. Pete fox weathers Nicole Valdes is in ilkhorn elkhorn, nebraska, with more. Reporter good morning. Look, its a sad day here where there are doz
Will allow these banks to comply with unnecessary requirements, many of which were designed to police much larger entities and more time infusing their communities in local Small Businesses with capital. Its also the start of Small Business week. Today ivanka trump will be participating in a conversation that the United States institute of peace with sva all right. Linda mcmahon and the Vice President will deliver remarks to the national Small Business week awards Program Later this afternoon. Back to the president s schedule, after speaking with the Community Bankers members, the president had lunch with Vice President pence, secretary of state tillerson, and secretary of defense mattis as well as National Security adviser mcmaster before meeting separately with secretary tillerson. I also want to mention this morning that fema held a Severe Weather coordination call to discuss impacts on the remaining threat for continued Severe Weather across portions of the southwest to the mississ
Tell us volatility is back, but were not seeing it. This morning the vix is trading at 10. It marked the second time this year that the vix traded below 10. Overnight in asia, take a look and youll see the nikkei was up by 0. 7 . Hang seng was up by a third of a percent. The shanghai was down by a third of a percentage point. In europe, some of the early trading, things are relatively calm. Ftse up by a half percentage point. Modest gains for the cac and dax. Among the top stories, big news out of hollywood. The Writers Guild of america reaching a tentative agreement with the alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers avoiding a Writers Strike. They reached an agreement just after midnight. The Writers Guild had threatened to strike today if an agreement was not in place. Infosys making a big bet on america. The Company Announcing it will create 10,000 jobs here in the United States of the next two years. Those jobs will focus on the cloud, Artificial Intelligence and big data
Finally a quick look at crude. You can buy a barrel of wti crude for 47. 49. Here are the big stories were watching. A phishing attack has targeted googles 1 billion gmail users. An email coming from a trusted source asks you to open a google document and it redirects you to a page to open a google goc pdo page, which then trooef retrie email addresses. Tim cook saying apple will start a 1 million fund to promote manufacturing jobs in the United States. Were creating an advanced manufacturing fund. Were initially putting 1 billion fund in the fund. This i did not know about. Were announcing it today, youre the first person im telling. And im not the first person, because we have talked to a company that were going to invest in, already. But this a billion dollars of apples 256 billion. A billion dollars of our u. S. Money, that we have to borrow to get, thats a whole other topic, but were really proud to do it. And by doing that, we can be the ripple in the pond, because if we can crea
Didnt dictate but weighed in quote like any father would. This is all happening, by the way, as the White House Daily press briefing wrapped up ahead of whats going to happen in just a few minutes where the president will speak live. This all happening as john kelly as chief of staff booted former Communications Director anthony scaramucci. Now, at any moment, we dont know if there will be a q a opportunity here, possibly not. But the president is scheduled to sit down in one of those chairs, at least at the podium and speak at the event that the white house calls part of its American Dream week. More than 100 Small Business owners invited to the white house to hear how the pro Business Administration plans to support the Growth Engine of the u. S. Economy. Were going to bring you this comments live when they happen. As we watch this historic market march. Evan tackling the politics end of it and remainoned james ceo paul riley here exclusively to explain how President Trumps actions o