Yesterday but day we had reversal. A lot of people saying negative arrows would continue. Instead, Cheryl Casone we have green arrows. Melissa Technology Companies came in. Hello, everybody, im Cheryl Casone, in for melissa francis. This is after the bell. We have all eyes on the white house to see if President Trump responds to questions about james comeys firing and independent counsel appointed by Deputy Attorney general to head up the investigation into russias involvement in our election and if there were any ties to the trump campaign. We do have blake burman standing by in the east room of the white house. Break, what do you expect to hear . Do you think the president will answer questions after the statement with him and the colombian president . Port this one could go in any number of directions. Were here in the east room. This could go east, west, north, south, any way they take it, there are a litany of issues from the president on this day. The president making two big pie
Construction growing at modest to moderate rate. Wet weather across districts and a majority of districts have a positive nearterm outlook. The labor market continues to tighten. District cites shortages across a widening range of occupations and one firm had to raise salaries 10 . Rising input costs, lumber, steel and other commodities continue to go up. Prices fall for groceries, apparel and automobiles. District reports slowing Economic Growth but the tightening labor market coalmining firms continue to invest. Consumer spending sales in new york city lagged the rest of the region, but broadway theaters, revenue up 25 . San francisco, a quote from the report sales of retail goods grew modestly and growth in the consumer business and Services Sectors remain strong. Trish, if it were an automobile, a v8 firing on 7 cylinders. Trish yeah, look, talking about moderate, modest growth, i hear you, nothing necessarily in this report, though, that makes us go wow the economy is on fire. I s
Cnn staffers who talked about russia, russia, russia have resigned. And the tweet to bring already republican no votes. Vicepresident pence has a dinner to pile on the pressure and telling the republicans you may never have a better chance to improve health care, get it done. You add it up and the president s standing seems to be improving. The left, oh, dear, looking increasingly deficit. The granny over the cliff ad goes way over the top bringing violent imagery to the Health Care Debate and nancy pelosi says the Health Care Bill will kill hundreds of thousands of people. Senator al franken says its 2000. Trump will being up, the left in disarray. Varney company about to begin. All right, big Corporate News out of europe. Google fined 2. 7 billion, the european commission, theyre the finers, so to speak, ruling against google saying it abused its power by promoting its own shopping Comparison Service at the expense of at the top of its search results. The stock will open down just a
Loan that Police Treating barcelona Police Treating this as terrorist attack. Two gunmen stormed into a bar and it is believed they have taken hostages at that bar. It is turkish bar in barcelona. At this hour we do not know if the gunmen inside of the bar are same people involved in todays deadly crash. But as you can imagine intelligence officials are looking at those two seeing whether or not they may be linked. We watch ad market traded off on the news amid the geopolitical concerns, with the Dow Jones Industrial average off 174 point, a loss of nearly 1 on the s p 500. For the very latest on what is happening there in barcelona, i want to go to our very own Ashley Webster in the newsroom of the big headline being, they now have a suspect in custody. They have arrested someone, ashley . This according to a spanish broadcaster. I warn you they can be wildly inaccurate at times in situation just like this, trish, but theyre showing video of a person being arrested and showing a pictu
Arkansas governor mike huckabee. Governor, good to see you. Hes playing a little bit to the home team there, getting a very warm reception, and specifically on that line where he talked about the importance of border control, you heard a lot of applause. I think hes very popular with the military. Its becoming very obvious that they are so happy to see a handson commander in chief who understands that the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things, not to be a social experiment, not to go and, you know, build schools and roads, but to be a fighting force. And thats what theyre trained to do. But, look, i think its important that he went to macdill air base and to centcom. This isnt a president whos saying come see me, a few generals, hes going out there and shaking hands and talking to the enlisted personnel. Thats huge for morale, and i really believe its a great way for him to start. Trish governor, he said something that i think is very important. He quoted george wa