The president will bring a promise of money, manpower and the military. The gold coast needs at all. North koreas blatant provocation. Japanese people woken up by a red alert from broadcasters. Take cover at the north korean Ballistic Missile flew up ahead. The south Korean Military has responded with a live fire precision bombing run close to the north. No military response from america at this point. The president has not taken it off the table. I mistake on either side risks were. Investors dont like to hear that. Today they are selling. The dow opened sharply lower. But it is the human catastrophe unfolding in houston that is great the attention of the nation. Earlier in unthinkable forecast to 50 inches of rain, the still rising floodwaters and directly from people who have lost everything. Varney company is about to begin. Lets get right at it. The flood of biblical proportions. Jeff flock on the ground in houston. Am i right in saying the water levels are still rising . Reporter
Highest of nine months. Gainsre hanging onto the and the nasdaq going more deeply in the red after some disappointing earnings reports. One of the main themes of the session has to do with commodities. This is the imap and you will see materials and Energy Stocks if you take a look at that imap are the two bestperforming groups. Materials up 1. 5 and energy up 1. 4 even though the imap wheel is looking a bit mixed at the moment. Something else i wanted to look at is a global commodity monitor. Columnlook of the third over there, it is almost all green today. The only exception being sugar. In other words, we have a very broad commodity rally today from energy to metals to act. Some of that is due to the decline that we are seeing in the u. S. Dollar could the. The bloomberg dollar index hitting its lowest since last june. We have seen that in advance and a lot of those commodities. Having to deal with the u. S. Dollar is that short on the u. S. Dollar are going to a higher level. Heres
They did against maybe the most physical team in the pac12. Joel coming into this game, i thought the theme for uscs offense was the need to run the ball more. They relied too heavily on the pass game. They ran the gall. It wasnt all that great statistically. They averaged under 3 yards per carry. But it was what they did in the toughness of their offensive line and the physical nature with which their running backs played that was the stand out for them offensively. It was a great performance from usc. Gus and Molly Mcgrath is on the field with lights, cameron, action. Molly i am here with the man of the hour, cameron smith. The best performance of your college career. 3 interception. What was working . Player our defense played well. Credit the defense and the team. It was fun. Couple of weeks for your team. You guys pushed through. How necessary was this win as a motivator moving forward . Player it was huge for confidence. We have to keep playing better every week. Molly congrats.
And im john berman. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Officials are warning that the storms that killed six people in oklahoma and texas. Officials say the missing likely including some children are from two families gathered at a Vacation Home for the long weekend. That home just washed away in a flash flood. With the ground completely saturated, forecasters are warning there may be more flash flooding ahead. The Texas Governor greg abbott adding to the disaster declaration to 37 counties. We are urging all citizens to get out of harms way. Dont risk your lives by trying to not evacuate the water that may be rising. Across the region, hundreds of rescues and narrow escapes. Oh, my gosh he needs to get out oh my god that terrifying situation in Kendall County texas. It had a happy ending. The 68yearold driver was able to get out of that suv and make it to safety. Elsewhere, crews rescued people by land and water. This is in austin. This is in Caldwell County where a blackhawk helicopter pu
Im don lemon. Hurricane harvey, one of the most powerful hurricanes in years make land fall in texas. The storm pounding the coast with winds, knocking down trees. Power poles and signs with trurential rains deluging streets. The National Weather service in houston warning parts of south sex s could be uninhabitable for weeks or months. The president signing a disaster pr proclamation for the state. Our reporters are out tonight along the texas coast. Martin savidge is in Corpus Christi, texas. Martin, lets start with you. Give us the latest. Reporter yeah, it may seem a bit like the storm has subsided here in Corpus Christi. It has not. If you were outside of that shield, you would still be getting just blasted by the wind now and inundated by the rain. Its just the level of disaster that now seems to be unfolding. About 63,000 people, last report we had in Corpus Christi at least without electricity. So that is going to be an ongoing problem for some time. Theres also word there coul