Oil takes another tumble. Today the price of oil sank below 30 a barrel and was trading at the lowest level since 2003. Today walmart announced plans to close 260 stores worldwide, including 154 here in the united states. Ktvu fox 2s tom vicar live. One of the Bay Area Stores set to close . Reporter yeah, this is the one at oakland right near the oakland airport. You see it on the 880. One of their very big stores. The other one closing in the bay area is the one on monterey highway in san jose. This has to be put in perspective. Here are the number. 154 u. S. Stores are going to close. 115 more worldwide, mostly in brazil. The bay area is affected by the closure of two stores and california has nine stores closed. In a normal situation, since we represent 15 of the population, that would be 22. But our economy is so good compared to the rest of the nation, we are losing nine stores in all of the state. Of the 154 u. S. Stores that are closing, 102 express stores are closing. They were
Story that were following. Wti falling. You have to go back to may 2010 to see prices like this. The number to watch is 67. 15. Right now, down by about 6 to 69. 32. Well below what weve seen at this point. If it fell down to 67. 15 that would be the lowest price since september 2009. The cartel deciding against cutting prices. First, check out some of the fallout to this route in oil prices. Youll see exxon, chevron, bp all trading sharply lower this morning. Bp down by more than 6 . The Global Equity market taking note of this dramatic fall in oil. Lty at this point, dow futures would open by 35 points, s p down by 4 points and nasdaq is up by just over 5 points. In asia within up by 2. 3 . Shanghai composite closing up by 2 . Hang seng is relatively flat. Trade in europe, maybe some of the oil taking its toll there, as well. The cac down by more than 0. 5 . The ftse in london down by 0. 7 . Steve sedgwick is standing by in london. He is just back from that opec meeting. Steve, this
Going to go down as a result of the refugee overflow. So a story being written. Priscilla gaines. I work a lot with professionals to deal with abuse. He said part of building resiliency is learning how to fail successfully. I love that. Could you talk a little bit about the youth and building resiliency through the parents and educators . Absolutely. I think we really do need to redefine what skills our Education System is trying to train for. Walter spoke eloquently in the last session about science and humanities and all of those. Obviously im an educator and i believe that all of those are critical but we need to teach our children how to cope successfully, how to fail more safely how to draw outside the lines, not just draw inside the lines. Our Education System is often focused on learning how to draw inside the lines. I think now i hope through this book and her other books that educators particularly in k12 will be thinking about that because we are losing our integration capaci
Broadcast center, this is abc7 news. The rain has arrived. Here is a look at live doppler 7hd and you can see the leading edge of the system. While it may be light, we may be in for a wet and slow morning commute. Im dan ashley. Im amadaetz. Sandhya patel is tracking the rain and she is here now with live doppler 7hd. You can see the rain drops from our exploratorium camera. The streets are starting to get wet as we look at the radar right now. It is tracking moisture. So far light showers around snap paw and San Francisco napa and San Francisco and ukiah. Here is the actual heavier concentration and moderated rainfall. San mateo right now. We will continue to see some very light returns. Half moon bay, san mateo, san bruno right now. South San Francisco. You will need the wipers and up to the north we have seen about. 12 of an inch of rain in crescent city. This front is stretching out, but it will make for a wet commute. We are expecting showers, so make sure you use your umbrellas.
Broadcast center, this is abc7 news. The rain has arrived. Here is a look at live doppler 7hd and you can see the leading edge of the system. While it may be light, we may be in for a wet and slow morning commute. Im dan ashley. Im amadaetz. Sandhya patel is tracking the rain and she is here now with live doppler 7hd. You can see the rain drops from our exploratorium camera. The streets are starting to get wet as we look at the radar right now. It is tracking moisture. So far light showers around snap paw and San Francisco napa and San Francisco and ukiah. Here is the actual heavier concentration and moderated rainfall. San mateo right now. We will continue to see some very light returns. Half moon bay, san mateo, san bruno right now. South San Francisco. You will need the wipers and up to the north we have seen about. 12 of an inch of rain in crescent city. This front is stretching out, but it will make for a wet commute. We are expecting showers, so make sure you use your umbrellas.