On cbs this morning. His new plan to keep passengers happy and what the airline is doing to help hurricane victims. But we begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The governor of puerto rico is so thankful for the great job that were doing. And its the most difficult job because its on the island, its on an island in the middle of the ocean. The president defends his response to Hurricane Maria. The president has called, has pledged his support. Steve bannons candidate emerges victorious over President Trumps choice in the Republican Senate Runoff Election in alabama. North korea is readying for war, coming as President Trump ups the rhetorical ante. It will be devastating, i can tell you that, devastating for north korea. Thats called the military action. A scandal rocks College Basketball. Four coaches among ten people charged in a bribery case. Theres jail time people could be facing here and this is now big. California fire crews are making progress on a m
That we are going to bring back jobs and wealth that have left our country in most people thought left our country for good. Maria what the proposal means for big business in new money coming up. The market this way after pretty good job yesterday. Investors have a final reading on secondquarter gdp due out in about two and half hours. Could be a market mover. The european indices this morning looking higher across the board. The dax index of a third of a percent in germany. St 100 in theacm fractionally. Asia overnight markets close this way. The nikkei average in japan up half a percent. Hang seng in hong kong down 1 . Also watching oil prices this morning. Crude oil touching its highest level since april 1952. 73 a barrel of other than 1 . Equifax apologizes as the newly minted ceo says hes sorry in a wall street journal oped to make things right and customers lock and unlock for life. The new production you need to know before ordering your new next iphone. The stock this morning n
Immediate writeoff for investments encourages spending on equipment of machinery. All of the above are progrowth, probusiness. Now, for individuals, Middle America wince. But for highincome people, not so again generous, maybe a higher rate if you make big money and wealthy in democrat states may lose lucrative reduction like the states right there. My opinion, something very much like this will pass. All right, now look at this. New fox poll confirm that is the president s Approval Rating is moving up. 42 now. It was in the mid30s just a few weeks ago. Things are looking up including the economy, growing at 3. 1 annualized rate in the second quarter. First time we have seen that in years. Varney company is about to begin. Our framework includes explicit commitment that tax reform will protect lowincome and middleincome households, not the wealthy and well connected. They can call me all they want, its not going to help. Im doing the right thing and its not good for me, believe me. Stu
Charter planes you were talking about when the domestic planes or domestic options were available to him and the question had come up for the president on multiple occasions would he fire secretary price. In the end it was to your point a resignation that was accepted from the secretary to the president this afternoon that came in and was released to us late in the afternoon at the white house. Now you mentioned the name don w right, the acting secretary one of prices deputies that takes over for now and well see what they do in terms of the search for a permanent replacement but after the president accepted that resignation but before we all knew about it before it was public he said this. At the white house, before leaving for new jersey, listen. President trump i was disappointed because i didnt like it, cosmetically or otherwise, i think hes a very fine person, i certainly dont like it. As i said we renegotiate deals, were renegotiating trade deals, were renegotiating as an example
You know, its still a mystery really. Well be looking into that. Reporter and finding tell tale signs of a potential rock fall is often impossible. Things are happening within the rock. They are usually not visible to us. And so after the rock fall occurs, we can see a lot better what was going on in there after the fact. Reporter with 150 deaths from 2006 to 2016, yosemite was the nations second most deadly National Park second only to lake meads 254. People falling or Natural Causes such as heart attacks while hiking are the most common reasons. Rock falls are very few and far between. We have a rock fall of the size that we saw yesterday every few years. The past 150 years there have been 1,000 major rock falls. Thats about 7 a year for the last 150 years. But few have ever claimed any lives. Even counting smaller falls, there are only about 80 significant yosemite rock falls a year. Thats enough to report. There are thousands and thousands too small and spread out over the parks al