And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. All three major averages at session lows right now. S p 500 down almost 1 . The nasdaq the biggest loser of the three major indices. Were seeing the biggest oneday losses in fact in more than a month. And keeping an eye on the airlines, they are down big being led lower today by delta and thats Airline Index on pace for fifth straight down day. Michelle. Im michelle carusocabrera. Thanks, melissa. Heres what else is happening at this hour. Americans made more and spent more in june. The government reporting a 0. 4 increase in Consumer Spending. Thats the Third Straight monthly increase. Personal income up 0. 2 . The centers for Disease Control awarding 16 million to u. S. States and territories to fight zika. Thats in addition to 25 million in funds at the cdc awarded a month ago. And u. S. Automakers weighing in with disappointing results. All but toyota falling short of expectation. Fiat chrysler did manage a small increase in sales however
Through woodbridge. Southbound lanes here. Again, pretty normal for 6 00 a. M. Chuck . Thanks, melissa. Outside we fweefbet a mostly cloudy sky. We had a lot of rain yesterday. Most of the rain is gone. Were not completely done with the rain chance for today and your weather headlines. Temperatures are on the mild side. Were in the 70s today. There will be a stiff breeze. Thats the colder air that comes back into place. Out ahead of it, actually cold front is back out to our west and generating showers. Not sure theyre going to, theyll be in town at about 10 00. Mid 60s around washington. Hometown forecast, plain virginia, west of town, near 60. A lot of wet puddles and leaves on the ground. Be careful of thoechse. 6 02 now. Were gathering new information about a pedestrian crash overnight. Happened last night between richmond highway and bowel in alexandria. This morning metros in the process of hiring neal cohen. Adam tuss has broken the story on twitter. You should follow him becaus
Allow virtually along with the Intelligence Community to make this country safer. Host new jersey, democratic caller, good morning. Caller i have a question about the quality of the cyberspace to to the fact that there is so many outlets with apps and everything going on. These we cannot even get something simple like train procedures that will bring suspicious problems going on where i will give you an example. Like the terrorist attacks of 9 11, the pilots from the countries we were not aware of some of these people. They were trained to land a plane and not take off a plane, but not land a plane. Isnt that like an open sore right there . Host thanks. Guest i think one of the points i would make based on the color bangs comment is the need for intelligence. The caller talks about, as it relates to terrorism, people willing to fly planes but people learning to fly planes cannot land of them. That is indicative of a nefarious act. Intelligence is the key to understanding exactly what i
Hello and welcome to the National Press corps and the kalb report. I am amrtimartin calb. Most would agree for the 2012 election being too long, too loud, and too noisy. Except for the last month, with three president ial debates and one vicepresident ial debate. 70 million watched the first and 60 million watched each of the other three. Only the super bowl did better than that. In 11 of the last 14 debates, there have been these debates and they are a fixed feature of the political landscape. We have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three moderatores of the 2012 debate. To my right is jim lehhrer, who has done 12 debates. Nobody will catch up to that. The most honored former anchor and prolific author and winner of every prize in journalism. To my left, bob schieffer, anchor of face the nation and an author and winner of many journalism awards, and Martha Raddatz, the chief Global Affairs correspondent. She spent a lot of time in iraq and afghanistan and winner of many prizes for h
Has done 12 debates. Nobody will catch up to that. The most honored former anchor and prolific author and winner of every prize in journalism. To my left, bob schieffer, anchor of face the nation and an author and winner of many journalism awards, and Martha Raddatz, the chief Global Affairs correspondent. She spent a lot of time in iraq and afghanistan and winner of many prizes for her reporting. Candy crowley cannot be with us because of a family emergency. We send our best to her. Jim and bob have done this debate stuff before. For martha, it was a first appearance. You have done so many interviews in your career. Was this any different . Not at all. [applause] [laughter] janet brown called me. I said, ill take a vacation and go do the debates. It was so different. I was not covering the campaign. I was running around the world. I basically crammed and did nothing but study, like studying for the sats, and then taking them in front of millions of people. [laughter] when i first got