It is newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 8am in singapore midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where the us has given a cool response to a reported offer of talks from north korea. The Us State Department says any talks would have to lead to the end of the regimes Nuclear Programme. South korea claimed pyongyang had signalled its willingness to hold talks with the us, after a meeting between a north korean general and south koreas president before the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics. Laura bicker now reports from pyeongyang on a games in which politics played as much of a role as the sporting action. This is the confidence side of south korea. But much of the drama was political. Entering this arena is the us president s daughter ivanka trump. But no warm reception for the north korean generals sitting behind her. There was no contact between the two, but it does seem that pyongyang is now ready to talk to the us. A victory for the south korean leader, president moon. Bu
Were down 102 at the moment. Everything got weve climbed back a little bit. Dow down 103. S p, you wafkly are down for the year now. About 2. 5 . Weve dropped at the open. There were a number of sectors that were notably weak today. A lot of comments. I want to show you Retail Stocks right now. Deckers also on the weak side. A lot of these stocks have been hit badly, and they are not showing any signs of recovering at this point. Home builders we did have the National Association of homebuilder, home market index weaker than expected. These are big dwee clinz here. Unusual for the builders to move this much. No big catalysts, but all of them just down. Some a little more volume than others. Then energy stocks. You get that whenever you get that all the big energy names are to the down side. One group on the up side, simon. Delta did beat on the earnings and they talk about 2 billion in fuel savings in 2015. Faebl a company talking about the head winds that you are going to be having. T
Nominations, nlrb or of those, if youre president and you are liberal left, so you want the nlrbt somebody in that happens to be on the payroll forbors the last 20 years, you know, you probably couldnt bet him senate orrepublican even if the democrats controlled with 55 or something, probably couldnt. So youre going to have to get somebody more mainstream. Got 51, full speed ahead. So you can put in somebody the e. P. A. Or so on, because you can get your people in. Figured that who ever won the election should be given great latitude on putting and so on. Ople but in some cases where you have this administration put aretivists and people who really far to the left, you a 60 vote threshold would have stopped that and it would stopped a bunch of nominees in the past couple days. Mentioned robert byrd, he and i both testified before the against changing the threshold from 60 to a majority. Of newhole bunch democrat senators who have been in the smalt for a year or two oh, we got to chang
Approaching 3 again and i was really sad. Also sells good hot chocolate there. I heard. And they have a jackinthe box right there at the chevron and they watch us every morning. I hear music. [ laughter ] i think were getting the wrap. All right. Thanks, guys. Lets go out to benicia. Eastbound 780 at southampton we have an overturn accident on the shoulder. But tow crews are out there now. And the commute has begun suddenly in antioch. Suddenly slow on highway 4 westbound hillcrest to a street. And checking the commute out of the altamont, same thing, just kind of your usual slow traffic out of tracy and to about north flynn. Then it completely clears out on our sensors all green but there is a lot of fog out there making it very difficult to see on some roadways including right there near the dublin interchange. Bay bridge no metering lights. The roadwork has been picked up. Just some small delays in the cash lanes. Thats kcbs traffic. Heres roberta with your forecast. Today is the th