Jumping in the ocean without realizing what was lurking nearby. Good morning to you all. Im diane macedo. And im Kenneth Moton in for kendis gibson. The storm that was once Hurricane Harvey is on the move tearing a new path of destruction through the south. The storm spawned a reported tornado in western alabama damaging several buildings. At least four people have been injured. The torrential rain flooded streets in the memphis area where a tv reporter stopped reporting the news to rescue this woman there stranded in her car. Some voluntary evacuations were also issued in nashville. The storm is now moving northeast through kentucky. More flash flood watches have been issued. In the southeast part of texas more people are trapped in floodwaters and more evacuations have been ordered as the city of beaumont faces a second day without its water supply because the pumps are flooded. The military is now rushing in fresh water to the nearly 120,000 residents there. Even rushing in the wate
Power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch this september friday. Stocks are on session highs. The dow topping 22,000 for the first time in two weeks. Nasdaq trying for another record the s p 500 having its best week since april. All three major averages on track for a second straight week of gains check out movers wynn resorts trading at levels not seen in two years. The big news today, american jobs creating engine wilting a bit in august. Only added 156,000 jobs last month, below the 180,000 that economists expected. Senior economics reporter Steve Liesman is here to take us inside the numbers it is cooling, coasting, stabilizing . A lot of negative words used in the intro i dont know if i agree. Job growth did slow. Came in below expectations but is a decent report the population is growing at 80,000 thats what we should expect were almost double that number, still enough to take some workers off. Ism manufacturing, one of the highest numbers in a while more about that in
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This is what it is right now. The only place in the bay area not at triple digits is at the coastline. San francisco is 94 and the heat warning continues to the weekend for all of the pay area. Breaking news in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. A fire at a Chemical Plant has broken out. Sending a cloud of black smoke. It stores compounds that need to be refrigerated it lost power because of the flooding. People in beaumont texas are desperate for Drinking Water and they lined up for miles to get bottled water after the town run dry. The voters on the pumping station shorted out when the river spilled the banks. And houston, a manmade flood emergency. Police are asking people to evacuate as they release water from the reservoir. I simply do not feel comfortable. This can last for the next 10 or 15 days. Tomorrow trump will travel to texas and louisiana to meet with victims and survey the damage. The warriors had steph curry stepping up for the flood relief. A threepointer challenge and
Please evacuate your homes. The fire fueled by recordbreaking heat and the desperate fight going on right now to keep it contained. And this morning, the penn state hazing case, a judge dismissing the most serious charges against the frat members indicted in the death of a fellow student. His mother speaking to gma this morning. Nobody should go through this. And the district attorneys next move here. Hey, good morning, and lets get right to the new developments in the wake of harvey. Look at these new aerial images showing parts of texas before and after the storm went on its rampage causing all that flooding. President trump is headed back to the state of texas this morning, as well as louisiana. Now, overnight the white house asked congress for nearly 8 billion in aid for Recovery Efforts there and this is just the first ask. Harvey is predicted to be at least the second costliest Natural Disaster in american history, the number of homes damaged or destroyed, that number now stands