99 for a case of water, thats the type of price gauging that the attorney general is seeing in the state. Hell join us to tell us how hes cracking down on all that have. And next hour President Trump is likely to address this catastrophic flooding in a News Conference with the president of finland. Well bring you that live as soon as it begins. But we start in texas. Contessa brewer is in houston with the latest on the flooding and Brian Sullivan is in galveston with a look at how Hurricane Harvey is affecting refineries contessa, well start with you. Reporter the bayou has overflowed its banks, normally parkland, and this Historic Building here was due to be completely renovated by fall of 201. As you can see, they will probably have to go back at t. Houston at this point is mostly a ghost town. Businesses shut down, employees stranded there are some 3 Million People who work in the metropolitan houston area most of them i would guess are out of work today because the roads are simply
Nasdaq what is driving the bus around here going to take a closer look at top ten contributors to the dow jones average, the rally last quarter is telling us about it atvictim of, where is the fang in this darn thing but can help us understand why the market has so much staying power. Since i just mentioned f. A. N. G. , my acronym for facebook, amazon, app and google discouraging news as f. A. N. G. Out of nowhere become hostage to etfs that lump then together. Doing nothing at all any we learned that netflix is raising price of its most popular plan its one of the few services i would be willing to may more for and dont realize it amazon prime, spotify, i dont focus on i bet netflix gets no pushback but strength took up rest of f. A. N. G. No meaningful throw in other components all pulled up by netflix thats all she wrote it should be different from that but thats the world we have to accept get back to the main exercise, the ten dow stocks responsible for the recent leg of the rall
Of sexual harassment. The allegations come as prosecutors in new york begin investigating the company co founded by the disgraced Film Producer to see if civil rights have been breached. Police in england and wales have been accused of letting down victims of modern slavery at every stage, in a scathing report by the inspectorate of constabulary. The reporting of crimes such as cyberbullying and online harrassment have increased by 85 in the last two years, according to figures obtained by the bbc. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The European Council president donald tusk has said the eu will be that the uk could still abandon the Brexit Process, as he warned there would be a defeat unless there was absolute unity. He said that the outcome of the negotiations was largely up to the uk and the eu must not be divided at any costs. We are facing the toughest stress tests. If we fail, the negotiations will end in our defeat. We must keep the eu together. The eu will be able to r
Lunch. Im melissa lee. Stocks are holding steady. The nasdaq hittinging yet another record interday high today. Tech and industrials the best performing sectors Consumer Staples and financials. They are the laggard. Down 2 on a big miss, mastercard is up two and mosaic down 7 after missing the top and bottom line. Brian . All right, melissa, thank you very much. And i am brian sullivan. We are coming to you live from day two of the milken global conference in Beverly Hills, california, speaking with the worlds top thinkers on the market and economy. Politics, which is encapsulating everything today, eric cantor being former House Majority leader, chris aailman and dr. O. Welcome, everybody. As michelle mentioned twitter popping this hour thanks to comments from billionaire investor mark cuban. Its up about 4 right now, and we will get to those comments in a moment. First the air is coming out of the auto bubble, it seems. Gm, ford, fiat, chrysler all taking big hits today. Lets go insi
Here are democrat and john cornen on the proposal. Senator from minnesota. Mr. President i rise today to join my colleagues to speak out to ask for a normal process here for hearings, for debates. You and i have talked about this issue. I know you have in many good ideas. I am hopeful we can start over here with a bill that would consist of a number of changes to our existing health care system. Thats what i think we need to do instead of this repeal bill that came to us without hearings and it is just not the right way to do this. We have our health plans saying what matters here is medicaid and they are the leaders in our health care community. They are calling this bill disappointing because of the continued assistance insistence on cutting medicaid. It is for those who are most vulnerable. They have said things like the big story has been what is it going to do to medicaid but in fact what our experts in our state are saying, our health plans is that this is really more of the same