Thats where we want to start with media mayhem that took wall street by surprise today it began with what we are calling disneys tragic kingdom. Ceo bob iger saying something sent down the stock midday and sent the stock into a frenzy julia has the details. Well, melissa, it was xhe comments bob as well as comcast executives first, disney shares took a hit. I think you have to look at the year as being roughly in line with eps basis, what we delivered in fiscal 16. Now, last year, disneys earnings were 5. 72 per share. 16 cents lower than consensus for this year according to tomp reuters. He attributed this years shortfall to a number of reasons including growth in nba rights cost lack of a big Star Wars Film as well as cost relating to buying more bam tech he also noted impact from Hurricane Irma there have been cancellations in orlando and the cancellation of three cruise sz and shortening of some other cruises. Then comments from a comcast executive sent shares of cnbcs Parent Compa
Effect for the keys and in south florida, and they kurt they are concerned that the gas stations have run out of fuel. State officials are taking emergency steps to get more fuel into the state. Fuel trucks Getting Police and military escorts this morning and the florida with governor rick scott saying that a shipment of 300,000 gallons of fuel was unloaded at the port of tampa. They are working to disseminate that across the state, urging all the gas stations to state open as soon as possible, promising to help the workers and owners out of the area ahead of the storm if they will stay to help people get filled up. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the Miamidade County area, an estimated 6 million floridians in the path of the storm. Some people are rushing to the airport to get out of the state, and they are concerned that no place in florida could be untouched by the hurricane. Tomorrow, nobody would be working here. Be patient, wait and hopefully the storm will stay on t
By sunday morning. Here is the latest. National Hurricane Center has just issued hurricane warnings for south florida and the florida keys. There is a mass exodus underway as floridians heed the warnings and evacuate. Right now the hurricane is over the turks and Caicos Islands and is approaching the northern coast of cuba and the Outer Islands of the bahamas. The new evacuation orders. And the new difficulties. Reporter right now so far the hurricane has killed at least 11 people in the caribbean. Evacuations have spread in florida. The governor ordered all schools colleges and universities to close. Time is running out. And so are resources. Reporter Hurricane Irma immense power pounded the caribbean. At a relentless and record breaking speed thursday. The winds swept past the Virgin Islands after bringing distractions and death to places such as st. Martin. The Dominican Republic not even in the past also felt the fury. In antigua the category category five damage could be seen from
South florida, maybe near the every glads every gladz, maybe near everglades, maybe miami. Unless there is a change in that pattern, that could certainly happen. We are getting closer, we are get intoing the window where the acura seep improves. Low clouds yesterday where many did not see the sun. Off and on drizzle with light rain. That has since moved ouf. Another low has dropped in. A little cooler on these lows. 50s and 60s for your temps. The delta breeze which was howling yesterday has calmed a little bit. You see the circulation right there, thats the next drop in. It will be headed towards southern california. Tomorrow, 60s, 70s, and 80s. But it does look warmer as we look into the weekend. We finally made it here and here we are. Traffic is moving along okay if you are driving on the altima pass. I think getting on the road early today will help. Right now it looks good to livermore and really all the way into the bay area freeway system. This is a look at the 880 north and so
The meeting this morning. Breaking news overnight. Oil rig explodes in louisiana rep genome for. The latest as crews search for the missing. Meanwhile, wifi everest or the Wireless Security vulnerable to hacking in your internet browsing could be tracked. The company or a stroke when this model three protections, laying off hundreds of others. Merger monday starts on wall street. Aramark announcing it deals valued at nearly 2. 5 billion. A broader look at the m a activity this morning. Global market this morning we do is viking. The dow industrials, s p and nasdaq also in the column. In europe this morning, stocks surging higher as well. Dax up, cacm fractionally. Asia overnight markets mostly higher with the exception of china down a third of a percent. A wild win for the dodgers to los angeles late in the cubs tonothing in the mlc s. Good all the highlights coming up your journey to to talk about it, Rasmussen Amy holmes here. Kevin kelly and his lambskin partners president lee carte