Sleeker than ever, but does it measure up early today starts right now good friday morning im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. A dangerous heat wave is hovering over much of the country. Triple digit temperatures could turn deadly this weekend new york city has declared a heat emergency and canceled the triathlon. Some of the athletes and event staff will distribute water and gatorade around the city instead. And lyft is offering free and discounted rides to cooling centers in impacted cities including chicago. Thats where nbcs blayne alexander is following the story. Reporter the relentless heat wave is showing no mercy from new mexico to new hampshire, 200 Million People are under a heat alert through the weekend. In chicago, a. C. Repair crews are stretched to the max and downtown, steam rising from sky scrapers after a morning rainstorm. Here in chicago, its the tale of two extremes. Just six months ago this exact spot was frozen over now its on pace to hit near record highs in
Telling her side of the story. You know she actually has some plans for the future. Shes thinking about running for the board of supervisors. Youre kidding . Perhaps also applying to be the new independent watchdog over the jails. Okay. So she got let go from the jail and thinking about maybe shell come back and watch over the jails because she knows what goes on there. She has a perspective, no question. She definitely has perspective. Clearly, were waiting ochon ou report to be ready. Well come back. We have it now. This is the first interview, the First Television interview with amy since she was removed from commander of the jail at elmed wood. Reporter she was a 30year Sheriffs Department employee, the first female president of the peace Offices Association when she through her support to laurie smith for last years eection. She appeared at campaign events. During the campaign, i did a lot of support for her. I spent a lot of hours after work going to meetings and to the community
From here. Looking for the next google, that is why we are doing, celebrating success and looking for more. Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart we always want more so lets get started. We have chosen three Tech Companies which could be primed to be the next google. As far as Stock Performance is concerned. Facebook, tesla, amazon. Charles payne is here. Let me have my say. Facebook, we put it on the list because it is in a whole new area and the stock only doubled so far. Tesla, you are a big fan of elon musk, a whole new industry, whole new technology. Amazon already growing by massive acquisition. The stock has done well but not that well. Which of the three will you agree could be the next google. Charles i have subscribers in facebook can tesla. Amazon might have hit the arc. We are in an awkward position where i am more worried about them being up 1,000 points but facebook and has lost both unique and facebook obviously as mirrors people in many ways, information it gathe
For the city. Reporter bad idea, says realtor dan hendle even though he says its probably true. Big commercial owners could afford the tax. They could we could also take the chance that some of these large corporations that are feeding this frenzy and why a lot of people want to work and live here could decide to move out of the city or out of the state. Reporter the proposals would not directly affect small businesses. But the 500 million bond piece would slightly raise property taxes for homeowners. Not another tax or fee for us. Theres only so much that we have been able to bear. Reporter mayor lee has put together a roundtable of city leaders to try to come up with a different plan, one that would not raise property taxes to the tune of 250 million. Avalos says thats not enough. Thats why he has doubled the mayors proposal. Reporting live in San Francisco, joe vazquez, kpix 5. Emergency action approved today on californias drought. Starting january 1, faucets and toilets sold here
Augusta in the last pu minutes. Hell be here in studio. Futures are suggesting well have a positive open. Dow would open higher by 24 points. Nasdaq would open flat by 2. The corporate story of the morning, shells mega deal. Its the Biggest Energy tie up in more than a decade. Seema mody joins us from london with all the details. Seema. Hey becky. Good morning, its one of the industrys biggest deals in a decade. Shell paying 70 billion which represents a 50 premium to bgs Closing Price yesterday. Now the ceo of shell earlier this morning on cnbc europe explained why this deal makes since and how its not a bet on Lower Oil Prices. This is not a bet on the oil price. This deal works in a whole range of oil and gas prices. Of course we still believe in the longer run in a few years time we will see the longterm fundamentals will assert themselves. We see Higher Oil Prices than what we see at the moment and this deal will look not just very good. It will look fantastic. This deal gives u.