Perimeter. As crews clear the way to welcome thousands to the rodeo this weekend, many still have heavy hearts after a gunman opened fire at the gilroy garlic festival less than two weeks ago, killing three. With the sadness, there are concerns about security at the rodeo where organizers have made changes. We feel that they can come out and feel assured that were providing a safe event for them. They will see an increase in security. They will see it at the gate. Every patron that comes in gets wanded with a metal detector. Kurt ashley heads up security for the rodeo. He says there will be more security personnel this including Santa Clara County shoifrs units, officers on motorcycles and paid security guards. This is his first Major Community event since the festival tragedy. Miss gilroy rodeo will ride in the rodeo with a gilroy strong flag as a tribute to the victims of the shooting and a boot will be passed to collect money for them. We need to come back together as a community. T
We start with amazon, because the Online Retail giant has revealed another set of mind boggling sales figures. Ceo jeff bezos says efforts to make one day delivery the norm for prime customers are paying off with accelerating sales growth. Shares have fallen though as investors were disappointed with how little profit amazon is making on all that business. Lets show you the details. Amazon made revenues of 63. 4 billion in the three months to the end ofjune. That was up 20 on the same period last year. But only around 2. 6 billion of that was profit less than investors were hoping. And its forecasting profit could be lower in the current quarter. Amazon has been spending heavily 800 million in the past three months alone to try and offer one day delivery on more products. Ceo jeff bezos says its now available on 10 million items and that is boosting sales. But amazon is facing growing pressure over its sheer size and power. Its facing antitrust investigations in the us along with the o
Apple. Be that as it may, the s p is falling for the fifth straight day. Again it is on track for its biggest loss since going back to december. The 10year note, which is a good barometer how people are feeling, if you are nervous, park your money in notes and bonds, people are doing that, these are the lowest yields in the better part of three years. Were keeping an eye on that, keeping an eye on other things were waiting for. President might comment on that or all the above. He wants to up the trade ante. The latest besides affecting tariffs virtually on everything we get with china, he is talking increasingly now it starts at 10 with the remaining goods. It could go up still further. As stuart was pointing out. A lot of other goods and services were talking aabout could easily ratchet and move in different directions. Well keep an eye on that. Also keep an eye on what has been happening on the Precious Metals front. Gold, for example, getting a lot of buying interest, a little less
Killed by sharks while snorkeling in the bahamas now breaking their silence. Jordan said, mom, theres another shark coming, and thats the last thing that jordan said. The change theyre calling for to make sure this doesnt happen again, only on gma this morning. Rideshare solution. As parents brace for the school year to begin, the new way to get your children as young as 3 where they need to go. Lucky to be alive. Im in the middle of quebec trying to get my sos to work. The pilot crashing into the wilderness, recording everything he did to survive. How he led rescue crews right to him. His survival story this morning. And celebrating a literary legend. Tributes pouring in for Toni Morrison, the nobel prizewinning author whose novels changed america. And we certainly do say good morning, america. So many celebrating the life of Toni Morrison this morning. She had such a way with words, in fact, i posted this on my instagram when she said your life is already artful waiting, just waiting
Also this morning, are you ready for what could be the hottest day on record . There are warnings of travel disruption and and damage to health as the heatwave reaches its peak. We could hit 39 celsius, 102 fahrenheit, somewhere in the london area today. But the heat is not confined to the south east, i will have all the details later. Braced forjob cuts nissan prepares to announce more than 10,000 roles will go around the world , workers in sunderland will learn this morning if theyre affected. In sport, a historic day at lords as irelands cricketers mark their first test against england by bowling them out forjust 85 in two hours. Good morning. Its thursday the 25th ofjuly. Our top story borisjohnson will chair his first Cabinet Meeting this morning, after a massive clear out of theresa mays senior team. The new Prime Minister moved quickly to install brexiteers in key posts to help carry out his pledge to take the uk out of the eu by the end of october, with or without a deal. 0ur P