Devastating. Two politics for the president stole the stage at the u. N. General assembly warning north korea, you provoke us or our allies, we will destroy you. General jack keane moments away on that. Despite all those headlines as we say the market in record yet again. More alltime highs expected just a halfhour from now as investors wait for janet yellen this afternoon. Also waiting for word on Health Reform. The gop we are told one or two votes short of getting it done. Three top senators will be joining us over the next three hours. The day for politics. Varney company has got it covered and its about to begin. We are now getting our images of Hurricane Maria headon. As you can see from the map on the right and what is happening on the ground on the left. We spoke to the d. C. Office of the governor of puerto rico and they say, quote, the situation on the ground is catastrophic. Communications extremely difficult. They dont know what condition the infrastructure or communications
Filibuster. And making foreigners pay up when they illegally dump on us. Wilbur ross says billions go uncollected on the show. More positive signals on the economy, we are earning more. Personal income figures sing to show gain. This backs up the growth trend for the economy, oh, amazon, here we go, considers a new line of attack on Grocery Stores, facing the change of retail and their stock along with apple, facebook, microsoft, apple, netflix, hit new highs. And its a friday, Varney Company is about to begin. Food, glorious, food dont care what it looks like very good. Very good. Good choice of music. You hear that, obviously, were talking about food because amazon wants you to skip the Grocery Store and buy packaged goods, maybe cereals, cookies, with the manufacturers with amazon as the middle man and not the Grocery Stores. Liz this is one of the common sense, i should have thought of this before. Food companies blow billions of dollars a year on packaging, on marketing, making th
And others, latest salvo from Obama Administration is violence and eastern ukraine, overnight clashs in city. Claiming lives of at least 4 ukrainian soldiers up to 30 pro russian separatists, secretary of state kerry pronounces himself quote, nothing less than disappointed with russia. Vowing to impose more sanctions against russ succeed in derails a nationwide elect schedule for may 25. In ukraine. That tactic, criticized by democratic chairman and rangeing republican senators on the Foreign Relations committee, today. If we dont use this call break on sanctions in the way to prevent further incurring to the ukraine, we will find ourselves ewing those sanctions as an aftermath as we did in crimea. Sometimes i think only strategy that administration has is getting people who talk about ukraine to look in the mirror, make sure they practice sounding tough. Lou nato commander, general philip moments ago announceed that nato may be forced to permanently station troops in eastern europe, a
Some European Union countries say they will close their borders to most or all foreigners. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers penny smith and benedicte paviot. Stay with us for that. Ten more people in the uk have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the uk to 21. Englands chief medical officer, professor chris whitty, said all of the latest to die were patients in at risk groups. The rise comes as the government draws up plans to ban Mass Gatherings, in response to the escalating outbreak. The total number of cases in the uk now stands at 1,140. Almost 38,000 people have been tested. Meanwhile, the United States has extended the travel ban on most European Countries to include the uk and ireland. This will come into effect at 4am on tuesday morning. The Vice President , mike pence, said american citizens returning from the uk will come through specific us airports. Elsewhere in europe, the Spanish Governm
Relief in china as it records no new domestic case of the coronavirus for the First Time Since the pandemic began in wuhan last year. Italy, the worst affected country on europe, is set to extend lockdown measures after the highest number of daily deaths recorded in any country, including china. The European Central Bank Launches a multi billion dollar emergency scheme to ease the impact of the worsening pandemic. Michel barnier, the eus chief negotiator with the uk over brexit, has tested positive for coronavirus. And there are growing calls forjapan to cancel or pospone this summers 0lympics, due to take place in tokyo. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Schools and universities are calling for urgent clarity from the government after the announcement that gcses and a levels in england and wales will be cancelled amid the coronavirus crisis. More details will be announced about exams in scotland later today and a decision is also due to be made in Northern Ireland, where, within the last