the opposition party s vote to remove the remains of a dictator out of a state-funded muzzling the him mazza liam would cost madrid. molly: we begin in the u.s., where donald trump has given his first interview since the shocking firing of fbi director james comey. the u.s. president faces mounting accusations that he fired comey to disrupt the fbi s investigation into whether or not rush interfered into the u.s. election in trump s favor. on nbc news, trump called comey a showboat and grandstander. simon reports. on trump and the fbi have to two days of wild speculations on why james comey had been sacked. president trump finally broke the silence and gave some of the reasons as to why he dismissed the director of the fbi. president trump: he is a show about, showboat, a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. everybody knows that. if you look at the fbi a year ago, it was an virtual turmoil. it has not recovered. sackedr james comey was in controversial circumstances
the flat line. dow futures up by 9 points s&p futures down by 1 point. nasdaq up by 5 1/2 nasdaq up for two out of the last three sessions as technology stocks continue to defy odds. oil prices dragging things down yesterday. you can see in asia, the nikkei down slightly. hang seng was weaker shanghai was down by a third of a percent. in europe, in the early trading, already seeing some modest declines the cac is the biggest decliner, it s down by a half percentage point. the ftse off by 0.4% crowd oil prices sitting at a ten-month low. 42.80. still below $43. the big stories we re watching today anything that happens at uber is big. it s another departure it took a day, but it s front page on all the papers today about travis so late it missed the papers. even now, if you re interested, some guy named bill gurley, who you may or may not know, a venture canpitalist at benchmark who was behind the push to get ckalanick out, now e stepped down from his role at company. gu
live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at ten. 10:00 o clock and your fox 29 weather authority is tracking some storms barreling through our area. radar as you can see very busy right now. and let s take live look in allentown right now. some downpours moved in through the area over the past hour. you may have heard a rumble of thunder, also, and we are not quite out of the woods just yet. thanks for joining us tonight at 10:00. i m chris o connell. i m dawn timmeney. weekend off to soggy and really humid start a lot act to the north and west and rumbles into thunder as you get into the allentown section. it s quick downpours the theme as you get into chester county this is moving off towards the east at around 20 miles an hour. so in center city, we are going to get wet. manayunk will pick up some very heavy downpours in the next 40 minutes or so you get towards the north right around, say, hopewell junction and into northern mercer county they re se
rivals. just as the model 3 hits the road, why have the sales shifted down again at tesla. a massive deal in the digital payment space. pay is being bought for $9.9 billion. this comes after j.p. morgan showed interest, but backed away. the u.s. credit card processor hopes to gain greater exposure to e-commerce retailers and small businesses through this acquisition. cory johnson and his partner at index ventures joined us for reaction at to deal. cory: this is a fascinating company. it is based in cincinnati, ohio. why cincinnati, ohio? what s interesting to spin off from this tells you the history of the business of payment transaction and what is happening is the way this business works, when you use your credit card in a store they , find it if you ve got the money in your bank account and they approve the credit or not. there are a number of steps that happen behind the scenes. each of those steps takes a different chunk. you get the verification from the merchant and th
and china. we split the panels up so that this panel will address the papers on u.s. and chinese strategy and interest in the asia-pacific region, and also u.s.-china military to military issues. in the next panel will cover economics, global issues and politics. scott kennedy will share that session. we had a number of participants who helped to write the papers or joined us in study groups to review the papers so this is a representative group, claiming that anyone who is involved but some of the key authors for each of the papers were going to address in the panels. bonnie glaser, my colleague at csis and director by china project will talk about the asia-pacific papers. we re going to ask that panelists not to summarize the papers but identify between the american and chinese papers the issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. my friend zhu feng were present on the asia-pacific strategy issue after bonnie. then will ship to the military relationship. da