The president will bring a promise of money, manpower and the military. The gold coast needs at all. North koreas blatant provocation. Japanese people woken up by a red alert from broadcasters. Take cover at the north korean Ballistic Missile flew up ahead. The south Korean Military has responded with a live fire precision bombing run close to the north. No military response from america at this point. The president has not taken it off the table. I mistake on either side risks were. Investors dont like to hear that. Today they are selling. The dow opened sharply lower. But it is the human catastrophe unfolding in houston that is great the attention of the nation. Earlier in unthinkable forecast to 50 inches of rain, the still rising floodwaters and directly from people who have lost everything. Varney company is about to begin. Lets get right at it. The flood of biblical proportions. Jeff flock on the ground in houston. Am i right in saying the water levels are still rising . Reporter
Princes on a tour of the white garden at Kensington Palace, planted to mark two decades since Princess Diana died. A hard drive containing unfinished works by Terry Pratchett has been crushed by a six and a half tonne steamroller as per his wishes. The fantasy novelist died in march 2015 after battling alzheimers disease. Welcome to houston, a city where so many neighbourhoods are underwater. Im ina many neighbourhoods are underwater. Im in a suburb to the west of houston, the storm has passed, but look at the impact. We have cars submerged, home completely flooded, rescue boats going door to door this morning. Ive seen at least three in the last 15 minutes. Whats happening here is because the reservoirs outside houston are for, the authorities are doing timed releases from the dams to stop the reservoirs overflowing, but that means this neighbourhood is still flooding from those timed releases and people here tell me the waters are still rising. Its an extraordinary state of affairs,
The hang hishanghai slightly lo. In europe, green arrows across the board. The dak x is up by 0. 4 . The cac up by 0. 3 the ftse up by 0. 2 . The dollar, which has been under so much pressure, you look and you see today the dollar sup against the euro, back below 1. 20 this morning it looks like the dollar yen is at 109. 89. Check out crude oil and gasoline prices, crude Oil Yesterday at a onemonth low. Its down once again this morning at 46. 18 rbob gasoline up nearly 6 yoed yesterday to a twoyear high of 1. 82 sits at 1. 83 this morning as we quont to watch the reficontinuec those refineries shut in with the additional rainfall. Gas prices at the pump could go up to 2. 60, 2. 70 we were thinking 4 dollars was the norm even after this, its amazing that were in a different kind of and can you believe that people that supposedly know what theyre talking about said crude would go down and gasoline would go up because youre not refining as much you get a glut of crude . A scarcity they we
Good afternoon. Stocks steady despite jobs and gdp data financials and tech the best performers and telecom and energy the biggest laggards. Bob evans farms soaring, beating Sales Estimates and raising outlook and chicos taking a hit. Comp store sales also missing the mark. Lets get you caught up on latest headlines on har vixt the governmentrun u. S. Flood Insurance Program now says it has already received 35,000 claims, as of noon today and as of midnight, dumped 21 trillion gallons of rain, and its enough to fill half of lake tahoe. And the storm is hitting louisiana now. The state bracing for tornadoes and flooding weve got you covered. Lets go to Team Coverage on the ground in texas. Brian sullivan live in pasadena with the latest on the refineries Contessa Brewer still in houston where businesses are continuing to get back to business. Lets start with you. All right, sara, thank you very much. We want to look at these refineries and show them to you. Right along the buffalo bayou
Beaumont with the coast guard as they performed live rescues. Well take you to that area. But first we bring you breaking political news. President trumps newest Approval Rating. 41 . Thats a brandnew number. Its also a brandnew low for this president. The number of voters satisfied with how things are going is down 10 point. The majority of americans is telling us they believe the president is tearing the country apart. He wants to lower the corporate rate to 15 . Do the new poll numbers complicate things in those questions are being asked in just a few minutes. Lets get to hillary vaughn. This picture on the monitor behind you. Hillary sent us these pictures earlier in the day as she was reporting on the situation. People in dump trucks piling in, driven away from their homes flooded out by any means possible. Reporter rescues are still coming in, and its babies, children, elderly. Everyone needed to be rescued. Its not that they have gotten to be everyone who needed to be rescues ou