Amy is the death toll rises in yemen, a groups warn the country is on the verge of famine. We will speak to yemeni activist Farea Al Muslimi and reporter matt aikens about the u. S. Backed, saudiled attack and the humanitarian crisis. Then we will go to capitol hill to speak with congresswoman barbara lee, coauthor of a new bill to expand Insurance Coverage of abortion and dismantle the nearly 40yearold Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for most abortions. Make no mistake, these lawmakers really do want to ban abortions altogether. Since they cant, they employ the underhanded tactics to push abortion care out of reach for women who are really just struggling to just make ends meet. And that is just wrong. Amy and bp has agreed to pay a 18. 7 billion settlement over the 2010 deepwater horizon explosion. Did bp get off cheaply . We will speak to Antonia Juhasz. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. H
Leaderboard. No bubba watson. Its right behind you there it is there it is. Caterpillar, apple moving up, boeing, intel, verizon, theyre all there. Mandy is still down under. Kayla tausche down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Great to be with you here on this monday afternoon. We are watching the dow snapping that sevenday losing streak. Also seeing its first 200pluspoint gain since the middle of july. Bob pisani is here with me on the floor to look a little bit deeper into what exactly is pushing the markets higher. Is it all industrials today . No, it is pretty broad rally. 41 advancing to deshriclining stocks. Seven days down in the dow industrials. That doesnt happen very often. Were due for a bounce. Theres hopes for stimulus in china for all the wrong reasons. Look what happened to china today, both shenzhen and shanghai up 4 to 5 . Economic data was very disappointing overall here. Ppi and trade numbers were terrible. But shenzhen and hang shy both rallied, hong kon
Seat back seat rally where all the wrong stuff the minerals the oil complex, led the market beautifully . With the dow climbing 369 points, the biggest twoday gain since december, 2008. S p pole vaulting. Nasdaq rocketing 2. 5 . Arent we supposed to want to roll costs down and down and down some more . Not up huge as they were today . I know its tough to explain how oil is spiking, almost 10 the biggest oneday move in six years. It will be a positive. Today it was certainly hailed by investors as a big one. Lets go there, though. Because its what happened today and it was a very important day because it was a stress reliever. A stress reliever, for many of the biggest investors of capital all around the globe. Let me set the scene up for you. The proximate cause of the nasty selloff we traveled through the weakness in chosen, it was exacerbated into belief until yesterday that the fed seemed unaware and how frail the worlds economy had come. But yesterdays comments from new york fed pr
That is the highest one day total ever. August is the wettest month on record in texas. And to put this in perspective the National Weather Service Today added two new colors to its rainfall charts including light pink which signals 30 inches or more and 40 inches have fallen in dayton, texas. Ten to 20 additional inches are forecast by friday, at least two people have been killed. That number is expected to rise. And there have been thousands of rescues in houston and surrounding towns. Anthony . Mason it must be amazing to see all of this play out in front of you. Harvey blasted ashore friday night as a category four hurricane in rockport, texas. The area was under a mandatory evacuation and about half heeded the call. Today residents returned to pick up the pieces. Jamie yuccas is in rockport tonight. Jamie . Reporter anthony, the response is remarkable, even in an area that was so hard hit, this is the mobile command center. Where officials have been mobilizing for days hoping to g
Even closer towards wednesday morning. By wednesday afternoon, then, making another landfall. Right near probably port sabine, pushing inland as tropical storm. By thursday, friday, working into the Mississippi River valley. Downgrading to tropical low. You can see, still a lot of rain. Falling through parts of houston. Near galveston, that rain spreads into southwest louisiana. New orleans. I sample the rainfall rates. 1 2 inch to inch and a half of rain per hour. Adding more rain on top of the 72 hour storm totals. 39. 72. Pasadena, 32 inches. We are going to see possibly, 15 inches in houston by the time wednesday. Thursday. And norah, well continue to see, a bit more. As harvey makes another hand fall. Incredibly, worrisome. Thank you so much. No, please, please, oh shrieks in terror heavy breathing and snorting no, no. The running of the bulldogs . Surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money aleia saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or