This calendar year. 27 of the s p 500s gains many this year alone 2018 come from amazon and it touched 1500 dollars share right now 1496 were also talking that truly remarkable emotional event at the white house where President Trump listened to people directly impacted by School Shootings and hes responding with his actual policy this morning. Well get into that as well and the president will be holding another event at the 11 30 eastern discussing School Safety state and local officials. Well, of course, take you there live. As always a jampacked three hours for you Varney Company about to begin. Because my daughter had no voice. She was murdered last week and she was taken from us. Shot nine times on the third floor. We as a country failed or children. This shouldnt happen. We protect airports, we protect concerts, stadiums, embassies, the department of education that i walked in today that has a Security Guard in the elevator. How do you think that makes me feel . In the elevator t
Whether forecasts warn of catastrophic damage throughout the day you will be seeing scenes like this a massive exodus 1. 2 Million People are under evacuation orders. Schools colleges closed for the day and next monday. Load up drive north hope you can find some gas. These are scenes from caribbean islands irma has hit truly devastating, we dont know full extent of the damage, the wind rain and the storm surge is coming to florida it is just hours away. Now look at this, 8 earthquake off the south coast of mexico a tsunami warning extensive damage on land. Here is Something Else that is setting nervous on edge north korea founders day tomorrow, there are reports regime is preparing another missile launch, americas warned dont do it. What will we do if they launch . Good question mood high anxiety Varney Company is about to begin. Letter get straight at it irma currently strong category four storm, slammed turks and Caicos Islands today waves as high as 0 feet there, 20 feet K Communica
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
Equipment. Well talk about that with two Security Experts who do business in las vegas. They are here to tell us Stephen Paddock should have been stopped before he struck. Meanwhile, House Speaker paul ryan makes the latest stop on his tax reform tour. Hes just wrapped up a question and answer session at a maryland business just moments ago, this after the house passes its 4. 1 trillion budget blueprint that now sets the stage for tax reform. Mr. Ryan will be holding a press conference later in the hour, and well have that for you live. And the house expected to take up the white houses 29 billion Hurricane Relief bill next week. Well go straight to san juan to dark to an architect to find out what the situation really is like there on the ground and if puerto rico will be able to rebuild its economy. We are less than an hour to the closing bell and another recordbreaking day for the markets. Im Ashley Webster in for hayes claman. Lets begin the countdown. Ashley guess what . Breaking
And water cannen cannons use today break up the crowds and Melania Trump blocked from going to an event. And in june, much better than expected. U. S. Futures, saying that stocks will open higher. The dow up 45 minutes. When we open up for real in about a half hour. The Democrat Party trying to come up with a slogan for the 2018 elections. One of the top contenders, check this out. And Varney Company starts right now. [crowd chanting] while the rest of us have to work for a living. Thats the scene outside the g20 in germany. I dont know whether bleak burman has a riot shield, but whats going on. Fine this morning. It got interesting last night, stuart or ashley, sorry. The protesters are back out this morning in hamburg, a big city, not where we are right now, but another spot for the city and this is having an impact on several, including the first lady, Melania Trump. A spokesperson for the first lady telling me this morning that at her residence, Hamburg Police could not provide cle