sykes also hosts sunday insight on today s tmj4. he ll remain on 620 through the end of the year. in addition to his on air work. sykes is also the author of eight books. and plans to write more, travel and persue other opportunities. two girls are still recovering after being attacked by two dogs last week in brown deer. today brown deer police will hold a news conference at one this expected to release a portion of the dashcam video of the attack. police say two pit bulls mauled the girls near 48th and dean. officers immediately shot and killed one of the dogs.the second dog was taken to be euthanized per the owner s request. they re easy to buy and install. but a small slice of the population doesn t take the time to do that. firefighters say the lack of a smoke alarm puts those people - and them - in grave danger pete zervakis explains how local groups are working to firefighters say in the event of a house fire you ve only got about 2 minutes to get out. that s why a
negotiations with the eu. anna: a very warm welcome to countdown everybody. manus: the torch paper of risk is back on the table. what do i mean? the damage is almost throwing fuel on the fire. european central banks considering winding down bond purchases before ending quantitative easing.are they ? they e-mailed a statement to say manus: the story says they have not excluded suspending the past of the current sorry extending the current program, at the end date of march 2017, at the price of 480 billion euros per month. not saying it is ending by giving us clues, talking through the officials at the ecb, how they will do it when they do it? this is when mario draghi said we do not have a conversation about quantitative easing. 0%. yields back above this is the critical thing. is it a push to steepen the yield curve? the euro would strengthen, if this is the case, if the european central bank s are indeed generally considering how to change, how to change and take what
this time warning of a breakup. and small manufacturers are embracing i.t. and the clouds transform the way make things. typhoon chaba has been downgraded to a severe tropical storm. it s roaring off the coast of japan after leaving five dead in south korea. chaba is now moving east off the west coast of the country. it s packing winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour. it struck jeju wednesday morning. it moves on to busan. at least five people were killed. local reports say one person died at a construction site while another was blown off a rooftop. tens of thousands of homes are still without power. officials in southern japan closed public schools in nagasaki prefecture on wednesday. air and sea traffic has been disrupted with more than 140 domestic flights to and from the region canceled. japanese weather officials are telling people to remain on the alert. sayaka mori from our weather desk has been monitoring the storm and has this update. yes, dangerous typho
long, hundreds of thousands of people were warned to leave the area. the national guard is set up as the state prepares for what could be a direct hit. let s take a look live now, this shows cars driving on in the same direction on both sides of the road. people are trying to get out, to try to be safer. again, it s pretty early on. a lot of people are watching this storm very closely. let s go to meteorologist sheena parveen. now hurricane matthew is a category 3 hurricane entering the bahamas, so it is getting closer to florida right now and we expect it in the next 24 to 48 hours. winds are sustained 120 miles an hour towards the center of this storm. so it has weakened again. here is the most updated track from the national hurricane center, it could strengthen back to a category 4, at this point it would continue on a path toward florida and anywhere in this cone is fair game for the center of this to travel. if it stays offshore, it will strengthen. but if it makes
street, some places even running dry because of such high demand. you to prepare for the worse, but pray for the best. reporter: with the threat of hurricane force winds, businesses begin boarding up their windows in deerfield beach. by tomorrow evening, wind gusts could reach hurricane strength along coastal towns. from 70 to 80 miles an hour. and gusting we never know, it can be a little bit more. reporter: the forecast is calling for matthew to hug the florida coastline, where today, beachgoers got a final day in the sun, keeping a close eye on the storm s track just in case it makes a sudden turn to the west. 60, 70-mile-per-hour winds here, i m happy with that. keeping an eye on it and making sure it doesn t make that left turn? yeah and if it does, i still have time to get out. reporter: you can see the palm frons blowing, evacuation centers in broward county will open around 9:00 p.m. tonight and then early tomorrow the last chance for residents to get
follow me on twitter. don t forget to use the hashtag as well. hong kong underway in 30 minutes. singapore and malaysia are online. shery: stocks are rebounding from yesterday s losses. we are seeing positive sentiment from wall street as a result. u.s. stocks are gaining on a bit more positive. we are seeing the asx 200 gaining 3/10 of 1%. we have australian trade deficit numbers this morning narrowing more than expected, coming in at $2 billion instead of the expected 2.3 billion aussie dollars. also, the july trade deficit revised lower. down 6/10 ofalls, 1%. leading the gains in asia, the nikkei up a tense of 1%, being held by a weaker yen. the cost yield up for tenths of 1%. take a look at the japanese yen. although it is not doing much, this comes after weakening for seven consecutive sessions. right now, holding at 103.47. also, analysts say we are going to see more u.s. dollar strength, so we could see a japanese yen wakening, especially before the december fao s fo
blooming philippine market running out of steam. me on twitter. markets in hong kong getting under way at the bottom of the hour. malaysia just coming online. a is about the pound, recovery, the biggest plunge since the brexit. the pound just plunging, as much as 1% one point. the big question, what happened? because of sensitive worries about a possible hard brexit. first we heard from mitsubishi, this drop could be treated as a wrong order. of course, we saw a plunge, and it is retracing those losses. now we are hearing from dealers that it was a failure of the algorithm, that things got worse because liquidity disappeared and we saw those deals not being able to load the bids on their platforms. and in the over-the-counter market being triggered, 1.23. , a cap tradersy theept traders japanese yen against the dollar was not even moving. that is not the case anymore because it is strengthening .25% for the first time in nine days, reversing eight days of a recess and halti
was a front-runner in all the security council s polls. on wednesday he received 13 favorable votes and 2 expressing no opinion. guterres served as u.n. high commissioner for refugees for a decade. he worked on issues in iraq, myanmar, somalia, syria and elsewhere. the general assembly held public hearings in april to select the next u.n. chief. during them, guterres expressed his resolve to tackle refugee problems. russia s vitaly churkin is serving as council president this month. he said the security council will meet thursday morning to formally approve guterres and recommend his candidacy to the general assembly which must give final approval. u.n. officials released satellite images of the latest situation in the northern syrian city of aleppo. the photos show heavy destruction of houses and a school caused by air strikes. on wednesday, u.n. agencies released the images of seven locations in and around aleppo. the photos were taken from the middle of last month into e
north. kim jong-un ordered preparations of a launch of a de facto long-range ballistic missile. the country tested one in february. south korea s defense ministry said the north is ready for another nuclear test. its last happened a month ago. the united states has been increasing pressure on the north over those developments. it plans to hold a drill with the south off the coast of the korean peninsula next week. the u.s. has also been talking with other countries about imposing tougher sanctions against the north. syria s heavily criticized leader said rebels in aleppo can leave the war-torn city if they lay down arms. he said the army will push to retake the city. acted the entire country. on thursday, troops advanced into the central area recapturing key buildings. government forces have repeatedly launched air strikes on the city since the latest ceasefire collapsed a few weeks ago. the government forces are expected to further intensify their offensive, fueling concer
north. kim jong-un ordered preparations of a launch of a de facto long-range ballistic missile. the country tested one in february. south korea s defense ministry said the north is ready for another nuclear test. its last happened a month ago. the united states has been increasing pressure on the north over those developments. it plans to hold a drill with the south off the coast of the korean peninsula next week. the u.s. has also been talking with other countries about imposing tougher sanctions against the north. syria s heavily criticized leader said rebels in aleppo can leave the war-torn city if they lay down arms. he said the army will push to retake the city. acted the entire country. on thursday, troops advanced into the central area recapturing key buildings. government forces have repeatedly launched air strikes on the city since the latest ceasefire collapsed a few weeks ago. the government forces are expected to further intensify their offensive, fueling concer