Lets get things started. Troops and tanks at the border in gaza, israel on verge of launching attack as humanitarian crisis in the region grows. Secretary of state blinken arriving in a push for peace. Put the interest of the country ahead. Nearly two weeks after speaker of the house was voted out, gop is struggling to vote in a new leader, jim jordan facing uphill battle to get the votes he needs in a deeply divided party. You can make your dreams come true. We remember a tv icon and her beginning in the bay area. Life and legacy of Suzanne Sommers. The bay area is celebrating its hip hop roots with local music legends on the folden anniversary of the Ground Breaking music genre. Obviously we didnt come out on the side we wanted to. Painful Lessons Learned in the disappointing day on the field for the 49ers. Good morning. Some of the players after the game said we needed this type of game. It checked them. Its a loss. 49er fans are not happy but they will go to the drawing board, take
And its just not getting enough traction in congress. Reporter senator Chuck Schumer appeared with his famous cousin, amy schumer today, to call for tougher background checks. One recent mass shooting in louisiana happened at amy schumers movie. Unless something is done, and done soon, dangerous people will continue to get their hands on guns. Reporter now Police Commissioner bill bratton was attending a National Summit on violence in washington today. He is scheduled to deliver a briefing here in new york tomorrow afternoon, with the latest crime statics. And again, the nypd says not only is Violent Crime down across the city, but shootings are, as well. Andrew siff, news 4 new york. Coming up tonight at 6 00, new yorks biggest iteam looks at how to get guns off the streets and the debate over stop and frisk. And new at 5 00, a federal jury is keeping the Death Penalty on the table as sentencing for james holmes moves ahead. Defense lawyers pleaded, citing Mental Illness as the reason
Residents have rushing to board up homes and evacuate. We dont know exactly where its going to be landing. Where landfall will be. We think we are as well prepared as you can possibly be. I cannot stress this enough, get prepared now. Know your evacuation zone, listen to your local officials. This storm has potential to catastrophically and you have to take seriously. This is a catastrophic storm that our state has never seen. Maria very latest on the storms path and expected expectations rather for landfall, thats coming up this beaked. In washington lawmakers moving forward on relief plan. Senate approving the deal that he made with democrats this week and open to reaching across the aisle again. Market this is morning under selling pressure. Take a look at futures indicating decline of 65 points on Dow Jones Industrial average, the s p 500 and the nasdaq also negative this morning. In europe take a look at major averages, selling underway, the ftse down a quarter of a percent as the
Welcome to power lunch the s p joining the dow in having its best day since march 1st. The three major averages now positive for the month all 11 s p sectors are trading higher right now health care, tech, trading above their record closes. Financial also a big winner today. The dow utility setting an alltime intraday high as melissa mentioned, irma, not as bad as it could have been the floridabased insurers and the reinsurers, they are soaring, up anywhere between 5 and 15 . Im Brian Sullivan out in San Francisco. Perhaps no stock important for the dow as much as apple tomorrow, apple, the first event at their brandnew billion dollar headquarters. Expected to launch not one, not two but perhaps three new phones with a price tag of upwards of 1,000 Analysts Expect this to be revolutionary. Not evolutionary the stock has becoen on a tear well get you details perhaps on apple watch, apple tv. Its all going to be about this device, the computer in your hand, ten years after the release of
Were lockstep with europe this is a very big change. You pointed that out a number of times the tenyear note yield creeping up a little bit from the lows we saw last week. Maybe helping firm up the financials just a bit. You see crude there. We just heard, of course, from the treasury secretary of the United States, steven mnuchin. As they wrap up squawk box. Tax reform, its got to be the most significant item on the agenda you know, he seemed to echo comments he made in the past about 15 being a target but not hard and fast. He did say some things in terms of pass throughs when pressed by andrew how are you really going to be able to prevent people from becoming llc and therefore benefitting from the potentially lower tax rate than they would as individuals he said, Service Companies would be one example that were not going to allow im not sure we heard that before in terms of specifics when it comes to how theyre going to sort of thread that, very importantly if everybody becomes a p