Than later. Even though thats not necessarily the easiyes easiye eastiest thing to have done, it was the right thing to do. And port staff, i used to say port staff is the best in the city, and then, i stopped because i didnt want to poach. I guess i can go back to saying, this really is a fantastic place for people to work with just an Extraordinary Team at the port at every level. And i think given the fact weve got mike martin over here, thats another example of how its a nice place to be. But no, truly, thank you all for the hard work thats been done, and im going to quote jack yet when he called to see if i had any further questions. He said you know, people at the port are really pretty fabulous, but somebody whos sat on the other side of a negotiation table, to be able to say that is really quite a tribute to both sides. The negotiations were certainly not easy, but it resulted in such a solid project is a testament to all involved. And of course to have labor show up and talk a
Freedom from england back in 1776. Meteorologist Justin Drabick is in our weather center. Justin will the rain clear up for the big fireworks shows tonight. Thats right, natasha i think we have good news. Finally well get some of those steadier showers move off shore. Better conditions if youre checking out fireworks. Still maybe a lingering shower over parts of the Delaware Valley through the evening hours but you can see the bulk of the precipitation now moving off shore, maybe some steadier rain gets in here south of dover delaware in the next few hours. Later on this evening after sunset i think were looking pretty good. Still some clouds around but those clouds will thin out as we head into the late nighttime hours. Look at the temperatures, though. These were the highs today. Much cooler because of the clouds and the showers. Only 73 degrees this afternoon in reading. 75 allentown low 80s though in south jersey. Saw a little bit of sunshine especially in the morning. Heres where
From google and airbnb. All of that i had on bloomberg west. First our lead microsoft is considering an investment in uber at a valuation of about 50 billion, but a final decision has not been made. Microsoft declined to comment but uber recently bought a portion of Microsofts Bing mapping unit from the Software Giant and they are integrating uber into cortanas Voice Control assistant, which means synced with an uber microsoft devices. Dina bass is on the phone. With me in the studio is hunter walk, who will be my guest host for the show today. Also, Technalysis Research founder bob odonnell and crawford del prete. Thank you for joining us. Dina, i will start with you because the wall street journal is reporting this deal with microsoft is closed. You say a deal aint done yet. What is really happening . Dina i was told definitively microsoft has not participated in a round, has not made an investment but rather they are considering an investment. There are discussions ongoing and evalu
Was booby trapped or if the explosion was simply an accident, but theyre saying it looks like some type of natural gas incident and the authorities havent said if the victim was the owner being convicted. They told us that the tenant had been there since 2010 and stopped paying rent in may. What are investigators saying . Is it possible that the victim could have died before the explosion . Its absolutely a possibility. Investigators cant say right now, if he died before or as a result of tex mroegs. Its certainly something theyre looking into. This is an unusual incident. Thank you. Now, to the jerusalem fire shows no signs at all of letting up. It doubled in size overnight to 12,000 acres, these are live pictures from sky fox, you can see the spoke burning from that fire. Its burning very close to the area where the rocky fire broke out late last month. We head now to ktvus walker who has been in the fire zone, what can you tell us . Ken, this is another really big fire, its been bur
Weve seen since the election. The nasdaq is indicated up by 8. 5 points. Well talk to the nasdaqs ceo later this morning. Look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was up by 1. 1 . Markets in china also closed higher with the hang seng up by a half percentage point. In europe this morning, in the early trading thats taking place, you can see things are relatively flat. Across the board. The ftse, the cac, and the dax all sitting within points of where they closed yet. Its been a big couple of days for markets there. Pepsico just out with earnings. The number is a core earnings of 94 cents a share. That Beat Estimates by two cents. Revenue also coming in a little above expectations. Talking about what happened with this quarter, she said they achieved solid Revenue Growth in the First Quarter, underpinned by global volume growth. Despite what she calls a challenging food and Beverage Industry thats been trading conditions in north america and continued volatility in developing