Good day, everybody. Welcome to power lunch. Im tyler mathisen. Glad you could join us another daily and more records for the equity markets. The dow, s p, russell, nasdaq, you name it theyre reaching historic highs. The emerging markets rallying two, the etf that tracks them, on pace for its best day since september 11th. The airline pushing the dow transports to new highs as well jet blew, delta, united leading the way there. Lennar up about 3 . The home builder beating earn ares estimates. Now making a bit of a come back as you see theyre up 1. 2 . The electric car maker missing those model three goals more on this ahead. Im melissa lee. The National Retail federation expecting holiday sales to increase between 3. 5 and 4 this year. The u. S. Ordering 15 Cuban Embassy officials to leave. This comes after sonic attacks against american diplomats in cuba. Three nobel prices for scientists after breaking gravitational waves. We begin this hour in puerto rico. The president touching dow
You all have lots of time to enjoy a. We will have a signing directly after this session if youd like to get a copy at the Barnes Noble Book can tend we will have a little discussion pass some speakers the real open for questions i want to introduce you to lydia who was the author of this great book dust bowl girls. The inspiring story of the team babars barnstormed its way to basketball glory. Lydia reeder comes to us from denver but grew up in oklahoma where this true story takes place this is her first book and is the grand niece of the coach of one of the main figures in the story so we will talk about how she can about the story and how she got to this amazing book we can read today and talk about what is going on in todays world. So how did you bring these girls to life . They lived quite a bit ago if you were able to get inside their heads. How did you make that happen . I read their diaries and the their journals and the personal letters talk to their relatives and i could talk
Family that changed his demeanor. You saw how emotional he was, this is a dramatic turning point in his life. Anything trigger this . We can conceivably file a motion for his custody status. [ inaudible ] and also there was an 4,000 is that related to the ethics fine . That is related to any gifts he may have received under the indictment. Under the terms of the plea agreement he would have to forfeit what he got with that. That is valued at 64,000 . Yes. That is correct. Anything else. Thank you gentlemen. You have been listening to Philadelphia District attorney Seth Williams defense team outside of the courthouse where he plead guilty this morning. Lets go to vernon odom with more on this development today. Reporter stunning developments here this afternoon sara. You heard Seth Williams defense lawyer say they are working on an appeal this morning after Seth Williams pleaded guilty to one count of bribery in this massive Corruption Case against him. The judge paul diamond had him im
Goldman sachs on deck. Still up 7 10 of 1 . Front and center, will they disappoint . The banksides earnings, Mitch Mcconnell yesterday pulling the bill he had been working on to replace obamacare. Instead he says he will try to repealing the Health Care Law that keeping it in place while Congress Tries to figure out what comes next. Joining us now is Kevin Cirilli. , he develop in washington wants to repeal obamacare, will it happen . Kevin unlikely. With several sources that say that it is unlikely that despite Mitch Mcconnell and President Trumps assertion that they would like to see the senate and the house vote on the 2015 repeal bill the votes might not be there. Route, do go this starting the clock on a twoyear timetable for lawmakers to come together to try to come up with a new alternative to obamacare before it would be fully repealed in two years. That said, i spoke with a senior aide to a republican member, one of the four lawmakers who opposes this bill and i can tell you,
Saturated. Look at this play area under water because the ground cant take any more water. The river is just over there about 30 feet, the old timers here tell me, if the river comes up more, like last night it was almost over the riverbank, if we get 5 to 6 inches, Something Like that, they tell me it could go all the way to the road over there and make things worse. Rainwater runoff has created streams along roadways in the Santa Cruz Mountains, creating traction problems for drivers. Especially on highway 17. Its the way its been. Thats the way it is all day yesterday. And monday. Santa cruz chp had already logged 10 accidents on the highway on tuesday alone. When crashes werent holding up traffic. Mudslides and falling trees were. Weve been nonstop picking up little slides down the road. The patients and skills of drivers are sure to be tested even more. Were likely to see even more accidents. We had 10 yesterday as you heard from chp and santa cruz. I talked to them a short time a