Also good news on the cholesterolfighting front. And has the perct car been finally created . All of those things and lots, lots more today. Tyler is out today once again but Kayla Tausche joins me live at the nyse with bob pisani. Hi there, kayla. Hey, mandy, great to be here. We are watching the markets in rally mode. Mandy ran through just how historic the gains were seeing are. Put this in perspective. Just the fact that the dow has risen, what, 1,000 points in two days . 1,000 points in a day and a half. The s p is 100 points. Youre seeing some numbers youre not going to likely see very, very often. I havent seen them. Ive been here a long time. Look at the s p 500 melting up here chasing stocks here. Weve got to get them because theyre running away from us. Thats what it looks like. Its been a long week. But let me show you the markets today. Were getting strange numbers again. Heavy volume but not as heavy as the last few days. The volatilitys been dropping. Look at this breadth
Percentage point dax is slightly weaker, relatively flat as is the cac. Crude oil prices, crude Oil Yesterday was flat ended up by two cents this morning another 44 cents 55. 35 so wti above 50 a barrel. Back to the markets in a moment first the latest developments on Hurricane Maria. The hurricane making landfall on the island of dominica as a category 5 storm it is now weakened slightly within the past few hours to a category 4 thats the good news forecasters warn that maria could reach strength as it nears the Virgin Islands, puerto rico also in marias cross hairs. You know, when these hurricanes come, they come. This come in waves we are also following developing stories out of Southern California overnight a magnitude 3. 6 earthquake shook parts of los angeles it happened at 11 20 p. M. Local time dren residents as far away as costa mesa felt the rumble joseph, why never heard of costa mesa i called it so ed ied it cos, im mesa. Im a messa in the morning. Look at my script its thi
We track it. Talking to an official down there. Looks like progress is finally being made in congress on two of President Trumps biggest agenda items, that would be tax reform and replacing obamacare. We head live to capitol hill for the latest details on that. We also have fedex, adobe, Bed Bath Beyond reporting earnings after the bell today, a few days sinces weve had bigger earnings to recover. Well bring you instant analysis as soon as the results are released bed, bath down 2 . Fedex getting ready to raise rates. We begin with Hurricane Maria gaining strength yet again heading right toward puerto rico w wtvj meteorologist Steve Mclaughlin with the latest. A couple days ago the storm was what we call 96l, a big storm in the ocean by saturday 5 00 pvm, it was Tropical Storm marine ya, sunday 5 00 p. M. , Hurricane Maria last night at 7 45, category 5 with winds of 160. That is where we are right now the track right across the Virgin Islands especially st. Croix as a major hurricane,
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To this programme. Her full interview before 11. Plus, theresa may is currently leading a party engulfed by harassment scandals, with a foreign secretary whos just made a serious blunder and an International Development secretary who held talks in israel without telling anyone about them. Well look at what all this means for her leadeship. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until am this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Use the hashtag victorialive, and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Tell us if you have been stopped and searched by the police. What happened . Searched by the police. What happened . Why were searched by the police. What happened . Why were you told you were being searched . Happened . Why were you told you were being searched . Let happened . Why were you told you were being searched . Let me know. You can send me an e mail. All of the details on the screen. Good morning. Our top story t