Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and five in the afternoon in vancouver, where Foreign Ministers from 20 countries have concluded their talks to try to exert more pressure on north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. The meeting though has been overshadowed by apparent thaw in relations between north and south korea. The two koreas have agreed to march under the same flag at next months Winter Olympics in seoul and field a joint ice hockey team. My colleague lauara bicker has been following the latest developments from vancouver. A slight break but what happens now. That is the question i put to the south Korean Foreign minister. I started by asking her about her alliance with america, an ally of it has had them back for many years and now, with a president who treat tweets about war with north korea. She answered that question rather diplomatically, saying it was democracy but i asked why north korea has come to the discussion table now. After all, there have been overtures fro
Regime . Is everybody going to float . What a difference this summer makes. Tom it is august. We are going to give you what we can today. Right now, we need wisdom on the top headlines. Here is vonnie quinn. Border,along the korean the most Serious Exchange of artillery fire in five years. North korea fired a rocket at a south korean border position and that prompted south korea to unleash an artillery barrage. Earlier this month, two south korean soldiers were wounded by a landmine in the demilitarized zone. Policy makers are getting closer to raising Interest Rates for the first time in nine years. Participant said conditions were approaching the point where the economy could sustain a rate hike. Moved to prop up the yuan. The Chinese Central Bank has injected the most money. The yuan fell 3 in three days last week. Kazakhstan is the latest emerging market to give up control of the exchange rate. Tenge reached a 23 drop. Hillary clinton might not have used the private server for emai
Im jamie colby. And today i am cruising ocean side in beautiful la jolla, california, just north of san diego. Im on my way to meet an heir whose strange inheritance stunned the coincollecting world, then led to a showdown with uncle sam. My name is Randy Lawrence. I inherited a baggie of coins from my father, who worked at the denver mint. Imagine a shiny penny. But instead of being coppercolored, its silver. That was one of the coins my dad left me. And it turned my life upside down. Hi, randy. Im jamie. Hello. Nice to meet you. So great to meet you, too. And i heard that your inheritance came in a small plastic bag . It did. Randy shows me in, sits me down, and hands me a baggie full of coins. Well, they cant be very valuable, i guess, if theyre still sitting here in a ziploc. Well, those particular ones arent necessarily. But there was one in that bag that was quite valuable. Where is it . Can i see it . Well, i dont have it. Huh . Yeah, theres a little bit of a story. Its the stor
First things first. Lets check on markets. We are expecting about half an hour from now the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister to make a statement on catalonia. Stocks in europe nudging higher. Miners gaining. Oils also gaining. The euro weakening a touch. Spanish stocks falling. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first world news. His sebastian salek. Sebastian kurtz has declared victory. A win for his Peoples Party would shift the politics to the right. It is also seem to have paved the way for the eurosceptics party to be in government. Angela merkel has to talks this week in a more moral position after her party suffered defeated lower saxony. Its her worst result in lower saxony since 1969. The worlds top central banker is for that inflation will stay low for much longer and they will push ahead with plans to tighten Monetary Policy. Janet yellen thinks u. S. Prices will accelerate despite a. Of softness. Is that theuess software easily not persist and with an ongoing straightening of
People are making their way to the Chabot Space Science Center this morning. We saw a line of cars in the parking lot we will tell you about the party planned for the Solar Eclipse. This is ktvu mornings on 2. Monday, august 21 im Gasia Mikaelian good morning im dave clark lets talk about the weather with the eclipse. Steve paulson knows how important it is. It is looking pretty gray and my concern is we need the sun and if we start going dark it will fill in. Some of it wont burn off at all. There are always a few breaks but there are a lot of low clouds in place as well. A couple of breaks around the airport but it looks like it is filling in for almost everybody. Good morning Gasia Mikaelian. A friend of mine Michael Polanski sent me a picture from his friends house in salem, oregon and they are mostly clear. Oregon and idaho are looking good although there is fire with smoke and haze. I dont see how we will get around the low fog and less some areas get some breaks but for the majo