But the bank is hoping to close the deal by year end. U. S. Sends additional troops to the gulf. Iran threats are absurd. Its not the first time he said something ridiculous and laughable. The United States is our allies. The attack was against the whole world, not just saudi arabia good morning welcome to the program. We are closely watching the survey data this morning pmi after a weak read in on Germany Economy and france the numbers crossing for the eurozone, 50. 4 that is 50. 4 the flash pmi estimate was seen higher around 52, so it is weaker than anticipated but it is holding crucially above that 50 break even level. When it comes to the comparison to august, you can tell how quickly we have unwound to trade around the 50. 4 level today. When it comes to the deep level of pain across the eurozone, the manufacturing flagged up flash estimate at 45. 6 this is weaker than the 47. 2 anticipated. Also down probably 47 that we flashed up in august when it comes to services, and this is
It will be a shorter working week with no loss of pay. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport holly hamilton wales have opened their World Cup Campaign witha wales have opened their World Cup Campaign with a convincing victory over georgie. We will relive all the tries at 2 30. With rain on the way, some have been looking for a dry place to stay and that rain is brought to us by a weather system that is influenced by what happened in the caribbean two weeks ago. I will tell you more later on. Also coming up by royal appointment harry and meghan visit a south african township as they arrive in south africa with four month old archie for their first overseas tour as a family. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Its called 0peration materhorn and its the biggest peace time operation to repatriate britons stranded abroad after the collapse of thomas cook. The Civil Aviation authority has chartered a fleet ofjets to bring home more than 150,000 british holidaymakers. Thomas cook brita
Northerly winds, hot and dry air, 10 to 25 miles per hour, gusting to 40 and low relative humidity values about 10 to 20 so extreme fire danger as we head through the next couple of days. Here is the fire forecast danger from the u. S. Forest service and it does show a yellow high fire danger, orange, very high and or the red is extreme high fire danger. This is for tomorrow for the northbay hills, east bay hills and the diablo range. Wildfire safety, discard cigarettes properly, keep cars off grass, avoid activities that could create sparks and remove dart dry vegetation around your home. Be prepared. We will talk more about what you can expect. We are tracking the wind picked details coming up. Now the hot, dry weather has pg e ready to shut off power to 124,000 people across northern california. Nine counties including sonoma, napa, lake and butte counties could be affected. Contingency plans are now in place for when and if the power is turned off. Reporter Sonoma County officials
Fire. Reporter in the north bay its been hot and dry, but not windy. That absence of wind made a difference of residents. Tonight we are not worried about extreme weather conditions. Reporter by noon when the power was on, wheels had gone into motion or nonmotion for residents who lined up to fill their cars with gasoline in case the power did go down. I have work in a couple of hours. I was not wanting to do this right now. Reporter in preparation of a shut off the Emergency Center was open. The county prefers to be ready whatever happens and to hope for the best outcome. I think at the end of the day, if nothing happens, if that nothing includes no wildfire, thats what we keep telling people. Reporter so far nothing has happened, at least in those terms. Were not finished yet. The power will be on tonight, theres always the question of tomorrow and if those conditions are worse, all bets are off. We could be doing the same story all over again but with a different outcome. Thank you.