United states. Against a massive Misinformation Campaign fuelled by Chinese State backed twitter and facebook accounts. Were live in hong kong with the latest there and its a big week for retail coming up tjx, kohls, many more reporting it is tuesday august 20th and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Welcome to the show. Futures indicating the dow will open up fractionally higher at this stage the nasdaq up by 11 points heading into this mornings trading session, the dow is now within 145 points of recooping all of its losses from that big wednesday 800 points sell off in the dow. The s p is just 3 points away. The bond market currently in focus as well. The yield of 10 year u. S. Treasuries you can about 1. 8 1. 52 just about six basis points separating those two. That 210 spread for treasuries yesterday the white house was pushing back against recession rhetoric today its numerous reports the Trump Administration is preparing options to help bolster the American Economy and help pr
Big rig driver swerved to avoid a black camry that stopped in the slow lane. In fact, the video youre seeing is the driver of that camry that was stopped in the slow lane. Thats that driver being handcuffed. Were being told according to chp that this camry driver was passed out in the car. Its unclear exactly why that driver was passed out, but the big rig did avoid that black camry but in the process, that big rig did overturn. Now the good news, guys, is that there were no injuries in all of this to either to the driver of that big rig, as you see theyre starting to work on trying to tow this car, guys but were being told the camry driver was arrested, but theyre expecting the freeway to reopen sometime before 7 00 a. M. Guys. All right, thank you very much, pete. Hopefully it will reopen before the bulk of the commute but we know it will be a difficult morning. What might make it easier, nice weather. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that for us this morning. Its going to b
Coming up for you in a bit. It is 6 00 right on the dot right now. Thanks so much for joining us. Im kris sanchez. I am in for laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Vianey will have a look at that commute time for us in just a moment. First we want to talk about the weather because a lot of people have plans this weekend, some people the weekend starts today. That would be nice. We have a few more hours to go, but we are going to start out with clouds across the bay area, and then warming up in the inland valleys. Lets get a look outside at walnut creek, before you step out the door. Everything looks good but look at those clouds that are going to be with us to start out today. All of that clearing out quickly and our temperatures warming up into the low 80s by early afternoon, well have a few more spots in the east bay and north bay valleys reaching the low 90s. So ill have more on that in just a few minutes. Vianey, how are the roads now looking . You know, its not bad, considering
Golf course, and this is peak season. So this will impact a lot of families on vacation and some of the homeowners who live there full time. Well continue to stay on the story throughout the evening. Were also the first to send out a breaking news alert about this fire and the subsequent evacuations. You can sign up for these breaking news alerts through our free nbc bay area app. Its a great resource. It will show up right there on your phone. Our other top story, new details from Law Enforcement that the gilroy gunman may have had a plan to escape. Investigators searched the gunmans home and car. We just obtained the search warn warrant that details what they found inside the car and the family home. The shooter shot and killed himself, but details left behind showed what he thought he could hide out in the wilderness. We just obtaned documents from the Gilroy Police department which reveal a bizarre list of items found in the gunmans car parked about a halfmile away from the gilroy
Good thursday morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Its 6 00 right now. I am laura garcia. I am marcus washington. Getting us caught up with what is happening today, mike has a look at the commute. But first lets look at the forecast. Kari hall has more on what we can expect. Its a gorgeous day, and on the weekend, we are going to have cooler and wetter weather coming in. We will take it in today as the sunshine continues, and also comfortable temperatures for the afternoon. It will become cloudy tomorrow with showers moving in and temperatures dropping with a chance of thunderstorms on saturday. Now, a look at our highs for today, its a few degrees above normal, in the upper 60s for the east bay. Mid60s for the peninsula into San Francisco. The north bay in the upper 60s, but tomorrow we see the drop in those numbers as we see more clouds coming in and once again, rain for the afternoon. We will talk more about the timeline coming up in a few minutes. Mike, you are seeing one pote