Getting a major reboot . Turning tv outside, will smith reportedly heading back to bel air. That will wake you up in the morning. Go, ginger. Happy friday as we say good morning, america. David, we made it. Almost. Thank you, thank you. This team is incredible, though, makes it fun. I said this week, 4 00 a. M. I know. All of the way through to jeopardy. Thats right. Lots of news on this friday. Historic day, the secretary of state arriving in cuba. More on that just ahead. Big history to be made. Incredible new images of the moment that explosions rocked that major city in nigh that. Well have the latest in a moment on the search for survivors. First, we want to get those new reports about a godzilla el nino and serious flooding out west. Ginger tracking it all. Lets start in las vegas, winds knocking down power lines. Thousands without power. The flash flooding. Southern nevada, that has moved on. The headline turns to heat. From phoenix back to burbank, very hot weekend. Godzilla el
Nice guy. Shock. It is shock. It is i dont know neighbor. Searching for a motive what led a new jersey man to fire fatal shots inside a Federal Building in soho it is our top story good evening everyone im antwan lewis. Im Christina Park investigators trying figure out what caused kevindowning to enter lobby of a Federal Building in fatally shoot a Security Guard before turning the gun only himself. Neighbors of downy and even a new jersey congressman are giving us a glimpse into life of the shooter. Lidia curanaj is live with the latest on this investigation. Reporter good evening antwan. All is quiet here now at downing home behind me. But earlier searched it from top to bottom and trying to figure out exactly what made him snap. Why did 68yearold Kevin Downing walk into this Lower Manhattan Federal Building yesterday and kill Security Guard and then turn the gun on himself . Downing fort lee new jersey neighbors are baffled and say they knew him as a kind man wife passed away from k
The nasdaq also closed in the red down 19. The s p lost 25. Todays losses may not seem that bad on their own. But they do come on the heels of that 588point drop for the dow yesterday and, um, lets see here, they mark a lot of 1700 points in the last four trading days. Experts say for the near future, expect volatility. People need to bear in mind that were entering a pretty volatile seasonal period for the markets, september october. The current turmoil can be traced to china where the economy is slowing and the government devalued its currency. Subway train operators are worried about their safety. Cbs 2s dick brennan talked to at 5 00. I was dazed for a second. Im like wow, he just hit me. Reporter this train operator never saw it coming. Saturday night in the essex street station a passenger pushed in his cab door on his j train and then unloaded on him. They opened the door. Face. Anything. Do . He punched me. Three passengers tried to also. Reporter it was one of three incidents
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
Well take you live to the floor of the new york merc. Consumer reports says tesla is the best car it ever tested. Getting a perfect score. Weve got the man behind the review coming up. And the cholesterol drug wars are heating up. Amgen could get approval from the fda within the next hour for its new treatment. We will bring you that news and tell you what it means for the Pharma Company and its rivals. We begin with two stories. One is the traction we are losing on the big board here. The second is crude oil surged for much of the session. Jackie deangelis has that at the nymex. Good afternoon. A huge surge in crude oil prices. More than 10 today in wti. 42. 56 is where we close. We did hilt an intraday high of 42. 75. Monday we closed under that critical 40 mark and today trading near 43. We had a stroonger dollar today but that couldnt hold crude prices down. Traders saying it was momentum in equities helping the crude rebound here. Decline in inventories supportive. Short covering