A night of pageantry and politics that collides with breaking news on our shores and in our streets. Protests continue for the third night in wisconsin after the shooting of jacob blake in the back by police. A young vigilante who took up a rifle to confront protesters there has now been arrested for shooting three. Two of the victims are dead. And in an extraordinary move, the nba has posttoned tonights playoff games after the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted their game to protest the shooting of blake. The wnba, major league baseball, Major League Soccer have postponed their games tonight. Meantime, hurricane laura is bearing down on the louisiana texas border. Now a fierce category 4 storm. Set to be one of the strongest ever to make landfall in the United States. So, lets get the latest from ginger zee in port arthur. Ginger, i can see the wind is kicking up right now. We are just about to get in the main shield of what is hurricane laura. That category 4 storm, now the center of it is ab
Result of arson fires. And coronavirus takes out the countrys Oldest Department store chain. Liquidation sale signs could be seen on lord taylor locations yesterday. The nearly 200yearold Company Announcing its declared bankruptcy. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 3rd. Thank you for joining us. Hope you had a good weekend. Lots of news to get to. Were beginning this half hour with the possible hurricane heading for landfall in North Carolina. Residents and President Trump has already approved a disaster declaration for parts of the state. Isaias is a Strong Tropical Storm and heading northnorthwest. Before its done it will bring as much as six inches of rain to North Carolina. Reporter josh chapin is there. Reporter beachgoers raving about the weekends weather even as a storm threatens this beach town again. For Tropical Storms, we have to look at the totality of impacts. Reporter New Hanover County Emergency Management is not yet calling for evacuations. For ea
Earnings last week and announcement after four for one stock split. We have microsoft higher on a possible tiktok acquisition. We have fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman with the latest from the white house. Edward lawrence from washington. Well start with blake. Reporter hi, there, jackie and david. A lot of the action up on capitol hill there was just a twohour meeting behind closed doors between the top four negotiators to figure out a way through relief talks. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and chief of staff mark meadows and House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer. After that mnuchin walked out of the meeting and went over to Mitch Mcconnells office to Top Republican in the senate and to brief him on the discussion. This is their readout afterwards. A lot of focus discussed on schools. Chuck schumer said we went through the numbers in person that the senate put in and proposal we have, how many children can you feed with this amount of dollars f
Massive rescue efforts, hearing from victims and those rushing to help. Plus, upsetting Boris Johnsons plan. The new move from the uk Prime Minister following his second brexit defeat. New details in the College Admissions scandal. The latest allegations of paytoplay, what it means for the dozens of parents charged. Connell more on all the stories, fox Business Team coverage, top stories with gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Edward lawrence in d. C. But gerri, with this rally in the markets we start to with you. Reporter global rally going on really started with the comments from the hong kong leader carrie lam, saying they would withdraw a bill that had sparked all kinds of protests in hong kong, calling for extradition of hong kong residents to face china, what wall street journal opaque justice system. She pulled away. Off to the races for stock markets across the globe. Facebook adding to the upside as well. Oil purchases for a second, settling up 4. 3 . An
Through. Another bad day for 80, this is going to be a long investigation. There. It may be theyre going to let some of these cars through. But it is very slow in the area and traffic is backing up quickly in that area. Lets go and load up this map here for you. Show 80 westbound, that is where it is. Thats where the backup is this morning. Is going to be quickly backing up towards 580. If you know anyone who comes this way. You might as well wake them up and say hey this is a big problem for you. It is going to be for a time. This is what it looks like, traffic is at a complete standstill all the way up to the freeway. This is a major problem, we will let you know more about it. Another bad day for the e sure freeway, basically stand bound. Eastbound not affected. Other commute is pretty normal, highway 580, 680, highway four. Lets go to steve with todays weather. It is only 5 am. Lightly traveled on a friday but this is just bad news for that commute. Obviously. A little warmer today