Sunday, august 9th. Im kendis gibson. And im corey coffin, we are live from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. We do say hello to boston, looking to be a Beautiful Day today, red sox pitching, now that was a little bit more of a mess. Heard them again yesterday, the blue jays 21 over the red sox, but luckily here in new york, corey yes. We have the amazing mets and the amazing weather. The weather is looking fantastic. If youre looking at the live shot right now, it is a great start, great sunday in new york. This is usually a downtown shop from 30 Rockefeller Center looking at the beautiful Empire State Building and one world trade center. Wow. So good that we pay for that view. Just a gorgeous shot this morning. Thats awesome. Absolutely. All right. All right. Lets dive right in. First this morning President Trump seizing the power of his podium and his pen bypassing congress and signing an executive order and three memoranda on the covid relief after stimulus talks with democrats
Will stop Briefing Congress in person on election threats. President trump accusing democrats of leaking the intel. The stunning change with only 65 days until the election. And tomorrows u. S. Open will be unlike any other in history. Its a perfect sport for social distancing, but will the players be able to stay safe . We will dig into it with a live report as we do say good morning on this sunday, it is august 30th. Turning out to be a very, very, very busy sunday morning. Im kendis gibson. Were going to start on the west coast right now and the breaking news out of oregon. Portland, oregon. Possibly hitting a Tipping Point overnight. Another night of unrest turns to gunfire and one person we are told is dead. Okay. So gunshots first heard around 9 00 p. M. Local time, 12 00 eastern 12 00 eastern time. The shots were heard in downtown portland. When cops got to the scene they found one person dead with a gunshot wound to the chest. Let me explain one thing, portland was sort of fixi
Governments most wanted list. You know who he is. Edward snowden, speaking today from russia. We will hear from him in just a few minutes time. First lets check in with sue down at the new york stock exchange. While we wait for those comments from mr. Snowden, problems overseas, economic pressure in china, tension in the ukraine, certainly earlier on not very kind to this market, although we are significantly off of our lows of the trading session. The dow is down 57 points, the s p is down just under three, about a sixpoint loss for the nasdaq and fivepoint loss for the russell. Bob pisani joins me on the floor. Yes, the overseas news has been influencing the market but im impressed by the fact that we have been able to come back so considerably off the lows of the trading session. There are other sectors of the market offsetting the weakness but the real story is still china. Biggest drop in exports in four and a half years, biggest trade deficit, a trade deficit in china, who would
Adopted, and that thousands of other ukrainians are being deported from russian occupied areas. Theory says circle filtration, operations amount to a war crime or diplomatic editor james base has more from the un this Security Council meeting was called by albania, and the u. S. The have been persistent allegations that when russian soldiers have captured areas of ukraine, theyve taken away people who lived there to russia. A process of enforced displacement, Ambassador Linda Thomas greenfield, says the u. S. Government believes the numbers involved are staggering, that russian authorities have interrogated, detained, forcibly to put it between 900001 point 6000000 ukranian citizens from their homes to russia, often to isolated regions in the far east. And i want to be clear, the United States has information that officials from russias president ial administration are overseeing and coordinating these filtration operations. A senior human rights official says her office can verify tha
Overshadow jobs. Retail sales for november. Expectations are for an increase of 0. 6 . This gueives us a very good ide of whats happening in the early shopping season. Ahead of those numbers, the futures right now are indicated lower. You can see right now those dow futures down by 16. 5 points. S p futures off just over 2 points. And on the earnings front, lululemon is expected to record at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. The expectations have been for 41 cents a share. This after the ceo was forced to step down after making comments about the pants arent made for everyone. Shares of lululemon right now, down about 6 cents. Lets get over to andrew with more of todays stop top stories. Good morning. Thank you, becky. As joe was mentioning earlier, Hilton Worldwide will begin its first day of trading. Hey, squawk box. Thats hot. Thank you very much. Youre pricing at 20 a share. Thats the high end of the expected range. The offering raises more than 2. 3 billion and its trading under the symbol