Diplomatic efforts coming out. Now showing a negative vote then. The dow, s p and not fractionally lower this morning. We will talk about it. Plus m a on wall street. Bigger deals including energy sector. Details on the move to acquirer encore. As you can see, markets also opening under pressure. Part of that is the global tensions and central bank discussions. Taking a look at asia, mixed action there. As you can see the nikkei down by 4 . Hang seng in shanghai composite. Kospi down fractionally. Here at home, rethinking the war in afghanistan. President trump set to address the nation tonight on the future of our military presence in that country. Tune into fox business for special coverage of the speech 9 00 p. M. Eastern time tonight. Eclipse day is finally here. Millions across the u. S. A. To take in the event and its costing Corporate America big time. It has to cost its productivity. That is coming up. Big game for Little League. Other parts and cardinals had the featured the sports what its all about. Coming up as well. All the stories and a lot more. Generally this morning, president lee carter. Good morning to her. Michael bloch is here and her and are pink. Happy eclipse to all of you. A lot of news to go through this morning. Air so much. Weve got the presidency said theyll be interesting to watch. Im glad you are here from the president. Through all of the news. Former nato supreme allied commander. He is here. Rnc chair, former speaker dos command Newt Gingrich is going to be here. So much talking about eclipse today. Former apollo 16 astronaut you dont want to miss the hour of our show. They began with some breaking news. Five more have been injured after the uss john s. Mccain collides with the merchant vessel near singapore. The media missile destroyer including funding the multiple compartments made it to singapore. They reacted to the news, two evening cindy and i are keeping american sailors aboard the uss john mccain in our prayers tonight. We appreciate the worker search and rescue crews. President trump reacted treating thoughts and prayers are with her u. S. Navy sailors aboard the uss john mccain for search and rescue efforts are under way. Obviously this is the second destroyer accident weve had in just two months for the navy. Is there concern about the safety of our sailors . I would be if i were in charge of the navy. A slightly different situation because the fitzgerald was hit from the right side. The way it traditionally has the rightofway, so that would indicate it was definitely shouldve given way. This was on the left side. That indicates to me it felt the rightofway in the merchant ship shouldve held at. I know human era will be quite this severe. From a political standpoint, obviously President Trump has been out and about saying they want more money in the u. S. Military. This will help the president s argument in that regard. Cheryl i certainly would think so. I think this really says we need to invest in our military not just a not just that we can have our military action, this weekend keep them safe what theyre doing. We look to maybe fix some of our ships and some of our aircraft. Its time to get our military have been running. We havent heard a lot about the debt ceiling. Markets have given us recent years. There could be increased scrutiny on not. Talking about the need for increased defense spending including entitlements. It will be a bit of a battle here with Everything Else going on. Try and do we need to keep our nation safe. The buses about the situation with north korea. Kicking off new wargame drills. The north calling bistros reckless. This could trigger a nuclear war. The north is using this to turn up against us again. Absolutely. The holy grail for the north and what they want is us out of asia and middle east provocations by the north as an excuse to get us to sever the military relationship with south korea. If we can stop doing that, if we can refuse to stop him back in south korea, they will be on the north in the future. Obviously this is part of the story with regard to the administration. We will get that in a moment. At least for now, markets have been react and. Obviously now the south koreans are going to be at least on our side for now with these drills. I think its really important. What i find really disappointed and not just what happened and thats a whole other story and we need to talk about the focus hasnt been as much a north korea. We havent celebrated the fact that is more contained. That is something we should all feel reassured about in light of the other things going on right now. Cheryl looking at features right now. Dow, s p and nasdaq are in the red. Suffering because of jitters with north korea. Today its going to be a little bit fascinating for investors to watch as the drills begin. We are well into august here. I dont like to say we are floating around on a nebula here. People taking vacations, not here. Tensions going down shouldve rallied markets more. And then you had the added attraction if you will live in the white house on friday, which a lot of promarket people say will be good news. They kind of fizzled out in the afternoon. I could point to any number of reasons for that. With these exercises going on with south korea, is that going to bring up the rhetoric again. Thinking about afghanistan, will he go off course a little bit and Start Talking about north korea again. I can unsettle markets yet again. Looking at the clips they are taking vacations. Cheryl well, i think everyone is afraid to take a vacation because theres so much news happening. I send out emails every day. I have to tell you the tumbleweeds floating through the system right now. Not a lot going on. Theres a lot of people saying okay, we are fine. Could it be they are not fed. Good news out of north korea. Other good news at the same time. Looking at charlottesville, people across the country right now free saying what is this thing about our country and people out there talking about could there be a civil war coming within our own country. Could that not be some of the offset here . Ive said this before. Ill say it again. A lot of emotions in the market right now. Investors not supposed to be emotional. Since november ive seen people claim that their dislike of President Trump. Hes going to bring back things. People are upset about charlottesville. There is sunlight that in making people not like the market. They keep telling clients and investors can take the emotion out. We can say we dont like this or this is bad. Dont let it guide your investment. Cheryl before we go, i do want to ask about the president s speech today. Addressing the nation about the war in afghanistan. But he expecting to hear and what do you want to hear from President Trump tonight . What i like to see how america gets on a footing towards a stable situation, one that doesnt involve us putting troops in there the next decade. I would suspect that there would be a modest increase to the afghan unit that the brigade level. Something about the commander on the ground general mickelson and madison and others like h. R. Mcmaster have wanted a longtime. However, i would like to see some operation on that. I think theres a way to give the generals what they want in terms of increasing their power in the country and special operations recovery without spending more marines back to Helmand Province for not particularly important areas. A lot of a lot of analysts echoing this this morning. Obviously stay tuned to fox business. We are going to have special coverage of President Trump speech at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time tonight. He is expected to make an announcement about the administrations strategy in afghanistan. We have a lot more coming up including the energy beating out Warren Buffett in a battle to acquire encore. Details on the 4. 5 billion bid. Plus, it is history in the making. Americans will see a total Solar Eclipse for the first time in maybe 10 years. Former nasa astronaut mike fireman about the big event. You are watching mornings with maria. We will be right back. con artists. theyll try anything to get your Medicare Card number. So they can steal your identity, commit medicare fraud. What can you do . Guard your card . Guard your card . Just like your credit card. Nobody gets my number, unless i know they should have it. To protect your identity, new Medicare Cards without Social Security numbers will be mailed next year. Visit medicare. 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With all the news in the last however since the president ial election, i just love nature is making its headlines today. I miss the booty stadium, which is actually eclipse central. 15 dozen people will be packing this evening im. Theyve all bought tickets. Its an incredible event. On the field there will be people launching weather balloons, presentations, a big video board. It is crazy because this doesnt happen that often. Take a look at a map where its happening when. The key on this one is this is we believe the first time thats ever been in eclipse available only in the u. S. In u. S. History. On the coast 99 years in here in carbondale, which is where the stadium is located, we will have totality we believe that 1 20 central, 2 20 eastern time and it will last for two minutes and 35 seconds, which is about the longest it will last anywhere across the country. Youve got a shadow as the moon moves across. That shadow is the moon comes into the position of total totality as they call it. The shadow will move at 1800 Miles Per Hour. You can imagine how fast the shadow is going to the past the stadium. One person described it as the hand of god slapping you in the face. Cant wait to see it because this is probably my only chance. Didnt you see the eclipse in 1979 . I did. I only saw partially, so thisll be my first totality. As we know, totality is pretty cool. Cheryl at totality is the word of the day, jeff. All day for fox business, live reports through the Solar Eclipse. Houston, texas, former nasa astronaut and retired u. S. Captain mike. Good morning. Good morning, cheryl. Thanks for the early wakeup call. Cheryl thank you for getting up so early. Would you make make of all the frenzy behind the Solar Eclipse . Are you as excited as the rest of us are . Definitely. Im sitting here thinking i wish i was in carbondale with jeff to see the total eclipse to be pretty amazing. We are going to experience 70 in houston and that will be pretty cool and see the total eclipse. What kind of information are they going to be looking for today . Interesting from a science perspective what we will learn, right . I think its going to be great. They have cameras all across the United States that are pointed at the sun in the pictures during the total eclipse. Im also thinking about the astronauts on the space station. They will have a great view and get some great science fair, too. That is pretty cool. I wish i was up there with jeff and randy and peggy. Cheryl thats a great point. The carter has a question for you. This is something in our lifetime ive never seen across the united days. There are a lot of people who are afraid to look and afraid that their classes arent necessarily the right approved classes and theyre talking about a look at it through my cell phone in reverse, how would you advise people to look at it safely . I would probably say dont look at it. I have my nasa approved classes right here that im going to use. Dont look at it if youre not sure you have approved classes on trade glasses or number 12, though im sure you dont do any damage to your retina. I remember as a kid experiencing an eclipse in making one of those boxes with a pinhole in the end and watching the eclipse on the back of that box. Another way to look at. Cheryl i remember that as well. Andrew peek as a question. Before the show, one of was making animals act funky. Any behavior to the eclipse . Definitely. I think it is just a fact the sun is going down essentially in animals that birds will stop chirping and bill got quiet just as it was sunset and for a few minutes ill be confused in the sun will come back up and michael go on. Cheryl i doubt they will look any different than any other day. Before you let you know, the first solar clips in nearly a century. Why are these so rare . Well, i really dont think Solar Eclipses are very rare. I was perusing the National Website eclipse 2017. Nasa. Gov in all my friends in nasa will be glad that i got that in. Apparently i am learning and im an aerospace engineer, so i dont know what so i know everybody thinks they are astronomers, they beat amateur astronomers at best. There are a lot of Solar Eclipses that happen around the earth. A lot of them have been in the middle of the ocean somewhere where no one will get to see them. 99 years is passed from west coast east coast. Cheryl its so exciting. Its very cool. And then to think the next one is just a few years away, 2024. Trade to thank you for getting up early for us. We really appreciate it. Led to be here. Cheryl a lot more on that another stories as well including keeping our city safe. 44 people shot within 24 hours in chicago over the weekend. Looking to curb the violence coming up next. By embarrassed oil for nearly 5 billion. The outlook on the oil industry, not. 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Saturday through 6 30 p. M. Sunday, at least 44 people shot, seven of them fatally. Chicagos gun violence has drawn national attention. Whether 760 homicides last year. More than new york and los angeles combined. Berkshire hathaway. About 9. 5 billion last month. A deal to buy 9 billion would not raise the offer despite opposition. Taking a look you up almost 60 in 2017. The French Oil Giant for a fourpoint 95 billion in the oil and gas industry following the slump in the price of oil. Also assume 2. 5 billion. Shares are down about 1 so far this year. You mention the word consolidation and that is a great word because with oil prices continuing to send around 49, 50 bucks, there may be more deals. Total is in the business of producing oil and gas. These assets, didnt you realize that Traditional Home market. Whats the longterm ability. This feels like a stretch to me. Im a little skeptical. I have to obviously look into a little more. It was obviously the battle for these utility assets. Warren buffett doesnt get involved in these dogfights that he will send out. Ask yourself what is next for Berkshire Hathaway. Now theres talk about other issues like energy and others that could be in play here. A lot of money chasing them. We will see where that all goes. We can see people bearish on oil and gas here. It stretches for companies to find growth any way they can get it. Does a bidding war. Hes not someone used to losing. I think its going to be okay though. My point is the oracle of omaha. Cheryl youre right right. He is the oracle. The search is continuing this morning for the driver involved in the deadly terror attack in barcelona. Authorities believe he may have gone. That story next. Plus, another hacked headache for sony. A new concern for the company. We will bring it to you. Today, were out here with some big news about type 2 diabetes. You have type 2 diabetes, right . Yes. So let me ask you this. 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