Donation of 1 million. The details on his report at least initial 6 billiondollar request. Harvey wrecking havoc on the energy sector. Gas prices surging long lines forming at the pump. Major impact ahead on the busy travel weekend coming up. Futures are showing gains across the boards, dow, s p 500 and the nasdaq there, the dow and s p up in august, that was the fifth straight month of gains and the nasdaq up two months in a row. The nasdaq closed at alltime high yesterday. Investors, of course, eyeing the august jobs report due two and a half hours from now. Economists are expecting 180,000 jobs were added last month, tun employment rate Holding Steady at 4. 3 . We will bring you special coverage of the job report beginning 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. In the meantime, in europe lets check stocks there, england, france and germany we have gains across the board firing on all cylinders around the globe. In asia overnight markets were mixed with nikkei and shanghai heading higher. At home
Festival. My name is mark korman a state legislator from district 16. Gaithersburg is a city that supports the arts and humanities and we are pleased to bring the fabulous event thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. When you see them i hope you will say thanks. Please is silence your devices and if youre on social media today please use the gbs. Feedback is valuable and surveys are available here and on our website. By submitting a survey surveys available at the tent. By submitting a survey youll be entered into a trying for 100 visa gift card and i hope youll put that in. I will be signing books immediately after this presentation and copies of the book are on sale in the politics prose just year right. A quick word about buying books. This is a free event, but it does help the book festival if you buy a book in the more books you buy, the more publishersrs will want to send their authors here to speak with us. Purchasing the books benefits our local
Sights to the bahamas. And new images of the severe flooding crippling that island and cars and homes subamericanned with joaquin lamming into the area. And get over to chief meteorologist pete bouchard. A new advisory . I do, battering the southern bahamas and wobbling, essentially a stall right now and expected to continue to move a little more to the west, and then northwest and due north. And the movement is there, at three miles an hour, still a category 4. And we show the new track, and it is decidedly offshore, far offshore of our islands on the east coast, sparing any portion of the United States. And even our friends in south eastern canada, these are the tracks that bring in monday and tuesday, as it weakens in the colder waters and the National Hurricane centers track is of the models that we used to make of 7 news forecast, and our model and the europian model and we can say with confidence it will spare the eastern u. S. And new england. Of any ill effect and maybe some wa
And move out of those areas. Reporter new rescue vehicles like this are being rolled out for joaquin. Vehicles that will allow First Responders to plow through high water to get to stranded residents. In fact, all local municipalities say they have upgraded the tools needed to respond to storms. The sandy experience, they say, has made everyone better prepared for whatever comes our way. You prepare and you hope that it doesnt happen and at the end of the day, it is at least, at minimum, a very important drill for residents who, in fact, live on an island. Reporter lets hope its just a drill, other points officials are urging to resident, prepare your generators, and of course, gas up your cars, just in case the power goes out at gas stations. Officials say long island is better prepared today than it was before sandy, but our electric system is still very vulnerable to a big storm like were in bethpage today, greg cergol, news 4, new york. Track the storms any time and get alerts sent
Six of the weapons were found at the college where he opened fire along with body armor and ammunition. Investigators discovered 7 more weapons when they searched through his apartment. According to authorities all the weapons had been legally purchased either by the shooter himself or by family members. The officials are still not providing though a motive for this shooting. Nine people were killed and another nine others seriously injured in the attack. Mercer was killed after a shoot shootout with police. Although its unclear whether he was killed by officers or took his own life it, was only the fourth day of class at the Small Community college which is loaded about three hours south of portland. Students say they heard gun shots and knew that they needed to get out fast. This latest School Massacre once again renewing the call for gun control in this country. Anchor this is a Political Choice we make to allow this to happen every few months in america. Have to come out again duri