Reporter normally tens upon tens of thousands people using b. A. R. T. , but since it wont be running, those people will have to find another way. For many theyll be right behind me the bay bridge. Thats why b. A. R. T. And caltrans is urging people to try to find another route into the city or just stay home. Whats happening is tonight at the end of service, b. A. R. T. Will be shutting down the west oakland b. A. R. T. Station and the transbay tube for the entire weekend to workers can fix nearby tracks. These are tracks outside the tube on the oakland side. This means no b. A. R. T. Service between oakland and San Francisco both saturday and sunday. Service will resume between west oakland b. A. R. T. And the embarcadero station in time for the monday morning commute. B. A. R. T. Is urging people to use the ferry or a. C. Transit bus service in the meantime to get into the city. The Transit Agency will also be running the own bus between the 19th street station in oakland and tempor
Math and sue herera are off tonight, so its just you and me. The dow snapped its sixday win stream as shares of General Electric weighed on Investor Sentiment and saw their biggest decline in six year. Well have more on that story in a moment, but first the closing numbers. The dow did hit an intraday high today, but finally fell 54 points to 23,273. The nasdaq was down by 42 points, the s p fell by ten. The prospects of tax reform has long been a big driver for this stock market, but one tax proposal that got a lot of buzz over the weekend was changing popular 401 k retirement plans. Thats likely is not going to happen. The president tweeted th be no e its always been a great and popular middleclass break that works, and it stays. There had been reports that republicans in con weighing a proposal that the significantly reduce the amount of income as a way to offset lost revenue with tax reform. All that talk about reat the same time just highlighted one major problem right now. Most a
Flat. The ftse is down by 0. 1 in italy. Crude was the big story yesterday. Wpi this morning is up once again by 1. 6 . Gain of 77 cents to 48. 10. This comes after it looks like additional countries from opec are standing with saudi arabia saying those production cuts need to be expanded and also we saw a surprise decline in the supplies here in the United States. Now lets talk about todays corporate story. Shares of snap plunging after the Company Released its first report since going public. Snap missed on the top and bottom lines. The company struggled to keep up with user growth validating a lot of concerns about its ability to take on facebooks insta fwram and tgram and the s feature. Heres what evan spiegel had to say about competition on that call. People will copy your product if you make great stuff. When google came along, everybody felt they need a search strategy. When facebook came along, everybody felt they needed a social strategy. With snap, we believe everybody will d
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla along with sarahiz sarah eisen. First up, the president tweeting about jeff bezos thinking that the amazon Washington Post sometime referred to as the guardian of amazon not paying taxes, not new news. He criticized bezos for his purchase of the post during a speech in texas. I have respect for jeff bezos. But he bought the Washington Post to have political influence. And i have to tell you, we have a different country than we used to have. We have a different we owns amazon he owns political influence so that amazon will benefit from it thats not right and believe me, if i become president , oh, do they have problems theyll have such problems jason, we have the president of the United States targeting one of the soontobe richest men in the country and one of the richest men in the world. How important is this to bezos, to the post and to amazon . Listen, donald trump makes an extremely valid point. If it was 2008 amaz
Includes our pets, how to make yours isnt packing on too many pounds. We look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We have to have health care and it cant be obamacare, which is melting down. The Senate Delays a vote on health care. This was Mitch Mcconnells nightmare, its like a rotting fish. The longer its out there the more its going to stink. One of my friends up there put out its like a kidney stone, we just got to pass it and get rid of it. It shouldnt be a kidney stone. Security experts are trying to contain a damaging cyberattack that crippling computers from across the globe. Were not sure from where this virus came from. It could be a bedroom hacker. The stolen Police Helicopter fired grenades at the supreme court. Three Chicago Police officers were indicted on felony charges tuesday accused of covering up the facts behind the Fatal Police Shooting of a black teen in 2014. Several wildfires are spreading across the western and southern u. S. These flames getting re