markets. the bloomberg markets: the european open vix hits february highs. europe looks to open lower. in nordeas a stake chaos in washington. jim mattis resigns with a skating two-page letter to the president as the government looks set to shut down over funding for the border wall. busy morning. matt? matt: less than half an hour from the start of european trading. take a look at where we see futures after the stock rout continued to roll around the globe. the dow was off another 400 plus points yesterday. x was down 1.9% at the close. the ftse is currently treading water. if you look at treasuries, you also see a little water treading because we come from such low levels. the yield on the 10 year treasury right now, 2.8%. this is a three-day chart. we dropped down to 2.4 yesterday, so we are seeing some traders sell treasuries, pushing yields up a little but at a low level. what do you see on the gmm? anna: pretty next, but the japanese story is negative. let s talk abo
u.s.ney moving into the dollar, the japanese yen weakening. money flat on the all country world index. interesting news coming from roles,s they release new promising to treat all companies equally. bitcoin has had a run-up in the past couple of days. let s get to the bloomberg first word news. trump calledident steve mnuchin a very talented guy and very small person . he extended his vote of confidence to the federal reserve. he discussed firing chairman powell over interest rates. he says the market creates an opportunity to buy. a second immigrant child from guatemala has died while in the custody of u.s. border protection. authorities first noticed he was ill on monday. they have ordered medical checks on every child in its custody. beto o rourke says it is not enough. we are thinking about his family right now, what they must be feeling to a lost their child on christmas day. not strange country, to know what is next for them, so we want to do everything we can. the
several record highs fell including 89 in pueblo, 85 in denver. we are going to be right back in that territory once again today. let s check in with a couple of our weather watchers here. we have 49 degrees coming in from our weather watcher on the northwest side of nevada. if you have a little wind, your temperatures are on the higher side. if he wins have followed if gore wins if you re wind has fallen, the temperatures are falling. same story in the metro area. we are in the upper 40s and upper 30s with a lens have the winds have lightened up. downpour douglas county, we are in the mid-60s in a few places this morning. wind tells the story for today. into the pacific northwest. it is all courtesy of a very strong october jet stream roaring into the western united states with very high winds. we will see wins mix down to the surface is at jet stream comes on in over the next 24 up to 48 hours. get ready for a record warm day. changes her head. we will have more comin
temperatures are all because of the win. if you are quite her, the temperatures are colder. we have our weather watcher, diane, northwest of brush. just down the road, it is 60 already in akron where the winds are gusty. 62 at dia. 40 along the foothills. windsor lighter but just wait. they will be picking up. nice and warm but with some windy conditions here is well. we will see the temperatures south of it is clueless to the north. only 39 right now dakota. but don t worry. now that the sun will be coming up, your temperatures will recover. in your south side, it is pretty gusty in parts of douglas county. that is keeping temperatures up there a little bit. look at this. if we go up into the front range foothills, 61 miles per hour wind gusts. the latest report on birth the past. and glean haven in glen 41 miles per hour. this is the story for today. i went on the way today. that will drive our fire danger. coming up in just a little bit. captain. just justin hunter se
we re running through an interface situation where homes are being built at the end of the wildland areas. it s a much higher risk of loss to our community because the homes are threatened on a regular basis. smoke from the freeman fire is visible as far away as veil. the fire is roughly 300 acres in size in the newsroom i am russell south metro firefighters helped get an nearly 300 acre wildfire under control today. this was in the time of buyers. 144th in winter you had aafire breakout. the fire is 100 percent contained. it never threatened any structures. is unknown what caused it. let s check in with meteorologist stacey donaldson a cigarette butt out the car window can cause damage. hour winds are definitely stronger to the west. 20 or 40 miles per hour. the front range eastern plains are not as intense week continues to hold onto high fire danger.. the yellow shaded areas are to the west of 25 and high fire danger from denver through the eastern plains. lows in t