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tornado warnings issued for south florida. for more and on our local weather, let s turn it over to rosemary. let s take a look at where oma irma is at the moment, stretching in toward areas over georgia. it will continue its northwestern projection through the next two days. right now moving northwest at 17 miles an hour, and the wind is near the eyewall reported at 60 miles an hour. we are seei the wind ing in and around the air with lord up still breezy. daytona beach reporting wind gusting at 36. we have atlanta reporting wind gusting up to 56 miles an hour with savannah at 43 miles an hour. that is in store for this area today as we continue to see this moving out of the area, brushing alabama into tuesday. it will get weaker as it moves northwest toward wednesday. at home we have active whether we are looking at with the possibility today and tomorrow as we look at your local forecast coming up. 200 people from the bay area are in place to help florida now ....
live from bloomberg s u.s. and asian headquarters. i am live in new york, where it is just after 7:00 p.m. yvonne: it is 7:00 a.m. here in hong kong. i am yvonne man. there is something about the month of august where crazy things just happen. two years ago it was china, the devaluation. the jury is still out to see whether geopolitics will be the trigger this year in triggering the volatility. betty: who knew a year ago we would be talking about north korea and the possibility of military conflict between the u.s. and north korea? but here we are in august. volume is still relatively thin. any movement will be exaggerated by the thin volume. that is exactly what we saw. despite all these headlines, the markets remains relatively resilient. which is confusing to some investors who say, we should be moving more on these headlines. right now it looks like the markets are focused on earnings and the fed. yvonne: those are still some likely catalysts. from a comments litt ....
this one here in san francisco, best place to catch a glimpse, of course you got to get on the rooftop. on the street level, the mid morning commute for many people came to a stand still. these drivers pulled off the road in costa county. the chp tweeted this, really, people. the kids this was a real time science lab. even the parents were invited on to campus. a last minute change for this school in danville. the principal said the kids were going to be inside the auditorium. but that didn t go over too well and with the parents and the school was able to get glasses for all students and the blacktop was crowded. not everyone who wanted to see the eclipse got to. this is the scene at martin luther king elementary in oakland. they got to learn about the science in the classroom and watch nasa s live feed. i am very happy right now. i am very excited. she is very optimistic. another one come anything the next decade. another look for another bay area viewpoint. u ....
political freezeout for pocket signs. reporter: the president once said the president could pull out of the war tonight saying a hasty withdrawal would make room for terror groups to expand. i will not say when we are going to attack, but attack we will. speaking to solders at fort myers in virginia, president trump says he is done with nation building. from now on, victory will have clear definition, attacking our enemies, obliterating isis, preventing the tall ban from taking over. reporter: the war has dragged on for 16 years. the president says tonight he won t talk time lines or the number of additional troops he ll send but he did talk about putting pressure on pakistan. we have been paying pakistan billions of dollars while at the same time they have been harboring the same people we have been fighting. reporter: they see pakistan has more of an ally than enemy. without pakistan p it would be moring difficult. the community leader say it is pres ....
military leaders resulted in many decisions made including afghanistan. we know if we pull out and the government collapses, you re going to have some combination of isis, al-qaeda, the taliban running the country again. that s a long-term very real threat. reporter: secretary of defense james mad dog mattis hinting the president s plan will extend beyond afghanistan not just a strategy. reporter: over to phoenix for what s been described a campaign rally type event. but the mayor of phoenix has made it clear he would like the president to delay the rally over what we ve seen. any word on how long the president is expected to speak? no exact timeline in terms of how long the speech will go. but we do know some of the tidbits that he ll be asking congress for and that is permission to send [ no audio ] unfortunately, we lost joel waldman. hopefully we ll have more coming up on the president. we will have more coming up on the president s address later on toni ....