Commodity trading. Lots of damage to report in the new york city area, more than 50 homes were destroyed by fire last night in breezy point queens. Just east of cone any islands, more than 170 firefighters were on the scene. And separately more than 200 patients were evacuated last night from new york universitys Medical Center after power went out. Patients some on respirators operating on Battery Power were taken to other hospitals. And check this video out. A crane on this luxury high rise building, thats under construction, topping over on 57th street, the 90 Story Building looks over central park. Luxury apartments telling for tens of millions of dollars. The crane could be seen blowing in the wind for most of the night and officials there trying to figure out how to get that down eventually. To find out how much rain and wind sandy will be packing and where its heading next, jen carfagno has the forecast. Between morning. So we are still dealing with central winds of 65 miles an
Youll see them slow down hiring, stop capital xebd churs, capital will go on on strike, it will be a hell of a mess. Leaders of both parties think it would be to their advantage to go off the fiscal cliff. What a 12 straight that is, that we could win more as democrats if we let it go or we can win more as republicans. This whole game isnt about america, its about you who do we make the demss lose and how do we make the republicans lose. People are sick of that and ashamed of it. Well try to rise above all of this today. Our guest hosts will be doing the same. But before we get to all of that, andrew has shall other top headlines. We have some very Important News and serious news. Fighting escalating sharply overnight. Dozens of missiles seen exploding in gaza. Authorities in india have investigating claims a that walmart violated exchange rules. Direct ownership by foreign firms was prohibited. Walmart has denied any wrong doing. And the news comes a day after walmart reported disappo
But at this point it has decided to shut trading all together. That happened after it had conversations with other u. S. Stock markets and with u. S. Regulators, including the sec. And this is the first weather related shut down since hurricane fwlor i cant back in 1985. The cme group is running its urk of usual futures session from 6 00 p. M. To 9 15 a. M. Eastern. You will be able to see the stock Index Futures throughout the morning. They are under pressure right now. Cme will be shutting down trading after that time. So depending on the impact of the storm, its possible the same scenario will be repeated this morning. Three companies have canceled earnings reports. Pfizer, nrg and entergy. The government still planning to release personal income and spending data at 8 30. The question is did they decide to shut down the electronic portion because the s sec and others said we dont know whether the system unto itself will work, or they did taest it back in march. And they were undete
Minutes. All other markets will remain open with scheduled break between 5 15 p. M. And 6 15 eastern time. We see red arrows in europe. Well talk about things driving that action later on. We have your bases covered on Hurricane Sandy and what is at stake for businesses and your family. We begin with scott cohn in battery park. Scott . Reporter good morning, melissa. This was completely dry just a couple hours ago. What you are looking at here is high tide. This isnt storm surge to speak of yet. It is high tide exacerbated by the full moon and somewhat exacerbated by sandy. If you fast forward about 12 hours from now when the next high tide comes in and the storm is coming ashore, add about a foot of water onto this and then you start to look at what manhattan is facing. Its not that much drier inland from here in this socalled zone a where 375,000 people live. Some very important businesses and Financial Capital of the world is located which is why they are not trading stocks today. I
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