Looking at the hang seng and nikkei up. Shanghai composite took a dip overnight. European equities, pretty much a green picture across the board. Mostly marginal with the italian ftse down a bit. Wti crude, where were now hovering at 51. 17. Todays the day donald trump will give his first News Conference as president elect. It is scheduled for 11 00 a. M. At trump tower. You can watch the conference on cnbc at 11 00. The mexican peso tumbled to historic lows since the election because of concerns that the president elect could take measures that would weigh on mexicos currency. Former exxonmobil ceo riler son facing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his confirmation hearing. First trump responding to new unsubstance yated claims that russian intelligence operatives have compromising information about him. Eamon javers has the latest. As this election season goes on, the bar continually gets raised for what can be shocking. As we hear more and more. Yesterday completely filled t
Gets the job done. I believe we are poised for 2017 for this to be the most Productive Congress in decades. Now, we could easily screw it up. But if we actually deliver on what we promised, i think we can have a tremendous impact. Charles on this day, the ides of march when julius sees a was famously assassinated by the roman senate. Ill start with the ladies in studio. Ask its starting to feel like something nefarious is afoot. Tammy you have a cadre of republicans who made it clear they dont like the president. They have a different view of government. Ted cruz is also not fond of the president. But within the last week he was at the white house and had a private meeting with the president. His daughters were in the oval office. Now you are hearing strong comments from senator cruz against the bill. Tea partytype people dont like paul ryan. They dont think they are suddenly on board with President Trump. The general sense is that third part of the bill of what president obama imagine
Inland james lets get a check of the weather with anny hong. Periods of light rain will continue this morning, mainly across the southern brief break in rainfall is possible this another system approach the evening and around occasionally morning. Will push inland northwest on bring another rain to the region. Dry with a warming return late in persist into the weekend. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. james our top story this morning. A uc Berkeley Student has died after falling from a third story balcony. Coroners identified the victim as 21yearold kimberly tze zee of elk grove. It happened just after midnight yesterday, near the corner of dwight way and College Avenue. Just four blocks campus. She was a junior at the school and was finishing up her degree in computer science. Witnesses spoke to kron four about their shock over what happened. james at the moment, police are investigating th
They claimed responsibility. New york city mayor did not mince words about the nature of the attack. We have every reason to believe it was an act of terror. There is still a long investigation. They address the issue of the terror network. I have no indication that theres a cell operating in the area. As we develop more information we continue to go. How can we protect america. Michael baker and former fbi director ron has to its pretty interesting that theyre saying this is a lone wolf sort of thing. No evidence or signs of additional terror sales and yet these bombs were placed in a lot of different locations in a very short. Of time i watched your twitter and social media stuff over the weekend. What is your assessment right now any american that travels to afghanistan with the passport there to be known by the other groups in afghanistan. As far as new jersey and new york. I would lean towards a probability of the cell because of the different locations that these things are at. C