Predicted every last recession weighs in. Now to Edward Lawrence at the white house, on the trade front where things stand. What is going on there . Reporter looks like better than expected numbers coming out of china helping markets today. China says their exports have increased 3. 3 from june to july. Surprise with some with escalating trade tensions. Export numbers deficit from the United States has shrunk 2 billion from june to july. It is still a huge number, look at yeartodate. It is 168. 5 billion yeartodate. Also thursday, Chinas Central Bank made moves signaling future devaluing currency even though today theyre stablizing. Should the currency weaken too much that should cause Asian Countries to cut their Interest Rates even more. White house Economic Advisor Peter Navarro down playing that this morning. Listen. The yuan has gone down 12 . We put on tariffs at 10 . The yuan goes down 12 . Theyre basically trying to offset the effect of the tariffs but it does have ripple effec
your homes during these x-ray times. ari melber and the beat. start now . this was too good. i love packer. i m glad you had him on. thank you, nicolle. welcome to the beat. in ari melber. donald trump await sentencing. he did his mandated interview with the probation officer today part of his life as a convicted felon. these meetings are a staple in the legal world. the procedure can impact potential jail sentencing. it is widely known in legal and pop-culture. i probation officer is a joke. his name is david crockett. oh my gosh. you want to throw something at me? are you not on parole? plus i still get money, yes, eyeball. we are parole officer and i just want to help her parties was to help me? and if my p.o. ask settle down, i know that you might not be able to relate to me but i think i know somebody who you can relate to. little haul me. what up? don t trouble nobody. good rule of thumb. probation is part of the system. reporting to your p.o
President stepped out of the oval office, stepped into texas amid this disaster, what advice would you give him one district today . Thanks for having me, first let me say our hearts go out to the victims in houston and i also want to send a special thanks to all of the rescuers, the First Responders and volunteers and we should have all those people in our hearts and our prayers. In terms of President Trump, and leaving the white house, its important to know a number of things, leadership and if youre on top of the situation, confidence that your people are running the operations appropriately and compassion , if you dont show those things, then you start to have problems and as weve seen in the past with the president that we need to show those things because its also important the location of where hes going to make sure he doesnt go to a place that the disaster zone itself cuand that he is detracting from the rescue effort but if you want to go to a location that far enough away th
Down. What he says the league knew all along only on gma. So crazy in love and beyonce and jay z expecting twins. The superstar family growing by two. Fans crazy in love with the news. This photo of the big reveal breaking a huge social media record. Her message about motherhood this morning. Your loves got me looking so crazy right now and good morning, america. Could not miss it on twitter or instagram yesterday. Yes, she is set to have twins, blue ivy will be a big sister. Well have a lot about that later. We have a lot of breaking news to get to first. The president calling out australia and iran overnight. More on that in a moment. Yeah, the president s tweets continued through the morning. Very tough talk both iran and australia are re violent protests erupting at uc berkeley. The campus locked down as more than a thousand rallied against the appearance of a controversial editor from breitbart, Milo Yiannopoulos. They escalated and the speech was canceled and President Trump weig
Then moving through the afternoon, winds are lighter, clouds start to clear as the cold front passes. We only make it to mid 70s. More on the neighborhood forecast high temperatures coming up. Now to breaking news. A stretcher at the scene points to tragedy. Two firefighters are dead following an overnight house fire in wilmington. Nbc10 Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong is live near the scene. Tim, a difficult day ahead for First Responders in wilmington. Reporter yeah, i tell you what, tough day for delaware firefighters, theyre here from all over the state, you see the scene. The fire happened overnight lakeview drive here just in the street in front of us. The wilmington fire chief if you pan over, see him walking up there, he is coming toward us there. Thats the wilmington fire chief. He pulled me aside, tears in his eyes, confirmed he lost two firefighters today. Others are still injured in the hospital. People that lived in the house i am told were able to get out, but firefi