A warm welcome to the program you are watching countdown. Im anna edwards. We are waiting for several earnings this morning from the Mining Sector, and earnings from merck, the german drugmaker the oldest of europes drug companies. We will be speaking with the merck cfo later. We will talk about how they are rebalancing the business, trying to make up for the fact that their multiple sclerosis drug is increasingly under pressure. You will talk about m a in the pharmacy sector, and the value they can derive from their partnerships. They are trying to revive fortunes using partnerships such as though with pfizer. We will talk to him about that. The share prices are doing too badly. A couple big interviews we need to tell you about this morning we will get a gauge of the Mining Sector and commodities from a couple business chiefs. I will be speaking to mark bristow in his first interview of the morning at 7 00 london time, and jon ferro will be speaking to in his first interview of the mo
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Category four dangerous maximum sustained winds at about 140 miles an hour. Here is a center of circulation. It is about to cross over the eastern part of cuba and then possibly devastate the bahamas. All of our computer models these are hurricane models bending toward florida and then moving back out over hatteras but notice nothing inland. All of them agreeing that this is going to be hooking back out to sea. But there is a major change in the forecast. The National Hurricane center just put out the 5 00 oclock forecast, and we do have change to talk about. The storm a little bit slower in speed to the north at 9 miles an hour. I mentioned that maximum wind speed at 140 miles an hour. Anything highlighted in red you can see cuba, of course, haiti and the bahamas hurricane warnings in place. This storm category four expected to maintain that strength over the bahamas come very close to florida and then kickback out over the carolinas. But the changes its coming a little bit closer to
Historic devastating expensive storm including one where governor christie spoke to Small Business owners trying to pick up the pieces. Dari today was gorgeous. The exact opposite of what we saw three years ago. Steve amazing from just a couple of days. Look at the sun. You can see the foliage in peak bloom. A gorgeous day. November is a couple of days away. How long is this going to stick around . Nick the temperatures will be cooling down as they should. Temperatures today in the 70s. Not where they should be. Im happy to report there are no threatening tropical systems in the atlantic ocean. Thats good news. 73 today. 72 at newark at belmar. 75 at newark. Low 70s across long island. And were still seeing temperatures that are nice and mild, basically in the 60s to the lower 70s or around the upper 60s or so as you move across from southern connecticut down towards newark and upper 60s as we head towards poughkeepsie. Nothing on the radar. We have some clouds out there. You look at t
Day. Clouds will be on the breakup. A stormy monday coming through. 65 degrees from now. 66 in lansing. 65 in kankakee. 62 and the cal. Satellite composite shows dont have our stormy monday at the is the look further out you can see the line of showers and thunderstorms out to the west. Rain will be here by 5 20 percent chance of rain. 30 percent chance by 9 00 p. M. Potential for heavier rain tonight. Half an inch for a lot of us. 80 degrees today down to 69 tonight. Wednesday were up to 84 again. Its time for traffic but nobody should come here unless they sing the blues. Nobody comes if i dont sing the blues. Arent lets do what traffic. In bound i 55 road work at 53 this is could be in the two left lanes until 5 00. Also the ramp from foreign sales to the in bound of 290 is blocked. Other than that, things are very light early on. Violence escalated during the latest protests over the Police Shooting in ferguson. Its been over a week, but now missouris governor is deploying the Nati