oceans has opened on an ominous note. secretary-general antonio guterres s the planets oceans are under threat as never before. he said plastic garbage in the waters could outweigh fish by 2050 if nothing is done. environmentalists and representatives from 200 countries are attending that five-day conference. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 and analysts in over 120 countries. i m mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. julia: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i m julia chatterley. scarlet: i m scarlet fu. joe: we are 30 minutes from the close of trading in the u.s.. julia: u.s. stocks fluctuating near records. joe: the question is, what did you miss? scarlet: executives announce a number of upgrades and overhauls including a new smart home speaker. called the home pod. the highlights coming up. a crucial week for president trump. rolling outuse is its infrastructure plan, but all eyes will be on former fbi director james comey and his testim
they need to help people like me understand how to get this up and running pretty easily and within imessage. that s the key. and the apple watch is going after fitbit. once again i m going to be wearing a dinosaur at some point in the technology world, but we ll take you live, get more details. we re still waiting to hear about the siri speaker that will take on alexa coming up. that s the big question hovering over that conference. also shares of blue birth b blue bird bioare poppi are popp trump announced plans to privatize air traffic control. what would that look like exactly, how does that work? transportation secretary elaine chao will be joining us in a first on cnbc interview coming up in this hour. let s get to the apple developer s conference in san jose, california. josh lipton is on the scene with some details for us. josh? reporter: bill, there are more than 5,000 developers here behind me today. they want to hear about software updates. they listened
22 point set off in the dow. nasdaq futures go positive. s&p futures down 2. as for the u.s. dollar it s weaker this morning. we put it up next to show you. just turned stronger against the euro. weaker against the japanese yen. that s down almost .3%. the pound goes firmer. 12924 ahead of the thursday election. as for oil prices let s show you the trade there after that reversal of the rally we saw yesterday. on the back of news that arab nations were severing with qatar. nat gas continues to rise. as for asia overnight we did see weakness in japan down a percent. shanghai comp as well. retail sales in rising 0.1% in april slightly above expectation. and down a third of 1% as well. 215 and change and clearly not able to get a lot of lift. a lot of folks waiting for that. starts steepening but still relatively sluggish inflation and growth numbers weighing on it. did get a little bit of a bump yesterday. that s about 2 thirds of 1%. what s the key? because earnings have
reporter: and charges against almena and harris, she said the two men created a fire any rebl person would know was deadly. it was the defendant s making to get out of that building. almeda and harris actions were reckless and created a high incidence of death. almena s defense attorney released the following statement we believe these charges represent no less than a miscarriage of justice. we are confident that this attempt to make a scapegoat out of our client will fail. the criminal complaint alleged almena and harris not only packed the warehouse with flammable materials they rewired the electrical system and deliberately blocked one of the exits the night of the fire. oakland mayor libby schaaf released this statement, i applaud the charges filed today by district attorney nancy o malley because they send a message you won t get away with making a profit by cramming people into dangerous spaces or failing to maintain safe living conditions. attorney, mary alexander
when roof camera, 44 to 55. 55 at the coast to 73. hazy sunshine at noon. by the time the sun set, 55 to 68 degrees. hi, sue. good morning, everyone. we are off to a quiet start which is nice, in san rafael, the sky is lightening up and traffic is very light past the north gate mall. on in to central san rafael, you re looking at a 20 minute drive from novato to the golden gate bridge area. no metering lights at the bay bridge yet. if you have to be up and out, at least we have light traffic and we have road work just getting ready to to be picked up north 101 at the sir frances drake off ramp. a couple exit ramps are being worked on but that should be picked up here shortly. sue, thank you. 5:01. we are tracking breaking news this morning. british police have released the i.d. of the third terrorist in the attack at the london bridge. he s been identified as 22-year-old youssef zaghba from east london. he was not on police or intelligence radar. he s believed to be an