It did come back quite a bit. There is a lot more red on the screen than green. Gerri willis standing by on floor of new york stock exchange. Gerri, stocks coming off the best week as you heard at the very beginning traders glad to see this trading day in the record books. Were down 257 points it looks reich right now. Here is what going on right now. Walmart performing horribly today. Down as much as 10 and why . They had a lousy quarter. They announced expectations for the next quarter that were not good. The real thing that really drove this home, made this day so bad for walmart shareholders that sales online looked very drab indeed. The Fourth Quarter grossed not what was expected. It was christmas quarter. Sales came in 23 above the previous quarter. So the quarter, Third Quarter came in at 23 , 50 higher. So that compares really to telling investors a lot of what they needed to foe about walmart online sales. Weve seen big drags on the dow. Verizon, ge, merck, these stocks not d
Mississippi. Hundreds of thousands in the dark as the storm hammers the gulf coast and people in lowlying areas now being urged to head for Higher Ground. We thought it was heading to new orleans and it made a right hand turn. Hurricane sally is not to be taken for granted. We are looking at record flooding, perhaps breaking historic levels. A lot of people who live in lowlying areas and weve been in some instances mandatory evacuated the lowlying areas. Dont take the storm for granted. You have time to make final preparations. Heed the directions of your local and state Emergency Managers and keep your family safe. Sandra ashley is live in mobile, alabama for us this morning. What kind of conditions are you seeing as the sun comes up there . As far as the conditions the wind is not half bad but these squalls come through and basically pushes you off to the side. The flooding, sandra, is what is so bad in these areas after this hurricane came through. Catastrophic, deadly, historic in
Later. That escalated quickly. A candidate for congress charged with assault after allegedly body slamming a reporter hours before polls open. Why this might impact tonights election but not in the way you think. Good afternoon, welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper in brussels today President Trump took the opportunity of a nato summit to publicly berate fellow members for not living up to their defense spending commitments. This is an issue that previous president s have grappled with in a less public and reproachful way. Its a well taken one the. But members were hoping president would underline his support for the principle of article 5 of the nato charter that an attack on one member san attack on all. To the disappointment of european allies mr. Trump did not publicly or explicitly affirm that commitment which he has suggested in the past. The president in the past in public and private has cast the need of nato allies to spend more in defense in terms of dues owed as if nato were
Actually, see, a lot of myself in you, bill. Weve got to begin today with the showdown over syria. The Trump Administration calling out russia over its alliance with bashar al assad. We got a great pam this morning to break all of it down. I want to take you first to the white house, where nbcs Peter Alexander is live. Peter, how exactly does the administrations tough talk set the stage for Rex Tillerson to head to moscow later this week . We know Rex Tillerson has a long and strong relationship with russia, with vladimir putin. Yeah. Well see whether that earns him a meeting with vladimir putin. We know he will meet with the foreign minister Sergey Lavrov ins moscow, expected to arrive in the next 24 hours or so for meetings that could take place on this wednesday, but be clear, theres a very simple message thats going to be delivered by Rex Tillerson sort of presented himself as the toughest talker now within this administration, specifically toward russia, indicating, among other th
The Justice Department on Friday indicted Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife on charges of conspiracy and accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from foreign entities.