Minister Fumio Kishida and a range of other topics in boston, democratic strategist mary anne marsh. And from london, former conservative mpjustine greening. First the latest headlines. Israel has confirmed its killed three adult sons of the hamas leader, ismail haniyeh, with an air strike in gaza. It described them as military operatives on their way to carry out terrorist activities. Mr haniyeh, whos based in qatar, said his Family Gathering for the final day of ramadan. Israel has confirmed its killed three adult sons the European Parliament has approved a contentious reform of its migration and asylum rules. It will speed up requests from irregular migrants, and repatriation if their deemed inadmissible. Poland says it wontjoin the mechanism to share hosting of migrants. The worst flooding in almost a hundred years has hit russia and kaza kstan. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the water has reached dangerou
Yield he 10 year 2. 93 on the 10 year yield. Pivotrt of the morning to of the weaker dollar has to be dollaryen continuing its move below of critical support levels. Nonetheless, the question of the stronger yen, is it a safe haven play . Is it the hedging . A lot of question marks to what its doing. Companies arent so fine with it. It does not do well for equities. Taylor riggs is here with first word news. Taylor in south florida, a 19yearold former student has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder after the Deadliest School shooting in the u. S. In five years. Cruz open nikolas fire with a semiautomatic weapon. He had been kicked out of the school last year. 15 wounded survivors have been hospitalized. President trump plans to meet with mexicos president in the coming weeks. Relations between the countries are strained. President trump as insisted that mexico pay for the wall on the border. He has demanded mexico agree to changes in the north American Free trade agreeme
Long and nobodys ever seen this much water. Historic, after what happened, but it happened in texas and texas can handle anything. Trade to residents in the houston area but they welcomed flight. The sun finally rising go viral. Harvey continues to have an impact on the energy area. Reuters reporting the largest refinery in the United States shutting down due to the storm. This disruption could have a major toll on gasoline prices as they head to the holiday weekend. Right now one fifth of all u. S. Refining capacity is shut down and gasoline prices already a. Gasoline prices of 20 cents a gallon continued to rise. Features in the stock market are showing gains across the board on the dow futures after a nice reversal of the market yesterday. Blue chip of about 57 points in trading tuesday. The psyche of reading a secondquarter domestic product, our biggest reading on the economy divided it to the event eastern time could expect them to. 7 growth. Investors eyeing President Trump on ta
Early today starts right now. Great to be with you on a tuesday. We begin with breaking news. That could bring more legal scrutiny on the white house this morning. After the Washington Post reported it was President Trump himself who dictated his sons misleading statement on that controversial meeting with the russian lawyer in 2016. Its a whirlwind story that could have massive implications for trumps presidency. Ron allen. Good morning. Whats most important about this story is that it raises the question whether President Trump himself tried to mislead the public and investigators about that meeting and whether the president is involved in a cover up. Remember the meeting happened during the height of the campaign. When confronted about it, a Statement Released by donald trump jr. Said it was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort to stop by. We primarily discussed the program about adoption of russian children. According to the Washington Post, Preside
Ahead of this take a look at the futures. You did see an update for the markets but now things are relatively flat based on the big swings we have seen this week around greece. It does look like were looking at green arrows with the dow futures up 24 points. S p futures up by 5 and nasdaq up by 10. Greece negotiations between athens and creditors, thats off. At least for now. Everything is in a Holding Pattern ahead of this referendum off the countrys future that comes on sunday. It would back pension cuts and other measures and a no vote could trigger greeces exit from the euro despite the attempted reframing by the greeks. We have a lot more from michelle in athens and shell be with us in a couple of minutes. I agree with the greeks. I dont think either one would result in an exit. Theyre saying a no vote means that we should go back for tougher negotiations and the other europeans are saying thats not what that means. I think both sides are do you remember suicide isnt painless . Yo