murders. those are events in which four or more people are killed. and nearly 9500 gun violence deaths already this year. the president is using this moment to announce new executive action to tamp down, to try to tamp down gun crime. he s also once again calling on congress to act on gun legislation. let s begin this hour at the white house. our jeremy diamond joins us. what is to come from biden today? reporter: listen, we re going to see the president layout a comprehensive gun prevention violence strategy to address the surge in violent crime that happened over 2020 and appears to be continuing into 2021, with experts warning of a potentially dangerous and violent summer. we re going to hear the president sign some new executive actions on gun reforms. he s also going to push congress once again to enact gun control laws. press for the confirmation of his atf director. this will all follow a meeting between the president, his attorney general, and several mayors and chi
take a listen. would you be willing to testify about your conversation with donald trump on january 6th if you were asked by an outside commission sure. next question. you would? change now. another story we re following this morning, tennis star novak djokovic officially the number one seed in the australian open men s singles draw, will he get to play? questions about whether he broke the rules everyone else has to follow. and president biden set to speak next hour to announce a new federal plan to deploy military medical teams to hospitals that are grappling with the omicron surge. let s get right to our top story this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy refusing to cooperate with the january 6th committee. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following the story from washington. jessica, what more are you learning? bianna and jim, mccarthy doubling down now on his refusal to talk. he released that statement last night condemning the investig
offshore this morning. great news. meteorologist shiri spear joins us from the fox25 stormtracker weather center. shiri: since the fox25 morning news came on air, sprinkles over nantucket and that s where it continues, rest is clouds, boston at 34, but the suburbs are in the lower 30s, so it is going to be a little bit cool, but this is actually kind of mild for a january start fog is problem going to be a bigger thing and visibility down to quarter mile, qualifies as dense fog and actually seeing things thicken up in lawrence and norwood and providence, rhode island, and straight down to the southcoast and the cape, so foggy situation actually getting thicker here in the last hour, and it is going to last with us for about an hour longer that means by 9:00 a.m., most of the fog is lifting, still have low clouds, temperatures in the low to mid-30s by lunchtime today and mostly cloud and he key time here is it is mostly afternoon and evening and patch rain showers at the coa
seen in the dow just since yesterday s highs. we talked yesterday about the outside reversal we had and what that meant technically. art cashin among others really focused on what this has looked like from a trading point of view even as people are arguing about the fundamentals and speaking of which, let s talk about a couple wacky things going on in this marnth.ket. we ll get you all angles covered. why are mining stocks being routed? how come retail sales look so weak when gas prices are so low? will europe come to the rescue next week with their version of quantitative easing? and does all of this add up to a global economy, bill that s healthy or in trouble? let me show you the stock market and then we can talk about oil as well. the dow industrials as we said down 258 right now, a decline of almost 1.5%. s&p down 21 points. decline of more than 1% at this hour. the nasdaq is doing better than the three. down 39 points or about 0.85% at 4622. show you oil very quickly.
what is typically a pretty tough time of the year for the stock market. we have a scary moment for facebook. its cfo offering up the fact that teens may be losing interest in the site. i could have told you that. in my household, we call it fogey book. the stock has since recovered after that bombshell. noted technology investor dan niles now out of facebook. remember, he told you. so smart on this stock. he bought it below $20 a share. this week he sold all of his holdings in facebook. why? and should you be out of facebook as well? what s he fwoigoing to do with money? we ll talk about it. two big ceo interviews coming your way. bob benmosche. lots to get into including how it may be adjusting to the new health care law with its thousands of employees. also sprint ceo, dan hesse. mobility a huge issue. if there may be more consolidation in the telecom industry. softbank acquired 80% of sprint. trying to upgrade the spectrum for them. then on this halloween, easily t