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in the equity markets on this side of the ocean, you can see the european markets as well have steadied to say the least but that s about it. after again a nice two-day rally there, although that ftse, a lot of people saying that s not the one to look at. yeah, it s back to where it was before brexit but that s because most of it is international exposure, not necessarily exposure to domestic uk. let s get to our road map this morning. it does start with a big day on wall street. it s the end of the first half of the year. we ve got a look at the winners and losers and who s poised for perhaps a pop in the second half of the year. lions gate buys starz, $4.4 billion in cash and stock. i will give you the detailtss on how the deal came down and what it means for the companies and industry overall. the results are in, we will have a look at the bank stress tests and what it tells us about the strength of the sector. we are heading into the final trading day of the secon ....
journalist who covered the world. herbert of the new york times kept a carbon copy of every dispatch he sent to the papers headquarters in new york so that people like me and as years later could see how terribly these were censored and condensed by the time they finally appeared in the newspaper. i actually concluded that they did not do a lot of political censorship but matthews was quite long-winded and he was one of those reporters of editors and former editors that you know, certain reporters that get wildly offended every time you cut a sentence out of their story. so i found an abundance of material to work from. as i mentioned i think it is always fun when you can put documents together that cast several different lights, several different light on the same event. sometime even the same person, saying something differently at different points in time. a little little example of that, for example, in hemingway s novel about the war for whom the bell tolls, incide ....
we just acquired a company which is a new group within hachette. perseus is a great group of publishing nonfiction for all kinds of readers. was the importance of having all these different inputs? why not go all your books hachette? the wonderful thing about publishing is successful publishing is done out of creative teams that have the kind of focus on the kind of book we are doing. a way of publishing. you a notice throughout times the publishing companies that have two peoples names together, little and brown, the harper brothers for a long time. publishing is a collective activity. so you want to group that are focused about individual titles. one brand across all those books would lose it into the object of each of those publishing imprints as to the different personalities, different books they love, giveaways to bring them into the world and you want to have that branding not because of consumers care so much. nobody is looking a at a spine d see if the basi ....
and seeing high pressure build in frontal boundary passes through yesterday. it was technically a cold front. it does not live up to its nam name. we see humidity dropping off. and quickly you have visibility problems here as you go out to plan cast erin reading and poor or reduced visibility reported in those locations. watch for that patchy fog and it s muggy outside and we still have some high dew points and that is something that will be changing with time here as humidity dpropz off we ll heat up. we re still hitting 95 after all in full sunshine no less. but at least we re going to see worst of that oppressiveness go by the wayside. that s helpful. in the meantime don t worry about wet weather. umbrellas not required today. just a nice, big blob of sun block if you are going to be out in this today. it s going to be a scorcher thankfully not as insufferable. meesh a. over to you. for commuters katie don t forget sun blocks on the hands right. totally. you bu ....
elsewhere not doing so bad but we will look for subtle changes today in terms of the low fog and clouds at the coast. with the breezy, on shore wind we are looking at 350 s along the coast. once again 70s inland and get set for much, much warmer weather. chris. lisa, thank you. developing news out of san francisco. a mother and her young daughter are safe this morning but the search for them may have been connected to the investigation of a man well-known for being beaten by almeda county sheriffs deputy. abc7 news has the latest. reporter: police say 23-year-old dana rinta and her one-year-old daughter, scarlet, were found you unharmed. they were reported missing the same day that officers raided a home where they arrested stanislav petrov, who police say is her ex-boyfriend. you can see him handcuffed, led out of the house by the fbi and put in the back of a police car. we know at some point in time they were, and there is conversation that we want to have wit ....