smart enough to follow that guidance and here we are, the only live in-person fleet week in the entire nation here in san francisco. thank you, mayor breed. thank you to the leadership, and thank you to san francisco. fleet week s already started. there s ships already at the piers. yesterday, we had a fabulous program with the boys and girls club. a big basketball clinic down in front of [inaudible] which will be hope for tours. of course, we re all we all know about the air show. san francisco fleet week air show presented by united. united stuck with us as did the blue angels. they committed early. they said if you are having a fleet week on the ground, we are having a fleet week in the skies and they are going to be here with their brand new f-18 super hornets, amazing plane and joined by united and redbull and a whole lineup of participants. you can go down there for free and watch. buy the premium tickets with premium sitting. those tickets are, by the way, almost sol
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steady today, near their highs of the session. look at the refiners in particular. ofre is a shutdown refineries in the caribbean because of hurricane matthew. we have oil prices higher as well with that inventories report that vonnie alluded to. we ve been watching department stores as well today. sales may grow at a faster pace than last year because of rising wages, because of a stronger job market. increase in spending during the holidays come excluding things like gasoline and restaurant sales. you have retailers higher today. wheat also been looking at today. wheat investors are focused on where to hide. end,ycle is going to rising yields and the treasury market not helping these guys. coming full circle back to the hurricane, lumber futures up 1% inay as a lot of folks florida battened down the hatches here in anticipation. lumber prices going higher. david: thank you very much. let s check in on the first word news this afternoon. her: hillary clinton at washington ho
parachute. cool! oh! oops. he milssed his target. i have something to tell you about. mornings are better with friends. hey, everybody. come in and stay a while. i love this shot. we have about, what do we have, 18 hours left of august. and we are going to celebrate here on fox and friends. yes, we are. so get a cup of coffee and come on back. you better stay a while. labor day tomorrow. you grilling? i m grilling out. who are better grillers? men or women? we ll talk about that later. there s no question about it, men. women. we ll have the answer later, but first we have headlines to tell you about. comedian joan rivers is relying on machines to stay alive at this hour. sources telling tmz the agonizing decision over what happens next will not be made for at least a couple days. the 81-year-old was rushed to mount sinai hospital in new york city after going into cardiac arrest on thursday during surgery for her vocal chords. there is concern
so is the dinner date. did you hear that? we re actually having dinner all morning on fox and friends. we have bacon. i can smell it. we re going to eat it. if you want it, you should wake up and join us and have it with us as well. mornings are better with bacon and with these guys. congratulations, pete, that was the longest opening for any individual source with fox and friends. i realize that. once you commit, you have to commit. it is. we ve got bacon like half a mile down. you can smell t it s so strong. we re going to be celebrating bacon all morning long. we ve got a huge show. we ve got gene simmons on the show. we ve got rudy giuliani. everything that s been breaking over the past 24 hours with russia. eric bolling, kimberly guilfoyle. we want to know what everyone is thinking about their new years resolutions. all people cooler than us. absolutely. we re going to be piling on the bacon as we talk about bacon! come on. 2016 and you improv