we track it. talking to an official down there. looks like progress is finally being made in congress on two of president trump s biggest agenda items, that would be tax reform and replacing obamacare. we head live to capitol hill for the latest details on that. we also have fedex, adobe, bed bath & beyond reporting earnings after the bell today, a few days sinces we ve had bigger earnings to recover. we ll bring you instant analysis as soon as the results are released bed, bath down 2%. fedex getting ready to raise rates. we begin with hurricane maria gaining strength yet again heading right toward puerto rico w wtvj meteorologist steve mclaughlin with the latest. a couple days ago the storm was what we call 96l, a big storm in the ocean by saturday 5:00 pvm, it was tropical storm marine ya, sunday 5:00 p.m., hurricane maria last night at 7:45, category 5 with winds of 160. that is where we are right now the track right across the virgin islands especially st. cr
surrounding region. more than 50 people have been rescued and the death toll is now at 245. the united nations today unanimously passed a resolution to investigate crimes in iraq. anary-general antonio investigative team to help iraq s authorities to investigate crimes committed by militants and bring them to justice. long timehave taken a to get here but today s resolution is a landmark, a major first step toward addressing the suffering an injury of the victim of victims of crimes committed in iraq. mark: can you s electoral commission has announced move the date for a new presidential election to october toy sixth. the election was nullified by the kenya supreme court. thatew it was ruled they did not follow constitutional guidelines. it is the first time a vote has been legally overturned and africa. decisiondent says the subverted the will of the people. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. this is blo
crying chuck stay. about 600 high-rise apartment buildings are estimated to have the same sort of installation used on the burned last that week. global news, powered by more than 2700 journalists and and over 120 countries. and york. live from new joe: we re 30 minutes from the u.s.ng trading here in the julia: u.s. stocks holding in green. joe: question is what d you miss?. republicannate leaders unveil their healthcare overhall. saying they aren t ready to vote for it. review off the annual the bank will come out one hour. the results.at and qatar express interest of buying up to 10% american airlines. as competition heat up. joe: let s look where the major averages stand. abigail is standing by. and s&p 500 are all trading higher . this after earlier this morning, flip-flopping between small gain and losses. being helped by healthcare. healthcare s&p 500 index up more than 1% on pace for fifthn record close. let s look at the worst sector 500. for the s&p the financial
we have seen the ratio of the dow to the nasdaq. the dow has been gaining disproportionately and add a record, approaching 22,000. movement has to do with earnings sales and if you look at the tally on the bloomberg, we have 315 of the 500 components have now reported and 70 companies have beat analyst sales estimates. about 5.5%ing at earningswth and 10% growth, so continuing to see gains that are better than estimated. as for some of the highlights to the upside and downside, we have sprint as one of the best performers after the telecom company came out with a surprise profit after subscribers dropped. we got the story in the loss bash in the last hour that softbank might be interested in looking at dish network. that could be a potential murder potential merger target. on the flipside, we have under slashinghat company its forecast for the second half of the year. that was broadly expect it. also protest also projecting weaker gross margins. mosaic is forecasting a ti
we thought the s&p was trying to climb up to a high. maybe .3%. yesterday. up 1% taking some of those gains off the table. not anything to screen about. we are looking at earnings. years.n the most in 19 at one point the learned world s largest advertising firm. that sector makes up a third of its revenue. markets closing down more than 11%. other earnings that we were following was lows. lowe s and home depot divergence continues. it isn t quite keeping up with where home depot has been. same-store sales came in at 4.5%. it s behind the 6.3 percent same-store sales growth we saw from home depot. some analysts are saying maybe home depot has a bigger presence in the northeast market and that s where she s where you are seeing more of the growth. continuing to see price divergence as the spread widens. notet got an analyst saying are cutting the shares of lowe s to a hold. downng the price target $15 to 76 share. to wrap it up we are in the middle of jackson hole awaiting