Obviously coming to you this evening from the new york stock exchange, where traders spent most of this day just riveted by washington, werent we all. Wall street did not appear too concerned about what the former director of the fbi told lawmakers. In fact towards the end of james comeys testimony on the russia investigation, the dow actually hit a record high before pulling back. The nasdaq did close at one today. Many investors do not think the hearing produced a smoking gun that could harm the president s businessfriendly agenda. In the end, the Dow Jones Industrials Dow Jones Industrials added eight points, closing at 21,182. Nasdaq gained 24 points and the s p moved fractionally. While the drama wasnt felt on wall street, there was plenty of it on capitol hill. E m eamon javers has more. Reporter the integrity of james comey was questioned by President Trump. I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of his meeting. I thought it important to document. That combinatio
One position after the next. And in all six cases he has refused to defend his running mate. And yet he is asking everybody to vote for somebody he cannot defend. Defend. Pence fired back. Saying many of the examples kaine used were things trump never said. He also worked to contrast policies between trump and clinton. And worked to defend Donald Trumps tax controversy which has snowballed this week. I mean Hillary Clinton and senator kaine. And god bless you for it. Are career public servants. Donald trump is a business man and he actually built things. Governor scott walker tweeting out his praise for his friend. At mike pence. Outstanding job. Hash tag vp d. Debate. Next up, is the second clinton and donald trump will square off in a townhall style format. With questions coming from the audience and social media. It beings at eight right here on cbs 58. In the studio, david ade, cbs 58 news. 3 the president ial nominees supporting their vps tonight. Donald trump tweeting out. Mike p
Strike force met to determine ways to protect consumers from unwanted calls and texts. 32 of the companies are taking part in the effort including apple, google and microsoft. The task force has 60 days to come up with recommendations. This is just under 30 minutes. Good morning. Make sure your microphone is on. Good morning, everyone. For those of you i have had opportunity to meet, im alison telecom chief of the consumer and Governmental Affairs bureau. A major part of my work is to help consumers stop unwanted robocalls and thats why we are all here today. Im delighted you could join us. We are pleased to be able to host the first meeting of the Robocall Strike force, an industry led group that has come together in response to chairman wheelers call to give consumers better tools to stop unwanted calls. I look forward to working with you in my role as the commissions liaison. This morning to hear from several speakers about the importance of protecting consumers are more annoying an
I just hope that you periodically in your career keep circling back to the american news. Because i think many biographers over the years would say the same thing. Who really did feel like we are reaching young people. I feel like when i go on doing a lecture or book signing typically the audience is about 35 or 40 years 40 years old and up. Sometimes 60s, 70s and 80s. Lynn seems to have this magical connection with people of all ages. Believe it or not a friend even told me that she took her threeyearold to see the show and the little girl was bouncing and swaying in her seat. I have seen the show were people in their late 80s who are as starry eyed as that trial. Lynn is worth his weight in gold in terms of stimulating young people to read American History. Cspan how important to the success of the shows his and back in 2009 in the white house the first lady and the president . Guest from a personal standpoint it was very helpful because you have to understand that six or seven years
Area. A live look from the east bay hills camera. Lets check in now with meteorologist drew tuma. This time yesterday smelled like someone was barbecuing across the entire bay area so much smoke in the atmosphere, look at the nasa imagery from yesterday, the soberanes and chimney fire and the cedar fire feeding smoke interest the atmosphere. Today its clearer and the reason why, the winds have changed and the smoke is blowing east, away from the region. However, if you are traveling to the east, we still have an air quality warning in effect for the san joaquin valley. So that smoke will linger for in time. Here locally the winds that got rid of the smoke will bring cooler numbers. Firefighters now believe it will take longer than originally thought to control the soberanes fire in monterey county. Its 60 contained after burning nearly 84,000 acres. Firefighters they would have it out at the end of the month but today changed the estimate to late september. The blue cut fire in Souther