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earnings rising on a strong domestic performance, but a still slight miss underestimates. rishaad: steven mnuchin denying plans to restrict foreign investment in the u.s., saying national security always comes first. about half an hour before the trading day gets underway. just taking a look at what s been going on. china under pressure. the shanghai composite. let s go to the bloomberg terminal. showing it is showing china s a run of essentially a solid economic indicators, moving to consolation for the shaky financial market we saw last month. we saw the tightening in money market liquidities from autumn last year. equitieslt, we ve got fighting weakness. that is the top graph, the shanghai composite. that went down in april from near record highs. haidi: all of this despite having two consecutive quarters of pretty strong gdp growth out of china. that is not being reflected when it comes to market sentiment. we had the day off yesterday. they are rejoining trading ....
mounts a new fight to overturn the north carolina bill that did away with the anti-lgbtq bill known as hb2. we will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the state s democratic governor. is the state of north carolina still a democracy? and we will look at how a group of african-american residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. you start gagging. i shut my hog operation down. i got out of it. i just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also known as international workers day. this year, in california, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the bay area ....
also breaking overnight a budget breakthrough. congress agrees to keep the government open but no funds for president trump s border wall as the president talks tough on north korea with qualified praise for their leader. obviously he s a pretty smart cookie. and a promise to use military force if necessary. i need some good news and baby, oh, baby. the brand-new photo of princess charlotte released just hours ago to celebrate her second birthday taken by her mom princess kate as she gets ready for her biggest role yet in her aunt pippa s wedding. i need some good news baby give it to me and we certainly say good morning, america. how adorable. you just want to pinch her cheeks. i know and the palace released that photo. just released it of princess charlotte and it is rare you look at the young royal. you don t see her that much. looks a lot like her big brother. we ll get back to that later, but right now, we have breaking news this morning. big de ....
himself in tears. a good tuesday morning to you and we begin with president trump set to speak to russian president vladimir putin today. but he s criticized for what he said about another world leader. the north korean dictator kim jong-un and add to that some major developments overnight on his domestic agenda. abc s kenneth moton following it all from d.c. kenneth, good morning. reporter: good morning, kendis and diane. house republicans appear to be optimistic about the timing of a vote on their new health care bill, the white house a little more cautious after the president sent mixed messages about what s really in the plan. this morning may day aftermath. demonstrators against president trump turned violent in portland, oregon. but most of the protests across the country peaceful. thousands speaking out against the president s immigration policies. trump, we re here to fight. that s why we re here today. reporter: back in washington the fight is focused ....
couldn t refuse. early today starts now. i m yasmin vossoughian. dozens dead after storms slammed the center of the country. this monster was caught on camera by storm chasers in east texas where it left a path of the destruction 35 miles long. killing at least four and injuring dozens more. the storm caused massive flooding in missouri and arkansas where floodwaters tragically swept away several small children. there were blizzard conditions in western kansas, the state hit by late season snow shutting down power. nbc s jay gray, what can you tell us on the latest deadly storms? reporter: this is the kind of devastation many are experiencing. ripped apart by raging floodwaters. look at this thing. reporter: a monster tornado. one of more than a dozen to strike this weekend part of a storm system that in other areas delivered flooding rains. some of the flooding we re seeing in parts of missouri has surpassed historic levels. reporter: soaking and swallo ....