cunningham who served as white house counsel for the clinton administration. also, michael cohen s ferry from the hudson institute joins us to talk about president trump s recent accusation of election. of brettmination kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the supreme court. motion toyour cloture the nomination. majority leader mitch mcconnell starting the clock on a planned senate vote to confirm judge brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. political reporting today says if all goes as planned, as planned, a vote could be saturday at 5:00 in the afternoon. senators will spend today examining the background report on judge brett kavanaugh and there s a question on if jeff flake, lisa murkowski, and susan collins will support the nomination. your thoughts and what you think on the starting of the whole process to confirm judge brett kavanaugh. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. .ndependents, 202-748-8002 if you use social media, you can post on our
it s currently sitting above $45. and the standoff, mandy. standoff or standdown. big one today. still positive. let s get right to the new york stock exchange and get filled in by bob pisani. bob. we were hoping perhaps when you close we d see moves on the upside. nothing s happened. let s take a look here. a couple of big headlines. we were there at the open. that s where we are at the day. vacuum volume is on the heavy side. no light august trading days in the last couple of days and the volatility has been rising in the last couple of days as well. the entire market is essentially down. the exception here is a small group of consumer stocks that are mildly on the up side. let s not quibble. you see what i mean. down 1% to 2%. fear measures down a bit. what are the fear measures? look at the gld. gold treasures. volatility, nice. 13 a few days ago. now it s 18. i d start paying a lot of attention when it s 20. it s moving in that direction. keep an eye on that. we ve h
word this fire right over my left shoulder has tripled in size and is now at 30 acres. cal fire believes this is one of several fires caused by last night s light nick. because it s a relatively clear day, you can see this fire visible up and down the peninsula. you cab see smoke that s billowing from the top of skaggs mountain. we drove up there a couple hours ago to get a better look. take a look at your tv screen. this is a view of the same fire from upper bear gulch road. there s about as i mentioned 30 acres bushing. it s a heavily forested area. because it s very remote, no homes are threatened. but access is extremely difficult. cal fire tells us that the nearest road is about a mile, a mile and a half away, which means their firefighters are having to hike in all of that diftance. there s about is00 m100 men and on the ground. plus two tankers and a spotter plane. cal fire estimates there were about 1,000 light nick strikes. that started seven fires. this one being th
seizure is doing okay at home. the other girl faces a charge of felony battery. live in livermore, kiet do, kpix 5. new surveillance video out of san jose where a group of about half dozen women put another woman in the hospital by attacking her with a bottle. it happened just after 1:00 a.m. outside a taqueria near san jose state. no word on motive. the victim will be okay. the suspects all women in the mid-20s are still on the run. bart have identified several suspects involved in the violent takeover of a bart train over the weekend. but they are not releasing the names of the suspects because they are minors. on saturday a large group of teens swarmed a bart car and robbed people. bart police are reviewing surveillance video and preparing arrest warrants for at least some of the suspects. we are learning more about the case of a mentally ill man who was shot by san francisco police back in january. today, the san francisco public defender s office said eight of the
story? an inspiring young man. why so many kids are clambering to join his club. nightly news begins right now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. possibly another recent story has generated the level ofnother recent story has generated the level ofher recent story has generated the level ofer recent story has generated the level ofr recent story has generated the level of recent story has generated the level of universal outrage quite like the video of a bloodied man being dragged from his airplane seat. now there is late word a settlement has been reached between united aligns and that passenger kentucky doctor david dao who was injured after being forcibly being removed to give his seat to a traveling united airline crew member. the sum was announced on the same day united released an internal report on the april 9th incident and announced a series of changes to prevent it from happening