first to jonathan on the gas crisis that is getting worse. jonathan? hi, charles. right now we re at a costco. you can see people waiting in line here. they re moving people through. no one is staying in line for much more than half an hour. that is a long time to wait for this basic commodity. they are at a premium. they do still have mid grade and regular unleaded. people are feeling the effects of the temporary shut down of the colonial pipeline, which provides 45% of the east coast fuel consumption. take a look at the aerial shot of lines at a gas station in north carolina. other stations have run out of gas completely. sometimes tempers flair. i want to show you video shot off of a cell phone of a fight that broke out after a woman at a gas station in north carolina allegedly tried to cut in line bumping in to someone s car. she is seen getting out. she appearing to spit at the driver and the two get into a physical altercation. according to updated figures from gas bu
workers. he said the democrats are still blaming america first. and washington and beijing hold talks on phase one trade deal with u.s. saying both sides saw progress. this comes as china s foreign minister arrives in europe today. 6:00 a.m. in london, 7:00 a.m. in paris, good morning to you. have we reached the top? have we hit the high? we re in a pecklative bubble. morgan stanley said we re hop hev top heavy, ann marie. and they re worried about growth. ann marie: annmarie: the sales force.com entered that. his is a tech rally. john just hit the mat and said k is not ok. he said think of it like algator jaws, you could easily get bitten. manus: and the other side of the coin, do we get a woosh that turns into a v. i ll leave you with one of the quotes from the mar began stanley piece. i expect a growth. a growth scare. followed by a rate scare in the next few weeks and month which is could give us the first tradeable correction in the major equity end cease. how are
futures this morning. the dow is on its longest weekly losing streak in almost eight years. it s been down five straight weeks. looks like we may be up slightly at the opening bell. we have had a huge year so far. also, we have news on another burst of tornadoes in the midwest. a multi-billion dollar merger in the auto industry. and the new york times, get this, folks, admitting that the economy could help president trump win 2020. varney & company starts right now. they want to make a deal. i think they probably wish they had made the deal they had on the table before they tried to renegotiate it. they would like to make a deal. we re not ready to make a deal and we re taking in tens of millions of dollars of tariffs and that number could go up very very substantially very easily, but i think sometime in the future, china and the united states will absolutely have a great trade deal. charles: that was president trump saying not so fast on a trade deal. joining us, li
we will be getting under way. we are a bit late. i hope you enjoyed your lunch and the conversation even more with other people. our next speaker is russell mokhiber, he is the editor for over three decades of the corporate crime reporter, a weekly newsletter based in washington, d.c. he writes internet articles exploring corporate crime, and he is the founder of single payer action.org. that s full medicare for all. single payer action.org, if you want updates on what is going on in this important field. he also founded and runs morgan county usa.org in west virginia. works at the local level as well. like jim henry. morgan county usa.org is the author of corporate crime and violence. big business power and the abuse of the public trust, as put out by an environmental group. he lives in berkeley springs, west virginia, and he s probably interviewed more people than anyone you ve ever met over the years. he once actually put out a daily newspaper, five days a week, and ha
days we know the death that was part of this horrific attack that took the lives of five people, four women and one elderly man, 48 others were injured. many of those are children. several are still in critical condition in the hospital right now. police say they ll charge 39-year-old darrell brooks, who you see on your screen right now, with five counts. the counts will be first degree intentional homicide. and when that happens it will sadly be another notch on his really extensive 50-page long rap sheet. brooks was facing several felony charges when the walk d.a. s office released him on a $1,000 bond just two days before the parade. now that looks like a bad decision in retrospect. the same office also freed him on $500 bond earlier about one year earlier. so wisconsin senator ron johnson looking into this man s background says the situation surrounding him is simply unacceptable. you have crime now spilling over from high crime regions into communities like waukesha th