Coast in a few hours. Tonight, milton expected to bring a mix of Storm Surge, high winds and Power Outages to communities across florida. More than 1 Million people are under Evacuation Orders with local officials urging people in vulnerable zones to get to safety now. If you were as blunt as we have seen a public official be. If people stay in the Evacuation Zones and try to ride it out, they will die. Is that still your message this morning . Wherever that Storm Surge comes, if its 10 to 15 feet and people are trying to ride this out in singlestory structures, theres no place to go. At any moment we expect to hear from President Biden and Vice President harris on the federal response. Al roker is here joining me with the latest on Miltons Path. Our Reporting Team is bringing us the latest from the ground. President biden speaking with Netanyahu Today for the first time in nearly seven weeks. Expecting to learn more about israels plans for targeting iran. Again, trying to prevent esca
Breaking news. Deadly terror attack in france. What we know this morning. Covid breaking point. 500,000 new cases in the u. S. In just one week. Medical professionals pushed to their limits. In utah, doctors saying the situation is unsustainable. El paso hospitals resorting to tents to treat the dramatic influx of patients. Dr. Faucis dire warning about the critical next few months, as covid fatigue sweeps the nation. One new york wedding putting nearly 300 people in quarantine and leaving more than 50 people infected. Now covid cases skyrocketing in europe. France and germany returning to national lockdowns. What this could mean for the u. S. Top expert dr. Jha joins us live this morning. Also this morning, dodgers star Justin Turner under fire in the wake of that world series celebration. After his covid test came back positive during the game, the league now saying he emphatically refused to comply when baseball security tried to get him to leave the field. The investigation under w
Frances, the rain has picked up in the last 20 minutes or so were beginning to see that downpour begin and one os going to be the red river that you see behind me. In the past in 2015 this river actually flooded causing an interstate highway to shut down and also some flood damage to a number of homes and so as we wait for this storm to come in and this continued rain were going to be looking to see if that flooding becomes an issue and the other thing here is obviously the wind right now the wind is fairly calm even as the rain begins to come down. The fact it could pick up throughout the day in the next few hours. Forecasters are projecting up to 60 Miles Per Hour winds and that would be a major problem for power lines and the potential for downed power lines and for people to lose power, something that were already seeing in the southern part of the state as the hurricane moves through there. I will say that folks for the most part are taking those precautions. The casinos here alon
Out what the Federal Reserve is going to do to rev up the economy. Big speech coming from chairman powell. Odds are hes going to talk about inflation. He wants more of it. If thats correct, hell be printing a lot of money. Literally seven minutes from now make that nine or ten minutes from now, we will be allowed to give you the official word. And, by the way, thats what the markets waiting for. The dow jones average is coming off the dow is going to be down about 22 points, roughly that way. Lets see what happens when we get the feds announcement. The s p, thats coming off its 18th alltime high. Down a couple of points at the moment. The nasdaq is coming off its 38th alltime high. We did receive news of just over one million new jobless benefit claims last week, no noticeable impact on the market on that. That market, the investors, theyre really waiting for the fed. Five big tech stocks, theyre coming off record highs. Here they are this morning, premarket. Apple is up some more, but
Focusing whats going on in washington, d. C. , we are after all coast to coast, were going to hear from the president meeting with the National Association of Police Organization, group that is endorsing him for reelection this go around, were also following a number of developments in florida with the hurricane moving in on the florida coast, Governor Desantis says this is going to be an issue for the state well into next week, we are monitoring those developments as it approaches the category two storm and were monitoring as well what is happening in silicon valley, big tech getting bigger, not only in stocks but any time to rain these guys in, google is a big exception to the runup, its stock not doing as well even the revenue is strong and the fact of the matter is, there was a notion that it is not enjoying the ride that the others are. Again, if you look at that the rich and wealth for not only themselves and their own investors, they have been the really only big game in town so