Mountains, and at the mouth of the delta that went into the Mississippi River and all the lush farmland in arkansas. What we do is husband and i are firstgeneration broadband, cable tv and phone provider. We cover about five counties right at the cusp of the bootheel. Host you say you serve about five counties. In what way . Guest we are broadband, video and the phone provider. Host just like and how many customers do you have . Guest at the last building with 4258. Host can you make money with 4258 customers in the broadband industry . Guest oh, absolutely you can. We have done everything as frugally as possible. We have no middlemen. I have a very shallow bench. I have all first string players. My husband i built this company ourselves so we are first generation providers. We have been in the underground Construction Business for about 18 years and then we have had e opportunity to buy a home in rural Butler County where we were both born and raised and we had no video. We kind of lo
Something weve got used to. Before some brief showers tonight, something got used to Mother Nature has been cooperating with timing at least as far as the rainfall weve seen lately livermore dublin in the 30s oakland and alameda youre in the mid 40s. Well, north bay temperatures also in the 30s this morning, definitely cool enough for that jacket and whether enough that you do want to leave a little extra early because who needs to drive fast so it down a little bit 50s for your high temperatures later on and that sunshine definitely making its appearance later on today robin very slow heading into San Francisco john the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza still there. Its only gonna get heavier as we continue through the morning drive its already crawling from the oakland maze, so just be prepared for that are averaging 14 minutes to make it and checking in on highway 17 we mentioned the slippery roads and if you travel on 17 youll notice that accrues have activated all the signs tell
Urging residents not to volunteer to help clean yet. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. House democrats have taken the first formal step in what could lead to the impeachment of President Trump. Yesterday House Speaker nancy pelosi announced lawmakers are launching a formal impeachment inquiry. The decision follows a whistleblower complaint related to President Trumps interaction with a foreign leader. Laura podesta is here in new york. How is the president responding to this . Reporter he is not responding well. He calls it president ial harassment, the continuation of a witch hunt, and maintains his innocence. He will be meeting with the president of ukraine today as part of his threeday trip to the u. N. No one is above the law. Reporter House Democrats are moving forward with a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. This is a brea
Prices sharply higher this morning, 3 . Chaos, at least 2 dozen Police Officers injured during crash officerinvolved shooting. Questions this morning for facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg, report suggests he might have been aware of practices in company. Fallout coming up. Mornings with maria begins right now. Maria oil prices soaring this morning, report attack in golf of oman, two oil tankers hit one operator said, it believe ship was hit by torpedo and the crews on board safely evacuated. The u. S. Navy is assisting here after receiving distressed calls, Price Futures Group phil flynn, thank you so much for weighing in this morning. Prices of oil 3 , how do you see the situation today . This is highrisk situation because this is one of the critical choke points in the oil market, maria, because of the tensions this could be replay of what we saw in 1908 with 1980 with the tankers because insurance and security for tankers will go up. Maria we are still getting more information on who is
You mentioned brent. Index isy getting a bounce. We will get to some companies in that indexing in just a moment. Tyson foods has come out with its competitor to the beyond meat product, and getting a bum from that of about 1 . We just had that ipo, another successful tech ipo, with fiber international. Guy crude definitely the top story, spiking up after two tankers were damaged in the gulf of oman. Our editor for commodities is joining us from new york. Is this an escalation . Luke reporter the market is certainly reporter the market is certainly reading it that way. Neither of these tankers was actually carrying crude oil, but weve seen all the reaction in the crude market. This is just outside the straight of hormuz, which iran has previously closed outside the streets of hormuz, which iran has previously threatened to close. Weve seen a drop throughout the course of the day. If you are looking at the global picture, this area accounts for 20 of crude Oil Production 40 ofy, about 3