Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Overnight, lightning strikes off the coast as a Severe Thunderstorm Warning moves across the bay area. Were bracing for another day of intense recordbreaking heat after more rolling Power Outages affect hundreds of thousands of people. Good morning, everyone. It is sunday, august 16. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Those thunderstorms were seen off the coast of santa cruz, on the peninsula, near pacifica, and all across the bay area overnight. From the lightning to the winds to the heat to now these brush fires were tracking, were following it all. Lets get over to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at whats happening right now. Lisa . Hey, liz. You know, when we had one of these thunderstorms around fairfield, the temperature went from the 80s to 100. That was a heat burst that came down from the upper levels of the atmosphere with a thunderstorm. Just amazing whether the around here. As we go in c
On Darren Jordan this is out as they are alive and also coming up britain removes france the netherlands and others from its coronavirus safe travel list as infections surge in european countries. And mexico and argentina are trying to ensure latin america doesnt have to wait in line once a vaccine is developed. Palestine is recalling its sun back to the u. A. E. After the immorality government struck a deal with israel to normalize relations the agreement was announced by u. S. President donald trump who helped broker the deal as part of the agreement israel will suspend but not scrap plans to annex palestinian territories alan fischer reports from washington d. C. It was perhaps unusual that the president of the United States would announce a treaty between 2 other countries but thats what happened in the oval office this is a truly historic moment the president said he brokered talks over the past year that brought what will be no one as the abraham a court to be signed by the Unite
The election conversation right now. Speaker pelosi calling the house back into session for urgent action, she says, on the matter. So urgent they are not coming back until later this week. Meanwhile, the market shrugging off any possible chaos from the election. The s p, in fact, could hit an alltime high today. Goldman sachs is raising its forecast on the s p to 3600 by years end. Its also a big week for retail as well. Several Big Companies reporting profits starting with walmart and home depot tomorrow. Lots to talk about. Im Ashley Webster. Yes, stuart is back tomorrow. Varney company is about to begin. Its been run horribly and were going to make it good. Now, what am i supposed to do, let it continue to run badly so if you fix it they say oh, hes tampering with the election. Were not tampering. This is a con game by pelosi and schumer. Look, the post office, theres 25 billion sitting there but they really want 1 trillion to bail out their badly run states. Ashley yeah, that was
National Defense Authorization act. This establishes policies were Defense Department programs. Votes are expected early monday. Wednesday the house will consider a bill to remove the bust of the chief Justice Roger taunted, the author of the dred scott decision, and to discuss the issue of confederate statues on display in the u. S. Capitol. The senate ravine reconvenes to discuss the office of management and budget. For the remainder of the week thesenate continues work on 740. 5 billion 2021 Defense Authorization act. Live coverage of the house on 2,pan, the senate on cspan anytime on cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. The organization is called conservative clergy of color. Thank you for being with us. Always great being with you gentlemen, thanks. Let me talk to you about the passing of congressman john lewis, he was 80 years old. What is his legacy . I think he has a mixed legacy. However, one cannot deny the strength that this gentleman exuded with his
By the United States of america. You go out and look at all the speculation. I would suggest right now it is speculation about what china will do, but there is no speculation that they will do something. Jonathan there is a broader story to acknowledge, whether it is the economy and trade, whether it is foreign in the , the commonsea denominator is trust and the lack thereof. You see it playing out more in the last couple of months. Tom it is worldwide. SyrIan Duncan Smith was on. Ir Ian Duncan Smith was on there is a Global Messaging here about china and what to do with their economic and military assertiveness. Jonathan for the equity market, we are down just eight points on the s p 500. Market participants dont know what to do with that story. This has been the take away for the last several weeks, every time we see a headline like this. We come back pretty quickly. Lisa trade tensions were a tear bleed through into the economy. Result, an unclear less fuzzy result that we are is th