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Those blasts sent massive fire balls into the nights sky. The initial blast erupted at a warehouse for Hazardous Materials and triggered other explosions at nearby businesses. Those explosions could be felt miles away. The cause at this point not immediately clear. Lets take a look at some live pictures this morning from tianjin china. You can still see the smoke cloud billowing. We heard from hyundai. Well take more of a look at whats happening with china in a bit. About 4,000 imported vehicles...

Where is the value . We will talk to a Top Value Fund investor this hour. And he will point us to three stocks that he likes right now. How about the race on democratic side . There are 17 of them on the republican side there are three right now. Can you name t2 of the 3 on the democratic side . You know clinton. You might know sanders. You know omalley . Well, those two guys gore. The veeps, gore and biden may be getting in. More there are more and more questions popping up on the democratic si...

Business impact. Jackie deangelis is in Corpus Christi watching the refineries, and Brian Sullivan is focusing on the port side of the story. We begin with brian. Hey, brian reporter hey, melissa. Thank you very much. I can confirm that it is once again raining here the rain will just not stop. And there is nowhere for the water to go. Were south of houston, by far were in texas city, which is where a lot of these major refiners are based lets focus on the ports because the galveston ship channe...

Good morning. Welcome to squawk alley. With me at post 9, sarah eisen, mike santoli north korea firing an unidentified Ballistic Missile over japan last night. The first such projectile to bypass the island nation since back in 2009 our very own reporter is in japan now with the latest response well, like so many japanese here, we were woken up around 6 00 a. M. Local time with that latest launch coming from north korea triggering a nationwide alert. Broadcasters breaking into programming, warni...

Coming off of gdp number, the s p 500 basically flat financials sees a little bit of strength nasdaq seeing the most up 0. 6 and the dow is virtually unchanged. Pete in gerrenajarian, when thar crossed today, what was your first reaction were seeing the numbers continue to be fairly in line, fairly strong. Weve been impressed by those, impressed by the earnings season take a look at whats really reacting to the financials once again. Look at Goldman Sachs and jpmorgan they have been underperform...

Apple is trading 30, away from reaching a 1 trillion market cap the last close above 22,000 thou walk 16th. Is there a peek optimism around the product cycle or does the stock keep riding this wave of enthusiasm yes hopefully we havent gotten there yet. Were about a year and a half into this preiphone 8 party runup. Usually it ends. Either right after the announcement or about a quarter later. The peaks and then we go down for a couple years until we wait for the next cycle. This is a rager thou...

Impact and a price impact as you were talking about because here along the gulf coast and here in Southeast Texas in particular, there is some serious Refining Capacity down here. Were talking about some major refinery thats are off line now because of flooding, because of power failures and so on so were looking at the port arthur refinery. 603,000 barrels a day, largest refiner in the country, thats down this all told, the ones that you see on the screen, about a fifth of u. S. Refining capaci...

Three indices. The dow, as i mentioned, above the 22,000 mark, higher by 53 points s p up by a quarter of a percent. Financials, the leading sector of the day no surprise given the steepening were seeing of the yield curve and the nasdaq continues its leadership, higher by nine points where do we stand here how do you interpret the jobs report and mix this all together as we enter the final four months of the year i hope its say when im saying im not putting too much importance on todays job rep...

As we await sessions, lets bring in elevation parters in Roger Mcnamee this morning, sar sar sarah fagen and elan muy lets set the table for what we expect sessions to say the white house wants to end this program and it looks like there will be a sixmonth delay before it actually phased out. The big question that sessions will have to answer is exactly what will the end of the Program Look Like . Is it a shutdown of daca for all the people would are currently receiving those protections and ben...

Traditionally, for stocks. Dow is usually down more than 1 on average does that hold true to form this time listen, i dont know if history is your guide on this. I think the relevance of whats going to happen here in september is really about the tremendous amount of obstacles that the market faces right now. And what do you do with that do you allocate new money . Do you expect a correction to be coming right now i think the best strategy, when you look, is to be defensive if hedge things out, ...