Welcome to power lunch. A lot doing on the dow is up triple digits, although off the highs of date that is about 0. 06 of a gain. Take a look at abeBed Bath Beyond, the best day in almost two deck asd ades on its annount of a new ceo and Kayla Tausche is outside the room where it is all happening in washington today. Reporter and inside the ustr building just behind me, we are expecting that lunch is wrapping up and that some of the lower level officials are going to be returning for an afternoon negotiating session that were expecting to last about four hours. And then around 6 30 p. M. , the two sides will host a dinner that white house Officials Say is going to be a celebration of sorts. I was told last night that it was a rather fancy and special affair, were still awaiting the location on that one of course the main event is going to be tomorrow as we now know, President Trump tweeting that he will be meeting yet again with chinas vice premiere in the oval office he says that chin
Being late. I really dont have any opening remarks but i welcome all of our colleagues that will do introductions and alternate over to senator feinstein. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. As you can see we have four nominees before the committee today. I would like to welcome the majority leader, thank you for being here. We have not had a Senate Confirmed director of the atf since march 2015. In fact, weve only had one Senate Confirmed head of the agency since the director position was subject to Senate Confirmation in 2006. I am very pleased that members of this committee will have the ability to question not only on his record but also on his priorities for combating gun violence should he be confirmed to this position. I really have been at this for so long and i have seen as experience so many senseless tragedies at the hands of firearms. From parkland to newtown from San Bernardino to sullivan springs, from las vegas to the streets of chicago, and most recently at a Food Festiv
And welcome to power lunch. The dow is up above the 25803, holding on to 26,000, up by. 9 of a percent and big games in ibm and boeing. More ahead and Goldman Sachs shares taking a hit on the back of the earning. Well take a deeper dive into the numbers in a few moment. Thank you. Welcome, im tyler mathisen. And here is what else is happening at this hour facebook, google and twitter fold up to capitol hill and are telling congress they are going beyond screening and removing extremist content from their services they are actively fighting against that content and terror. Senate Banking Panel voting again to approve j. Powells nomination for the next fed chairman the vote advances his nomination to the full senate floor and home builder confidence slipping this past month but still hovering near an 18year high melissa. The dow back on the upswing after yesterdays selloff. Bob is at the New York Stock Exchange tracking the action so bob, is it back volatility i mean . There are a lot of
And so and some our reporters dressed like. This but what to wear today, sue serio . Oh, the sparkly outfit. Nice very flow i. Oh, look. Look at the legs. Long skirt, then you take it, you have got the little kulotts there. Try that today. Youll need the hat. Oh, without a doubt. Yes. Well, bad hair day this morning, because of all of the moisture in the air, once again it is foggy, but once again we go with a ten out of ten. We got through yesterday. It was fine. It ended up being a beautiful afternoon. We got to 72 degrees, todays record as you saw goes back to 1930. Temperatures are in the 50s and 60s, already, bus stop buddy with the flyers jersey if you can see him through the fog because they won last night. No rain but once again everything looks wet, because of all of the moisture in the air. 54 degrees, but only 3 miles visibility, at the airport. So, today we expect to get to, yes, 75 degrees. That rain comes at night. Well after sunset. With a cold front. So thats going to s
And light rain in santa rosa. This is a fast moving system. And theres not a lot left. There are areas on the coast. You can see a line there. But whatever else has moved south is starting to weaken. Might have been a few flurries over diablo. And on highway 1, heading to santa cruz, santa cruz mountains, again these wont do much. 30s and 40s on the temps around the bay. It was all 30s yesterday and 40s today. Tiburon, low to mid40s. And a few hit and miss showers but cool. Upper 40s and low 50s today. 6 01 and sal we have a crash on the east shore freeway. We have to start there. Westbound 80 near appian way. A motorcycle crash, and now they have the sigalert at pinole valley road. Nevertheless, traffic is slowing just before highway 4 heading west. And it involves a motorcycle and theyve issued a sigalert and that means it will be there for a while. Give yourself plenty of time. Highway4 is slow. Kind of a long backup from the west end of antioch to concord. And you can see at the ma