Feet. Where the storm is now and where it s headed next. Also ahead, veep stakes and the final countdown, vice president kamala harris set to announce her running mate by tomorrow. What we know about her meetings over the weekend and plans for the week ahead. And later, the new group of republicans campaigning for harris. I ll talk to a former trump white house official who s backing the democratic con tender over donald trump. It s a busy monday. We re following breaking news on wall street as a historic global market plunge now hits the u. S. The markets just opened here after investors watched japan s benchmark index tally its worst day since 1987 s black monday, and you can see what s happening right now. Driving this selloff here is concerns that the fed will spark a u. S. Slowdown by waiting too long to cut interest rates. Let s get right over to nbc news business and data correspondent brian cheung. Brian, we ve seen the markets dip as much as a thousand points already this morn
The national cycling centre in manchester home of great britain s cycling team and the start location of pedal for paris. Chris and his team are getting ready for the journey. I m actually pretty fit at the moment. When you re covering that kind of distance 550 miles there s things that are going to happen, we re going to have to manage, so, it s a dynamic adventure is the way i d like to think of it. The paris games are hoping to be the greenest in history. From cardboard beds in the athletes village to plant based menus, organisers want to halve the carbon footprint of the world s biggest sporting event. Back in 2012, london constructed six new stadiums and rio built ten four years later. But paris has focused on existing and temporary infrastructure with only two new venues in the city. But there will be challenges to that environmental legacy. Extreme heat, air and water pollution are still huge concerns. You realise that climate change is already here. You can t go out and
Today is an absolute scorcher. Hottest day of the year. Drink, drink, and drink. En route, we ll speak to athletes competing in the french capital. Some of the really bigi decisions are the ones about where you will hold. The olympics in the future. We ll hear how climate change is affecting sport for everyone, from the grassroots. Nearly every game was called off. It was really frustrating. To the elite. I think it s important that we talk about leaving a world that our children can grow up in, because being outside in nature is something we shouldn t ever take for granted. And we ll be joined by some famous faces to help us along the way. I don t know how he does it. I find it hard to even. Run100m, let alone. He laughs. Go. If you just take some positive action in your own life, life is much healthier. The national cycling centre in manchester, home of great britain s cycling team and the start location of pedal for paris. Chris and his team are getting ready for the journey. I m ac
When you re covering that kind of distance 550 miles there s things that are going to happen, we re going to have to manage. So, it s a dynamic adventure is the way i d like to think of it. The paris games are hoping to be the greenest in history. From cardboard beds in the athletes village to plant based menus, organisers want to halve the carbon footprint of the world s biggest sporting event. Back in 2012, london constructed six new stadiums and rio built ten four years later. But paris has focused on existing and temporary infrastructure with only two new venues in the city. But there will be challenges to that environmental legacy. Extreme heat, air and water pollution are still huge concerns. You realise that climate change is already here. You can t go out and ride bicycles when it s 40 degrees heat, which is happening more and more frequently, so we haven t even realised it. En route, we re going to be looking at projects that are already happening to protect our environme
With increasingly humid conditions. Thursday, it certainly isn t a straightforward weather chart, various different frontal systems in the picture but what it means for us really is quite a bit of cloud, areas of showery rain, perhaps the most persistent rain towards the south of the uk. Still with a fairly humid feel i suspect, temperatures 19 to 22, maybe 23 degrees. It doesn t look too bad through friday and into the weekend, a few spells of sunshine, a chance of some showers up towards the north and west of the uk. Thanks, ben. And that s bbc news at six. You can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc website. Now it s time to join our colleagues for the news where hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. Out of the olympics one of britian s big medal hopes, three time olympic champion, charlotte dujardin withdraws saying she s ashamed over an error ofjudgement andy murray will compete in paris, but confirms the olympics will be his last tournament as he sa