Mario . Its a me, mario woohoo driving stateside can be a liberating experience. Wide roads, big trucks, massive cars, but at a Desert Bottleneck like las vegas, it can be ever so slightly frustrating. Beep, beep come on. But today i am driving an audi with a little more brainpower under the hood, sorry, bonnet. There is extra information about the current speed on it, and it also is telling me there is a red light that will turn green in about 30 seconds up ahead. Three, two, one. Here we go. The car is connected to las vegass Traffic Management centre over ag. It reports its position and the centre tells them how long until the next light turns green. Indicate left, and the Centre Informs me about the left light instead. And round we go. One of the advantages, says audi, is that it is a bit of a stress and tension relief as you know you have some time before the light goes green so there is no point getting impatient. At the moment, this is only available in certain models of car, an
Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost alongside susan lee in for sara again. A very good morning, susan. Good to see you, wilfred. Lets get you up to speed. Dow closing. 25 . And the oil prices were stronger yesterday. The Energy Sector was the best performing sector. Oil prices up slightly again today. Thats led to gains around the world. And gains in the u. S. Futures markets, culled high by 66 points on the dow. About a third of 1 on all three of those indices. Its interesting to point out the biggest reaction to all of the fed speaker over the month has been bonds. If you look at the bond markets down to 1. 73 . Of course, we were near 1. 9 a few weeks ago. Well get you more to the markets in just a bit. But first, breaking split cal news. Montana, south dakota, north dakota, and the most up for grabs, 475 at stake for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and senator Bernie Sanders. But ahead of todays contest, word comes that hillary has gone over the top of the magic number of
A frantic fight on the front lines to stop it. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer the Democratic National convention. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from philadelphia. Good evening. Their partys chairman off the program, an apparent russian email hack and now a revolt among Bernie Sanders supporters. There was chaos on the floor below us this afternoon. Just minutes after the opening session was gavelled to order, sanders supporters began screaming his name, disrupting the program and shattering any illusions of party unity. Party chair Debbie Wasserman schultz off the speakers platform. Andr Andrea Mitchell starts our coverage. Reporter tonight the Convention Theme is united together. But theres signs thats not happening. A stunning scene, combative party chair, debby Wasserman Schultz, booed by Bernie Sanders supporters. And you will see me every day between now and november 8 on the campaign trail. Reporter whats happening here this morning is a bi
Taking a look at it. Willst week we did a story that show six major cities where amazon prime one day service was available. It was not available in predominantly black areas. It was not the intention of amazon to discriminate, but the result was there were these lines. In boston, it was extremely obvious because the Delivery Service excluded rocks very excluded rocks very excluded roxbury. There was a hoopla and the mayor asked questions and senator markey of massachusetts demanded answers. As of today, amazon have that have backtracked and said they will be getting this one day service now. David in the Global Economic section, an amazing piece about wild cap minors going after amber in ukraine. Ukraine is a bit of a mess. They have rebels backed by Russia Fighting in the east. Maybe not fighting, but there is still a lot of tension still. And certains forests, people are illegally trying to mine amber, which is , and it is that lovely orange gem that is very expensive. They are tryi
Futures down 35 points. S p futures up close to 6. Nasdaq down by close to 11. If you take a look at whats been happening in early trade, you do see green across the board. Angela merkel was dealt with a setback with election theres. The dax is up by 1. 5 . Cac up by. 33. Ftse,. 50 . And bank of japan with a meeting today. And here are some of the big stories that we are watching for you on this monday morning, the u. S. Condemning the latest attack in turkey. Leaving 37 dead, 125 injured. Officials say a car bomb targeted civilians the a bus stop. Meantime here in the United States, there are multiple injuries after an amtrak trail derailed in kansas. At least five cars jumped the tracks. The train was headed from l. A. To chicago. There were 142 passengers and crew on board. And flooding in louisiana and mississippi claiming at least four lives and forcing thousands to leave their homes. Flood warnings remain in effect across much of the region as rivers are at dangerously high level