tree into -- sandra: breaking news this morning. a former top aide to hillary clinton heads to capitol hill to answer questions about the attack in the u.s. embassy in benghazi, libya. i am nicole petallides. lauren: i am transfixed that the stock market closed column as global markets go into a sigh of relief. after the dow served 300 points yesterday, dow futures are higher. the dow serving 79 points in the premarket. s&p gained eight-point at the

s&p up 22 points. nicole: in other asian markets are posing some gains. the nikkei and the possibility of barrels. in making up a half of 1%. train for europe stocks open higher ahead of a central bank meeting. nice gains of more than 1.5% in london and paris and germany. nicole: key commodities, let's kick it off with oil. moving to the downside about a penny. looking at gold right now at 1132 h. rayon spirit lauren: this is how the u.s. dollar is trading against currencies ahead of the european central bank. the euro .12 versus the dollar as well as the japanese yen this morning. nicole: checking the 10 year yield. 2.19% right now. welcome to "fbn:am." looking at what is moving in today's markets, latest breaking news, what to expect the day ahead. lauren and i have you covered.

lauren: we do. hillary clinton, former chief of staff cheryl mills will be questioned by the house committee today. the former aide to clinton plans to invoke his fifth amendment right not to testify before the committee. brian buckley on a help set up her private server in 2009. the house committee subpoenaed him for the investigation on the obama administration response to the benghazi attack because that includes clinton's use of her private e-mail server. republican presidential candidate carly fiorina on the issue. >> there's no doubt there's an issue and she's been exchanging classified information over her personal device. there is no doubt that they are tens of thousands of deleted e-mail she didn't want us to see. train for in the meantime, jake

sullivan who helped lay the groundwork now serves a top foreign policy adviser in the clinton campaign will be interviewed by the committee tomorrow. nicole: are you ready for trump news. presidential front runner donald trump will hold a news conference this afternoon. estimates of the republican national committee today, the rnc has been asking candidates to pledge they would not run as an independent candidate. meanwhile, another gop contender ted cruz speaking about a plan to answer iran's deal with tron. he was on your world with neil cavuto yesterday. >> the reason i invited donald trump is because when donald trump shows a peak rings shows a deeper insight army of television cameras. the mainstream media will show what you think there is no more important issue facing the country right now in stopping iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

nicole: pep rally is scheduled for next wednesday at the capitol. lauren: president obama secured enough votes to protect his family until congress. democratic senator barbara mikulski giving the president 34 votes required to sustain his promised veto should congress pass a disapproval resolution. grandpa last night on how he thinks he can the president boasting a day. >> it is more party loyalty than anything else. he's got the people that will vote with the president regardless of the fact. nicole: china holding a massive military break to come over a big three over japan in world war ii 70 years ago. satisfy the markets are closed. chinese president chichi and paying with a thousand troops and 2.3 member army.

five chinese navy ships were sailing in international waters off the coast of alaska yesterday. the move came on the last day president obama's three-day visit to this day. the white house and the intent of the chinese operation was unclear but the pentagon did not detect any threat and activities. we will have a live report from beijing later the hour. lauren: nicole, some folks in the cost of oil yesterday was because of their ships off the coast of alaska. more on the job market today pleaded not to tomorrow's monthly jobs report. it all starts at 7:30 eastern time of corporate layoffs and an hour after that jobless claims expected to come in at 275,000 from a slight increase from the prior week. the salsa stage for friday's job report. 220,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls. the unemployment rate expect it

to go down to 5.2%. lauren: bring it on. let's get caught up on the global market this morning kicking it off in asia as we noted a couple asian stocks closing. we are looking at the nikkei and the cost becoming the only things open in asia and the nikkei up half of 1%. trading for the nikkei up for the first time in four days. we will take it. the ftse search in almost 2%, a 100-point game. the cac up 1.5% and the german dax up 2% as well. nicole: bring it on. green on the screen. the dow up about 89 points. the s&p up 10 handles. 1956. lauren: let's look at key commodities. you can see it does have an up arrow. we are seeing crude oil build a little bit here. it is down about 1 dollar.

lauren: we are looking at the euro and also began stronger against the u.s. dollar. canadian dollar also stronger. lauren: the yield on the 10 year treasury up 2.19%. nicole: an intense manhunt is wind manhunt is wanted in northern illinois after a police officer were shot and killed. authorities are responding to report a suspicious subjects in the area. officer joseph glenna wittes, a 30 year police veteran was going down while chasing freeman and hundreds of people gathered in the town of fox lake yesterday to honor him. >> show is my best friend, my world, my hero, the love of my life for the last 26 and a half years. he was my rock as much as i was his rock. nicole: says that here the officer was married and had four

children. the county clerk refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses could be held in contempt of court today. after she defied a federal injunction ordering her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. davis says she cannot do something that violates her religious beliefs as an elected official davis cannot be fired by a federal judge can impose potentially heavy fine for celestial time. nicole: coming up, a look at sports as they both advance in the u.s. open. serena williams looking to make history and after weeks of wild markets it looks like it could be smooth sailing. at least for now, for this moment. after searching 300 points yesterday, u.s. stock index futures point to the upside as

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nicole: all right. let's get you caught up on global markets. an asia europe the nikkei up for the first time in four days by half of a 1% and the cost be relatively flat on the session. nicole: watching european stocks you can see the ftse, cac and dax all higher by more than 1.5% estimate on the ecb policy. transfer rate here in the u.s., nicole, half of 1% gain across the board, a little bit more strange for the nasdaq up two thirds of 1%. nicole: at its been a tough week.

we are seeing strength in oil. right now up about 10 cents. 4635 at 1132 a troy ounce. lauren: let's talk about currency market. this is how the u.s. dollar is trading versus the euro, gannett canadian dollar. we do see some strength in the euro once again and ecb will be watching that one when they have their meeting later today. nicole: right not to yield is 2.19% say they are watching 2.22% on the upside and 2.12% on the downside. lauren: we are seeing the yield relatively flat. the u.s. open yesterday the williams sisters and serena hopes to win the first grand slam in tennis in more than a quarter-century. she's a bit nervous in her match serena has 10 doublefaults and two dozen unforced errors as she got it together for the wind.

as for her sister venus, she advanced to the third round with the 17th u.s. open for the mess. that is the most of any player in the draw. on the men's side, yoko bache took care of andré s. of austria. when the match ended before midnight committee of which celebrated on the core with a fan who was brought out at the stands. raphael nidal had his hands full, but he managed to put away. in baseball, the baltimore orioles don't have a lot to care about, but they did last night. chris davis had a second home run. he did that in the 11th inning with a 76 when. the orioles have lost six in a row and 12 of their last 13. nicole: i don't know if he saw the tennis video, but they were not doing that.

get wild on the tennis court in tennis court ahmad u.s. open. they are heading to capitol hill to answer on the attack at the u.s. embassy in benghazi and e-mails released by the state department could be very key. hillary clinton also joined fire from gop presidential candidates. >> there is no doubt that she purposely put a server in her basement in order to shield their communication. there is no doubt that there has been a cover-up. nicole: we will have the latest twist in the e-mail scan the good and viable and plans to plead the fifth. donald trump with gop leaders in new york today at a news conference and will he sign a loyalty pledge for you. checking u.s. stock index futures rating and ecb policy meeting findings. the s&p up 10. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets

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lauren: breaking news this morning. helical antenna has taken a capitol hill to answer questions about the attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi libya. im lauren simonetti. nicole: we are almost there. i am nicole petallides. we are checking out the stock markets closed because of a parade going on. calm returns to global trading for the moment and the global markets right now and rally mode. after the dow surged 300 points

yesterday commit dow futures this morning been higher. up about half of 1%. s&p up 10 handles as debate on the ecb. lauren: asia not looking too shabby either. the shanghai and hong kong looking better today. japan's nikkei up half of 1% prefer 1%. first tries in four days. nicole: stocks open higher with further easing in what everybody's looking for. the ftse, cac and dax all looking up. lauren: absolutely. some weakness however. crude just turned slightly to the downside to $46.17 a barrel of $1130 per ounce. nicole: here's how it traits against the currencies is seeing strength in the pounding canadian dollar against the u.s. dollar. by the way, the dollar hit a six-year love to keep in mind.

lauren: leche is a yield of five basis points. 2.19%. welcome to "fbn:am" from your first look at what's living in today's markets. we have the latest breaking news and what to expect your day ahead. nicole: former hillary clinton chief of staff at the state department, cheryl mills will be questioned by the house committee today. meanwhile, a former aide to clinton plans to invoke his fifth amendment right not to testify before the committee. brian paglia know helped clinton set up her private e-mail server back in 2009. the house subpoenaed him for the investigation on the obama administration response to the benghazi attack because the probe includes clinton's years of private e-mail server. republican presidential candidate carly fiorina wading in on the issue. >> there is no doubt there has been a cover-up. there have been classified information over the personal

device. there is no doubt that there's stuff in as tens of thousands of deleted e-mails she didn't want us to see. lauren: and the meantime, jake sullivan believe the groundwork for the every nuclear deal it now serves as top foreign policy advisor in the clinton campaign interviewed by the committee on friday. all of this continues to heat out. lauren: republican presidential front runner donald trump will hold a news conference. trump plans to meet with republican national committee. they would not run as an independent candidate. meanwhile, senator ted cruz talking about a rally with donald trump. he was talking about that on your world with neil cavuto yesterday. >> reason i invited donald trump is when donald shows up, he

brings with him an army of television cameras. the mainstream media will show up in force. i think there is no more important issue facing the country right now than stopping iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. train for the rally is scheduled next wednesday at the capitol. nicole: president obama secured enough votes to protect his iran nuclear deal in congress. barbara mikulski giving the president the 34th vote required to sustain his promised veto. should congress pass a disapproval resolution as rand paul tells last night about how he thinks the president actually cut the votes he needed. lauren: it is more party loyalty than anything else. i think he's gotten the people who will vote with the president regardless of the facts. nicole: republicans pledge to keep their side up with new sanctions on tehran. watch how that plays out.

lauren: meanwhile, china holding the parade to commemorate the victory over japan in world war ii 72 years ago. the chinese president announcing a reduction of 300,000 troops from the country more than 2 million member army. meanwhile, five chinese navy ships were sailing in international waters off the coast of alaska yesterday. the move on the last day of president obama's three-day visit to alaska. the white house in the intent of the chinese operation was all clear but the pentagon did not detect any threatening activities. we will have a live report from beijing this hour. nicole: that we will get you up to date if you need. more data on the health of the labor market today leading up to tomorrow's monthly jobs report. start at 7:30 a.m. eastern time. the monthly report from firm challenger gray and christmas.

an hour later we look at weekly jobless claims expected to come in around 275,000. that is a slight increase from the prior release. that sets the stage for tomorrow's job report. jobs created 220,000 jobs expected to be added to nonfarm payrolls at the unemployment rate ticking down to 5.2%. we will be watching for wage growth bring on the jobs. that's what everybody wants. lauren: if anything is going to move, it's the jobs report. planet fitness of better-than-expected earnings in the first financial report since going public last month. the company raised its full-year guidance. the stock fell in a big way, more than 3% in extended trading due to slower growth in i.t. sales manager. the budget fitness chain, work out for 10 bucks a month, also disclosed separately identified in material breach is in its

internal controls and this made significant progress in correcting the issue. nicole: or you pay for it and don't work out. that's what james canton. first you kick it off as we noted the shanghai composite index and markets close. the nikkei up half of a percent of the a percent in the coffee up fractionally. lauren: let's show you how europe is opening this morning. everything by more than 1.5%. the cac adding 72 and the chairman dax as we speak. nicole: today you look it you look it up there as. here's a look at the dow up 85-point and the s&p up 9.5 points at the moment and the nasdaq 25. nicole: i'm almost disappointed we are not seen triple digit rise. 4611 per barrel. 1129 purple.

nicole: right now we watched the year in the japanese yen stronger against the u.s. dollar. the u.k. pound, weaker against the u.s. dollar. lauren: the yield still at 2.19%. that is what we are looking at. before you head out the door, take a look at what is going on with the weather in your forecast. we have fox meteorologist maria molina. good morning. tell us what is going on. reporter: good morning. hello, everybody at home. we are watching heat across parts of the plane as much as 10 to 20 degrees above average possible this afternoon across parts of the essential of northern plains. early this morning temperatures relatively warm in the 70s in kansas city and dallas already 80 degrees in el paso in those temperatures are going to continue to climb today. widespread high temperatures in the 90s down to dallas and across parts of the east coast in new york city and also

raleigh and areas of heavy rain across northern plains and more showers and storms across parts of the southwest. nicole, over to you. nicole: a hot one on the east coast. drink plenty of water and stay hydrated. lauren: coming up, new details about apple tv and the iphone getting late. next week the big apple event with details. it is all about the dollars and will keep you posted. checking the stock market futures indicate a higher up in. the cap 83 points, the nasdaq up 24 points this morning. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning market and breaking news.

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nicole: let's get you caught up in the global markets could the shanghai close quote today they are. the nikkei and cost be looking up. you can see the nikkei up a half of 1%. lauren: and europe it is a great day so far. the ftse at 1.8%. look at those games for the cac in the german dax as well.

nicole: has a radon news for the index futures, the dow was up about 90. s&p 500 to the upside looking like walgreen ahead of the jobs report. lauren: no green for commodities. oil down 13 cents. gold down about four pairs to $1129 a troy ounce. nicole: we see the euro the japanese yen stronger against the greenback this morning. lauren: at the yield of two basis points to 2.18%. nicole: i know a lot of you are apple fans could apple preparing to announce new projects next week. this could include the next apple tv sources saying the device will start at $149 that would be much higher than previous apple tv, but better than the $199 mentioned in the past. they also include universal

search allowing users to pull content from services, not just those from apple. one thing is for sure that apple will take the wrap up the latest iphone. the latest device expected to be the most popular against all of those and the analyst told "the wall street journal" they see slower growth for the coming model. irony ordered one southeast they they have one order. lauren: apple shares up almost 1% this morning. not bad. lululemon under attack for selling pants by fake and feel. also quietly raising the prices of some of the pants. lululemon telling businesses some price increase comes than decrease in more than half stay the same. customers noticed the higher prices when the cropped pants or the shorter kind of from $72 to

$88 other pants are now $98 printed is more money. lululemon was hurt by large recall of the see-through yoga pants about two years ago. earlier this summer, lululemon had to recall more than 300,000 tops because they had drawstrings every dangerous and i could >> you in the face. nicole: it's not a good thing. lauren: one woman was done in the price increase of 20%. she said my wages are growing at 20%, inflation is it's not going up 20%. but i will say i love my lululemon pants despite what they cost. this was not a good move. an employee at an arby's restaurant in pembroke pines, florida refused to serve a police officer when he pulled up to the drive-through speaker. the police chief called the incident unacceptable and the

department treated about it as well. within two well. within two hours later the arby's ceo and senior vp of operations that apologize to the chief. rb spokesman did say the company would be following through with disciplinary action for the employee up to and including termination. this is a very serious incident. lauren: coming up, a top aide heading to capitol hill to answer questions on the u.s. embassy in benghazi. but in a mouse released by the state department this week could be key. also drawing fire from gop presidential candidates. >> there is no doubt she purposely put a server in her basement to shield communications. no doubt there has been a cover-up. lauren: we will have the latest in the e-mail scandal including by one aide pleads the fifth. dog tribe fifth. donald sade with gop leaders in planning a news conference. the republican party cannot read

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nicole: breaking news this morning. a former top aide for the clinton heads to capitol hill to answer questions about the attack in benghazi libya. we will have those details for you. i am nicole petallides. lauren: i am transfixed. the chinese markets were closed today. calm returns to global trading as global market in rally mode for the moment. we'll show you the u.s. futures. a pairs across the board.

the dow 71 points, s&p seven and three quarters in the nasdaq by 19 points thursday morning. nicole: the shanghai composite index markets are closed. other markets posting gains of the saw japan's nikkei up half of a percent. costs beginning fractionally. lauren: europe looking really good. meeting later this morning. you can see it up 1.5% the same in paris in the german dax up 1.7% this morning. nicole: we have watched oil go back and forth. right now down for a barrel of gold down $4. lauren: the dollar strengthened against major currencies around the world. you do see a little bit of strength in the year and again this morning. nicole: let's check the tranmere

treasury yield. watch this for everything. 2.18% at the moment appeared welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at what is moving in today's markets, latest breaking news, what to expect that there had. lauren: breaking news this morning. former hillary clinton chief of staff cheryl mills both the question why the house benghazi committee today. meanwhile, a former aide to clinton plans to invoke his fifth amendment right not to testify before the committee. brent paglia know how to set up her e-mail server back in 2009. the house committee subpoenaed him for the investigation on the obama administration response to the attack that includes clinton's use of a private e-mail server. republican presidential candidate carly fiorina weighed in on the issue. >> there is no doubt there has been a cover-up. there is no doubt she's been exchanging classified information over her personal device. there is no doubt there is stuff

in those thousands of deleted e-mails she didn't want us to see. >> in the meantime, jake sullivan helped lay the groundwork for the red nuclear deal and serves as foreign policy adviser in the clinton campaign will be interviewed by the committee on friday. nicole: republican presidential front runner donald trump will hold a news conference this afternoon as he plans to meet with the chairman of the republican national committee today. the rnc has been asking candidates to pledge they would not run as an independent candidate. meanwhile, gop contenders senator ted cruz speaking about a plan to enter the range of rally together. he was on your world with neil cavuto yesterday. >> the reason i invited donald trump is when donald shows up, he brings with him an army of television cameras.

the mainstream media will show up and i think there is no important issues right now than stopping iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. nicole: getting the coverage they need for the issues they want. the rally is scheduled next wednesday at the capitol. lauren: president obama has secured enough votes to protect his iran nuclear deal in congress. democratic senator barbara mikulski given the president the 34th vote required to sustain his promised veto should congress pass a disapproval resolution. senator rand paul telling us last night about how he thinks the president got the votes he needed. >> it is more party loyalty than anything else. i think he is god and the people who will vote with the president because of party loyalty regardless of the fact. lauren: republicans pledging to

keep it despite sanctions on tehran. nicole: shanghai and hong kong closed for a parade in the 70th anniversary for the end of world war ii. let's get a closer look at the asian markets. we bring in business reporter tracey chang y from beijing. tracey is a reporter for chinese state television. good morning to you. reporter: good morning, ladies. i may say with a military parade. after months of intense preparation, the final day. everyone was glued to the tv watching the parade route 12,000 troops and they were on display as well as tanks and missiles in tiananmen square, one of the most historic landmarks as president xi jinping gave a speech in peace will prevail several times during his speech that seemed to be the key message. he surprisingly announced a reduction of china's military force by 300,000 seen as he wants to send a message to the world that no matter how powerful it becomes it is not

too i'm training to become hegemony. that being said, chen has the world's biggest military force in a non-2.3 million strong and the military spending has the second next to the united states about 130 billion u.s. dollars. the shanghai and hong kong closed for the military parade and celebration. the japanese markets were a band and it a four-day losing streak dating half of a percent and also bargain-hunting and the south korean market a lot earlier. some of the games were paired throughout the day come, eventually ending slightly above the alliance. back to you. lauren: thank you pretty in-depth report. the parade as well. obviously they were trying to crop up sentiment in china. in the u.s. investors around the world focus on more data on the

health of the job arche. this of course leads us to the big monthly jobs report due out tomorrow morning. it starts today at 7:30 eastern on corporate layoffs that comes from grand christmas. an hour after that, weekly jobless canyons expected to come in at 275,000. a slight increase from the prior week and all of this sets the stage for august payrolls. 220,000 jobs added last month. the unemployment rate expected to dip to 5.2%. hopefully for the right reasons. we will find out more tomorrow morning. nicole: this is the last key report further for the fact meeting. what will the fed do or not do. lauren: we talked about the shanghai and hong kong closed, but we did see japan stocks. we're looking at me can cause

the gainers. >> in europe, lots of green with the ftse up 1.5% of the cac up 1.4%. nicole: u.s. stock index futures this morning point to a higher roping. the s&p down 2%, exactly 2% this week or this morning we see it up so does in some ground. lauren: the shoyu commodities. oil and cold this morning. gold traded to the downside. oil has been a crazy market moving story of me. forty-six dollars per barrel. now falling about $3.5. nicole: abuse in the year in japanese stronger against the dollar with the u.k. pound and mexican peso weaker against the greenback. >> up 2.18% this morning. >> coming up they look at sports with all eyes on the williams sisters as they advance in the u.s. open. serena williams looking to make history of course after weeks of

wild markets, it looks like it could be smooth sailing for this moment. you've got to stick with us to watch the markets. lauren: and get on that boat. beautiful. ♪

lauren: lets say you cut out the nearest futures at the dataset 56 points this early fashion. the s&p up six, nasdaq 14. nicole: i just want you to know, lauren, i heard tanf. turning now to sports, the u.s. opening but the williams sisters

both trying to win the first grand slam and tennis in more than a quarter of a century. she appeared a bit nervous in her match, the serena had 10 double faults. two dozen other errors. she got it together. she is a closer and she wanted like she always does lately. her sister, venus, defeated to advance to the third round. it is the 17th u.s. open for venus. on the men's side, no back you up a batch took on austria and the match ended shortly before midnight. he celebrated on court with towel dancing, cuddle the crazy at the u.s. open. we will turn to baseball. coming off of an embarrassing loss to the phillies committed new york mets rebounded last night. drove in four runs and hit

inside the park home run. it looks like a single until dominic rod fell and rounded the bases. in case you missed it, here it is. i heart canada. they are u.s.a. and its a long way. lauren: we also heard maria molina. as you head out the door, looks good a look at your thursday forecast. fox meteorologist maria molina has a rest. reporter: good morning. i bet people love him or if i give them a beautiful day across the nation every day. temperatures climbing again above average and still feeling steamy. temperatures well into the 70s. 80s for some of you as we head into this afternoon, temperatures into the 90s as far north as rapid city and parts of these closed including new york city and the city of raleigh.

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nicole: and has been a rough ride or we are seeing green arrows. the ftse, cac dax and a gain of 1.5%. turning to u.s. stock index futures. the data looking up about 67 points. the s&p seven and the nasdaq higher. all of this history for the jobs report tomorrow and the ecb meeting as well. now it is time for maria bartiromo and "mornings with maria." maria: thanks so much. hi, everybody. i maria bartiromo. it is thursday, september 3rd. with me this hour, dagen mcdowell and tnt asset management bill stone. your top stories right now pointing to another day of gain

for wall street stocks. take a look. expecting a double-digit move to the upside about 60 points. nasdaq, s&p 500 firm or this morning. the weekly reading on jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. eastern needs up to tomorrow's monthly jobs report with the expectations call for 220,000 jobs added to the economy over the next month. market higher ahead of the european central bank decision. the ecb meeting this morning and we will hear from president mario draw people of your questions on the ripple effect from china. the imf warned of a slowdown could threaten europe's outlook and outlook's on the entire global economy. nonetheless, markets higher right now. in asia, for mr. as well. nikkei average in japan at about half of 1%. more trouble brewing for hillary clinton.

two of her top aides are set to testify today before the house panel investigated the 2012 benghazi attack. the worker who helped set up a private e-mail server says he will plead the fifth. committee members returned early to participate in the closed-door hearing. we will bring it to you. pressure mounting on donald trump to pledge to run as a republican. the gop is serving a loyalty pledge to ensure trump does not attempt a third-party run. trump all made with rnc chairman race previous to then hold a news conference at 2:00 p.m. eastern. more on that coming up. bias continues to build for "star wars." the first choice from the movie and got yesterday taking off an 18 hour live streaming event on youtube showing and opening up boxes and looking at toys. it starts in the u.s. at 8:30 a.m. eastern right here in new york city. a quick check on the markets looking at a pretty good opening