lauren: breaking news this morning. big day in the nation's capitol. pope francis addresses the u.s. congress in just a few hours. on the agenda, climate change and. good morning, i'm nicole petallides. neil: i'm lauren simonetti. >> after wild swings last few days, markets are subtude at least for now. they were higher by three, four handles. s&p up just over one. dow looking up by nine.

>> investors focus on key speech from fed chair janet yellen. the first since the controversial decision to hold off on interest rate hike. >> in politics, a new fox poll, shows unannounced candidate joe biden doubling his support. we'll have all the results. welcome to "fbn:am," everybody. first look at what is moving in today's markets, latest breaking news, what to expect for the day ahead. >> let's kick things off with breaking news this morning. at least 220 pilgrims killed in a stampede outside of the muslim holy city of mecca in saudi arabia. you're looking at pictures of that from earlier. two million people are recall pardon ming the performing the annual haj pilgrimage. they are having medical teams helping out but tragic news on a holy day.

>> in asia let's look at the stocks. abe will be speak around 5:00 p.m. shanghai, kospi up. nikkei pulling back down 2.7%. >> opening for first day in the japan. the market has been closed five days. a long weekend for them. this is how stocks are trading. up arrows just fractionally. i do want to point out two solid pieces of news from europe. french manufacturing confidence at four-year high. berman business -- german business climate improving. >> came on good numbers yesterday. that is good news for those countries. u.s. stock futures right now we see dow futures up 17, s&p up two, nasdaq up four and there's also up .1 of 1%. >> major action in the commodity space yesterday.

they were up, they were down. crude oil to the upside almost 1%, almost $45 a barrel. gold trading higher as well. >> we're watching currency action after we were watching nuri cutting rates by.1 of a percent. euro is stronger against the dollar as is the pound and the yen. >> all right. yield on 10-year treasury, 2.15%. >> lauren, of course everybody knows pope francis set to address a joint meeting of congress this morning, becoming the first pope to do so. he is expected to speak about immigration and also climate change. while visiting the white house yesterday the pontiff also talked about the issues. >> climate change is a problem we can no longer be left to a future generation. [applause] >> such a beautiful ceremony

yesterday and in the first cannonnization on u.s. soil, pope francis evaluated elevated to st. hood and 18th century missionary who brought catholicism to the american west coast. today the pope plans to have lunch with homeless people and visit the oldest catholic parish in washington d.c. then he will travel to new york city, visit st. patrick's cathedral this evening. >> all right. a day after the pope's visit white house hosting another major event. china's president xi jinping will meet with president obama for a private dinner. the two leaders expected to talk about north korea as well as global issues. president xi will meet with american business leaders. apple ceo tim cook, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg, they met in seattle, washington, yesterday, talking about stronger intellectual property in china. xi promised to cut restrictions

on foreign investment. meantime boeing announced that china will buy 300 boeing aircraft for $38 billion, and build first aircraft completion plant in that country. >> president xi's visit to washington, d.c. comes as the office personnel management reports hackers stole much more sensitive information from its servers than was originally believed. the agency now says an estimated 5.6 million fingerprint records were stolen, not just 1.1 million as first thought. china is widely suspected of being behind that cyberattack. 10 shun there. the white house is still cautious. >> i don't have additional details about, about who or what entity may have been responsible for this particular cyber breach. this continues to be under investigation by authorities. i don't have any conclusions to

share publicly about who may or may not have been responsible. >> meanwhile white house firms say president obama is planning to discuss cybersecurity with the chinese leader during his visit of course. >> "fox news poll" is out. donald trump and ben carson are the favorites in the republican race for the white house. trump stays on top, 26%, followed by carson at 18%. carly fiorina and marco rubio are next. they're tied at 9%. everybody in that group went up from the august debate here on fox. while campaigning in south carolina, fiorina trying to build on her postdebate momentum with a slam at trump. >> leadership is not about how big your office is, how big your title is, how big your airplane or your helicopter or your ego is. >> on democratic slide hillary clinton sits atop at 44%. vice president joe biden still

considering a run, gets a record high 18% a month ago he was only 10%. look at that looks like folks want someone other than hillary. >> we said joe biden getting more money. walker stepping down encouraging some other republican candidates to do so so they can get rid of the frontrunner,aka, donald trump. new developments in the clinton email scandal. senator chuck grassley for independent review of deleted messages. fbi is reportedly recovering from hillary clinton's private server. senator grassley wants to examine emails to see if clinton deleted any connected to her government work. that the justice department is keeping them in the dark whether a criminal investigation is underway into clinton's use of private emails. >> fed chair janet yellen speaking tonight in massachusetts on inflation. some are considering this her do-over chance to indicate if

interest rates will rise this year or next but yellen will not be taking any questions tonight. really up to her whether to give hints on liftoff will happen. there will be two remaining fed meetings this year, nicole. >> and the truth is that they don't even need a meeting to raise rates. if they do it in october they can just get a meeting afterwards. maria bartiromo had a great guest on who told her exactly that. bill gross, bond fund manager, looking at him, janus capital, has strong advice for the fed in fact and he says the central bank should quote, get off zero and get off quick. gross says zero interest rates are hurting real economy and destroying company balance sheets and pension funds. that the fed kept benchmark interest rate close to zero since late 2008. gross saying it is time. >> we have to focus on savings for those about to retire. volkswagen ceo martin winterkorn is out, resigning in the wake of diesel emission scandal potentially impacting

11 million cars. volkswagen pledging to prosecute those involved in the scheme. lots of questions remain. at the top of the list, how to keep the company from financial ruin and restore its reputation. that is the task of vw's next ceo. some names being tossed around to replace winterkorn, executives at portia and bmw. volkswagen has not said who was behind the scandal. >> the stock was up yesterday. coming up, in the first game since yogi berra died the new york yankees paid tribute with special number eight on their uniforms. we will have those highlights. minnesota strike kings tell their mascot to take a hike, mascot. we'll tell you why. checking u.s. stock index futures here. let's take a look. dow futures up three. lost the momentum. s&p almost flat. nasdaq flat. "fbn:am", morning markets and breakings news.

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lauren: let's get you caught up on global markets. we'll start in asia. stocks closing mixed. shanghai up .9%. hang seng down 1%. nikkei opening after a long holiday. kospi up fractionally. nicole: we'll look at european stock trading action. ftse, cac and dax all with down arrows. the cac and dax each down one quarter of 1% as we await economic numbers at home. lauren: looks like europe just turned lower. u.s. stock futures shaping up lower. dow down nine points. you have fractional declines .1 of a percent for the s&p and nasdaq. nicole: check out commodities. you're seeing a little it about strength. oil is up 1%. gold gaining 3.70 at 1135 a troy

ounce. lauren: show you currency board. you see how the dollar is trading. strength in the euro, pound and japanese yen at moment. nicole: looking at 10 year yield, 2.15% ahead of janet yellen speaking today. lauren: all right. if you ever wondered what derek jeter is up to today, investing, which is one of his favorite activities. he signed latest investment with blue jeans network. that is interactive videoconferencing company that streams events to worldwide audiences. jeter joined with silicon valley investors with 76 million-dollar funding round. nicole: that will keep him busy. the first game since yogi berra died the new york yankees honored him with a special lineup card and also by wearing a special number eight on their uniforms. the bluejays beat the yankees 4-0 in a game the yankees had to win. the loss pushed them 3 1/2 games behind the jays for the race for the first place spot in the al

east. los angeles angels picked up ground in playoff race. david frese hid a two-run double to help the angels rally for 6-5 win over the astros. los angeles took two of three in the series and 1 1/2 games behind houston for that wildcard spot. minnesota vikings, the fans are upset their beloved vikings mascot has been sacked. what? the mascot's name is ragnar. he has been a fixture at vikings games for 21 years. the man behind the viking joe jury a niche, wants a big raise. he reportedly wanted $20,000 a game. that is 1500, that is a huge pay raise. the vice kings were not will be toking plundered by ragnar. the team says, you're out, ragnar. change.org petition to get him

back, lauren, has more than 11,000 signatures so far. don't cut ragnar out because the viking may not be done yet. lauren: call you out what you said on the break. would you let him sleep in your hoist. nicole: would you give him as a guest your bed in your home. lauren: creepy. a little wild. wouldn't let him sleep in any of my beds in my future house. in a few hours pope francis will make historic speech to congress. yesterday he hinted what he will say. >> setting urgency, it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem. nicole: we will have all of the pope's agenda for you and a busy day once again in our nation's capitol as china's president heads to washington for a working dinner with president obama. topping their agenda, cybersecurity.

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china's president xi jinping heads to washington for a working dinwer president obama. lauren: after wild swings last few days, markets have been, dare we say it, subdued at least for now. u.s. stock futures ahead of opening bell. tow is down 12 points. nasdaq is down six. nicole: investors will focus on a key speech from our fed chair janet yellen today. her first since the fed's controversial decision to hold off on interest rate hike, lauren. lauren: in politics a new "fox news poll" shows unannounced candidate joe biden doubling his support. we will have all the results for you. welcome to fbn, everybody, your first look what is moving in today's markets. latest breaking news. what to expect for your day ahead. let's get you started with a check on the global markets here in asia. we have some mixed action. the shanghai composite in china up almost a full%, nicole. nicole: when you were talking about asia, look at that, nikkei down 2.7%, lauren. i was reading here, nikkei

stocks were closed three days for a holiday but the volkswagen is weighing on the nikkei because mitsubishi -- i'm sorry mitsubishi 3%, mazda, down 7%. all automakers around the globe are being affected by this volkswagen story. bring on europe. we've seen that go into the red. ftse, cac and dax all to the downside. lauren: how is the u.s. shaping up this morning? looking a little weaker. nicole: key commodities here looking at oil which is up about 1% at 44.92. gold at 11:30 five. lauren: crazy action in commodities this week. strength in the euro, pound and japanese yen this morning. nicole: all right. let's take a look at the 10-year bond, 2.15% at the moment for the treasury. lauren: well pope francis set to address a joint meeting of congress this morning, becoming the first pope to do so. he is expected to speak about immigration and climate change while visiting the white house yesterday the pontiff also spoke

about those issues. >> climate change is a problem we can no longer be left to a future generation. [applause] lauren: in the first cannonnization on u.s. soil pope francis elevated to sainthood a 18th century missionary that brought catholicism to the american west coast. he will have lunch with homeless people and visit the oldest catholic parish in washington, d.c. he will travel to new york city and visit st. patrick's cathedral tonight. already looking prepared and very crowded. >> mayor de blasio made sure to clean up anything in the city including homeless people and litter and all that. a day of at pope's visit the white house is hosting another major event. that is china's president xi jinping will meet with president obama for a private

dinner tonight. the two leaders are expected to talk about north korea as well as global health issues. meanwhile president xi met with american business leaders including apple ceo tim cook. don't forget fake iphones traveling around china. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg in seattle yesterday. speaking about the need for stronger intellectual property protection in his country. he also promised to cut restrictions on foreign investment. meantime, boeing announcing china will buy 300 boeing aircraft for $38 billion and build the first aircraft completion plant in that country. boeing is dow component. keep eye on that. lauren: president xi's visit to washington, d.c. says the office of personnel management said hackers stole much more personal information from servers than first thought. the agency says 5.6 million fingerprint records were stolen, that is up from 1.1 million. china widely suspected being

behind the cyberattack but the white house is still cautious. >> i don't have additional details about, about who or what entity may have been responsible for this particular cyber breach. this is something that continues to be under investigation by authorities. i don't have any conclusions to share publicly about who may or may not have been responsible. lauren: this is a big deal because you can replace your password. you can't replace your fingerprint as easily. meanwhile white house officials say president obama is planning to discuss cybersecurity with the chinese leader during the rest of his visit, nicole. nicole: new "fox news poll" is out. donald trump and ben carson are the favorites in the republican race. trump stays on top with 26%. don't forget that is down from 30 and change. followed by carson at 18%. carly fiorina and marco rubio are next. they're tied at 9% each. while campaigning in south carolina fiorina trying to

build on her postdebate momentum with a slap at donald trump. >> leadership is not about how big your office is, how big your title is, how big your airplane or your helicopter or your ego is. nicole: meanwhile on the democratic side hillary clinton sits atop with support of 44%. bernie sanders holding steady at 30% and vice president joe biden who is still considering a run and getting plenty of bucks to do so, gets a record high 18%. a month ago he was just at 10%. gaining momentum. he hasn't officially announced, right? contemplates. lauren: it is unbelievable. we have new developments in the clinton e mail scandal. senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley asking for an independent review of the deleted messages the fbi is reportedly recovering from hillary clinton's private server. senator grassley wants to examine emails to see if clinton deleted any connected to her

government work. he also says the justice department is keeping him in the dark whether a criminal investigation is underway into clinton's use of her private email. nicole: turning it right now to our fed chair janet yellen, speaking tonight in massachusetts on inflation and some are considering this her do-over chance to indicate if interest rates will rise this year or next year. but yellen won't be taking any questions tonight. it is really up to her whether or not she will give us any hints about liftoff. of course her personality, jon hilsenrath who is on with us frequently basically said she likes to let people know. she doesn't like to surprise folks. maybe she will give us a glimpse whether or not she will have liftoff. lauren: she surprised a lot of people at fomc meeting though there are two remaining fed meetings this year. we'll see if the fed does it. bill gross, bond manager at janus capital. he has strong advice for the fed. the central bank should get off zero and get off quick.

that's a quote. gross said zero interest rates, hurting real economy and destroying insurance company balance sheets and pension funds. fed kept benchmark interest rate close to zero since late 2008. it has to go up at some point. nicole: we're talking about volkswagen. ceo martin winterkorn is out resigning yesterday in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal potentially impacting 11 million cars. the company pledging to prosecute those involved in this scheme but lots of remaining questions. at the top of the list is how to save the company from financial ruin and restore its reputation. that is the task of vw's next ceo. some of the names being tossed around to replace winterkorn? the heads of porsche. up a little from yesterday. lauren: down 29% from

yesterday's session. really unbelievable. let's look at your thursday forecast, we have fox meteorologist maria molina joining us. good morning. >> good morning, lauren. looks like temperatures are above average across big chunk of the nation's specially out west. we're already into the 70s across parts of the plains. across the eastern u.s. you're looking a little more fall-like. temperatures there into the 50s and 40s in parts of new england. later this afternoon, in them miss you are summer like. 90s across texas. out west we have temperatures across utah climbing close to 90 degrees. it is heating up across parts of the west. we have storm system impacting parts of the plains. you see showers and areas of heavier rain, anywhere from parts of minnesota down to the texas panhandle. concerns for flooding across parts of central plains as storms produce heavy rainfall rates. lauren, head over to you. lauren: thanks, maria. i don't know if i should wear

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lauren: u.s. stock market futures this morning looking like this. dow down 38 points. s&p down 4 and nasdaq giving up 14. looks kind of stable for now, nicole. nicole: clear your friday nights. i love this story. this is something he never heard of before. my husband and children will sign up for this because videogame tournament are coming

to prime time television. next year tbs is launching a tournament league for video game players and fans of the cable network is partnering with the prestigious talent agency wme-img, to telecast the competition five months a year. winners receive prize money but tbs has not announced how much. other recent tournaments have had prize pools as big at $18 million. lauren: wow. nicole: in the u.s., e-sports has live online viewership of 32 million. worldwide viewership is more than 200 million. lauren this is like watching poker. i think my children, they watch all these things with ply husband. they love it. new occupations, poker tournament or video games. lauren: $18 million, why not. amazon bout twitch, $970 million. that is web channel that does this sort of thing. it's a huge market. after protecting gotham city

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nicole: breaking news this morning, a big day in our nation's capitol. pope francis addresses u.s. congress in just a few hours. on the agenda, climate change and immigration policies. good morning, i'm nicole petallides. lauren: i'm lauren simonetti. china's president xi jinping, heads to washington for a working dinner with president obama. topping their agenda? cybersecurity. nicole: after wild swings last few days, markets have been somewhat subdued. not too far off unchanged. down 45 on the futures. lauren: investors focus on a key

speech that happens tonight from fed chair janet yellen, her first since the fed's controversial decision to hold off on an interest rate increase. nicole: in politics a new fox poll shows unannounced candidate joe biden doubling his support. we'll have all the results. good morning, welcome to "fbn:am," your first look what is moving in today's markets, the latest breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. lauren: we'll start with breaking news this morning. at least 220 pilgrims killed in a stampede outside of the muslim holy city of mecca in saudi arabia. the crush happened three miles from mecca. where more than 160,000 tent were set up for pilgrims. two million people are performing the annual haj pilgrimage in mecca. saudi officials say 450 others were injured in the incident. they're sending medical teams out as you can see there. this is deadliest disaster at the hajj since 2006. almost a decade. nicole: certainly a tragedy indeed.

get you caught up on global markets. nokia can is to the downside after three-day holiday, getting hit by auto stocks, mitsubishi and mazda after everything with volkswagen. shanghai composite index and kospi index squeezing out gains. lauren: the rest of europe is to the downside. dax in germ think down about 80. nicole: we're waiting on key economic numbers we're watching for durable goods and tomorrow gdp. right now dow futures down 36, s&p down four 1/2, nasdaq down 12. lauren: let's show you oil and gold. some commodity action this morning. oil is at 44.9. gold at $1134 a troy ounce. nicole: watching currencies where norway cut its rates and currencies is one of the reason. euro, u.k. pound, japanese yen to the upside against the green back. lauren: the yield on 10-year treasury still at 2.15%, sitting there all morning. nicole: we have big news, lauren. pope francis set to address a joint meeting of congress this morning becoming the very first

pope to do so. he is expected to speak about immigration. he is expected to speak about climate change. while visiting the white house yesterday the pontiff also talked about the issues. >> climate change is a problem we can no longer be left to a future generation. [applause] nicole: so enjoyed that he spoke and love that he spoke in english and i could understand it. the first cannonnization on u.s. soil, pope francis elevated to sainthood an 18thth century missionary that brought catholicism to the u.s. west coast. he plans to have lunch today with homeless people and visit the oldest catholic parish in washington, d.c. then he travels to new york city to visit st. patrick's cathedral this evening. has a busy day in philadelphia. lauren: day after the pope's visit white house is hosting

another major event. china's president xi jinping will meet with president obama for private dinner. they are expected to talk about north korea as well as global health issues. president xi met with american business leaders including apple ceo tim cook, facebook ceo, facebook banned in china. they spoke in mandarin because zuckerberg can speak mandarin now and talked about need for stronger intellectual property protection. talking about restrictions on foreign investment. you have this, boeing announcing that china will buy 300 of it is aircraft for 3billion dollars at list prices. they will build the first aircraft completion plant in china as well. nicole: zuckerberg looking good in a tie. president xi's visit to washington, d.c. as office of personnel management said hackers stole much more sensitive information from the

server than originally believed. 5.6 million fingerprint records were stolen, not 1.1 million as first thought. china is widely expected as being behind the cyberattack but the white house is still cautious. >> i don't have additional details about, about who or what entity may have been responsible for this particular cyber breach. this is something that continues to be under investigation by authorities. i don't have any conclusions to share publicly about who may or may not have been responsible. nicole: meanwhile white house officials say president obama is planning to discuss cybersecurity with the chinese leader during his visit. i'm sure that will be a tense meeting. lauren: all right. new "fox news poll" is out. here are the results. donald trump and ben carson, they're the favorites in the republican race. trump stays on top with 26% followed by carson at 18%.

in third it is a tie, carly fiorina and marco rubio, tied at 9% each. and while campaigning in south carolina fiorina trying to build on her postdebate momentum with a slap at trump. >> leadership is not about how big your office his, how big your title is, how big your airplane or your helicopter or your ego is. lauren: meanwhile on the democratic side hillary clinton sits atop with the support of 44%. she is followed by bernie sanders at 30% and vp joe biden who is still considering a run but has not announced, he gets a record high 18% of the just a month ago he was at 10%. so that's pretty unbelievable. jeb bush, by the way, he wasn't at top of that gop results. nicole: indeed. lauren: he is falling. nicole: we'll watch developments. we do have developments in the clinton email scandal. senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley asking for an independent review of the deletes messages and the fbi is

now reportedly recovering from hillary clinton's private server. and senator grassley wants to examine those emails to see if clinton dethe looed any connected to her government work. he also says that the justice department is keeping him in the dark about whether a criminal investigation is underway into clinton's use of private email. lauren: fed chair janet yellen speaking tonight in massachusetts on inflation. some are considering this her do-over attempt to indicate if interest rates rise this year or next year but yellen will not be taking any questions so it is really up to her whether she wants to give any hints when liftoff will be. there are two remaining fed meetings this year, october and december, nicole. nicole: we'll see. volkswagen ceo martin winterkorn, well, he is out, resigning yesterday in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal potentially impacting 11 million cars. the company also pledging to prosecute those involved in the scheme to basically seemed

emissions were better than they really were. lots of questions remain. at top of the list how to save the company from financial ruin and restore its reputation. that is the task of vw's next ceo. some names being tossed around winterkorn, heads of porsche and bmw. they don't say who is behind the scandal. it affects whole auto industry. lauren: the note societe generale put out was pretty telling. in the first game since yogi berra died, new york yankees paid tribute to a special number eight on their uniforms. we will have the highlights. the minnesota vikings tell their mascot to take a hike. we'll tell you why. u.s. stock index futures trading to the downside. dow futures down 30 points. nasdaq down 12 1/2. watching "fbn:am," first look at morning markets and breaking news. keep it here.

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lauren: welcome back, everybody. stock market futures looking like this morning. dow down 25 points, s&p down 3 1/2, nasdaq down 11 points. want to point out the dow still in correction mode. s&p and nasdaq are awfully close, nicole. nicole: there could be an nfl team in london in the next few years. or is that just a pipe-dream? apparently could very well be a reality. london mayor boris johnson was taking questions over twitter yesterday, one curious tweeter asked about having an nfl team in england. johnson answered that he is

working hard getting that to happen in the next few years. interesting possibility. what are they going to do when they say football, right? they think of football they think of soccer. what will they do if they have american football? >> good question. more in sports for you. the twins are just a game behind in the race for the second al wildcard spot after beating the indians 4-2 last night. brian dozer homered and escobar crack as 2-run single as the twins score four times in the fourth to beat reining cy young winner, cory clubber. in the first game since yogi berra died, the new york yankees honored him by wear having a special lineup card and wearing number eight. the bluejays beat the yankees 4-0 in a game the yankees had to win. they are 3 1/2 games behind the bluejays for the first place in the east.

new york vikings mascot has been sacked. his name is ragnar and a fixture for vikings game for 20 one years. the man behind the viking, joe jury a niche, wants being $20,000 a game up from 1500 buck as game. the strike kings are not will be to be plundered by ragnar so he is out. a petition to put him back in has more than 11,000 signatures. nicole: he has to come to some sort of agreement. he has been there 20 one years. he is beloved i'm sure. certainly has lots of energy. they have to give him a way to keep him on board. our stage manager, nat, two losses in a row to the braves. that is good news still holding the spot for new york. lauren: we will talk about global market action before we hand it over to maria bartiromo. stay with us.

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nicole: we're taking a look at mixed bag for asian stocks. shanghai and kospi to the upside while hang seng and nikkei pull back. 2.7% last for nikkei. the volkswagen story is weighing on mazda, mitsubishi. it has become a global story. european markets to the downside dax is down .6%. right here at home, u.s. stock index futures had been higher. pointing to lower open. s&p down four handles. dow down 16 as we await durable goods numbers, tomorrow, gdp numbers and janet yellen speaking later today. we'll kick off "mornings with maria," joined by sandra smith. >> nicole, thank you so much. it will be a big day for markets. good morning everyone, i'm sandra smith.

maria bartiromo has the morning off. it is thursday, september 24th. with me fox business's dagen mcdowell and ryan newton from "the wall street journal." 220 people in saudi arabia were killed in a stampede near the holy city of mecca. an estimated two million people are taking part in the traditional haj pilgrimage. the area is on the main road from the center of mecca to the hill of arafat, revered by muslims as the place where mohammed gave his farewell sermon. 220 people reported dead in a stampede in saudi arabia. another 450 have been injured. we will continue to update you on the as details become available. pope francis is set to address a joint meeting of congress this morning. the pope yesterday focuses on climate change as he addressed the crowds in our nation's capitol.

>> urgency it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem we can no longer be left to our future generation. >> chinese president xi will be in washington later today. he spent yesterday with some of the biggest corporate names on america's west coast including apple's tim cook. he also addressed the recent swings in the chinese market. >> translator: it is true that recently the chinese economy is faced with a moderation in speed and downward pressure with some ups and downs on the stock market. this is as a result of the impact of the world economy, our own proactive macro regulation and certain protracted structural problems in china. >> here is look how asian markets fared in overnight. trading. you're looking at nikkei,