lauren: breaking news this morning. two olympic -- the athlete story that direct at gunpoint. another olympian says they too were held at gunpoint early this morning. all of the breaking details. good morning. i am lauren simonetti. train to im nicole petallides. a $400 million payment to iran until after the hostages were released. throughout the story. lauren: swiftly and viciously. donald trump will take out ice

is at least the next president. the nominees claiming hillary clinton and president obama for creating the terror group at a town hall last night. nicole: asian markets hang on hang seng gained 1% while japan nikkei holds back. lauren: u.s. stockmarket futures trade ahead of the opening bell. nothing features down to. nicole: let's take a look at oil at 4697. the gain of 18 cents right now. lauren: the american women hauled in the medals yesterday. they left the 100-meter hurdles making history. all the olympic highlights. nicole: 5:01 a.m. in new york. there'sa, august 18th. we welcome you to "fbn:am," the first look at today's markets, the latest breaking is similar to that but they had. trendy to americans to mistake an active thing to the u.s. in question and radio.

they are not allowed to the brazil until the as testimony to investigators there. after being questioned they leave the airport and went to an undisclosed location. the committee will continue to speak to local authorities, teammates ryan lochte and another summer filed a police report saying for four summers were held up at gunpoint early sunday. brazilian officials are skeptical about lochte's account of what happened. this morning, a report that a member of the track and field team is also robbed at gunpoint. fortunately not her. lauren: a shocking new report from "the wall street journal" about details of the $400 million payment to iran earlier this year. president obama and officials have said that payment did not amount to grant them because the u.s. owes money to iran for failed arms to remain in 79. the journal report says iranians were not allowed to take control

of a good money until a swiss air force plan. three freed americans departed from tehran january 17th farmer hostage told around trish regan earlier this month. >> you're going to be there for 20 minutes, but it took hours and hours. when i asked them why you don't let us go because the plane was fair, pilot was there. they said we are waiting for another plane until the plane doesn't come. we never let them go. lauren: there are reports that he will detain an american man accusing him of fact and against the national security interest. rabin shaking he has allegedly participated in the revolution of two dozen men the government. he suspected of collaborating a tv interview at the u.s. state department.

she and he was a resident of san dio for 16 years before he disappeared in june after traveling to iran to visit his sick father. tree into a race to the white house and donald trump criticizing the obama administration's foreign policy at wisconsin town hall event hosted by sean hannity last night. >> we are not taking it to them that we have to take it to them. not too many people cared what i want to do. that was a terrible mess date getting out the way we got out. president obama, hillary clinton was absolutely insane. it will be talked about for many, many years and it led to the formation of isis. >> donald trump received the very first national security briefing at an fbi office yesterday. the charm campaign says chris christie and retired army lieutenant michael flynn also attended that briefing. lauren: the claim foundation

hired the security firm to axiomatic status system. officials say some indications that might've been hacked. at a rally in cleveland, ohio, hillary clinton and donald trump in a tax or postal. >> in the estate tax he wants to eliminate altogether. if you believe donald trump is as wealthy as he claims, we can't say that for sure, but let's assume it, he would by eliminating the estate tax if the trump family $4 billion do absolutely nothing for 99.8% of all americans. lauren: clinton's plan would increase the estate tax. look at this picture right here. hillary clinton meeting with paul mccartney yesterday at quicken loans arena in cleveland

ahead of the concert. the campaign says the two talked about personal issues like the 2016 campaign, their families, the olympics. nicole: vice presidential nominee to obtain facing questions on something he said about bill clinton back in 2002. he reportedly said he felt president clinton should have resigned following the monica lewinsky scandal. in an interview yesterday, king said it was a feeling i had a guitar right but now i'm thinking about what to reduce health this country be strong. past controversies don't have anything to do with that question. lauren: turning to the devastating weather. the flooding fire from over. more torrential rain today. the painful news that the death toll climbs to 13. floodwaters have damaged 40,000 homes which could lead to the biggest housing crisis since hurricane katrina.

many victims are in shelters are staying with friends and family. governor john g-golf edwards says it is a big job. >> we have thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of homes that have been damaged. schools that cannot open them. we have an awful lot of work to do. lauren: fema will look into signing up rental properties for those left homeless and consider temporary housing. nicole: wildfires in southern california covering an estimated 25,000 acres. the flames are threatening the town in san bernardino but it already said that only half of the community 4500 residents have complied with the evacuation orders. one resident said he has a very close call. >> where the middle of the yard of the ivory coast right the host right now. if winstone came. they flew like 25, 30 feet in

the air, across the yard, knocked me out. my legs were on fire. nicole: officials estimate more than 34,000 homes and 82,000 people were under evacuation warnings. the fire chief of san bernardino county said a lot of families will come home to nothing. train to the fire is only 4% contained. questions raised about security at the national security agency after an outage at its website claimed to have obtained the most powerful hacking tools at "politico" says the nsa website went down late monday not restored again until tuesday. a request by fox news for a comment on this or he has not yet been asked there. nicole: global market action overnight in asia in particular. some disappointing numbers cited japan for trade experts in particular. the weakest since 2009. the nikkei job 1.5%.

the shanghai composite down two tenths of 1%. korea's kospi attacked a percent and the hong kong hang seng up 1%. lauren: european stocks are trading. the first in london gaining 19 points. the cac and frances gaining 16-point. a number of an employment that had a four year. the dxf 54-point this morning. nicole: the day after we got our fed minutes, a dovish tone back and forth. 12 days in a row for the dow. yesterday we were up, said today we will be down. dean thomas is 12 days in a row. dow futures at 13, s&p futures up one. nasdaq unchanged. transfer the department of energy says there's a child and without crude goes up. today $47 even a six days in a row for than 12% in the past six sessions. go to for dollars. nicole: brent crude $15 a

barrel. 5500 jobs about 7% of the workforce comes as the world's largest amount working gear shifts focus from its hardware terse higher-margin software. other major technology firms recently laid off thousands of workers while overhauling their product line. microsoft/8000 jobs. here's a look. intel 12,000 hewlett-packard 30,000. lauren: switzerland-based company nestlé but it's report out today and it's not good. nestlé reported the first sales growth since 2009 at the world's biggest food companies struggle to raise prices. revenue came in below dictations. ¢-cent-sign to comment surging to record highs as the korean company decides local postmark on demand. they have fielded 30% rally this

year. closing 5% higher today hitting a lifetime high. nicole: on our list of stocks to watch, wal-mart out with earnings before the opening bell. so far one of the top five performing with earnings of 1 dollar to a share down from $1.8 a share. wal-mart by and chat.com to help compete with e-commerce rivals such as amazon. cap is that with first-quarter earnings after the bell and could follow the into the weakness in retail. already announced a drop in revenue at stores open for at least a year for the month of july. sales have been weaker overall. for analysis, the maker of spam reports earnings before the bell. reported earnings growth for most quarters in the past couple years. that is expected to continue to

report earnings of 35 cents a share. nicole: ford is the latest car company to announce it dedication to autonomous cars. automakers flocking to mexico for cheaper labor. we will have the details. in brio, american women held in medals yesterday by three women from team u.s.a. with gold, silver and bronze. we will have all of the olympic highlights. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. ♪

nicole: thursday morning. 5:15 a.m. in new york. if you caught up on what's happening now. two u.s. swimmers taken off the plane to the united states in question last night in rio. officials in brazil investigate claims by swimmer brian lochte said he and three other summers were robbed at gunpoint early sunday. authorities in brazil have doubts about the entire story. we will investigate. a report in "the wall street journal" says $409 sent to iran in january was not given to every man's until detained americans were released. president obama and u.s. officials insist the money was

not grandson. and a hannity town hall last night, donald trump said he was swiftly and fishes they take out isis if he's the next president and he slammed hillary clinton and president obama for creating a terror group. check out u.s. stock market futures. the fifth highest close of the year. we've gone back 12 days in a row, yesterday been higher. dow futures at 10, s&p futures up one, nasdaq futures down one. lauren: a look at the headline in today's edition of "the wall street journal." welcome to the new casino. trading of physical cattle has declined to the point that futures market can't get the signals that needs to set prices. the "chicago tribune" sources say they have privately sweetened bid hoping to overcome resistance to a sale from the parent of the "chicago tribune" and los angeles times.

target has private bathrooms took while the transgender debate. target will spend $20 million to add a bathroom to reach of its stores by next year after customer protest the policy allowing transgender individuals to use whichever restroom corresponds to the gender that they identify with. their sales in the quarter fell. ford says it's beating says it's speeding up and still fully driverless cars on the resident type theories. the question is where will the cars they built. both richmond and patiently for south of the border? jeff fox has details. nicole: bahram anna: i can shoot from the oldest operating assembly plant in chicago. a place like this in the u.s., the estimate pays about $60 an hour in wages and benefits for employees. the new plant down in mexico they think will be closer to $8. not so fast.

take a look at these numbers. the wage increases in mexico since the year 2000 of 128%. that is the trend. the last 10 years as set out. wage growth in mexico compared to the u.s. several in mexico what it is in the u.s. admittedly, wages in mexico still far lower. they pale in comparison to the u.s. we are starting to see companies in mexico have difficulty attracting enough workers and keeping them on the job because wages are going up. they get protest about low wages and are forced to increase. the savings may not be there. economists say they think when it comes down to it in the future companies will have trouble attracting enough mexican workers to populate the plants down there. various auto companies planning to invest $15 billion in new auto plants in mexico either new

or expansion of current plants. maybe when it comes down to that wall, maybe you don't need to build it after all. the labor situation balances out both sides of the border. if you build a wall, post in doors and it's a mexican immigrants can get back to mexico where they might find a better job. nicole, back to you. nicole: at the latest on that latest on the two olympic summers been held in rio after a judge raises new questions after the athlete story that they were robbed at gunpoint. in louisiana, devastating flooding is far from over as far over as large range of rains are expected today. details there. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news.

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nicole: welcome back to look at the latest in the world of sports. american women swept the 100-meter hurdle and started up fast, never look back. the three were thrilled to find out they have the first olympic podium in the women's sprint hurdles. deanna barletta at the united is took home the gold in the women's long jump. gold in the long jump is a nice consolation prize.

the beach volleyball bronze medal came back after losing the first set copacabana. less than 24 hours after they lost the first time in 27 matches. you same boat on track with the fastest time of the year. now one win away from the gate: the gold medal. both was challenged at the end but let him know he would not be beaten. there you go. the u.s. continues to lead in the medal count. 93 for the "usa today" ahead of china with 54. great britain with 50. before you head out the door, do they need to pack an umbrella on the east coast? fox meteorologist maria molina joining us.

reporter: you may be the umbrella across portions of discussed because we have a boundary lingering across portions of the mid-atlantic and you can see we've been dealing with showers across portions of virginia. i want to take you towards the west end ave. we then talking about how much flooding has been going on there. it continues to theories of rain that will continue. the accumulation will stay on the lower side for now. heavier rainfall totals shifting person or across parts of arkansas in the upper midwest. we are anticipating several inches of rainfall. further north across minnesota, parts of dakota have a risk for severe weather today and some of the storms have a tornado thread will be watching closely. our wes would've multiple wildfires tracking in the fire danger remains elevated for today with red flag warning for an weather watches in effect. let's head over to you.

trying to make donald attempting to get kids moving. that's backfired. the company says it's no longer going to distribute this type trackers and happiness after reports of skin irritation that may be associated with these bands. the fitness bands were part of the donald's campaign to get the kids more active. we like that. the wristbands contain led lights that light up with movement that is a great idea but not if it's irritating. lauren: before old boys mom posted the been burned his skin. a $400 million payment until the moment hostages were released but the transfer with no brain said. throughout the story. swiftly ambitiously, that is how donald trump plans to take out isis if he's the next president. >> rate out there fighting a

politically correct war. you go when you've got to get them out. how long would it take? they are telling me they could do the job very, very rapidly. lauren: the latest in the campaign trail. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. if legalzoom has your back.s, over the last 10 years we've helped one million business owners get started. visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. legalzoom. legal help is here.

nicole: breaking news held in rio. two olympic summers pulled off their flight to the united states after a judge raises questions over the athlete story that they were robbed at gunpoint. the olympian size earlier this week. other braking details for you. good morning. i am nicole petallides. lauren: good morning. i'm the insanity. 400 alien payment to iran until after hostages have been released. donald trump will take out isis

if he's the next president. the gop nominee creating the terror group had a candidate town hall last night. lauren: asian markets mix today. the hang seng in hong kong up 1%. nicole: u.s. stock market futures ahead of the opening bell relatively flat. after gaining 20 yesterday s&p futures are flat. oil powering ahead at six days in a row. $47.1 a barrel. nicole: the women polled in the meadows yesterday. we will have all your olympic highlights for you. thursday, atheist 18th. one more allowed clock till the weekend. welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. nicole: who's counting alarm clocks?

get to work. two american swimmers are taking off their plane to the united states in question last night in rio. they were not allowed to leave brazil until they provide testimony to the investigators about a reported robbery. they will continue to speak to the local authorities and another summer filed a police report paying for summers were held at gun point early sunday. the brazilian officials are skeptical about the account of what happened. lochte is back in the united states. meanwhile, a report that a member of great britain track and field team was also robbed at gunpoint. the details of the $400 million a minute earlier this year. other u.s. officials did not amount to rent them because they have money to iran for a felt

and still from 1870. the journal report says iranians were not allowed to take control until a swiss air force plane carries the americans departed from tehran in january said tank.er detainee told trish regn a similar story this month. >> they told us you're going to be there for 20 minutes but it took hours and hours. everyone was ready. until the plane doesn't, never letting go. lauren -- nicole: the detainee acting against the country's national security interest. robyn she is coming under the government's watch participating in the 2009 revolution.

the interview with the voice of america. a resident before he disappeared in june after traveling to iran to visit his sick mother. lauren: donald trump strongly criticizing the above that mr. chin scoring policy hosted by fox news sean hannity last night. >> we are not taken it to them. we did want to go into iraq. that was a terrible mistake. number two is getting out the way we cut out. the way they got out was absolutely insane. it will be talked about for many years and that led to the formation of isis. lauren: traub perceived his briefing at an fbi office yesterday. be choosy governor crist christie and michael flynn

attended the briefing. nicole: officials say there were some indications that this is sad they have been hacked. meanwhile at a rally in cleveland ohio hillary clinton slamming trump's tax proposal. >> and then the estate tax he wants to eliminate altogether. if you believe donald trump is as wealthy as he claims, we can't say that for sure, but let's assume it. he would say that trump family of $4 billion do absolutely nothing for 99.8% of all americans. nicole: clinton's plan would increase the estate tax to 45%. take a look at this picture. the democratic nominee that with

paul mccartney yesterday. ahead of this concert the clinton campaign said they talked about the 2016 campaign. lauren: tim kaine facing questions about something you said about bill clinton in 2002. he felt he should have resigned following the monica lewinsky scandal. they came clarified. it was the feeling i had at the time but now i'm thinking what do we do to help this country be strong. past controversies don't have anything to do with that question. nicole: and louisiana but the flood is far from over his more torrential rains are day-to-day. the death toll climbs to 13. floodwaters have damaged an estimated 40,000 homes which could lead and governor edwards says it's going to be a big job.

they have been damaged. schools cannot open. we have a lot of work to do. lauren: southern california with an estimated 25,000 acres. half of the residents had implied that the evacuation orders have one of those presidents have a very close call. >> we are in the yard right now and they started blowing up then they came. they flew in the air almost knocks me out.

lauren: about 82,000 people were under evacuation warnings. the fire chief of sin or to dino county said a lot of families are going to come home to nothing. nicole: more than 500 people in seven pets rescued from a smoldering ferry ship that caught fire just of puerto rico. the coast guard and local police rescued the passengers and the crew from the vessel yesterday how fire about two miles just on san juan. two dozen passengers were treated at local hospitals for smoke inhalation and four suffered broken bones. lauren: little league teams i'm not very. everyone will be okay. a nation at the mixed bag here. shanghai composite in china down two tenths of 1%. then he can japan falling 1.5%. an expert number for july. the most in seven years to the hang seng in hong kong up 1%. trained to take a look at what's going on in europe.

retail sales better than good. also in france. unemployment was good news in the job son. checking out what's going on. london ftse two tenths of 1%. cac also with two tenths of 1% and the german dax up half a percent. lauren: about it back and forth trading. dow futures higher by two points. s&p futures down not even a point. nasdaq futures losing four points. nicole: it's been searching over the last week or so. we saw brent crude is $50. oil up 25 cents right now 4704-barrel as gold gained up about $5.5 at your team could be for a troy ounce. lauren: cisco systems cutting 5500 jobs. this comes as the world's largest networking maker shifts focus from hardware towards higher-margin software.

other major technology companies thousands and thousands of workers while they try to overhaul the product line. hewlett-packard 30,000 jobs. nicole: switzerland posting its latest report. they reported this lowest first-half sales growth since 2009 as the biggest food company struggled to raise prices. the no-space. researchers record i stayed to fight global event. it has fueled a 30% rally this year and up almost 5% to a new lifetime high. lauren: more stuff to watch today. wal-mart did a retail company with earnings before the opening

bell today. so far wal-mart is one of the top five performing stocks. looking for earnings down from last year. they are by and chat.com to help lower prices and compete with e-commerce rivals such as amazon. cap is out with his first burger earnings today. already announced a drop in revenue. poor masses, the maker of duty were in spam report earnings before the bell today. they were for earnings for most of the quarter in the past couple years in the trend expected to continue up 35 cents. nicole: ford is the latest car company to develop autonomous cars. automakers once flocking to mexico for cheap labor now might be thinking twice about that. all the details for you.

n. rao, american women hauled in the medals at the olympics yesterday as three women from team u.s.a. swept a hundred meter hurdles. the gold, silver and the bronze. all the olympic highlights coming up. u.s. stock market futures game site yesterday at great dovish tone be not likely to see rate hikes right away. that gave a boost to stocks. right now doubt features unchanged. s&p futures down not even one point. nasdaq futures down for. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. ♪

lauren: 5:45 a.m. in new york. two u.s. olympic swimmers were taken off their home to the united states and questioned last night in rio. officials in brazil investigate claims by swimmer brian lochte that he and three other summers arrived at gunpoint sunday. authorities are pointing out inconsistencies in the story. "the wall street journal" says the $400 million senator braynon january was not given to the iranians until detained americans were released. president obama and u.s. officials insist the money was not rent them. a candidate town hall event last night said he will swiftly

officiously take out hillary clinton and president obama of creating the terror group. let's check in on how stocks virtues are doing. slight gain yesterday. s&p futures down not only a point. nasdaq futures and five. nicole: gains and losses between the dow. back and forth. look at the headlines in today's edition of "the wall street journal." welcome to the meat casino. they descend into chaos trading of cattle that the futures market can't get the signals that needs to get the prices. sweeping the bid for the "chicago tribune," sources say goodnight has privately sweetened its bid hoping to

overcome resistance to a sale from the parent of the "chicago tribune" and los angeles times. check it out transgender debate. target said to oppose than $20 million to have a private bathroom to each of its stores by next year. they use whichever restroom corresponds with their gender identity. ford says it's speeding up plans for fully driverless cars within five years. the road was south of the border. reporter: lauren and nicole, come to you from the oldest operating plant here in chicago. ford, the estimate is about $60 an hour in wages and benefits for employees. the new plant in mexico they think will be closer to $8.

not so fast. the wage increases in mexico since the year 2000 of 128%. the last 10 years it bears that out. wage growth in mexico compared to the u.s. dublin mexico what it is in the u.s. admittedly still wages in mexico far lower. we've seen now countries in mexico have difficulty attracting enough workers and keeping them on the job because they are getting protests about low wages. the savings may not be there. they think when it comes down to it in the future companies will have turbocharged enough mexican workers to populate the plants down here. now planning to invest

$15 billion in new plants in mexico with their newer expansion. maybe when it comes down to that wall, maybe you've don't need to build it after all. the labor situation will build a wall. the mexican immigrants can get back what they might find a better job. coming up, the latest on the olympic swimmers held in rio after a judge raises new questions over the athlete story that they were robbed at gunpoint. in louisiana, the devastating flooding far from over. we will have the details. you are watching "fbn:am" and, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. ♪

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lauren: american women swept the 100-meter hurdles at the olympics. started out fast, never looked back. the bronze to find out. the first olympic speed. look at that. or that it took home the gold in the women's long jump. defending champion britain we. the u.s. men's basketball team finally had a blowout.

tomorrow in the semifinals. the medal count here with 93. 30 of them being gold. the blue jays last night seven to four. the decision to become the first 17 game winner. cc sabatier became the first in yankees history to strike out at least 12 at least 12 in the last seven earning. nicole: best buy is celebrating its anniversary by hosting a sales event and it starts tonight. the event called 50 deals for 50 hours set to begin at 11:00 p.m. eastern time and it offers huge discounts on various projects. some of them being a 1 dollar iphone success with a two-year contract. 150 select macbook pro computers at $400 up to 65-inch samsung

television. the sales prices are valid while this applies nice. you better act quickly. lauren: w-whiskey you caught up in global market. an asian stocks ended a mix. the shanghai down two tenths of 1%. the nikkei down 1.5%. the yen strong today. exports in july but the most in seven years. not good news. cost being south korean again half a percent. nicole: let's take a look at europe. all of paris today. one and 5110th of 1%. cac up one 10th of 1% better in employment numbers there. german dax up half of 1%. lauren: dow futures down two points. s&p futures down .75 and nasdaq futures give up 4.5. the drive down was unexpected

but the boost oil or the fifth da a 12%. of 27 cents. gold up $5.5. lauren: the u.k. pound, canadian dollar in the mexican peso versus the yen. not likely to raise rates in september. yields 1.55%. coming up, we were handed over to "mornings with maria." you are watching "fbn:am" and, your first look at morning markets and breaking news. ♪

nicole: with thank you for watching "fbn:am." lauren: we sure will. maria bartiromo will take you to the next couple of hours. >> happy thursday. good morning, everybody. thursday, august 18th. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast that

a shakeup in the trunk campaign not telling the republican nominee down. trump trades with hillary clinton on the campaign trail. >> she is so protected. they are so in her. i mean, how she got away with a mouse is beyond anything i've ever seen. >> donald trump has shown us who he is. he can hire and fire anyone he wants from his campaign, but he is still the same man, it demeans women, mocks people with disabilities and thinks he knows more about isis that are general. maria: u.s. olympians off a flight after a judge raises new questions over the athlete stories as they were robbed at gunpoint in rio. this communist u.k. athlete claims they were held at gunpoint and robbed