well as herman cain and a reminder, tonight on the fox news channel, just a matter of moments, thanks for being with us. see you tomorro >> this is not going to be a tropical storm. this is going to be a mike tyson fight to the carolina coast. cheryl: hurricane florence is on its way. downgraded to a category to overnight, but still set to hit the coast line with heavy rain, deadly storm surge and massive flooding. lauren: in the markets we have news stocks have a muted reaction to. cheryl: looking at pictures, another great start to the day with the dow into-- dow jones 31.

lauren: in europe stocks opening higher as investors await policy decisions. cheryl: stocks in china getting a boost on hopes the us and china can resume trade shock-- stocks. lauren: apple takes the wraps off its biggest and most expensive iphones ever, but it's the watch that will be the real winner here. "fbn:am" starts right now. lauren: 5:01 a.m. in new york. it is thursday, september 13. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: i'm lauren simonetti. hurricane florence downgraded to a category two storm, but expected to bring a storm surge and rainfall to the carolinas. cheryl: more than 10 million people are under storm watch and warnings right now.

christie is live in myrtle beach, south carolina, with the latest. reporter: what we are seeing now are some palm trees behind me and it looks very serene, slick vacation, but that's the case. this area has been evacuated. officials are saying pretty much about 60% of people have evacuated. you just mentioned it's been downgraded to a category two storm which is a hundred 10 miles an hour. that still doesn't make it easier for the people that decide to stay or the infrastructure in the area. this hurricane coming up this know there and post is so wide. just the center of the storm spent about 80 miles in the kobe on that about 200 miles and that would cover this entire coast behind me. the peculiar thing is that it's moving so slowly, so when it eventually hits around the myrtle beach area we

should see huge effects saturday all the way in the sunday because the storm is slowly going to move and it's going to have strong wind and strong rain. that's the part that's concerning. we expect flash floods and about 75% of fatalities come from these flash floods and massive storm surges when the ocean where the waves rise higher income inland. what we see around the area, we landed in the airport yesterday. all the businesses in the airport, restaurants were closed because of shortage of staff and when you go into town we struggle just to find a convenience store supplying food and gas cans. the only location open was a chinese restaurant with a two star yelp review and it was packed we will be here bringing you the latest on what's going on on the ground. cheryl: christina, thank you. i would only know hurricane stocks have been rallying this week

in anticipation of the storm. lows companies are at more than 4%. a win's plumbing in home depot surging by at least 2% this week. lauren: we will continue to watch hurricane florence. safety expert charlie joins us now. we just heard from christina and she is essentially say in the calm before the storm, but what is so terrifying about this storm is-- is at the rainfall, the water the flooding québec a combination of all of those. slow speed will mean prolonged hurricane effects: the coast through the day especially into the overnight hours the storm surge even though it's a category two storm the storm surge is expected to be category three-level up to around 13 feet, close to wilmington towards cape fear and then once it moves inland we still

see the potential for upwards of 30 inches of rainfall and in some cases higher, so that will create this tremendous flash flood threats and as your reporter mentioned, flash flooding kills more people than anything in the situations three to 1.7 million are under evacuation orders, 1000 plus flights canceled for friday. power loss here for weeks, up to three weeks. with your numbers like this what do you say to the people that say they will write it out? >> i think you will see conditions for an extended period of time. we will not only have power outages for days and a lot of cases water service will be completely knocked out for days and in some cases even weeks. with the flooding coming in you will be trapped in those hardest hit areas and travel will be cut off because rose will be submerged and we

are still with this really high storm surge some parts of the coastal area of north carolina could be completely cut off because of over wash. lauren: thank you. cheryl: also breaking this morning the us is now inviting top chinese officials to come to the bargaining table for new trade talks. the offer, which was first reported by the "wall street journal" ahead of the possibly new us tariffs on chinese goods. white house economic adviser same talking is always better than not talking. >> it's just an invitation, as far as i know. bears of some discussion and information we deceived that the chinese government wished to pursue talks. cheryl: china foreign ministry spokesman said china welcomes the invitation and the two are

discussing the details of restarting the trade talks. lauren: apple rolling out new tech gadgets including three new iphones with different features and higher price tags. cheryl: now, we get more from our own hillary bond for mac apple heisey-- hiking their prices for their iphone for the second year in a row. i got my hands on the iphone x as max. here's what stood out, the most expensive iphone ever and it also has the biggest display of any iphone. this is the iphone x as max. it's super user-friendly because the display is bigger, but the phone is about the same size as a plus. really cool photo editing features. you can bring the background from out of focus to super into focus while keeping the person in the photo clear. you can store the 200,000 photos on your

phone. it takes highest-quality video of any smartphone ever. stealing the show is the iphone x r, a budget friendly little brother to the iphone x with tim cook closing out the event saying this is the way to get iphones into more customers hands. it has facial recognition and edge to edge displays with wild colors. probably the coolest part of the iphone x as is its waterproof and beer proof so it's not the end of the year if you drop it in a pool of water. >> renzi, let it dry and you will be fine. we tested with many different liquids, saltwater, orange juice, tea, wine and even beer. reporter: that apple watch series for making history, the biggest screen ever on an apple watch. got a major health makeover as the watch can take electrocardiogram

approved by the fda and the dad is so reliable you can send it to your doctor. back to you. cheryl: in another headline cbs has now ousted another high-ranking male executive at the network. lauren: adam shapiro turns us with that story and other headlines. reporter: the shakeup at cbs continued late wednesday. president of cbs news announced executive producer at 60 minutes had been fire. a cbs employee says he was october reasons and this is a quote not directly related to allegations of sexual misconduct. former cbs ceo les moonves left earlier this week after allegations. there were all allegations against fager but he said he was like oh for sending a harsh text message to a reporter investigating the claims. lauren: more turmoil at tesla. reporter: another's feet

executive at tesla out. justin macnair said he's taking the cfo role at another company and there's other troubled by the way for tesla elon musk says improving customer service response time is a new priority with model three bother saying the worst part of the delays they are expensive and lack of communication from tesla. cheryl: stocks closed at $290 a share. lauren: fda's taking a harder look at flavored e-cigarettes. reporter: because teenagers are smoking these and the fda said it will consider banning all flavored e-cigarettes in the united states because of the teenagers using the products has become an epidemic. the fda sent letters to companies which make flavored cigarette refills seeking comments on ways to reduce the number of teen smokers. the 60 day process and at the end.

cheryl: we have a lot more coming up. downgraded, but not losing steam. hurricane florence was hours away from making landfall. >> this is going to be one of the biggest ones to ever hit our country. life is the absolute highest priority. cheryl: janice dean will have the latest on the storms brand-new path and remember the cyclist who was fired after flipping off the trump motorcade? now she's hoping to score a new gig from her vulgar response. the dow jones is up 31. we are watching storm stocks and you are watching "fbn:am" i needed legal advice for my shop. that's when i remembered that my ex-ex- ex-boyfriend actually went to law school, so i called him. he didn't call me back!

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cheryl: welcome back. looking at futures on this thursday, dow jones industrial up by 32, s&p up three to quarter and nasdaq up 14. six people are dead after a shooting rampage in bakersfield, california with the gunman killing five people including his wife before turning the gun on himself. the shootings occurred at two separate locations, but have not confirmed if the victims were connected. in a few hours new

yorkers will be heading to the polls to vote in today's primary election. taking center stage the democratic gubernatorial race between andrew como and south end-- a socialist cynthia nixon. julia saldivar is looking to snag a seat in the state senate challenging eight term income that-- incumbent. remember the cyclist fired from her job after getting president trump motorcade the finger? she's running for local office of virginia. julie brisk when announcing her decision on twitter saying quote we deserve transparency in government. lauren: hurricane florence downgraded overnight, but the danger is still very real. cheryl: fox mcgraw just janice dean is here with the latest on

the new tracks before just because this is two and 100 and 10-mile sustained when it's-- the results will be the same as they were yesterday, potentially catastrophic life-threatening surge as the storm moves inland and the potential for 22 my 40 inches of rainfall which would be historic in some areas. again, don't be fooled by the fact that it's been downgraded to a category two. dangers will still be epic in some areas. you can see the potential for the outer band to berlin over the next couple of hours. you can see that i am the storm with radar presentation we could see the potential for 20 euros as well. tornado watches probably the issue. this actually makes landfall friday at 4:00 a.m. some of the computer models are sanest is offshore and hugs the coastline maybe makes multiple landfall. landfall is not

important. the results are still the same. it was to present a lot of danger in terms of storm surge and incredible amounts of rain over several days. here's the latest tracks from the national hurricane center. again, there is the center of the storm but don't pay close attention to the center. it's the code of uncertainty and as you see it widens out and has potential for inches in inches and inches, maybe feet of rainfall will present big problems and big danger and life-threatening flooding. lauren: thank you. a reminder we will be live at 4:00 a.m. eastern time tomorrow as the storm inches closer to land and prepares for landfall. like janis said the landfall is an important, is water, the hovering that will have the impact. cheryl: we have more coming up here k potential toxic disaster. six nuclear plants are in hurricane florence's crosshairs right now.

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this time the talks could be productive because the last time the chinese came to washington nothing really happened. >> i hope so, but my confidence isn't that high. i think china understands one thing clearly, ceos in the us think in terms of a quarter or politicians think in terms of election cycles and they'd think in terms of decades. they will likely stall, without the midterm elections away to see if the house and senate flip and then and they will have a better advantage. cheryl: people that will be leading these will be the secretary's treasury and economic advisor. listen to what he said about the president's goals. >> the president wants to move into the direction of zero tariffs, zero nontariff barriers, zero subsidies: the barriers let's play by the rules. particularly eight at china which is the worst

offender stealing technology and so for that someone. cheryl: how do you think the chinese will respond? >> he states that clearly in his right we are only looking for three things, stop the theft of intellectual property and open up your markets. my hope is they will at least bargain in good faith here. a lot of this is happening because there's been intense lobbying in the us and kind of eight cents in china where they invited business leaders from stacy morgan, blackstone , intel and others to get the president here because he-- they know he talks to the. cheryl: the markets have been powering higher since the tariffs announcement, so the markets haven't really get linked, but there is something else and mrs.-- the fed talked about this that districts, most districts are concerned about trade and tariffs. districts have uncertainty about trade and tariffs.

some say there is hikes already happening. can we wait until the midterms to solve this problem? >> there is another dynamic that wasn't mentioned in that release and that the fact that we have a booming economy. the economy is rocking. people are getting wage hikes right now and that's because of a booming economy. that inputs on input course as well so i get the fact everyone is concerned about trade, but i think what china will realize and what we need to understand is the math doesn't work for them. they cannot match as dollar for dollar and at some point they will have to sit down at the negotiating table. of they are already feeling it in their own economy. they have a problem. cheryl: hopefully it will really begin to hurt the heartland and maybe these talks could be productive. david, thank you. >> thanks for having me.

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carolina coast is. lauren: the gut punch of hurricane florence is on its way. it's been downgraded to a category two storm, but still expected to hit the coast with any rate, storm surge and extreme flooding. cheryl: despite news the us is inviting china to trade stocks, stocks were pretty muted yesterday. lauren: reaction is muted as well. futures are higher by 25 points, s&p up to and nasdaq up 11. cheryl: stocks opening higher in europe. lauren: asia, chinese stocks getting a boost on hopes for renewed us and china trade talks who said they 10-- big tech companies aren't biased? >> this is massive like kick in the gut. what we all need right now is a hug. cheryl: there they are hugging it out.

brand-new video of google bosses bashing president trump. "fbn:am" continues right now. cheryl: we are coming up on 5:30 a.m. here in new york. it's thursday, september 13. good morning. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: good morning. i'm lauren simonetti. thank you for joining us. cheryl: breaking news is hurricane florence. the storm has been downgraded to a category two storm, but it still expected to bring extremely dangerous storm surge and potentially deadly rainfall to the southeast with more than 10 million people_watches and warnings. analytics chief forecaster joins us once again and it's great to have you back. joe, your model had the verge to from the other models, but it now it it looks like you're coming

together with your counterparts in the industry. what you say? >> it's coming south towards us. they started north. i do want to get into that. cheryl: it's a compliment. >> i'm not going to quibble about it. it's after cape fear that is the problem. we are taken further southwest down the coast. we hug the coast meaning we think it goes back in just north of charleston hit capes here and paralyzes the coast. the high will block stronger than some of the other models, but it doesn't take away from the message that on september 2, my come he said this was coming back to the east coast and september 5 had this near cape fear thursday night and i can't do any better than that. the ending is important and my messages if you look at the cloud photograph and see what's going on, it's getting its cornerback and we anticipate it

getting back to official major hurricane standards later today and tonight. cheryl: joke, do you think it could be a category three cracks i know we are splitting hairs in the destruction will be pretty horrific either way, but i want to know what you're thinking. >> before-- remember it was downgraded to a category two, i did $25 billion of damage and move quickly through southeast texas. this scale indicates with a maximum wind speed is for 10 seconds and it's near the center of the storm. if you could have something 10 miles wide, 115 miles an hour, what if you have 105 miles an hour that extends out 150 miles? which does more total damage? this is a huge powerful storm, so i try to let

people know i'm not in a classroom over here. cheryl: aren't you calling this, you kind of comparing this to harvey a little bit. harvey stalled over south texas and it was the stalling of the storm that was the most destructive and cause the most flooding which eventually lead to loss of life. >> very slow movement. hears is what this will do. it will probably intensify today so you will see the pressure drop 10 to 15 millibars in the next 12 to may 24 hours. it's going over hike heat content water. as it gets in very close to the coast it will-- the water will cool and then we can just before it hits cape fear but you will have an entire area from cape lookout to myrtle beach getting wind over 100 miles an hour. you will have gust over hundred. wilmington, north carolina, getting hurricane force gust 414

to 36 hours. cheryl: it's horrible, joe. frightening storm. appreciate you being here today. we expect landfall and we want to have you back for that. thank you so much. lauren: switching gears to talk about apple because they are going big literally unveiling their largest and most expensive iphone to date. surprisingly, the apple watch which now doubles as a heart monitor my create more buzz. lets big in lieu of disruptive tech research. good morning. i want to start with a watch. listen to at the coming's chief operating officer had to say about it. >> all reporting, classification, notice, symptoms are stored in the health app in a pdf you can share with your doctor, so now your doctor has a detailed picture of your heart rhythm similar to a lead one ecg that is usually

only done in the clinic. lauren: is a game changer because now you have an older demographic that might be brought into the wearable because they can get an ekg and work with their doctors by wearing the watch and apple is willing to work with regulators. >> it's a potential breakout and maybe the surprise of a completely boring event because it could move the watch from a nice to have it to a need to have device i worry about false positives. we have people that might be thinking they are having a heart attack and it might be an anxiety attack. links have to be worked out, but i believe this changes the dynamic for the wearable space and prep on particular and investors thought coming right away. you saw they responded by selling off shares of fitbit which i think will prove to be a one-hit wonder and god because of these innovations. lauren: people might get an anxiety attack about some of the price of the new iphones

released. there's a cheaper iphone, but 10 are $749 and while that's considerably less than the most expensive one at 11 or 1200, it's the cost of entry at 749, higher than it's ever been. hundred dollars higher than it's been. what does that mean to you. is it good for shareholders? >> it's great for shareholders. there are bigger screens and bigger prices so we will seek the stages for the highest average sale price per device with strong demand that will drive up record revenues and the on the software side bigger screens, drive more at usage needy-- leading to more revenue for apple. i think we will see record sales and apple watch that becomes the wearable for potential breakout. lauren: do you kind of call the event boring, but the boring event yesterday, is it enough to

make investors dismissed trade concerns because apple is worried about a potential trade war with china? >> i think the trade war and tariff concerns overhanging apple are much to do about nothing they do not impact iphones. i think president trump will win the trade wars and we will look back six months from now and realize it had no impact on apple. my dad taught me long ago that lori businesses, don't be fooled that they can make a lot of money and apple is poised to do just that. lauren: thank you. cheryl: bad news for-- jamie-- jamie dimon may not be challenging president trump in 2020 after all. lauren: out of shapiro joins us this morning. what happened with jamie dimon? >> charlie gasparino broke the story, but now, we know j.p. morgan chase ceo jamie dimon toward some of his employees he could be

president trump of the 2020 election, but then issued a statement recanting. he said the president could punch him all he wants. he also said he smarter than president trump. jamie dimon later in the day issued a statement saying and this is a quote i should not of senate. on the right president. i wouldn't make a good politician. i get frustrated because i want all sides to come together to solve big problems. lauren: i think it's statements like that that we like and jamie dimon, right? >> i'm not going to go there. i'm curious at the present takes the bait. lauren: 7:00 a.m. is when he usually tweets. we have video from a google, the google bosses were hysterical after the election of 2016. >> take this as a grain of salt. you decide if it's a smoking gun. the video shows google executives pursuing their colleagues after donald trump won the presidency. >> certainly find this election deplete

upsetting and i know many of you due to. >> it did feel like a ton of bricks dropped on my chest. i think we all need right now is a hug. >> and i moved to canada >> anything positive you see in this election? >> boy, that's a tough one. >> in other parts of the video they going to say that the election is the result of people in voting and they accept the results, but google issued a statement saying nothing was said at that meeting or any other meeting to suggest any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products. our products are built for everyone, but check out the entire video without the editing. cheryl: they were criticized for very conservative voices in their church-- search results. >> that was a selective edit their. didn't give you the whole contexts, so watch the entire video.

i'm not telling you what to think. cheryl: you never would. >> i wouldn't. cheryl: thank you. lauren: when we come back hbo queuing up for battle. how hbo's new boss is taking one major swing at netflix and remember when the ceo of lululemon stepped down after he blamed a recall of sheer yoga pants on overweight women? now he's telling his side of the story. can't wait to hear that. dow jones of 20, nasdaq 10 when my hot water heater failed, she was pregnant, in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world.

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cheryl: welcome back. lauren: we are looking in a positive start to your trading day with doubt jones up 17-- dow jones up 17. the average household income has hit a record high, $61372 last year, up 1.8% from the previous year. at the same time the poverty rate fell for the 30 year in a row hitting its lowest level since 2006.

at&t's using its newly acquired time warner assets to start a street beat war. to come he says it plans to launch a video streaming service to rival netflix using exclusive content from hbo another time warner properties. at&t ceo randall stephenson taking a swipe and efflux in the process saying: lauren: the founder of lululemon is set to release a new tell-all book on amazon this weekend and according to the new york post pages six the book titled: "little black stretchy pants". it will add the controversy by saying what caused the sheer pants-- what caused the controversy and saying women's were the reason. cheryl: kelly to hear that excuse for that one. offended a lot of people this is a good

thing. transport stocks like trucking companies, shipping companies, railroads are hitting fresh new highs. is the dow industrials going to be next to take off? let's bring in scott. good morning. you want to talk my dow theory right now, exciting topic, probably not. if you look at the performance of all of these components especially dow transports a lot of people think this is the reason we will get new highs on the dow jones in the near future. >> yeah, i mean, the retell point of view you could look at it that way. we have had the s&p and nasdaq hit multiple high since january, the dow jones industrial average has not. we have the transports up 8% and the dow is lacking over five. you would say yes, we could talk about my big black stretchy plants would be more fun to talk about, but we've

got the dow jones industrial average lacking. i think it's lagging because of the tensions with the chinese trade tariffs because look what the market did just on the fact that we had mexico come to the table and do a deal and now maybe canada and i also think they will. i think this is really just a black cloud or some sort of ball and chain because of china and once we get through that this dow theory will take place. cheryl: i think there is something to. if you look at the yarn from the market yesterday when the journal reverse that steve mnuchin reached out to the chinese to say look let's restart talks in washington and come back to the table. i want to ask you about an overall if you look at the transport even the airlines have been doing well, but that's because of the economy because wages are up and the tax cuts have kicked in for the average american. is that a past-- past

story? you can watch the transports and say they are kicking in now, but is it a story from six months ago, not in the next six months? >> the smartest guys tell me they think we really haven't seen the book of the benefits of the tax cut come through yet, so there is still the drowned-- downdraft from that. you could argue that some of these airlines have done better because of jet fuel prices, soaking of the day i think we could see great news you with the chinese and that's why think the dow jones will lag until we see that. cheryl: scott, still stateside. good to have you her-- here. lauren: coming up hundreds of relief workers being deployed to step in and save lives when hurricane florence hits. how they are preparing for the worst. tour will pipe lines ran through the carolinas. will supplies be disrupted by this major

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lauren: as hurricane florence makes its way to the salvation army is deploying teams of workers from north carolina down to florida. japanese disaster coordinator and joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. lauren: it can't be easy to evacuate at least a million people with ted million in the crosshairs. >> we have been very busy over the past couple of days. we pre-staged 62 mobile feeding units. we have hundreds of disaster workers on

standby. like a lot of other folks we are waiting for the storm to come ashore. lauren: a lotta people are comparing florence to harvey which was an expensive storm and this one is expensive-- it would pack of expected-- expensive punch as well. expected to cost $20 billion. >> this is why right now the best way to help is for people to get to the favorite charity. if you want to put support an organization like the salvation army go to salvation army.org. we will need those resources in long-term recovery. lauren: especially as many of the residence as they make their way back home might find themselves weeks without power. the cost to get up and running again. fema put it this way, category two storm, category four storm doesn't matter. is there a difference between getting hit by a train or a cement truck meaning it will be one big powerful disastrous storm. what do you do for the

people that say we are not leaving? we are going to write it out and we will be fine? >> look, if you stay behind you are in for a miserable time took there will be power outages. there will be water outages work the best thing you can do, hopefully you prepared and got yourself an emergency supply kit of food and water and are prepared to be on your own up for a number. the best thing to do if you are in those very dangerous coastal areas was to evacuate. at this point it's time to hunker down. lauren: it's too late now; right? >> yeah, one of the worst things you can do right now is if the rainfall is is to drive through flooded roadways. we always see cars and search and rescue efforts, you don't when to drive when the storm comes ashore. lauren: if you decided you have not evacuated by now, what should you do if you hunker down? not that we advise that. >> the best thing to do

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♪walk the wire for you ♪yeah, i'd die for you ♪you know it's true ♪everything i do ♪i do it for you cheryl: two key oil pipelines run through the carolinas. hurricane florence, will it disrupt supply? you have the pipelines and 16 reactors in that area. what does this mean? >> it means a lot of things i'm a number one there are concerns that the pipelines that move over a million barrels of diesel that power

outage or floods could shut those down, but now that the storm has been downgraded there is less of a risk. when you talk about nuclear power plants what may happen is if you get severe flooding they will have to shut these power plants down and from potential demand destruction and that it could be huge. one of the things we talk about his electricity. it can have a significant downward pressure when you turn out the lights. you can see natural gas prices go down at a time when oil prices go up. lauren: they are down today. thank you. cheryl: good to have children thanks for joining us. we will see you back tomorrow for a minister. now to maria. >> good morning. happy thursday. thanks for joining us. is thursday, september 13. your top stories before 6:00 a.m. hurricane

florence closing in with the storm churning towards east coast and it's been downgraded and it's a category two storm authorities warning that even though the storm has been downgraded still brings life-threatening and catastrophic conditions. >> my administration is in close coordination with state and local authorities and fema, protection of life is the absolute highest priority and that's what we are doing. it's called protection of life. maria: we are tracking the storm's path as it is expected to make landfall tonight. tackling trade, the white house proposing new round of talks with china to try to avoid more tariffs, we are on it this morning, the news lifting market, futures slightly higher opening, s&p up 2 points and nasdaq is up about 9. just edging higher this morning.

in europe this morning investors are watching central bank action. the bank of england to hold industry steady amid uncertainty of brexit to the european union. bring the details as soon as they hit the tape. in asia gains across the board, best performer hong kong up 2 and a half percent in hang seng. better prepared. that's how facebook ceo mark zuckerberg the company is describing on russian interference, out with new vlog post. it was a tough meeting a couple of days after the election at google headquarters, the backlash coming up. joining me to bre