he was urging strong federal support for everyone who has suffered so much. be with us. thanks f >> we are ready and they are ready to do whatever we have to do to make this perfect and that means unfortunately the money will be a lot but it's going to come as fast as you need it, i'm going to take care of everybody. lauren: caking care of the victims, president trump promising money for hurricane relief, the money on the way but so is more flooding. cheryl: despite global trade disputes and likely fed rate hike the major stock averages lose record highs, the dow up 158 points. lauren: hitting 4 month high 4% and that lifted financial stocks. cheryl: as for today take a look at futures, dow up 7, s&p up

quarter, nasdaq looking under pressure, 3 and a quarter points. lauren: stocks in europe are trading relatively flat this hour, third percent of gain in paris. cheryl: taking a look at asian markets, stocks ending up mixed. lauren: talk about high, shares of pot grower briefly worth more than twitter yesterday, fbn:am starts right now. ♪ ♪ cheryl: 25:01 a.m. in new -- 5:01 a.m. in a.m. in new york this morning. what a wild run for the company. lauren: everybody in the new york stock exchange was talking about pot stocks yesterday. cheryl: let's start with the

president, president trump traveling to carolinas toward the devastation from hurricane florence, promising, quote, a lot of money from the froth for relief efforts. lauren: connell mcshane has more on the president's trip. >> a number of local officials were there to greet him with a briefing, fema administrators and others onhand as well and president trump was focused on financial relief that will be needed in the region hard-hit by florence. >> weare getting teed up and the will be nothing left undone. you will have everything you need. >> when the briefing wrapped, the president headed over to neglect bern, north carolina an area that was so hard-hit by the storm and first he stopped by a church and was handing out meals

to some of the people who so badly need them and tarred the neighborhood, personal view at some of the damage the flooding has tone, from there on the move helicopter ride aboard marine one request he toured area of conway. received a second briefing in that particular area saying that south carolina should be braced in the coming days but things could get worse in terms of the flooding but at the same time he knows they will get through with it. >> washington is with you, trump is with you, we are all with you 10% and we will get through it. the most exciting thing is rebuild, there's a lot of damage but you haven't been hit in comparison to what's coming. >> the president taking time to praise the first responders and some of the other officials who have help today coordinate what's been a massive rescue and recovery effort in both north

and south carolina, lauren and cheryl back to the studio. lauren: tonight president trump will be in las vegas, he will attend a make america great rally. cheryl: a lot going on today, senate republicans pushing ahead for a monday hearing to consider sexual assault allegations bret kavanaugh, deadline of 10:00 a.m. tomorrow to submit prepared remarks if she plans to testify. republicans rejected attorney calls before the hearing. lauren: president trump indicating that he believes kavanaugh over accuser. >> if she shows up and makes incredible showing that would be interesting, i can only say he's outstanding man, very hard for me to imagine than anything

happened. lauren: democratic senator mccaskill is voting no, she's running for reelection in november in a state that president trump won big in 2016, more narrow for the republicans. cheryl: a lot of thought on how they are going to vote for kavanaugh certainly. a lot of talk going into trade between talks united states and canada will continue today as clock to reach deal this month. meeting with u.s. trade representative lighthizer, two outstanding issues, canada wants protectionses for dairy industry, they have those in place we should add it, changes in how trade disputes are resolved. >> i think a national challenge of canadians, i would say, you know, it's a characteristic of our country and has been historical necessity we are a country that's good at finding

compromises. cheryl: well, president trump had said that he's happy to move on with a deal that involves just méxico, mexico also says it would move forward without canada but wants the canadians to signed on so to be continued on that one. lauren: china reportedly lower ing and in line with beijing's promise to open economy, not clear which countries would benefit from the lower tariffs that report from bloomberg. cheryl: trade tariffs the story of the morning, as the trade fight in washington in beijing intensifies, alibaba and found jack ma is walking back the 2017 promise to create one million jobs here in the united states. here is ma says, quote, this promise on the base of friendly china-u.s. cooperation and reasonable bilateral trade relations but the current

situation has already destroyed the basis, earlier this week ma said the trade war could lack for two decades. lauren: the european union now looking into amazon's use of merchant data. cheryl: tracee carrasco has that story and other headlines, good morning, trace. >> good morning, antitrust officials are looking into treatment of merchants, investigators want to know if amazon is gaining competitive edge from data it elects on every transaction and from every merchant on its platform, no comment yet from amazon on this investigation. cheryl: amazon can be expanding cashless stores, concept store. tracee: grocery store of the future, amazon considering opening up to 3,000 new amazon goless cashier stores, there are

3 amazon go locations in seattle and one in chicago, shoppers use amazon go app instead of having to pay with ash shire, cameras and sensors keep up with what you buy. lauren: i thought that was weird when we first learned about it but i guess we are find with not talking to human beings ever. cheryl: i'm good with that. [laughter] lauren: there's a pot stock that went super high yesterday. tracee: no punt intended. shares of marijuana backed by peter, soared 94% yesterday briefly hitting market value of $28 billion that was more than twitter after some bullish comments from the company's chief executive about legalized weed, however the high didn't last too long, later in the afternoon shares crashed into negative territory before closing 38% for the day. >> there are other pot stocks that you can buy that aren't as

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undermining the trump administration and exclusive interview pompeo criticized the obama-era official for meeting with iranian officials. >> secretary kerry doesn't want to get off the stage. it's one thing to meet, the whole gang has done, actively undermine what the president has done. cheryl: he may not be, kerry met with foreign minister multiple times to discuss the scraps nuclear deal. house democrats have prepared plan to oust house minority nancy pelosi, seeking the change the way caucus elect it is top leader, under the plan pelosi would have the to win 218 votes to secure the leadership position and be nominated

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gary b. smith, fox news contributor, gary, good morning. >> good morning, lauren. lauren: investors don't seem that concerned about all of this why not? >> well, they shouldn't be, i think you read lsh let's talk about tariffs, for example, you see the 200 billion-dollar dead -- headline, it's 20 billion in tariffs, it's not, 10 or 20% on the 200 billion and by the time that gets to us there's so many work arounds first of all collecting the tariffs, exemptions that companies will line up, third, a country like china can ship through another country to avoid tariffs, we have already seen that, article on handbags, for example, this morning on wall street journal going indirectly through our country, i think the effective tariffs are going to be minimal, that's why people aren't worried

about things like that. lauren: what about higher interest rates, feds most likely hiking and more in 2018? >> mortgage rates, for example were 10, 12%. lauren: you sound like my dad, gary. you sound like my father, when i bought a home interest rates -- [laughter] >> you have to put it in perspective, the other thing that normally rising interest rates are reflective of a strong economy, we don't want the economy back where interest rates were so low, that was good, of course, but what it's saying the economy was in the obama malaze. that means we are getting stronger. lauren: you think consumers can handle higher prices on some goods because of trade dispute

and higher rates? >> as long as wages are increasing, income is increasing and people are working more and more all of which seem to be happening, there's thought out there, well, maybe wages aren't increasing as fast as inflation, that might be true but people are only looking at wages, of course, they are not looking at the other ways that government moves money around to people and i think all of that will result in rising incomes overall, people being able to afford, people outpacing inflation. lauren: do you think investors, underlying hope that donald trump is trying to rewrite trade history, we do nafta with canada and méxico, change the way we trade with the eu, with japan and form all of these alliances to go against china? >> you know, i think what it's going to boil down to with trump is talk -- talk first and back

up the actions which seem to be watered down later. i don't think it's going to amount to all of much, here is one reason, we are a completely different were than we were 40, 50, 60 years ago, there's so many work-arounds to trade ta it's like capitalism, people find a way, that's why i'm not worried. lauren: gary, thank you very much. >> thanks, lauren. cheryl: well, still ahead this morning, how facebook is doubling down on fighting election meddling ahead of the midterms and remember when nordstrom was selling these jeans covered in mud for over $400, well, now they have an even more expensive accessory to pull it altogether. lauren: that's awful. cheryl: yeah, taking a look at futures, well, now we are at -- kind of gaining momentum here, 5:18 in the morning, dow is up 24, s&p 1 and three quarters, nasdaq now point by 2 and a half points, you're watching fbn:am.

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stall front brings potential for large hail, damaging winds and even tornadoes, that's the threat through this evening and we will watch the potential for watches and warnings, know what to do if there's a watch or warning in your area, in terms of flooding threat, really from texas all the way up to northern plains in the midwest several inches of rainfall, all right, lauren, cheryl, thank you. cheryl: janice thank you very much. lauren: coming up the confirmation circus continues, will brett kavanaugh's accuser now testify. >> not worried about anything other than just focusing for the next few days on encouraging her to come. lauren: if she doesn't come does the gop move on and what would that mean coming midterms. two guys pulled poster prank, they are not getting a pretty big payout for it. building on the gains we saw yesterday for the dow and s&p 500, dow futures up 21 points,

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>> we are ready and they are ready to do whatever we have to do to make this perfect and that means unfortunately the money will be a lot but it's going to come as fast as you need it. i'm going to take care of everybody. cheryl: take ugh care of the carolinas, president trump promising money for hurricane relief is on its way and so is more flooding. lauren: in markets despite trade disputes around and looming federal rate hikes major averages closing in on record highs, dow up another 158 points yesterday. cheryl: taking a look at the dow rising despite 10-year treasury hitting four-month high.

right now the 10-year treasury and yield down slightly. lauren: nasdaq up 3, s&p up 1. cheryl: in europe stocks opening flat, take a look at markets right know, all of them in the green. lauren: this is how stocks in asia closed out session, shanghai composite the lone loser down just fractionally. cheryl: dallas mavericks mark cuban has to pony up to women's organizations, we will tell you why, fbn:am continues right now. ♪ ♪ cheryl: well, coming up at 5:30 a.m. in new york, thursday it is september 20th, good morning i'm cheryl casone. lauren: good morning, i'm lauren simonetti, let's get right to the big news this morning and that is brett kavanaugh, accuse er blasey ford has a deadline to come forward, the deadline tomorrow senate

judiciary committee to decide whether to show up for a hearing which would be on monday. committee chairman senator chuck grassley says they have tried every way that they can accommodate her including conducting a private interview at her home. >> where i'm focused right now is doing everything that we can to make dr. ford comfortable, i'm not worried about anything other than just focusing for the next few days on encouraging her to come. lauren: unknown here is what will happen if the deadline tomorrow comes and goes and ford still refuses to show, to discuss policy strategists eric and frederick lawrence of georgetown law school, gentlemen, good morning. fred, i want to start with you here, what happens por ford decides not to show up on monday? >> i suppose the hearing goes forward or not, they don't need an extra hearing and they proceed to a vote. i think most people feel that

would be a terrible lost opportunity not just for dr. ford but for the whole process. the whole point of the process is for the american public to have confidence in nominee to the supreme court before he or she is confirmed so hopefully that's what will happen here. lauren: she wants to be heard, isn't that the point of all of this? eric, i want you to listen to what senator kennedy had to say. >> senator grassley is demonstrated extraordinary leadership, again reached out to her and said, look, we will do it any way you want, we have to have a hearing, that's the way the senate works, we will send somebody out to see you and now dr. is has -- dr. ford has changed position, that's why we call it a circus. >> chairman grassley has pursued the right amount of reaching out

to ford and, et cetera, it certainly is a serious accusation and for someone who has important place in life as supreme court justice is worth considering but also such a -- i mean, people are at fault here on various ways, senator feinstein in her actions delaying letter not only colleagues but also committee as a whole and i think it definitely is unfortunate that the allegations came on last-minute thing where fbi investigation -- lauren: that's the wrong jurisdiction for all of this, fred, right? what do you make of republicans pushing forward with all of this? do you think that could bite them in the end? >> i mean, they fall into the habit of thinking that there's a minute procedures and public at

large, a lot are the very stern in way and how they are going vote in my term elections, certainly this might have small impact on turnout which might have some impact in certain races and could have effect on midterms, however, i think that everyone kind of like -- i feel as being lost in the procedural nitty gritty, and there's broader themes to. lauren: fred, what do you make of all of this, the question was actually for you, sir. >> sorry. >> the truth is the fbi might not be the jurisdiction for all of this. there's new information, one of the advantages of doing this is it takes it out of the hands of people who are less equipped to handle this kind of information and puts it in the hands of trained investigators and seems to me that if senate got a report from the fbi saying these

are credible allegations or not credible allegations that there might be higher confidence level from the public, that's what i keep coming back to, for judge kavanaugh sake and public sake we don't want a justice with a cloud over his head, the whole point what happens in 72 and 96 hours to remove the cloud one way or the other. lauren: fredrik, eric, thank you very much for your perspective today. thank you. >> thank you very much. cheryl: energy stocks jumped as oil prices rose, u.s. crude settled yesterday 71-12 a barrel, that's the highest since july 10th on the contract, let's bring in managing director scott shellady who is here in the united states, scott, good morning. i love having you home. >> good morning. cheryl:let talk about this, obviously predictions for lower global output, we have the iran sanctions and the effect on that on oil markets coming in november, president trump is now

saying he wants to help allies get more crude so that the market isn't displaced basically by the iran situation, what do you make of everything that's happening? >> i make -- if you are short oil, we have short covering here and but at the end of the day inventory levels are down in 3 and a half years. that's got the shorts covering maybe, again, however, you know, 1.27 million-barrels a day coming out this summer is almost the same size as venezuela, just like the housing market, i don't think you will see oil run away to 140 bucks a barrel. it will slowly grind higher but we still have black clouds that will keep cap on it. cheryl: yeah, fed fifth straight

decline, but at the same time the story really seems to be what the trade and tariffs, what does that mean for oil markets and energy markets, some say that if u.s. and china continue on this path that'll be bad for energy markets, what do you think? >> well, those are the people who want to say that the tariffs will last a long time will be a drag on global growth, i don't think so this is going to last that long, you know, president trump is a man of action, he's not a man -- i don't think he has patience to have this last 20 years, the equity markets will tell us something will get done, i don't think it's going to be issue, however, in the short-term, yes, we have decline because we are exporting and number two, nobody really wants to talk about this, you are seeing the slow rise higher, again, like the interest rates and like the housing market, nothing is going run away from it. cheryl: real quick before you run away from me and run out of

time, i want to ask you about jpmorgan and strategy, the u.s. markets are on sugar high and in the next few quarters we will see fall in e equities in the united states, they are recommending clients going into merging markets? >> they've had the largest slump, maybe shift winners and losers which is the modern portfolio theory money management which started in 1950. they are not introducing anything new here, at the end to have day we see gdp numbers and growth numbers coming to support to equity markets, they can probably say we have had the great run over 5 or 6 years, at tend of the day, merging markets i'm still leery of and i'm not on the team. cheryl: i don't know, we have to see, making chicago proud, scott shellady still in town, thank you, sir. lauren: breaking news to get to you, britain's takeover regulation says the fight for

21st century fox and sky, 21st century fox is the parent company of this network, the auction will start tomorrow and end on saturday with maximum of 3 rounds of bidding, sky has a market capitalization of more than $35 billion. cheryl: all right, from that to this, an nba probe into the dallas mavericks has revealed disturbing workplace conduct. lauren: tracee carrasco joins us once again with that story and the other headlines making news this morning. tracee: dallas mavericks owner mark cuban will donate $10 million to domestic violence after independent investigation found current and former mavericks employees committed serious workplace misconduct according to nba, the investigation found out that 15 women in the mavericks organization were allegedly harassed by former ceo and that this workplace misconduct lasted

nearly 20 years. lauren: okay. mcdonalds is giving a pretty big reward to a couple of pranksters? >> yes, a prank that went viral, remember the fake mcdonalds poster that did go viral after two customers seen in the poster hung it in a texas mcdonalds after noticing lack of asian representation in the materials, mcdonalds wants more asian american representation and is going to feature both guys in upcoming campaign, real campaign this time, each will be given a 25,000-dollar check for their participation in that promotion. cheryl: good for them. that is great. honestly good for the company as well. i like to see that. all right, so there's some con controversy over some beat-up shoes, what is this? tracee: yes, 530-dollar pair of sneakers sold online at

nordstrom by the brand golden goose, there they are on the screen sparked huge social media backlash, you can see they look old and dingy and taped up, many are saying the sneakers are offensive and distasteful and they glorify poverty. $530, that's -- lauren: that's the cost of golden goose. cheryl: i'm offended by the price. lauren: they're not all with tape like that one. tracee: i don't get it. cheryl: thank you very much. lauren: coming up, everybody, last week he was grand standing at senate hearing. >> this is the closest aisle ever have in my life of and i am sparticus moment. now hinting again what future could be in politics. remember when justin timberlake showed off his movies at half

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lauren: good morning, let's get you caught up on what's happening now, all three major averages are in the green all up a tenth of 1%. well, japanese prime minister shinzo abe to become japan's longest prime minister after reelected ahead of reelected ahead of the ruling democratic party, he won in landslide, 70% of the vote, cory booker could be getting self-proclaimed sparticus moment in potential race for the white house, this is what he told new york magazine, quote, of course, the presidency is something i would consider, it would be irresponsible not to, senator's remarks come amid speculation he will make presidential bid for 2020. well, football season might have just started but we might already know who is taking the stage at the super bowl, maroon

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cheryl: well, week 3 of the nfl kicks off tonight with new york jets facing cleveland browns, with every game players take a chance with concussion rate at 6-year high, risk of serious brain injury has never been more real, i went down to nfl headquarters to see what the league is doing to make this game safer. >> itis a risk every football player takes when he is on the field. >> we have a serious public health problem. a football-related-brain trauma. >> concussions cost me my career and nearly took my life.

cheryl: more likely to develop serious brain disease later in life. >> we look at equipment and saw that there was probably room for improvement and there wasn't a lot of capital that was going to be put in there if not us and so the league put together a plan. cheryl: a plan called the health tech challenge series, 60 million-dollar initiative design today provide companies to provide protective technology. >> investment for potential entrepreneurs to get their ideas into the marketplace. cheryl: one of the entrepreneurs sean springs former star quarterback for the washington redskins and the seattle seahawks, he's also the founder of wind packed, a safety technology company that won the league's health head challenge for technology. >> crash crowd. >> we call it the crash cloud. cheryl: with funding from the nfl, crash cloud helmet designed by team of energies and experts using data from real players.

what's something that you discovered that you were surprised to discover. when looked at who was getting injured, the player doing the tackling was injuring more frequently. i didn't expect that. cheryl: working with companies to bring helmet to market some who are being worn by players this season. >> we are begin to go see a lot of benefit from it and optimistic now about protective equipment than we've ever been. cheryl: not just the league that's feeling optimistic. >> feels good that the nfl is making effort to make the game safer. cheryl: would you feel good wearing helmet -- wouldn't go back out on the field if i didn't have my helmet. [laughter] cheryl: the guys are very fast. cheryl: joining me to talk more on this is former nfl star jack brewer, good morning, jack. >> good morning, cheryl. cheryl: we have talked so much you and i about the concussion rates in the nfl, in fact, the 2017 season concussions were up 16%, do you think the league is

doing enough and do you believe that this new program can change things for players? >> you know, i think they are doing all they can, you knowinger this is a very sensitive topic, it's tough when you have a game that's built around making a tackle and you heard sean say this before, you get more concussions if you're delivering the blow which i did for a lot of years, do i think the league is doing the right things to try to, you know, enthans safety of players, i mean, they put millions of dollars out and extensive studies as you so graciously highlighted in your story, but there's only so much you can do. i think sean's product is one that can help, you know, change the league. if you look you see tom brady has been sporting a new helmet a lot and a lot of the key players who are old-school guys like myself who don't want to wear the new, you know, big kind of puffy helmets are starting to

realize that it's important. cheryl: you have a helmet next to you, you have your old giants helmet that you brought to the studio. [laughter] >> yeah. cheryl: from what you seen and the technology, show us the helmet that you use today wear and talk to me about what you saw in the story, do you think that that helmet can be improved, do you think it's possible have the new helmets be safer for players? >> definitely, i mean, everything from the padding from the inside, now it's changed quite a bit, this helmet was used, you know, throughout mid probably from 2000 call it 6 all the way to 2010, there's a lot of new technologies out there that have great absorption but at the end of the day you're still going to be falling on your head and some things that people don't consider is when you're taking a tackle that impact is tough on you but also when you hit the ground, the ground doesn't move.

and so -- cheryl: surprised to learn, jack, the person doing the tackling that's more at risk for head injury than the person getting tackled and the nfl says they were surprised by that. >> yeah, a lot of people have been personally i'm not as surprised, you know, i played in a lot of special teams and i know when i delivered the a blow it's very hard to point the helmet at the point of impact and that's really what it is, if you're taking the hit or the person being tackled sometimes it's easier to avoid your head collision and then you also can protect yourself better. i think this is very good research. i'm excited to see what happens this year, hopefully concussion rates come down but, you know, that study that came out 4 to 5 months ago with the 99% of guys having cte is a scary one.

cheryl: scary and good that the league is trying to change that and people like you and sean springs are voices in this for players out there. jack, thank you for getting up so early, appreciate it. >> thank you. cheryl: good to see you. >> fabulous story, thank you. lauren: important story, after weeks of talks the u.s. has persuaded volkswagen to end nearly all operations in iran. we will ask how big a blow this is to the eu and how big a win for the trump administration, we will go to london for that. ♪

lauren: we are getting breaking news and we want to get to you right away, south korean president having wrapped up series of meetings with north korean leader is now speaking and moon jae-in says that kim jong un said he wants to denuclearize and do that quickly and focus on economic growth. we bring in peter dixon, economist at commerce bank to talk about the implications of all of this, good to see you, peter. >> hi. lauren: any reaction? >> yeah, that sounds like a big surprise because basically the north is so far, you know, maintained a straight bat and not given any indication that is it wants to denuclearize, so

that does come from above but with experience with the north the proof of the pudding, let's see what they actually do instead of what say. cheryl: real quick, turkey, argentina, markets have been hit hard in recent months, are you looking at the markets for an opportunity? >> well, obviously we will be, but we look at them and think the entry point is not quite yet. the uncertainties which have in markets remained in place and as long as the trade war continues in play, so long as feds raise interest rates and put pressure on the dollar the markets will remain under pressure and they'll be time to get back to them. lauren: peter, thank you. dagen: good morning, i'm dagen mcdowell in for maria bartiromo, thursday september 20th, top stories at 6:00 a.m. eastern. supreme court showdown, republicans warn that time is

running out for nominee brett kavanaugh's accuse the other testify. president trump defending his pick for the high court and wait to go see what christine's blasey ford's decision will be. from she shows up and make credible showing that'll be interesting but i can only say he's such outstanding man very hard for me to imagine that anything happened. dagen: latest coming up. futures are showing this reaction in the markets, gains across the board, 29-point gain in dow futures this after mixed session on wall street yesterday, the dow jump td almost 159 points, it is now less than 1% from all-time high, s&p 500 also closing higher, again, less than a quarter of a percent from its all-time closing high. nasdaq finishing lower on the day, roughly half a percent from

its record. dow record hit in january, we are watching today, check the global market action, in europe we have gains across the board, bigger gainer cac quarante in france of sixth tenth of 1%. asia in markets, little change, green across the board except for the shanghai dipping slightly. police under attack, officers on both sides of the country shot overnight, we have the latest on their conditions. alibaba backtracking, jack ma says his company pledge today create 1 million jobs in america is off the table, blaming trade dispute with china, the fallout ahead. say so long to the pizza rat, there's a new rodent going viral, the flood rat, tough little cookie that one, all that and much more coming up this morning, joining me former state