loads of sunshine around and it will be even ballmer on monday at —— warmer.harvey downgraded to a tropical storm. it is still a prolific rainmaker and will be for several more days to come so the major threat continues to be significant, and catastrophic. this is bbc news. i'm duncan golestani. our top stories: us authorities warn that texas will be hit by catastrophic flooding as tropical storm harvey sweeps through the state. at this point in time, we don't have electricity, we don't have water, we don't have sewer and lot of our resources are tied up to find out what going on. of our resources are tied up to find out what's going on. we are expecting more rain and more flooding. the king of spainjoins 500,000 people in a march against extremism in barcelona. police halt the search for landslide victims in switzerland as more rockfalls are expected. eight people are still missing. and mayweather versus mcgregor — the much—hyped boxing bout of the year is getting underway in las vegas.

trump's administration which have now come on successive fridays last week president fired steve ballmerand his senior strategist before him it was chief of staff rates pre-birth press secretary sean spicer deputy chief of staff katie walsh and national security advisor michael flynn porker we can martin from paste action told is the high white house turn over isn't good for policy making. the more people come and go the less likely that they settle in understand how washington works and is able to get down to the business of getting things accomplished right it takes time new administration takes time to get their sea legs takes time to make the connections and move things forward and that's if you're actually have someone who has the experience to work in government and is there if you have people coming and going especially ones without any legislative or policy or serious washington experience it's very difficult to get in competition. the german government has banned a radical left wing website blamed for inciting violence during the g twenty protests in hamburg this summer a raid o

i think ballmer can compete -- wal-mart can compete because walmart is very effective on price.rice studies we do, generally walmart is cheaper than amazon. i think the convenience of amazon's website and the fact that they have this more affluent consumer that is shopping via their website has helped them quite a bit, but as walmart starts to expand their base it little more and get that customer, and drive more sales, that's going to help them. and they already should profit. they are doing things profitably at walmart. they are generating 5.5% margins. vonnie: does the whole foods acquisition hurt walmart in the short-term? is there a response that walmart can get to that, maybe another acquisition? >> it's a good acquisition for amazon. i think it gets a more access to their core customer and get something -- some physical locations. i'm not sure amazon knows what they want to do with it yet. a lot of people have thoughts about what they can do and they can leverage the stores and ship from store, pick up in-store. i don't think it means game over for walmart. it doesn't cha

i had that with steve ballmer, as microsoft got going. both in my family and in the foundation, it's melinda. >> rose: how much time do you spend at microsoft? >> i'm there about 15% of the time. and i get to work just on the r & d part, brainstorming with people, thinking, okay, how are we going to take this artificial intelligence and make it understand, help you use your time better. it's a very exciting time in software, and, you know, there's five companies that are, you know, in really strong position. microsoft it leading in some real cool stuff. >> rose: like ma? ( laughter ). >> the way that a business takes information about customers, about communication with customers, looking at data, that mission of really using data in a.i., and getting the productivity of all those workers up because they see more information, microsoft is the leader in that. and it's a well niche. you know, it's a multihundred-billion-dollar niche that they're strong in. they will be innovating along that line more in the next few years than ever in our h

popularity in china may push the sale price past the record 2 billion that steve ballmer paid for thecause it's common for celebs to make small investments in sports teams. in fact her husband jay-z for instance had one point -- at one point had 1% brooklyn nets and they actually stink. [ laughter ] >> it doesn't matter whether the team is good enough. all professional sports teams make money. they make money. >> printing money. >> yeah exactly. >> easy money. >> yeah. >> so we still got to figure out how we can get in weren't oh one of those. >> we're a few billion dollars short. >> can we get a .00001 stake in it. >> okay. so can you divorce your spouse but not their parents? apparently so. jennifer garner may not be good at getting along with her ex ben affleck but she still totally cool with his mom. jenn was out for a walk just yesterday with ben affleck's mother chris in brentwood and they looked like two old friends yacking it up there's a picture there. as we reported jenn and ben have been doing the co parenting thing like pros. while also having fun with their own friends cl