brent: the u.s.ilitary warns it may have accidentally exposed dozens of people to anthrax, a potentially lethal l act. used in biological weapons -- potentially lethal bacteria used in biological weapons. anchor 2: there are a number of level workers who may have been exposed in the u.s., but the pentagon says no infections have been reported. the pentagon uses so-called dead bacteria for work, but actually sold -- actually shipped live samples to places in the u.s. and south korea. and whether in the united states shows that heavy rain of flooding have devastated parts of texas and oklahoma. brent: at least 21 people are dead and entire neighborhoods in houston are underwater. people are evacuating stranded residents and that is the worst flooding in the city in years. the u.s. national weather service has issued further flood warnings for parts of north texas and oklahoma. anchor 2: all right, we are going to take a short break. when we come back, india is still reeling from a heat wave that has ta

brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. the headlines this hour -- listen two hours before the polls close -- less than two hours before the polls close. we will be live in london. laila: the german secret service is restructuring -- restricting it operation with nsa -- its operation with nsa. brent: a man burned alive as protests against foreign he's president's -- against burundi's president's attempts to power escalate -- attempts to stay in power escalate. in less than two hours, the polls in britain will close and the ballot counting will begin. laila: across britain, voters are electing a new parliament in what is seen as the closest election in half a century. brent: the first exit polls are expected just after 10:00 p.m. british time. final results expected friday. laila: it hits the conservatives against the labour party and a host of possible kingmaker smaller parties. it looks like it could go right down to the wire. reporter: they have the choice -- cameron or miliband. polls indicate it is the closest election

by brent schlender that you wanted for 20 years about steve jobs? and she said duh. so we said okay i will be interesting and we start working on the article. and then i was at my daughter and sons softball game one sunday afternoon at i called kathy cook was here in the valley who would work with us at fortune. this is the way fast company works. and i said i have only begun to do any pr for this issue. and it was coming out on monday. and so, so kathy helped out and we found all these folks to get some social media buzz rolling. and so on monday the story went out to 10 people. by wednesday it was being read in vietnam and all this sort of stuck it on thursday morning we wrote a book proposal in half an hour am at on friday we had a contract. and there was glory more than one publisher interested -- >> i kevin guerre how many it was but yes, more than one. >> brent, how much they could you have? how many interviews had you done with steve over the -- >> well, i had 50 roughly 50% of just of steve. some of those come it took a couple of them to cov

we have a very special surprise because brent, right there, and brianna, brent loves brianna, brianna brent and brent loves to pop the question. >> they're playing a video that the gentleman behind the camera actually filmed for me. it's about me and then i'm going to do my thing. i'm very nervous and hoping this all goes down well. >> the movie ends. everybody is clapping clapping clapping. suddenly this trailer starts. >> there's a lot of good movies in the world but there's only one i want to watch for the rest of my life. >> you know how much we love watching movies together. our tastes don't always coinde. for example, if you were a r, s on stun. looks like your guilty of stealing my heart. guess i'll have to make a cardiac arrest. but no matter what we're doing, we'll be doing it together and keeping it classy. and now for our presentation -- >> she can already tell what's going to happen. we zoom in on these guys drops to one knee. she, of course says yes. everybody claps. it's great. there's a little extra on the video, too. >>> got a lot of major cuteness on these videos. we

brent: microsoft makes the most sense. they have the cash, number one. number two, culturally it makes sense. benioff was at the conference yesterday. emily: -- and benioff were at the same ceo summit earlier this week. brent: a lot of ceo's share the same view that he is doing the right thing. i do not believe that mark would come to these things if he did not believe in what they were doing culturally and directly, it makes sense. emily: hp, sap, ibm. cory: they are two companies that are similar businesses which is slinging hardware selling services, and selling a good chunk of software. in both cases you have companies that say we want to be in the software world. so hp is going for the split of the company. there is in no way they could do a split of the company and do an acquisition. they cannot afford an acquisition like this anyway unless it will be compaq where it is issuing equity. a marriage of equals. that is hard to imagine happening but it would help them grow topline or at least not shrink topline. i think ibm is interesting. this is a wor

brent: we can make it a new segment. if you pimm: want to come in, i will help you. pimm:thanks very much. dale i had, why is alibaba taking a 90% stake in zuliliy? ♪ pimm: welcome back to "bloomberg market day." olivia: let's get straight to julie hyman. what'sif you look at happening right now, we are seeing a little change to the market. there is this push/pull going on between macro news trying to cut rates -- on china cutting rates and the finance ministers meeting in europe to hammer out some kind of deal on greece. and is on the macro level on the micro level, health care shares are up in oil is down. oil prices are having a pullback on speculation that we will see glut for quite some time and more of a micro level, the oil stocks are taking a hit and that's the biggest drag on the s&p 500. and aenergy, murphy oil long list of the various oil producers are down sharply. noble is also making an acquisition by buying rosetta resources for $2 billion. that is also weighing on that stock. olivia: thank you so much. pimm: let's take a look at some of the top storie

a bit off, moving quite today, you can see brent is now down almost by 1%.ard the columbia finance minister saying they oil priced in $60 to $70 rent. treasuries are sliding and you can see yields coming up on treasuries. everything is off right now. also coming down for a third day row,e row -- third day in the euro and whether greece can repay the imf. john: equities are lower through much of the session. we closed down with the dax down. hereac down the ftse down by about point we 5%. when china cuts rates, you expect a bounce across european indices. the miners are the biggest gainers and china, the biggest consumers of commodities and commodity pursuit -- commodity producers are getting a boost today. over in greece, you know the running groundhog day, out of time, running out of money. it looks like the tone is improving. the euro is off session highs. the markets at through the day -- the euro down by .4%. the other big story from friday, sterling, one pound by shoe one dollar .60 5 -- one dollar six five cents. just short of the 2015 hi. the postelec

brent .4%. the u.s. dollar which has been weakening over the last month or so managing to bounce back a little bit today, particularly in the currency pair where we've seen the most aggressive action. it's given up 0.6% today, it's 113.84. if we're looking at the yen, and the aussie dollar. >>> joining us now to discuss the u.s. markets is mark zandy. we've been getting comments from fed chief charles evans who says the fomc could be looking at a rate hike in june. quite interesting who is from charles evans who is typically quite the dove and last time i interviewed him here in london he said we won't expect a rate hike until 2016. what do you make of these comments? is june still on the table given the mixed economic data that we've been seeing in the u.s.? >> did he say why he changed his mind? >> he said if feds confidence in the economy could be imagine the case for a june rate hike. >> you can make a case perhaps, they will probably make until september and maybe december. you have to have consiste

use of that word effectively. >> somebody did. >> maybe it was you, brent. and this is something that the relentlessness they both enjoyed that a lot and it became, it became his primary work relationship. >> that was an element to it and you actually have this in the book were jony explains it. they were very much simpatico in sort of a philosophical sense. they like to talk the meaning of design and in ways that you think everybody's eyes roll who was around of them in engineering meetings. so they finally learned just not talk philosophically so much during these meetings, but they did when they were together. it's just one of those things that they fed each other. and i think they helped each other realize that they were both constantly changing and other aesthetics were constantly changing, that they have had to be prepared always to change their minds. this is really very important aspect. it's sort of a corollary of the incrementalism that steve had learned, and jony had helped show him in some way. tim cook had helped show him this, that really paid

and you know brent met steve in 1986. >> eighty-six. >> 86, right.so he missed the 1st apple years, and there has been so much written about those years going back to you know, mike morris who wrote a wonderful book. >> the little kingdom. >> the whole kingdom. so we really wrestled with that. and at one time we even begin the book in 1986 and realized and showing how he changed the more we reportedly realized you could look at decisions made at apple and what had happened with teams apple and see parallels in the later years. and so it was very useful in terms of sort of setting up you know, you had to know where he started as a manager. it was fascinating. quite terrible in many ways. >> this great phrase you used, tyrant savant. [laughter] >> the thing that i came to understand was, you know he was really brilliant at rallying a smart people for one project for a few months, and if that project started to not pan out he would walk away. and, you know, and even with the mac you know it came out, underpowered when it came out only became a real -- y

let's bring in brent bozell. brent, look i've been in this business for a long time. if i wanted to, i've got to make sure and get everybody from here to the top to approve it. >> that's right. look, tom, it's -- there's no question this was a deliberate breach of journalistic ethics. he knew when he gave it that he was conflicted. as if he wasn't before, by the way, when he was a clinton flak during the campaign. but he was clearly conflicted. so when it came time to interview either bill or hillary clinton or bill clinton about the clinton global initiative, he had, he didn't have a right to do it. he was a member of it. he was a supporter of it. and yet he did, and he gave it a glowing report as you would expect. he knew when he was tasked with interviewing peter schweitzer who wrote the tell-all book on the clinton initiative he knew he had no right to do that, and yet he savaged him on national television. he knew that there was a conflict of interest. so i don't know, tom, i don't know what is more offensive, what george stephanopoulos did or the fact that abc n

, dollars brent. so i think the measuring has taken a view that things are not looking that bad. it seems that oil is going to keep going up especially in 2016. we've seen a repricing in the market and they are taking positions as the market is going to be opening up both local and international investors. >> in general, there are some questions as to what's behind this big royal palace reshuffle. what do you think is the underlying reason for this? >> the underlying reason is they want to recreate the way the government is run and they want to bring in young people. the average age has changed of the three leaders from what it used to be with king abdullah at 86 years of age to now 57 years of age. prince mohammed bin nayef is a fantastic person who wants to bring change to this country with his father. you need to bring the young people because 60% of the population is below the age of 30. you need to empower these people to change the institution. these are historic monumental changes and more is y

>> it is true i need respond to what brent just said. neil: let lauren respond. >> i think he's wrong coming up with hillary clinton you had the "new york times" breaking the e-mail scandal you had all of the mainstream news organizations hopping on the latest scandal with the clinton foundation. neil: i'm talking about government itself. whether it's faith or -- go ahead. >> there are a lot of journalists who put their heads down and do the hard work. the foya requests are very important in order to find out exactly what is happening, and you can't marginalize those. they are about this many reporters doing it but i think it's very important. if you get the right news story. neil: that's the problem. if you have a signified small percentage. the others are saying after baltimore last week the issue is we're not spending enough. the government isn't doing enough. in other words, that the government can fix it that's what worries me, brent? >> look with all due respect lauren, what you said is pure nonsense. they have not gotten to the bo

brent seabrook said this morning, this is fun. going to o.t.ense if you're a fan of either team. even in some cases, if you're not a fan of either team but you just enjoy it. get so engrossed in these overtime playoff games. here we are. matt beleskey has played for teams like the iowa the norville nationals. he's in the big show now. he earned his way. and he got one of the eight goals so far. so, we begin. duncan keith will go back to get this one. out there with hjalmarsson. miss fired completely. but rescued by saad. dropped off by hossa. lifted along by toews. and gloved down by fowler. rifled ahead, would not work for silfverberg. and then he is able to flag down that pass from keith. spirit it back out. hossa. and fresh from the bench, is vatanen. and hossa was denied. the follow-up and more. and fire wagon changes. >> pierre: shaky changes, doc. >> mike: the period of the long change. saad, and desjardins, the backhander. that was cleared by andersen. and it is seabrook outmanned that time by maroon. and maroon slots it back in and wide

brent is down 1.6%. iraq willut that increase exports by over 27%.utting pressure on prices. staying on equities, let's go over to the european markets. here is ryan chilcote from london. >> equity markets, as you can see, it is a land mass of green. butce is on fire, up 3.5%, 2% ftse is also of more than . of course, greece tends to be very volatile, but nonetheless, a strong performance. cac was up. we are also watching the corporate space, in particular the airline industry. ba. the parent company of they have gotten permission from the government of ireland to buy their stake in that country. shares in both companies are up as a result. the frenchtice, telecom company that wanted to buy time warner. the founder of the company today said they recently not prepared to do that. they were down in trading but pulled back at the last minute on the back of a broad rally here in the equities market. finally, and quickly, i want to show you the currencies. this is a dollar strength story. almost the same story with the euro. crashed with the dollar streng

brent seabrook said this morning, this is fun. going to o.t. tense if you're a fan of either team. even in some cases, if you're not a fan of either team but you just enjoy it. get so engrossed in these overtime playoff games. here we are. matt beleskey has played for teams like the iowa the norville nationals. he's in the big show now. he earned his way. and he got one of the eight goals so far. so, we begin. duncan keith will go back to get this one. out there with hjalmarsson. miss fired completely. but rescued by saad. dropped off by hossa. lifted along by toews. and gloved down by fowler. rifled ahead, would not work for silfverberg. and then he is able to flag down that pass from keith. spirit it back out. hossa. and fresh from the bench, is vatanen. and hossa was denied. the follow-up and more. and fire wagon changes. >> pierre: shaky changes, doc. >> mike: the period of the long change. saad, and desjardins, the backhander. that was cleared by andersen. and it is seabrook outmanned that time by maroon. and maroon slots it back in and wi

brent coulombe has this report. >> a minor accident should not lead to this but it did.ida. his airbag deployed and an 8 centimetre chunk of metal flew out of his air bag into his eye. >> all i remember was an explosion, sounded like a shot. my right side went black. >> reporter: it was the last thing he would see out of that eye. many have been injured or kills. investigators say takata air bags were to blame. tens of millions have been recalled worldwide and the manufacturer great to recall 34 million cars. something they have been loathe to do. despite calls from the national transport safety board and the u.s. government. >> does takata support the recall. >> it's hard to answer yes or no so g you allow my... >> it is not hard to answer yes or no. >> the japanese manufacture said it would replace the driver's side. u.s. regulators admit they don't know what has gone wrong with the air backs and have not studied the replacement kit, and cannot guarantee the same thing will not happen again. >> right now, the ones going in are safer. the concern is are they safe over t

brent seabrook said this morning, this is fun. going to o.t. tense if you're a fan of either team. even in some cases, if you're not a fan of either team but you just enjoy it. get so engrossed in these overtime playoff games. here we are. matt beleskey has played for teams like the iowa the norville nationals. he's in the big show now. he earned his way. and he got one of the eight goals so far. so, we begin. duncan keith will go back to get this one. out there with hjalmarsson. miss fired completely. but rescued by saad. dropped off by hossa. lifted along by toews. and gloved down by fowler. rifled ahead, would not work for silfverberg. and then he is able to flag down that pass from keith. spirit it back out. hossa. and fresh from the bench, is vatanen. and hossa was denied. the follow-up and more. and fire wagon changes. >> pierre: shaky changes, doc. >> mike: the period of the long change. saad, and desjardins, the backhander. that was cleared by andersen. and it is seabrook outmanned that time by maroon. and maroon slots it back in and wi

cory: bloomberg intelligence brent joining emily and i. we will be right back talking about twitter's disastrous earnings report. ♪ cory: i'm cory johnson and this is the best of bloomberg west. if twitter in trouble after a rough earnings report? they have struggled to maintain their strong revenue growth and stalling user growth. twitter thinks they will address some of the anxieties of the instant timeline is something called, why you were gone. dick costolo was asked when we will see results from these new initiatives. >> the reality of software development is even launch something and you reiterate and he gets to a better place sometime down the road. our advertising targeting which are highlighted on the poll yesterday is something that when we very first launched in a few years ago did not work spectacularly. it has got to mend a sleep better and i think the same and have every confidence it will happen here. cory: i was just reading a bunch of tweets by a venture capitalist arguing that twitter is hitting the biggest problem of hel

. - brent hoffman died. - who's brent hoffman?no, no. he was eaten by two of my other cats. really hard to watch. [jockbox by the skinny boys] ♪ ♪ - ♪ i'm fresh ♪ ♪ you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, gotta ♪ ♪ gotta be fresh ♪ - hey, i really appreciate you guys coming to one of my sing-alongs finally. - yeah. - it's fun. - and as a "thank you," i've got some extra tickets to the rihanna concert this weekend. do you guys wanna go? all: yeah. - that sounds fun. - who is that, though? yeah, i'm excited, though. - what do you mean "who is that"? rihanna. she's the queen of r&b right now. she's got that accent from the future, she's light-skinned, with the butt. - condom in the eye, waterfalls. she's a classic. she's a cla-- she's still around. - he has no idea. - he knows. - no, that's okay if you don't know who rihanna is, adam. ert. i know who she is. - it'll be fun. - i haven't seen a concert in forever. last concert i went to was that green day cover band, the basket cases. - pretty talented. - that was cool. we got high. - i'm gon

brent $66 a barrel. copper is down.ernible] after the pmi miss him more stimulus from the people bank of china. berlusconi, how much he spent? ♪ jonathan: welcome back to "on the move." a plethora of economic data. the final readings of pmi across much of europe. italy european pit -- italy pmi better than the survey. a prior reading of 53.3. you have to forgive me but because i quoted out copper. it is closed today. mark barton is next to me. mark: an easy mistake. three days to the election. we have tories 34%. it is in the internet. could -- it is neck and neck. could either party pull ahead? it looks unlikely. jonathan: it does not look like a. they are pulling for the more desperate measures. putting it into the garden. in little bit weird. mark: the tories are pounding on it and jumping on it. that's a first check. daniella will be talking greece. we have had one deadline. how many have we had? greece is pushing for a may agreement. the imf payment of this week on another next week. we are getting closer. an old f

brent up 2%. wti up 1.7%. >> the u.s. government has given conditional approval to the the plan to drill in the arctic ocean this summer. that he removes an obstacle for the company to explore for oil and natural gas in the region. they must still get several other permits. they plan to invest $1 billion in the project in addition to the 6 billion it's already spread. let's take a look at shares of shell and how they're trading down 1.3%. but again we have seen a sustained move to the upside in oil prices. oil now up about 15% year to date but there's a lot of bears out there that caution that the rally is short lived. >> really interesting the wording of the goldman sachs bearish note because oil can't win either way at the moment. they say we view this rally as derailing the necessary rebalancing and weak oil prices can lead to big supply and demand changes and as it's rahal lid over the next couple of months that makes the process much harder. >> one of the key levels people are watching is when the u.s. swing producer

joining me brent bozel leading the charge to get the new show canceled.th the guy's history to give background. here's savage in two examples on realtime with bill maher. >> i am just done being lectured about children and their safety by catholic [ bleep ] bishops, priests, cardinals. >> that's it republicans. there you go fox news for the blog this is week. you are like arafat. >> no, but -- >> unfortunately, not exactly like him. i wish they were all [ bleep ] dead. >> he also said the following, in case you missed it how did hating on gay people and discriminating against us become so central to christian belief? and then he said the following, because if there was one thing js really blanking hated, you know it was tomboys good thing that the woman was well all gender normative and otherwise js would have cast the first stone for sure. look. this just tells me more than anything brent, that abc still out of touch. that i don't see any success for this show. they can go forward with it. if they want to hire bigots to produce tv shows i guess it's thei

let's look at brent crude, declining even more, falling below $63 a barrel.hey turned bullish in the short term. predicting a rebound to $80 a barrel. they are saying there is a the supply deficit. that might be the short-term case. what is the case to be bearish over the longer term? alix: this is a staggering call because many analysts are looking at higher prices in the longer term. doing with overall lower production. in the short-term, that's an impressive call. especially when you have u.s. production still ramping up here in the u.s. we saw some rigs added in different parts of shale regions last week. -- northf having dakota has 125 wells that could be completed in june. you can't hang on to a lease if you don't drill it. they are forced to complete this well. that's white a staggering short-term call. scarlet: 25% increase from current levels. oppenheimer upgraded a couple of refiners. tesoro. petroleum and given aey've been simplistic way -- as long as brent is more expensive than wti, refiners are making bank. diverges -- that was more due to save

as for brent, another week of gains for oil, the best month since may 2009. dig into some of these indexes. lift the lid on the ftse 100 and talk about bailed out lender lloyds. first-quarter profit rising 21%. manus cranny joins us for a little bit more. james bevan is still with us. manus cranny, a beat. manus: as you just said, pi for profit k for capital. impairments down nearly 60 percent. i think that is what the markets are focus on. bloomberg is focused on the fact that they have a little more capital. if you look into ppi those insurance policies that nobody needed, never wanted, but they sold them to us anyway -- jonathan: it has been ugly. manus: but no more ppi provision this quarter. that is after 12 billion pounds of provisioning on that. margins, are you going to make any money out of it weston mark -- out of it? it is a bit boring, but it is a benchmark. it will be above 2.5%. rbs warns that their margins were under pressure. jonathan: james bevan, does he like what he sees? james: i think the ppi scandal turned out to be the stock save for th

we are seeing brent crude fall to a one-month low.audi arabia will stay status quo in terms of what it is pumping right now, so that means supply will not change significantly. oil pulling back about 2% in today's session. take a look at what's happening with inventories. about one they are hundred million barrels above the five-year average. where we are now, this is the past five years. between you the gulf the two considering stockpiles, which is unusual, as we are heading into the summer driving season. some believe that we will see brent rebound in the short-term. they say we could see $80 a barrel in the short-term. in the fourth quarter of this year, we could see a supply deficit of 1.5 million barrels a day. at the same time, we are seeing a number of refiners rising, being upgraded to outperform at oppenheimer. we are seeing them gain a little bit. they see refiners conjoining to reduce debt, grow dividend, and by that shares, as their financial stability improves. phillips 66 and to soar on not getting as big of a vote, but

the brent crude and international gauge for oil up around .9%. we also saw a sell off in the gold complex yesterday. in fact losing around $16. today though a little bit of a rebound holding on to 1,187. still below 12,000 which is seen is a key level for those that watch technicals on gold. silver seeing a gain of around .14%. now back to our top story of the hour. six officials from world football's governing body fifa have been arrested in switzerland with connection with alleged bribes totaling more than $100 million. they face questioning and possible extradition to the u.s. investors confirmed to nbc that the charges relate to fifa's handling of the world cup and other international tournament ms. the six officials were detained where fifa had the headquaters. it's alleged the bribes were made in the u.s. and the payments were made using u.s. banks. now fifa president sepp blatter is due to face a re-election vote on friday. the big question is if that changes given the charges that come to the forefront. fifa is due to hold a press confere

those oil prices there you go brent crude off by a third of 1%. wti off by a third of 1% as well. >> up higher by more than 3% and big draw down in inventories. this weekend going to be a very very busy weekend for drivers according to aaa the u.s. travel should reach a ten year high over memorial day. keep an eye on those gas prices. >> moving on janet yellen is speaking about the economy today when she addresses the greater providence chamber of commerce in rhode island. yellen may comment on the labor market or unemployment as rhode island has one of the highest jobless rates in the country above 6%. the minutes from last month's fed minutes suggested a june rate hike was off the table. all eyes on janet yellen and what he says today. >> we have a little bit of commentary from the bank president that says stronger coordination of monetary policy between europe and the u.s. is not a goal in itself. it is known that i'm skeptical about qe but it would not be constructive to constantly comment about it and the end to unusually low levels of volati

brent laurie 2-1 shot to the left. he ties the game 3-3. bottom of the 7th, and walked.s the go ahead run. 8 wins by 4. finally winning a one-run game. >>> well peter debore made his debut at a sharks conference. he becomes the 8th head coach of the franchise. and finally, san jose has been avoided the mls all star game in 2016. they will face a yet-to-be announced squad at the new stadium which opened to rave reviews earlier this year. >>> i-t-t-e. >> correct. >> correct. >> what they said. not one but two champions at this year's national spelling be. this is the second year in a row the bee ebdnded in a tie and they'll also receive $30,000 as well as other prizes. and the winning word is -- can you even say that on tv which is the art of paper cutting design and the nunatak which is a hill that has been completely changed by glacier. >> you said the second one with so much confidence. it's done, you're there. >> are we going to wake up foggy tomorrow, by the way? >> yes. f-o- f-o-g-g-y. nice couple days. >> nicely done. d-o-n-e. >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller

>> brent celek. >> he's gone, too kyle. >> i know. >> you are having trouble with this yes?ou mad at chip kelly then? >> ya. >> you are? >> do you know one way that chip can get you back if we win? >> that's right. >> if you're 11 and five you will be laughing not crying, right? okay where do you go to school. >> tabernacle elementary school. >> i'm guessing that's in tabernacle new jersey. >> i go to seneca high school. >> and how old are you? >> six. >> six years old. >> well good to have you here. >> what? >> i said you're pretty cool. >> thanks. >> i know it. i know t how about brian dawkins? who likes brian. >> i do. >> you do too. >> yes. >> will raise his hand, too. >> we all like brian dawkins. >> he's not with us either. >> what team did he go to after he played for the eagles? >> 49ers. >> no. >> no? >> denver broncos. >> yes. >> you know your eagles stuff. >> you know six years old i'm telling you nfl commissioner, off out -- look out, roger good. >> i i know mom didn't come on but do you have something for her for mothers day? >> yes. >> oh what did you get her?

rain swept through walnut creak through brent wood where people tried to stay dry with their umbrellas. and no one we talked to complained. >> i like the rain. >> this is nice. we miss the rain, we need some. >> middle of may and it's raining. it doesn't seem right at all. i was watching the thunder earlier, pretty unique and loud. >> >> reporter: wiper blades at top speeds. a fender bender on the southbound side causing a huge back up on the freeway heading north. rain no one is usesed to it right now but -- >> we'll take whatever rain we can get this time of year. >>> so much of what we saw today, unusual for midmay. how about the hail in nevada? you could actually hear the weather loud and clear. lightning strikes hit palloality oeo alto. and no reports of any injuries or fires. this was a hit and miss storm, really. >>> in terms of the rainfall, certain certainly the east bay. look at the clash of contrast we had around the bay area from ocean beach and right as we head to the afternoon, look that rain gauge there. oakland to san francisco, not impressive at all. but at our weather

one of the people who testified yesterday was a young man jamd brent lowack. he was shot and injured, himself. he described going to a movie theater with an old friend, a 24-year-old woman a. beautiful, sports reporter, jessica gowie. in court yesterday, brent described what it was like to watch his friend die that night. >> as soon as the first shot rang out, it was a loud bang and then a pause and then a bang and bang and it just continued. as soon as i saw that jessie had been shot, my focus transition was taking care of her. so the shots continued and i at that point had gotten out my phone and i fumbled around to call 911 as soon as i could. i had noticed at this point that the screaming had stopped and jessie had sustained a shot to the head in which case brain matter was exposed. it was at that point i crawled a little closer to her and i prayed over her. i didn't know what to do. it felt right. i just gave her the best sendoff i could. >> sandy philips, jessica gowie's mom. she was in court yesterday to hear that testimony describing her daughter's las

and brent laurie and there it goes again. that's a 2-run shot to left. athletics win 6-2. wellx now the clay thompson watch is now on a another level. he was indeed concussioned in game five. and he can't play until cleared by nba guide lines. >> we want to be as careful as possible and make sure that our players are safe and sound and healthy. so we'll follow this protocol that the league provides and we'll have clay out here when he's ready. >> and thankfully we have a week off between games to fully recover. he took a nice little blow to the head. so i'm sure they want to be cautious and make sure he gets the recovery time he needs to get ready and hopefully by next thursday he'll be ready to go. >> and finally to the lights of msg. new york goalie henric and third period 93no score. and lightwing a 1-0 lead. and later in the period. a dagger deep in the heart of the madison square garden crowd. and lightning win and advance to the stanley cup finals. and that's it for sports. have a great weekend. more sports after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> all right. the weekend is finally

white house correspondent brent coulombe explains. >> >> reporter: the u.s. coalition dropped almost 2500 bombs on iraq, trained thousands of soldiers, but it didn't stop the city of ramadi fulling to i.s.i.l. >> there's no denying this is a setback. >> reporter: an official talking point, ramadi was surrounded for so long, it's a surprise it didn't end sooner. u.s. backing a plan to send in sunni militias. that's a step the u.s. has been hesitant to take until now, says an analyst. >> there was a sense that the shia militia was a group we wanted to minimise, not legitimate or work with. we have seen a contending strand of thought which basically is we can't be so picky. and we'll have to recognise that iraq is coming together slowly in terms of the strength of government and the reconstitution of the iraqi army. >> reporter: the state department was asked about reports in the past that shi'a militias performed atrocities and can it happen again? >> i am not sure what guarantees we are hoping for. we are of the view that militia should be under the command an

the east contra costa fire protection district closed the station and one in brent permanently. that means there are only 27 firefighters to protect 100,000 people over a huge area. 250 square miles. >> they are placed in a tough decision. they are being asked to do twice as much work now with half the amount of guys and very little support from the public or the community out here. >> reporter: voters said no to a special parcel tax that would have generated $4.2 million a year for five years and kept these stations open. >> it's going to mean a longer response time. bigger face. people not getting the medical help that they need in a timely manner. >> that's because the district gets about 9,000 calls a year. now there are only three fire stations to respond to those calls. >> in my opinion, east county fire today is at a dangerous level. >> it's a scary time for everybody. >> reporter: these firefighters are already the lowest paid in the county. now some are going to be demoted or possibly laid off. >> sad for us. the sad for the public. i mean, we're here to help them, but

this is the brent crude benchmark index. it hit the highest level it has seen in 2015 earlier of just over $67 a barrel. it has come down slightly from their. the oversupply in the market that led to the plunge in oil prices could finally becoming too an end. let's look at some other business stories. tributes paid to the silicon valley entrepreneur dave goldberg, who died over the weekend. he was the chief executive of the online polling company survey monkey. under his stewardship, survey monkey saw massive growth to 20 59 customers. train drivers in germany preparing for strike action set to begin later this monday. services will be effective from this afternoon with passenger trains canceled from the early hours of tomorrow morning. the a's strike for the union and 10 months -- the eighth strike for the union and 10 months. shares in the nuclear giant areva have jumped after reports that three chinese companies are interested in investing in the troubled french firm. the newspaper says areva is open to the chinese firms

brent coulombe washington >>> don't forget aljazeera.com is the address for all the news that you need. >>> i'm "ali velshi on target". blowing the whistle. a small town farmer taking on a big agro giant in an animal welfare war >>> crusaders or criminals - the push to silence those threatening to expose where our food comes from >>> americans are eating more meat, paying less for it than at any other time in u.s. history. at what cost? animals raised in barns of the 1950s have given way to an industrial revolution of sorts. a report on industrial farm animal production in america found the change happened largely out of the view of consumers. now, the pugh report came to a disturbing conclusion saying the present system of producing food animals in the united states is not sustainable, presenting an unacceptable level of risk to public health and damage to the environment, as well as unnecessary harm to the animals that we race for food. >> the agriculture gag law, referred to as ag gag laws centers around how to handle individuals and organizations documenting bad practices on farms

wti is supported at $59 a barrel and brent at 65.hese are crucial levels traders say, they're not just digesting today's headlines, but a plethora of factors right now as they determine which direction this trade will take. for nightly business report i'm jackie deangela. >> oil prices did edge lower today, after rising for eight straight weeks. west texas intermediate finished the session down. separately the obama administration granted conditional approval for royal dutch shell to drill in the arctic the company has already spent $6 billion on exploration in the region. that's estimated to contain 20% of the world's undiscovered oil and natural gas. the government says drilling activities will be subject to rigorous safety standards. >> china has overtaken the united states as the world's biggest buyer of crude oil. purchases by that country are expected to remain strong despite a slowing economy. according to reuters, china hit a record of 7 1/2 million barrels a day last month, and that puts it ahead of estimated exports for the

inventories, brent crude was up around 2%. also very quick look at asian indexes, the shanghai composite continues to outperform asian indexes on thursday gaining almost 2% when all the others were flat or lower on the day. we will keep track of all of that. back to you. >> thanks to you in few hours' time. >>> prime minister shinzo abe says that japan will work with the adb to invest $110 billion for infrastructure projects in the next ten years. he said that the adb's lending policies for short term loans have been too strict. >> translator: we aim to spread high quality and innovative infrastructure throughout asia taking a long-term view. >> abe noted that there is huge demand in asia for infrastructure. he said it's as high as $825 billion annually. he added that it's important to balance quality and quantity in investment projects. >>> friday marks one year since thailand's military took control of the country after a coup. the nation's economy took a hit. countries including japan are having second thoughts about their