a spokesperson from brookfield denied connection between brookfield and the company's plan to acquire the company had not met with kushner since he joined the white house. >> let's get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. are the good people of duluth going to experience bad weather today? >> yeah, the dog is underneath the bed howling. duluth is on the tail end of it. this is a severe line of storms. always we go flu the fothrough forecast today, this is round one. five million people at risk as the cold front tries to cool off the hot area over the top of minnesota. the thunderstorms will cool you off late today. same for suh falls and areas around rochester, minnesota. they will try to work their way toward green bay. it continues hot and humid in the midwest through the northern plains. minneapolis south word under heat advisories, looks like we added our friends in little rook, too. today one of the hottest spots in the country, kansas city. you will be about 99 degrees today. oklahoma city at 95. 94 in minneapolis, and then the thunderstorms roll through. l

brookfield zoo houses four generations of the family. the western gorillas are native to west africa, considered endangered and the birth something to celebrate. >>> standing tall and proud the new american citizens who have special reasons to celebrate on the fourth of july. >> and four for the fourth, one couple will have their hands pretty full this holiday. >> a woman gets stuck in the gap between a subway car and it's time for the 'lowest prices of the season' with savings on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses and automatically adjusts on both sides, for effortless comfort. it's the 4th of july special. save up to $500 on sleep number 360 smart beds. plus 36-month financing. ends sunday. my name is eddie metcalf. i enjoworking in my yard and you know, i can't. i can't do that any more,'cuz i'm missing most of my lung. they did a cat scan of my kidneys, no more kidney stones. that's the good news. "but, we found a spot on your lung." that frankly scared the "hell" out of me. i hadn't smoked in 22 years. how could this happ

alix: the brookfield numbers, we have some breaking news.rty managers i don't know, what is this news? anyone? ok. david: they are buying for citi but that had been talked about before. alix: ok. david: big real estate deal from brookfield, that had been reported before that it was likely to happen. up onealty trust has gone the news. let's get a look at the headlines outside the business world. kailey: in china, the ruling bureau says the country will continue leveraging at a measured pace. the government will try to curb the increase in housing prices and try to promote structural reform in the second half of the year. north korea reportedly is building new intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to "the washington post." the missiles are being built at a factory that made the north korean rockets capable of reaching the u.s. president trump is taking aim at fellow republicans today, the millionaire koch brothers. he said they are opposed to strong borders and powerful trade. network political criticize the president and will not su

last spring, when litters of puppies were born here at chicago's brookfield zoo and in the wild, zooook two of the newborns from here and switched them with two from the wild pack. to make sure the mothers wouldn't reject them, the staff coated the pups with dirt and urine from the dens they were going to. the mothers in both packs are now raising the exchanged pups as their own. we saw, with storks, that they swap the eggs-- >> lacy: right. >> stahl: but you're actually swapping the actual pups. >> lacy: the pups. because the wild has so few animals, that if we didn't do some swapping, they wouldn't have any appropriate mates. so we swap between zoos and the wild just the way we swap between zoos. >> stahl: but zoo genetic matchmaking isn't just success stories. there are dilemmas and moral quandaries. how do you stop animals with "do not breed" recommendations from mating? and what happens when animals breed too well, and zoos don't have enough space? they can't just make them disappear... or can they? that's where our story takes a surprising, some would say darker turn, when we c

brookfield infrastructure's rating was raid to outperform from neutral and the unusual acquisition ofridge >> the stock rose 5.5% to $40.87. >> cosmos energy is not a household name necessarily, but it did get an upgrade to outperform from secto perform from rbc capital markets and the analyst expects theompany to benefit from higher oil prices. the stock was up 2% to $8.20. >> still ahead, how one couple turns social media posts into a lucrative business. >>> president trump has accepted the resignation of epa administrator scott pruit. it comes amid ethics violations. pruitt rolled backir emental regulations and supported the fossil fuel indusewy. anheeler will become acting chief of the agency on monday. >>> elsewhere, the president is expected to tell nato nations at next week's summit that the u.st cannot b world's piggy bank. president trump has pressured some nato allies already to their cantly increas military spending and according to the nato secretary-general, progress is being made. >> all nato allies an european allies and canada have to invest more in defense. they agree

and in the transaction in the real estate business, brookfield asset management has agreed to , achaseest realty trust deal valued at $11.4 billion, including debt, representing a 10% premium over for us to city's market -- forced to city's market close price yesterday. chipotle mexican grill, the chain's shares fell yesterday after reports of illnesses from a restaurant in ohio. stability is working with health officials. the coveted was battered by multiple outbreaks of a foodborne illnesses that began in 2005. and that is your latest bloomberg business flash. caroline: let's take a look at where european markets are trading as we head toward the close. less than four minutes to go. we have had a bounce from the news coming from bloomberg that the u.s. and china will once again potentially negotiate behind the scenes the dow back traded tensions -- dialback trade tensions. oh and gas leading the charge -- oil and gas leading the charge, as banks are. this is bloomberg. ♪ from bloomberg's european headquarters in london, i caroline hyde. stocks finishing up the day in european trading

there's a new addition at chicago's brookfield zoo.pette. it was born on july second. this is the first prehensile-tailed porcupine that's been born at the zoo. staffers took the baby under their wing after it was clear its mother couldn't provide appropriate care. ( darya ) coming up in the next hour of the kron 4 morning news... today's the day... london breed will officially be sworn in as san francisco's next mayor.... and hundreds are expected to attend her inaugural ceremony. ( darya ) and... an oregon woman goes missing ... while traveling through the bay area. now police consider her disappearance... suspicious. ( darya ) breaking news we are following this morning... police took several people into custody in an early morning raid in san mateo.( terisa ) kron 4's sara stinson is at one of the scenes. sara what do we know? several agencies have been conducting search and arrest warrants throughout san mateo. police say they are assisting other agencies in these operations including atf and the san mateo sheriffs office. i witne

and the large zoos, the bronx zoo in new york, philadelphia zoo, brookfield in chicago and the cincinnati zoo are well below their pricing and we can expect price increases as well. even with that, we are still well below other zoos and i know oakland zoo will be raising the price with the expansion in the summer. so that's my presentation. i ask that openfully you will pass the price increase for us. >> we have public comment. richard. this is your admission fee. >> good morning again. i'm not going to say too much on it. but i'm surprised that the zoo price and all the costs and everything else keeps skyrocketing up and up, and all you do is just lay it back on to the public. if you want to come in, you can do it. but they have also, the zoo have brought up different attractions, different views for public to draw out the people to the zoo. in general, i, after seeing the presentation on the political economics of it, i'm in favor of such. i agree with the committee. and other than that, when you get to my age and look at it, i don't know about, i got, i'm close to mark, i think, i got

this baby western lowland gorilla born know brookfield zoo in chicago has a they are considered criticallyseparating weight loss fact from fiction, what so many americans get wrong when it comes to losing >>> cell phone users, entire >>> a restaurant has settled a retaliation case with their three former employees that they were involved with for $100,000. the workers say they were fired after they filed complaints with the san francisco office of labor standards enforcement and the labor commission. subsequent investigations resulted in including unpaid overtime, sick pay and health care costs. today at a news conference an interpreter spoke for one of the women at the center of the case. >> we were women who were scared, but we wanted justice. we spoke, we fought, and we held on. we gave respect, and we deserve respect. >> as part of the settlement, la taqueria will be required to train staff on workplace laws. >>> dunkin donuts expanding this time to san jose. >> after not being in the south bay for years, dunkin' donuts is back in san jose, opening a store at 5519 snell avenue on frida

from the state of minnesota for a pipeline then enbridge is selling its natural gas gathering for brookfield dollars the stock has roared 22% from lows in late april could this stock be ready to roar or do we need to be returned that the recent rally could run out of steam now that the price of isle oil has come back down. let's take a closer look with almon co, the president and ceo of enbridge. mr. monaco, welcome back to "mad money." >> hi, jim thanks for having us back. >> it's been more than a year now since you closed the biggest deal you've ever done, spectra i want to get a sense of what it's done for your company and what it means for the future. >> for sure, jim if you roll back the tape a little bit here we werepretty much a single purpose, although a very strong single purpose focus on the liquids pipelines business out of western canada and into the u.s we essentially transformed that picture into one that now includes what we think is the best natural gas franchise business in north america, plus we added another utility so we've got a very large utility base, gas utility base

bloomberg has learned that global management and brookfield asset management are among the finalists.n investment board. controls are meeting with bidders this week. the head of the fcc is standing thatth a decision president trump called this race -- disgraceful. the sec does not make decision based on ideology of the parties. the agency ordered a hearing that could kill the deal. it would have created a much needed conservative voice. that is the business flash update. lisa? lisa: energy makes its trading debut at $15 gains over 7%. many components from china. withloomberg -- ceo spoke -- business. volatilee a very haveegy where we components coming from various parts of the world and the total impact in the worst case of the trade war is less than 1%. think about the long-term. gone to a digital age and we are a solution distributed, where the future will go. turn to the grid that cannot be reliable in the face natural disasters whether it is the wildfires in california or the hurricanes on the east coast. what we offer is a great value proposition to the hope for global market, yo