cheryl: one word, lauren, instagram. lauren: instra -- instagram. cheryl: susan rice says we should. whose side is china really on on all of this with latest on the threat, let's bring former military offer and former adviser to george w. bush brad blakeman. we have to start with the comments from susan rice saying that we should tolerate a nuclear north korea, should we? >> we should not and keep in mind that at after 40 years after failed diplomacy, 40 years of failed sanctions president trump did what he had to do to get china engaged and it worked. those messages oh coming out of china a clear message to north korea, don't launch the missiles. the president kept the word with his team in the country, america first, he's looking after our national security and doing exactly what he had to do, i have to tell you, a very strategic move on his part he knows as well as everyone in the intelligence community that no one wants a war here and in the end of the day, the president is preventing a war. cheryl: brad, you to wonder what china wants in all of

lauren: right. kristin, president trump's lawyer we look forward to cooperating, we hope this will accelerate the investigation. he didn't call for mueller's firing or even call the investigation a political witch hunt. this is a change of tone, why do you think it is? >> obviously this is coming from the president's lawyer not necessarily donald trump himself who might say something different on twitter. we are not sure about that yet. it definitely is. i think they are doing a good job and making a good shift in tone if that is, indeed, what it is because president trump has to retain a lot of his political capital in order to get the rest of his agenda through congress, obviously we have tax reform that's highly anticipated, also this comes on the eve of him signing the sanction's bill with russia and going back and saying, he wasn't very happy about it. he has to make sure and be very aware of the political optics here and the whole administration is trying to make sure that they appear, they ar

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lauren, back to you. lauren: adam shapiro thanks for covering all of that us.d what president trump said on doubling down on strong rhetoric that some people have criticized. north koreas and the fears that we have been seeing for three days spooking investors but in a big way today sending the dow at the low of the session down 174 points, but on track for biggest drop in five weeks. well, the sectors that we like to look at every week are lower, there's one group bucking the trend, that's the defense stocks charging ahead into record territory for second day in the row, missile makers, lockheed maker, raytheon. they did all hit earlier all-time highs, now you can see some of them, most of them pulling back as part of the broader market slump. still up a solid 1%, you get the point. there's plenty of investor appetite left for military stocks specially when you hear what we just heard from president trump that fire and fury might not be strong enough that north korea should be very, very nervous. as we look at the broader markets, what exactly are they telling

lauren: you are watching making money *. president trump is directing his team to explore sanctioning beijing for the acquisition. american technology. >> it's my duty and responsibility to protect american workers from unfair and abusive actions. we'll go after the piracy that steals american jobs. we'll protect forgotten americans who have been left behind by a global trade system that failed to look. and i mean look out for their interests. lauren: wall street shrugging off the president's comments even as china reportedly is threatening a trade war with the united states in retaliation. more on what this means for the market and your wallets. first we go to adam shapiro who has the details from trump tower. reporter: the president when he comes back here later this evening will be continuing his working vacation. the protesters gathered to protest the situation in charlottesville and in a way the china policy. the china policy is designed to put pressure on china to put pressure on north korea. some of these protesters a

lauren: tough morning, maria. maria: thank you so much, ladies, lauren.d morning, everyone, i'm maria bartiromo, thanks for joining us, friday august 18th, top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. second attack in spain overnight. police killing five suspects wearing fake bomb belts who were linked to the car ramming attack in barcelona yesterday. [shouting] maria: at least 13 people and a hundred others injured. 13 people dead, a hundred other injuries in the rampage in the heart of the city yesterday. authorities

lauren: welcome back.ice still on the hunt for a prisoner or broke out of an alabama just sunday night, one of 12 inmates who used peanut butter to trick a young guard could the opened the door thinking it was a folder because the number had been covered with peanut butter from the inmate's images. the peanut butter is the same color as the pain. other inmates have been captured. new jersey governor chris christie's trip to the beach barred from everyone else. christie was widely criticized when he saw the photograph of him and his family after he shut down new jersey beaches during a standoff. the bill must also pass the senate. no word on whether christie will sign it. google's parent company alphabet taken an idea to store power from renewable energy. google wants to use salted anti-freeze. it's working on the idea which should be actually working out. training a cost effective way to find solar is both in power during time of surplus to play it when needed is considered the holy grail in the power indu

lauren: happy friday, 5:01 a.m. in new york. august 25th. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: we are looking at a major storm on the way right now. the breaking news for you at the moment, hurricane harvey strengthening as it approaches texas with life-threatening conditions. this is the biggest hurricane to strike the united states in 12 years. take a look at this image coming from the international space station, expect today become a category 3 hurricane at some point this morning making landfall later tonight or early tomorrow morning, heavy rain and winds of over 110 miles per hour . >> we are plan to go evacuate. >> my concern is the flood. the water is coming rising, they are trying to get sandbags to sale -- seal my house and my father's house. >> i horde that home depot stock water. cheryl: hurricane central tracking harvey expect today move east after it hits texas. we will get the forecast from janice dean. she obviously has been warning our viewers. this is going to be a tough storm. lauren: texas is home of third of the nation's remine ris as the oil compa

lauren. >> doubting the president's plan for tax reform? >> the president has talked about three brackets, 10%, 25%, and 35%. are these the rates that look good to you? is this what you would like to see? what would you like to see in terms of an individual tax rate for the majority of the country? the. >> i like to see it very, very low. those, if we could get to those rates that would be miraculous and very beneficial for the country. >> liz peak, you heard orrin hatch. come to you first. 200 days ago they had a mandate a mission, repeal and replace obamacare. get tax reform done. congress leaves for recess empty-handed. is that the frustration i thought i heard orrin hatch seek about there? >> without a doubt. they have to go along doing through reconciliation which of course since they didn't repeal and replace obamacare manies much harder. they don't have saved revenues to work with, which gets kind of gobbledygook. that is tougher road. talking about possibly working with democrats. you

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lauren: thanks for joining us good lauren simonetti.a now threatening nuclear weapons against the u.s. if it is attacked by american forces. pyongyang will not negotiate under any circumstances. the u.s. spy agencies detecting north korea loading and bishop cruise missiles onto a patrol boat for the first time in three years. define shows the north not backing down despite new and crippling economic sanctions that would unanimously be approved by the u.n. for north korean testing it to intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of hitting the u.s. cheryl: nikki haley, ambassador to the united nations that america has the upper hand. >> it was a gut punch to north korea. we are going to start fighting back at every dollar of revenue that north korean government can't come and they are not saving their people with it. they are using it for their weapons system. going after the sanctions is going after their ability. train to north korea remains at the top of president trump's agenda. more now from our own adam shapiro. >> president trump

lauren cancer. lauren, that's what's happening now. lauren: good news is that prove successful.erve -- the cofounder of planned capital management. good to see you, doug. the fed is concerned about low inflation. some officials think it is a temporary factor. others say we see inflation because something is fundamentally changing the economy. where do you stand on this? >> that is true. do we use traditional models where the wage come as the wages are driving up prices eventually about the traditional stand in the labor market has been tight in doing well so it's long-term. other facts that technology and artificial intelligence, all that's happened is that pushed prices down. prices have gone up and we can all recognize that on a daily basis. so it typically comes with higher prices and a tighter market. >> if you're looking at the fed funds futures. want to ask about the consumer. mixed signals this week. do you think it's healthy once again? >> but we just spoke about if you think about it come me do have a better labor situation, a few more dollars in your pocket and prices

lauren: welcome back.y say, all good things come to an end including a rare streak for the l.a. dodgers. cheryl: jerrod max is here with all the details. >> a couple of streaks came to an end. in baseball there is a lot of back and forth on the scorecard but not in the l.a. dodgers this year. second inning last night, cody bellinger hit his 30th home run, but the dodgers on top when nothing. then when the major league record 53 great games this year in which they held the lead at any point. streak over. the braves call and flowers and sprout in the wind streak at nine games. baseball's all-time hit leader was going to be inducted into the philadelphia phillies wall of fame next week and as voted by the fans. we'll not get inducted during alumni weekend due to recent events. a lawsuit that contends petrus have a relationship for several years in the 1970s that the young women under 16. soldier field in chicago last night. tim howard against international powerhouse in a scoreless tie broken in the 59 minute

lauren: breaking news this morning. north korea sounds the alarm with plans to attack along, possibly within days. the governor of guam dismisses threats and remains calm. cheryl: investors watching global tensions closely with the u.s. market closing last night. today we are watching earnings from struggling retailers. macy's chemicals, nordstrom. stock market futures pointed to a lower open thursday. lauren: no sellout however. stocks opening to the downside. a possible $180 billion telecom and cable deal with the cable giant charter. a lab report on now from london. cheryl: stocks in asia edged lower. south korea kospi gunpoint 38%. all of these guys in the red today. turning to face the taking of the tv networks hoping to bring appointment viewing. "fbn:am" starts right now. ♪ train 25:01 a.m. here in new york. thursday, august 10th. the morning from. cheryl casone. lauren: lauren simonetti. thanks for joining us. cheryl: can't wait to talk about face but tv. i watch a lot on facebook. lauren: first come the breakin

lauren: that is unbelievable. without tax reform hopes we're at record stock market. >> i would love to ask, love to see on the floor right now how many dow 22,000 hats are out there. lauren: connell, 22,000 hats, have they had them made? it has been 106 days. they had time to make one. >> i see an old 20,000 hat. courtney tells me there is bag of 22,000 hats. it is america. lauren: will they be stingy give being them out at as they were with 21,000. i don't think i have the street cred. lauren: i do. put one in for me. david, we expect as we wait for the press secretary to address the media today, the senate democrats wrote a letter to the white house, to donald trump and senate republican leadership, they said, talk to us. we're on board for tax reform, but we want to make sure there is no tax cut for the top one%. >> right. lauren: we want to make sure pay-fors don't hurt those on medicare, medicaid, social security, et cetera. can they get this done? a lot of things to appease? >> i listened to their new messa

lauren: u.n.kki haley telling maria bartiromo in "sunday morning futures" that north korea has the opportunity to do the right thing. >> united states will respond based on north korea's actions. we hope they don't do anything further. we hope they stop the reckless activity. we hope we don't have to do anything. all the options have been on the table and continue to be on the table. lauren: secretary of state rex tillerson discusses the situation in north korea. he was in the north philippines. >> also expressing a view to china and russia that we do have an expectation to do everything you can to help north korea understand the reality of the future as well. cheryl: pressures on china, but north korea showing enough dissensions of the most economic partner even after china urge pyongyang to stop the nickel test. cheryl: following some other news here in the u.s. today. the ongoing investigation by special counsel robert mueller and the presidential election was a major topic in all the new shows

lauren: has a good point.itch mcconnell says that is your chance congress will not raise the debt ceiling. senate majority leader with the secretary stephen mnuchin urging lawmakers for a clean debt ceiling increase when they return from recess next month. will it happen? what is next? let's bring in brian bryan burk, chair of the finance program at king's college of manhattan and chief strategist harlan hill remember the donald trump for president advisory board. in the past, republicans have demanded significant spending cut in return for lifting the debt ceiling up. will that change? will we see a clean ceiling height care? >> i believe so. the pressure is on mitch mcconnell and speaker ryan to prove they have the legislative prowess to get things done on capitol hill. speaker paul ryan is on another network trying to be cast aside for pushing that over to the senate in mitch mcconnell. they both share the blame here. we got nothing done in the end. let's handle the debt ceiling. let's talk about infrastruc

lauren: shocker. one of our top stories today as the president condemning the kkk and white supremacists program in virginia over the weekend. conservative commentator and radio host erick erickson. good morning. >> good morning. treated to do you agree that the criticism that he was too slow to respond that he did not single out those papers initially because he was trying to not alienate his base? those are things about the president. is that fair? >> you should've come out quickly and call that the white supremacist because he was critical of hillary clinton and barack obama for not naming radical islam during terrorist attacks. he opened himself up from criticism by not doing that. train to give also say this type of hate has no place in america. what does need to be done to stop these ultra- right groups that have created such violence in our country? >> conservatives have to stand up to them. the more the left piles on, frankly a lot of conservatives be quiet because the left is not willing to m

lauren: thank you for joining us. lauren simonetti. i feel like it is going to happen and this is why. great day for apple to the tech giant with blowout third-quarter earnings come in sending the stock to an all-time high of 6% right now. tracee carrasco joining us with more on the story. >> good morning, ladies. typically apple slowest was a solid earnings report. that exceeded wall street's expectation. 41 million iphone's during the quarter up 2% a year earlier. i'll save 15% increase in the number of ipads sold after several quarters of decline. all of that helped apple hit $45 billion in sales for the quarter up 7%. the from 23,125,000,000,000. the majority of the money is overseas. that could all change at the "fbn:am" is patient passes tax reform. and for those three apple plants in the united states that the president alluded to last week, ceo tim cook said we will have something to say about that later in the year. let's get to the iphone eight. when will it be released? apple expects sales for the fourth quarter which ended

lauren: the u.s.ary tried not to plan for north korea but the pentagon is urging diplomacy good national security advisor h.r. mcmaster same committee very obvious to north korea. >> the president made clear -- he made clear that the united states will not tolerate our citizens or our allies being threatened by this rogue regime. there is a much greater danger if they were to be any degree of ambiguity in connection with the kind of response that kim jong un can expect if you were to threaten the united states or allies. lauren: at pompeii on "fox news sunday" says he continues to press ahead with its nuclear weapons program. >> at difficult to put a timeline to these things. each time a task another missile or if they connect a nuclear weapons task nuclear weapons task and they develop expertise, expand the envelope. it is probably fair to say that they are moving towards.net never alarming rate. trade to a military confrontation with north korea is not imminent and the possibility of war now is grea

lauren: jeff, it is lauren. i can see you are waist deep in water. can you tell us how far away you are from the truck? >> were using in my view unit which will move around all day today. we will be moving across the city. it's difficult to move because everywhere you go come you run into a scene like this and you can't get through. it will be a wild ride throughout the course of the day. they just can't get around. lauren: thank you so much for your reporting. stay safe. cheryl: we will see him throughout the day today. contributor to the hill and texas resident kristen tate, frequent guest of the show. good morning. >> good morning, guys. cheryl: how to think over the weekend where are you now? >> i decided to leave houston on friday and drive to boston. i'm from new hampshire originally, so i'm used of blizzards in snowstorms, but this is my first hurricane like this. i almost decided not to leave houston, but i am so glad i did. my family and i left the city on friday. it was raining so hard in what is happening since this widespread devastation.

lauren: thank you.n fox news headlines 20 for seven on a serious xm channel 115. cheryl: coming up, watching global markets. investors around the world react and to heighten tensions with the u.s. and north korea. we will get from london. we'll be right back. these >> these ♪ ot the trend analysis. hey. hi. hi. you guys going to the company picnic this weekend? picnics are delightful. oh, wish we could. but we're stuck here catching up on claims. but we just compared historical claims to coverages. but we have those new audits. my natural language api can help us score those by noon. great. see you guys there. we would not miss it. watson, you gotta learn how to take a hint. i love to learn. cheryl: rising tension between north korea and the u.s. is being felt around the world from an investment standpoint. markets under pressure. riva gold. we are seeing the global reaction by investors to the rhetoric between president trump and the north koreans. >> yeah, definitely. this may not be large relative to

lauren: stocks under pressure. the euro rallying papers with me in london down 1.5%, a 2% decline in germany with the dax. cheryl: reaction to the north korean lunch with talks in japan. the nikkei down almost half a percent. as you can see in south korea the kospi file point to 3%. "fbn:am" starts right now. train 3501 am in new york. tuesday, august 29th. good morning. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everyone. i'm cheryl casone. lauren: tropical storm harvey back in. before it moves onto louisiana appeared causing devastating flooding. looking at the rescue effort. officials say nine people appeared to have died. 30,000 needing shelter. topping 3000. there were 56,000 9-1-1 calls in houston alone between saturday and sunday. president trump will travel today to survey the damage. train to take a look at the national hurricane center. this shows the probable paths of the monster storm expected to make another landfall tomorrow morning here but this time near the texas louisiana border. jeff flock live

lauren: good morning. i am lauren simonetti. we want to dive right in. train to its incredible what's happened in the last 12 hours. lauren: breaking news the day after donald trump condemned white supremacist by name and is now back to blaming both sides for the deadly violence over the weekend. listen to what the president said late yesterday at trump tower. >> the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family and this country. you can call it terrorism. you can call it murder. you can call it whatever you want. i would just call it the fastest one to come up with a good verdict. that's what i call it. what about blood came charging. do they have any semblance of guilt? what about the fact they came charging was swinging clubs, do they have any problem? i think they do. that was a horrible, horrible day. wait a minute, i'm not finished. i'm not finished, fake news. mr. bannon came on very late. you know that. i went through 17 governors, senators and one of the primaries. mr. bannon came much later than that and i liked him. he's a good man. h

lauren: prime time speech.arry corey joins us from the center for american progress and for my sacred and defense. thank you for joining us this morning. we will hear from essentially his first speech on the matter post steve bannon. what do you expect the president to say? >> the fact he's going to instead of the oval office is he will be adding a small number of troops. right now have 3500. maybe another 4000 to 5000 troops. i senator cardin put it, the question is what is your strategy? how long do you want to do it? what pressure are you going to put on the afghan government to be more inclusive of the people because they will achieve your news. lauren: with these troops be there to train the afghan forces? we've had troops for 16 years in afghanistan since 9/11 as we work to topple the taliban. the strategy is not really working. >> it isn't. the question is what would be the ground rules for the troops? they are there primarily to train the afghan forces. will they be able to take on offensive missions th

lauren: you delegate. or someone who wants to be in your shoes and 10 years what do they have to do? by bitcoin. the most important thing for me was to be clear about what i wanted to build in the world and what i wanted to be and more importantly, what i did not want to be. having self-awareness, so you understand what your strengths are and where your gaps are and that is not a one-time event. it is always ongoing. having a clear sense of what -- what your o purpose is. or what you wanted to be. a lot of hard work and a lot of putting yourself out in uncomfortable situations. not --was a kid, i could i had a speech defect. i could not pronounce any word. i had to go to a speech therapist or years before i felt comfortable -- i had to go to a speech therapist for years before i felt comfortable speaking to people. , i amme an introvert focused on my gut feeling and those are positives but i was not able to do anything like this. 12, i said, i have to get over this i have to talk to people. i joined the sp

lauren: good morning, everyone. i'm lauren simonetti.ng is tropical storm harvey making landfall in louisiana as catastrophic flooding continues in texas. cheryl: authority state 18 deaths have been reported that many expect the death toll to rise. one of the deaths of the houston police officer who drowned in his car and the way to work. houston also imposed an overnight curfew. jeff flock there with the very latest. we should say the curfew itself is still in effect for another 30 minute, correct? >> that is correct. this is something not uncommon in these types of situations. the fact is it's a very complex situation in houston. in some communities the floodwaters have gone down. in some areas they are still. in other areas like this one, there is still rising. it releases out of the reservoirs they are talking about. the water still rising here and yesterday we got our first look at just the devastation that is being experienced all over the city with floodwaters still up, a look inside a young man's house. the first time he had seen

lauren: breaking news this morning. said president trump's rally in phoenix, arizona with tear gas and smoke as you're looking now. happening after a defined donald trump rallied his base. >> it's time to expose the crooked media is set to challenge the media inform 19 division. a rally in technology. the dow up 196 points. features giving back 31 right now. taking a look at europe, all as sun shares of buyer and monsanto after the european is voicing strong doubts about the $57 billion deal. we'll have more on that. trade in asia from a tape for crows is from a tape for crows is calling japan a nikkei rising 1%. trained to use a question for all of you. what would you do a $700 million? you'd probably be paying a lot of taxes, but if you win, powerball tonight, "fbn:am" starts this morning. >> 5:31 a.m. in new york late wednesday, august 23rd. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: i'm cheryl casone. do you have a powerball? lauren: i wouldn't even show up in the morning. train to a lot of news breaking overnight. protest erupt

lauren: i lauren simonetti. explosions at the ark at the arc of a plant in crosby, texas. black smoke coming from the chemical plant right now after the flooded facilities in six feet of water lost power as well as backup power. meanwhile, tropical depression harvey dumping heavy rains in parts of louisiana, arkansas, mississippi and tennessee. a number of flash flood warnings and watches in effect across the region. train to the death toll has risen to 31 in texas. jeff flock is live in houston with the latest. good morning. how are conditions? >> so many peers so many developments. mandatory evacuations in the spot we are right now near the addicts reservoir. this is a staging point for the occasion may be to get people out of here. taking up late this morning will be back as the epicenter of the unfolding disaster move to the west about 100 miles or so from houston in the towns of port arthur, texas and beaumont, texas. incredible pictures come to some of we experienced in houston and moving out there. folks being rescued, homes underwater, flash flooding from a terribl

lauren: it certainly was. something last night we'd never seen before in major league eighth of for the throws a no-hitter to the thrill of perfection to the loss of it. eighth inning in pittsburgh. rich hill is working on a perfect game. no house or only house. here you see chase utley keeps it alive. rich hill still perfect hit. so it's an error, still no-hitter, but there goes the hate. the pittsburgh pirate fans at the home in the bottom of the 10th. the first game in major league history where new hitters by a one-yard homeland. they got two and 10-2. developing news to run single. he has nine home runs, 20 rbis. the boston red socks because watch this, a 1-nothing lead with his home run. red sox in the eighth in the cube would come to that. stocks went up 61 and struck out 12. rashad davis from the oakland a's. closers that britain has converted 60 consecutive opportunities. yesterday britain's streak gave up two runs. still, orioles won the game in the 12th on a home run, the first in two years. check t

lauren: yeah.me when we look at the missiles that north korea has it caught a lot of us by surprise. how did they advance the technology so quickly? you know, it seems like there are chinese and chinese cooking equipment showing up in the north korean inventory. how did they get it so fast? >> they have advanced so far because the previous three administrations did not do what they should have done to prevent it particularly the last administration. the obama administration especially did not do enough to make him talk off-line as well the way president trump and secretary mattis has done and what the consequences are they didn't do enough to make sure china understood we will not tolerate this. we know you enjoy the torture of us with north korea behaving the way it does but it's not acceptable to us and their lovers for us to pull. we will make you regret making us insecure regarding north korea. the president is trying to do at the last minute to get it done but doing the right thing i think. lo

. >> lauren, some of us are seeing sun, but it may not stay that way. what's the latest. >> the latest right now, guys, as we're con to see these storms moving through the region. they're moving pretty slow. we're watching for possibly, even some flooding possible as we're continue into the afternoon. this is the moment we're watching right now. prince william county, even stafford county, this goes until 5:30, in an area that's outlined in here. so really running right along route 28 coming down 17. i can see amelia over there and coming out towards i-95. this storm right there producing a lot of heavy downpours, maybe a little bit of hail in this. this is our other area of severe thunderstorm warnings. this is charles county, and then also -- >> we're have a tornado warning just issued. thunderstorm actually just said, i was reading it out -- >> let's go ahead and take amelia's mike off. yeah, as amelia just said, we're right now this goes until 5:30. it goes mechanicsville, i know she's getting the radar right now. this is a tornado warning until 5:3

hey, hillary. >> hey, lauren.ell, they're on going that there's no sign after the rain is stopping. and as long as the rain is coming down, the floodwaters are rising. we've been walking through this neighborhood with bill and scott up from dallas helping out, helping rescue people in this neighborhood and just in the two trips that we've already taken, the floodwaters have risen about i would say 12 inches. so what i want to -- i'm here with scott today and what i wanted to talk to him about is what you're seeing and the kind of reception you've been getting. you're in the first and last line of defense for these people. >> yeah. some people can't stand the stop of leaving their home. >> how many rescues have you made today? >> me and other people probably between 35 and 40. >> kind of explain your decision to come up here, bring your own boat and how did you get looped into really getting involved? >> one of the people in our company said, hey, let's do it. i've got some john boats and then next thing we knew ab

our lauren johnson on the scene this morning, lauren. >> reporter: hi thomas, good morning. quiet here now at 69th street as passengers coming and going as usual but different scene earlier when that accident happened. train that was involved appears to be still on the tracks off in the distance. septa did confirm to bob kelly that an investigation is underway. lets go to the video from the scene just around 12:15 this morning an inbound train to 69th street station slammed into an unoccupied high speed line train, that was stopped here at the terminal. emergency crew from his upper darby, fire, in addition to several other agencies responded quickly here to the scene just to start rescuing passengers from that train and then quickly learned, dozens of people injured. >> inbound norristown high speed train came in the terminal and hit a station, car that was sitting in the terminal unoccupied, that car did move, and the passengers were injured and police, fire personnel and e ms from delaware county got them off the trains and out to area hospitals. >> i was talking to a guy

meteorologist lauren casey's live on the sky deck with the answer to that, lauren? >> reporter: thanks, guess contact beautiful out here, even over the last 30 minutes, more and more sunshine, break ing out, a gorgeous evening is on tap, after that super soggy start to the workweek yesterday. temperatures right now also feeling great. we're generally in the 70's. 78 degrees in philadelphia. northwesterly wind ushering in dryer air, dew points dropping off. seventy-eight down the shore. we're at 72 feeling good in the poconos. comfort index definitely feeling good, we have that damp, balmy day, yesterday, and dew points continue to drop and now we are falling back in the middle 50's as most of the reporting sites, feeling pleasant and will feel almost fall-like as we head in the overnight period, and through date tomorrow. storm scan three showing thaws cloud deck continuing to decrease with full sunshine breaking out in the lehigh valley and poconos. as we head in the next couple of hours those cloud will continue to clear on out, so for this evening, a beautiful on

lauren. >> i like that forecast.nt donald trump getting pretty tough on the problem this past week and eye opening study on the epidemic in our city in philadelphia found that one in three adults in philadelphia used opioids in the past year. 13% said they used one in the past week. the health department survey found most of those people were getting those opioids from their health care provider nearly 20% are getting them from friends, relatives or even street deale dealers. devon receives a occurring addict turned drug counselor serving on mayor kenny's opioid tack force joining us this morning. we were chatting. i had a hernia surgery in june. and before i left i had a prescription and i noticed oxycodone. so now in my cabinet pills. is this where it sort of starts for some people? >> yeah. there's lot going on here. i think the first thing we need to do is to teach doctors that a three to 5-day prescription of opioid social security really what we need to be doing. giving somebody a 20 day or ten day supply is ju

lauren. >> reporter: yeah, hi dawn.hat hurricane harvey just now making landfall category four hurricane. authorities calling it live threatening, catastrophic, devastating, and they're warning people to stay inside or get out if you haven't -- actually now you shouldn't try and leave because you shall hunker down. authorities sa saying now especially in hurricane harvey reached well beyond major hurricane status. >> i would stress that this is serious storm. >> reporter: hurricane harvey now a monster as seen from spa space. >> we are predicting an extreme scene. >> i rent a trailer and i'm worried about the flooding. >> reporter: last minute evacuations have been taking place all across the gulf coast. >> i figure we got the kids. it's not worth the risk. >> our weather is 3 miles from the water. a 14-foot wall of water will come in. we couldn't risk it. >> with hurricane force winds now moving in beyond the potentially 35 threatening gusts and storm surge it is the possibility of days and days of heavy rain and recor

lauren blanchard live in dickinson texas.hank you, lauren. >> harvey made land fall in rockville as a dangerous category four storm. >> that town is devastated by strong winds and pounding rain many lossing homes andies abouts. >> ray boyd spoke to the residents and shares those stories tonight. >> residents along texas's coastline are picking up the pieces after hurricane carvey devastating image. nancy and george collins found their home destroyed and they say they have no money and no insurance to fix it and will have to live in a mobile home. >> we have a camper that survived it and at least we have something to live n a lot of people don't. >> homes appeared to have held better than many businesses and these homes st front yard blown straight out of the warehouse next door and don got emotional thinking about his surf shop. he's concern today may be a total loss as most of the misdemeanor was rurned when the roof leaked and ceiling partially fell in. >> we had this building since 1969. we did not have this much damage fr

lets go to meteorologist lauren casey who has a look at our weekend forecast, hi there , lauren. >> hi, jessica beautiful day here in avalon, at wind drift hotel, they are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and what did i before with me? the mobile weather watcher, of course, parked downstairs, taking a gauge of our current conditions here which right now are absolutely perfect, not too hot or cold, mobile weather watcher catching some rays and feeling sea breeze which is in fully affect. it is a beautiful day, beautiful evening here in avalon. we will keep it nice, clear as we head in the next several hours. temperatures have been cooling off. we are falling back in the 70 's with a sea breeze that has kicked in over last several hours pulling in that cooler air off the atlantic, avalon cooler by a mile, just out further then stone harbor in the atlantic. but temperatures right now 85 in philadelphia we're at 80 in ac. seventy-nine in wildwood. we have cooler temperatures up wind, 72 degrees right now, toward state college, seven to degrees in scranton because of the cold fr

. >> lauren johnson is at police headquarters with more details on this story. lauren? >> reporter: yes, it was a lot of shots fired. that's what police are saying about what happened last night. now they're trying to find out a motive and trying to find out exactly what went on. police were actually near 39th and brown trying to break up a large disorderly crowd when officers heard gunshots a block away. several people had been shot. two victims had been taken to presbyterian, an 18-year-old and a 21-year-old, on the scene was a 24-year-old who had been shot multiple times. he's in critical condition, police were notified there were other victims who maybe had not been shot but injured by shattered glass, while police didn't find any guns at the scene, they did find lots of evidence. >> based on ballistics evidence, we know that at least 31 shots were fired from a semiautomatic weapon. we found 31 spent shell casings on the sidewalk and on the street in the 3900 block of melon street. and that's also where we found the victims. there were several private residents stru

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sunny start to august, in center city but storms are flaring up across the area i'm meteorologist lauren casey with the late lease at storm scan three and preview of your weekend forecast, cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now. >>> little nervous to go back out there i will share with my office co-workers and let them know and hopefully we will buddy up and not walk alone. >> a community is on alert works man sexually assaulted at gunpoint while running in the popular farm. tonight search for suspect is on. terrifying attack happened in broad daylight, good evening, i'm ukee washington. >>> i'm jessica dean. police say victim was running in norristown farm park just before 11:00 this morning when the man attacked. that is where "eyewitness news" reporter david spunt joins us live and still tracking this still developing story, david. >> reporter: victim is at einstein hospital recovering from her injuries. she's 19 year-old. we will take a live look from the chopper to show you it is still an active investigation. there are still crews on the scene processing this scene. i wan

>> lauren: [ laughs ] no, no.ence of no phones ringing... >> michael: oh, yes. >> lauren: ...no clacking of computer keys... >> michael: yes. mm-hmm. >> lauren: ...no scratching of pens across legal pads. just us. alone. >> michael: mm. blissful. >> michael: yes. >> lauren: heaven. [ lock clicks ] >> michael: oh. >> scott: oh, man. sorry, guys. >> lauren: [ laughs ] >> scott: thought i'd stop home and say hi to mom, but my timing is obviously, uh...

fox's lauren plan. ard is reporting from gal ofeston. >> life threaten and catastrophic how they're describing hurricane harvey reaching well beyond hurricane stat sglis would stress this say serious storm. >> a monster as seen from space. >> we're predict event. >> i'm worried about the flooding. >> last minute evacuations have been taking place all across the gulf coast. >> i figure we have the kids. not worm the risk. >> our house is three miles from the water. like a 14 football of water will come in they said and we couldn't risk it. >> with hurricane force winds moving in beyond the pote potentially life-threatening gusts and storm surge, it is possibility of days and days of heavy rain and record flooding causing major concerns all along the gulf coast from texas to louisiana. it will linger days over te texas. >> amount of rainfall is unprecedented when you look at 50" of rain officials are warning harvey may leave parts of texas uninhabitable for weeks or months. >> it could reemerge over the g

, lauren. >> thanks, guys. good news is steady, heaviest rain has moved off shore and storm scan where you see brighter returns, reds, orange and yellows booking out toward the atlantic but has been a soaker of the day to day. we have lingering scattered showers in and around city and points south and we do still flab flood warnings for parts of the new jersey and delaware flash flood warning in effect until 5:15 for next 15 minutes for parts of the new jersey, far southern interior new jersey that includes maurice river and parts of the delaware central parts of the delaware, milford included south of dover until 6:00 p.m. heaviest hain has moved out of these areas but we have seen so much rainfall in the last week in and around dover area, over 6 inches of rain, so that ground is super saturated. as we saw from the view from the mobile weather watcher we are seeing flooding reports coming out of the shore, right now. latest flooding reports middletown ship, cape may county flooding in both directions on nj47,

lauren. >> so you're talking about it.ll talk about it even more the hot item to have right now a pair of sunglasses though. if you have not already gotten them they may be hard to find. we sent fox 29 dave kitchen out to see if he could get his happened on a pair. >> were ur able to get glasses. >> i did not at least not yet. >> they are not stylish per se these shades are burning up the park market days before the total sew ar eclipse. >> i was not able to get glasses i was going to order from amazon procrastinated had i done before it would have been easy. >> fox 29 got pupil protectors. many centers in the area do not want to confirm if they have any left. >> we did run out. we ordered 150 a week ago. gone. >> dr. sukarmar pan dit is getting slammed with calls. >> we have one left. not for sale. i'm keeping it. >> adel who is one of the patients here got look at nasa approved gear and looked into light of our camera. >> i see the do the over there. no it's pretty dim i can see clear five or six lights in there. but not

i'm lauren johnson. bracing as the most powerful hurricane hits the us in years. hurricane harvey has now been downgraded from a dangerous category four to a category one storm. let's toss things over to our meteorologist monica cryan. we hear experts are concerned about record-breaking flooding happening there. >> yeah, even as the winds begin to calm down, tornadoes dissipate, we are still going to be dealing with this flooding not just this weekend and the next few days but we're talking weeks of flooding in texas. that's the big concern with this because we'll get to the forecast in just a bit. so the wind at 85 miles per hour has downgraded this to category one hurricane but still very dangerous situation, because through saturday there's that tornado threat. there's also storm surge up to 12 miles per hour. but what we're expecting this to do is become a tropical storm through the next few days or so, and then it's going to continue to kind of loop around and this is going to be bringing rain to th

lauren?so bizarre, jenny joyce, thank you so much. developing right now, police say they're talking to a person of interest in the shooting outside a northeast philadelphia target yesterday afternoon, it happened on bustleton avenue, in northeast philadelphia, a group of three to five men started fighting when one of the men pulled out a gun and fired five shots. one man was hit. he is hospitalized, in stable condition, no one else was hurt, the gunfire sent shoppers scrambling. >> you we heard shooting, everybody started running. it is terrifying. i never want to be in that situation again. >> we in like the kids aisle. and all the sudden everybody's yelling, and they're running, and they're saying oh, my god, there was gunshot, gunshots. >> police say the gunman originally got away in a red honda sonata, officers tell us the shooter later turned úhimself in. police involved shooting leaves one man dead after officers say he tried to steel a woman's car. this happened, just after 5:00 n nort

>> reporter: lindsey and lauren, good evening to you.e are learning more details about the chopper crash most noteably the names of the two state troopers. what a rough day it was in charlottesville and it continues to be, this evening, albeit a lot quieter tonight. the two people inside that chopper now identified as lieutenant hj cullen of the virginia state patrol and also trooper burt bates, the actual pilot. his birthday is tomorrow, obviously, neither he or his family will be able to celebrate. instead they will be mourning apparently what happened as it pertains to the chopper around 5:00 p.m., police, pretty much had a good hold on what was going on here protesters and counter protesters who were on the street, and they were a suspect identified as 20 year-old james fields who crashed into that flock of people behind me. they sent up this chopper just to ensure that protesters and counter protesters were not going to tangle backup, and there were scuffles going all day long. something clearly went wrong with that chopper and sadl