well, hi, everybody, i'm lauren simonetti, welcome to cashin' in. scott martin. welcome everybody, to the show. >> thank you. lauren: the media still attacking president trump, even as america deals with the tragedy in texas

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: mother nature is not letting puerto rico get any relief. lauren: weather has been terrific this summer. train to pass. hurricane maria about to make landfall in puerto rico as a catastrophic category four storm. maximum sustained winds right now. 155 miles per hour. the most powerful hurricane to directly hit the u.s. territory and 85 years. lauren: the governor say more than 10,000 people are now in shelters. we expected to dump 10 to 15,000 inches of rain. it can search water levels by six to nine feet. first responders in the u.s. mainland or in puerto rico ahead of maria. >> it is life safety first. we'll do a quick assessment and i think we come in the organization will figure out where the damage areas are and do as much good quickly because time is that the essence. trÈs tres puerto rico being hit hard by new monster hurricanes. be careful, our hearts are with you. we will be there to help. fox senior meteorologist janice dean elected us in a few moments. trained to do really hope puerto rico is ready for it. captain lewis merced join

i'm lauren simonetti. i have to say it's a good book.the breaking news we've missed overnight. millions of residents in florida started to begin cleanup after irma appeared 60% say it has no power. they cost about $30 billion in damage to us than the estimated $200 billion forecast over the weekend in the storm wasn't as strong as feared although it was still deadly. six people did die in florida alone. it shows the distraction in the florida keys. both in houses damaged in florida had the area and the cat four storm. this may be dispatched the aircraft carrier abraham lincoln to help with relief efforts. lauren: urbanist storm surge and heavy rain hit jacksonville in the northeast part of the state. the streets of the city turned into rivers. the theme parks in our land of sustained minor damage but goodness, walt disney world and universal studios say they are reopening this morning in miami beach's reopening today as well. irma saint florida after ripping through many islands in the caribbean. nasa released these before and after sate

in new york, friday first of september, thank you for joining us, i'm lauren simonetti. yl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone. we have seen issues of looting, price gouging, not all is well today. lauren: very long gas lines in some places. cheryl: death toll from harvey has risen to 39 after authorities confirmed seven more victims overnight. meanwhile officials warning there could be more explosions at the chemical plant in crosby texas, the plant hit by two explosions yesterday after losing power. lauren: all of this coming as difficult clean-up efforts underway across southern texas where we find jeff flock this morning. live in houston with the very latest, hey, jeff, long week for you. jeff: well, it's going to be a long several months for the folks that live in houston, 40,000 homes we believe impacted by this flood and take a look. you're going to see and maybe dave gives you up close and personal picture, homes all across the city and this is actually the good part here because these folks are able to at least get back in and flood waters are out and they are able

on lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning. i'm cheryl casone. tell me what is newsworthy. lauren: they have to judge which ones are newsworthy and which could be an appropriate or fake news altogether. cheryl: a lot of actual real breaking news this morning. the latest gop bill to repeal obama tried my support. susan collins joining mccain, rand paul and senator cruz say no to this graham-cassidy bill. after the congressional budget office says millions of people would lose coverage under this bill. lauren: let's go to adam for the details. reporter: the future of this graham-cassidy bill seems to have been killed when the congressional budget office released its report, but essentially said that it would save $133 billion in government spending over roughly 10 years, that millions of people would lose their insurance. early in the day on monday we heard from one of the bill's cosponsors, senator lindsey graham and he made the case as to why the legislation is necessary. >> is trying to try something new and i believe with all my heart and soul t

lauren: good morning, i'm lauren simonetti. nal drink beer day yesterday, how coincidental that national coffee day is morning after. cheryl: i don't think that's a coincidence. lauren: it's smart. cheryl: busy friday. you have president trump and vice president pence selling the administration's tax plan, trump will say how the plan affects the manufacturing industry when he speaks before the national association of manufacturers today in washington. fox business will have live coverage of that event shortly before 11:30 a.m. eastern time during varney & company and vice president mike pence was in sa burr dean detroit telling workers health is on the way. >> we will put more money in american people's pockets. [cheers and applause] lauren: more on the administration's push to overhaul the tax code from adam shapiro. >> good morning, the administration is going to continue its attempt to sell tax reform not only to the american people but also to congress. its issue is repealing the deduction for state and local taxes which wil

i'm lauren simonetti. i was excited. ? cheryl: yeah, the $1000 question part of your interview coming up. lauren: i think we will. resonant trumpet generous extenders including three democrats to discuss tax reform. democratic senator joe manchin said in the statement i was joined to god how we can work together in a bipartisan manner and tax reform. a productive conversation about areas of agreement as well as areas where to find compromise. cheryl: blake burman at the white house with more of the president's strategy. reporter: president trump tax reform roadshow has accelerated. the president will hit the road at least once a week going forward, likely with weekly dc-based events. after failing going at it alone on health care, the white house tuesday white house tuesday talk to the possibility from striking a deal with democrats on tuesday. they might need help from across the senate aisle. >> we don't see we can assume we can get taxed then strictly in a bipartisan basis. it's wise for us not from a policy good to try

lauren simonetti. magazine founder hugh hefner has died. the magazine says he died of natural causes at his home last night surrounded by family. friends are mourning his death. >> this is a huge, a huge come to you skype it would every think of him and what he's done, he had a big impact on so many of us. >> is surreal. unbelievable. i feel really sad. cheryl: hugh hefner built the launch with playboy magazine in 1953 at a time when the nation is conservative about the issues of and. he ran playboy first in chicago and then in l.a. many stars including madonna, namely campbell, kim kardashian, even at the low end. hugh hefner was 91 years old. a look at his life. lauren: he'll be buried in l.a. cemetery next to marilyn monroe. cheryl: he really was an amazing american figure. lauren: let's move on to taxes. following today's president trump colony once in a generation opportunity unveiling his land in a major speech in indiana saying it would boost economic growth within middle-class miracle. connell mcshane with more. >> an argument we he

"your world" with lauren simonetti in for neil. >> lauren: thousands of americans picking up the pieces after hurricane harvey leaves a path of destruction behind. these pictures are sobering. now too so are the costs. i'm lauren simonetti in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." accuweather now predicting the damage from this devastating storm nearing $190 billion. that would exceed katrina, the costliest natural disaster in the u.s. history. peter doocy with more. >> before harvey hit and brought a flood zone the size of lake michigan to the lone star state, the costliest natural disasters in american history had been hurricane katrina and super storm sandy. now a new estimate that says that harvey's damage could cost more than both of those combined. $190 billion is the total coast. now dr. joel meyers says that business leaders and major banks, the federal reserve should factor in the negative impacts this catastrophe will have on business, corporate earnings and employment. that's consistent with president trump's guess that there's never been a natural disaster like hurricane har

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone, i want to get right to the breaking news for you. out of london, a chaotic scene that's unfolding right now in london. you're looking at the map, parsons substation, explosion inside a tube train during morning rush hour at parsons green, some passengers have been left with facial burnses, witnesses say that many people ran for the same door out of that carriage, some of them pushed over and trampled. there was a white bucket on fire inside of the train. lauren: let's listen to sister station sky news to see what they are reporting. >> after the london bombings, you were on when steven, reports were coming through what first was thought to be local explosions on the underground system. that underground network was closed down fairly quickly. the rest of the tube, most of it is running, it's just whar inteef the district line that's severely affected at the moment. but that does have knock-on effect. if there were concerns about other potential

i'm lauren simonetti. we begin with president trump said to make his first address to the united nations. white house national security advisor h.r. mcmaster saying the president thinks the speech is a tremendous opportunity to reach so many world leaders. >> first is to protect the american people will in the third is really to help promote accountability and sovereignty. those three things allow him to communicate his vision for america's role in the world peered lauren: today the president will have several meetings with benjamin netanyahu and emanuel machrone writes your new york. lea: the president see says they intensified. ambassador to the u.n. mcneely says the security is running out of options. >> we were trying to use every diplomatic possibility we could do. we pretty much exhausted all the things he could do the security council at this point. i said yesterday i'm perfectly happy kick in perfectly happy taken this over to general mattis because he has plenty of military options. lauren: just d

good morning, i'm dagen mcdowell, in for lauren simonetti. cheryl: feels like fall. dagen: i broke out the wool this morning. cheryl: we have equifax coming up later in the show. ceo and capitol hill next week, that'll be a good time. dagen: it's not just the hack and the data breach, it's how they've handled it. a fresh nuclear threat from north korea. the country's foreign minister saying that pyongyang may conduct hydrogen bomb test, nuclear armed missile over japan. the north top diplomat made comments last night on side lyons of a united nations gathering here in new york. cheryl: kim jong un called president trump deranged in a rare personal statement on state media. he also said that trump would pay, quote, dearly for his speech to the un general assembly. on tuesday trump said that the u.s. will totally destroy north korea if washington is forced to defend itself or allies. the foreign minister to take the podium later today. dagen: president trump signing an executive order to impose new sanctions on north korea, under the order the u.s. will punish individu

and lauren simonetti. lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everyone. and cheryl casone. a big groups for this new debut. lauren: the watch is $400 senate hits the the shelves tomorrow. we'll see. hurricane marie of regaining strength as it passes near the dominican republic. right now a category three storm maximum sustained winds of 115 miles an hour after maria tore through puerto rico in the u.s. virgin islands yesterday destroyed hundreds of homes, turning streets into rivers and knocking out power across the entire region. >> logistically it's a big challenge. you don't typically have all the resources you need stored on the island so they have to come from the continental united states over. both are basically without power and will be so for a long time. they both have fragile power systems. cheryl: does the administrator david. they're ready to help the people of puerto rico. president trump treated about this. we are with you and the people puerto rico #pr strong. maria, the most powerful hurricane to hit puerto rico more than 80 years. the eye of the storm to m

"your world" with lauren simonetti in for neil. >> lauren: thousands of americans picking up the piecesruction behind. these pictures are sobering. now too so are the costs. i'm lauren simonetti in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." accuweather now predicting the damage from this devastating storm nearing $190 billion. that would exceed katrina, the costliest natural disaster in the u.s. history. peter doocy with more. >> before harvey hit and brought a flood zone the size of lake michigan to the lone star state, the costliest natural disasters

and lauren simonetti. trade two good morning. i'm cheryl casone. the tiny island of barbados destroyed. lauren: wiped off the map, so sad. cheryl: is just that now the latest update from the hurricane center. the eye of the storm is passing to the north eastern side of the dominican republic right now. that is where irma is right now. much of the u.s. territory has maximum sustained winds 180 miles per hour. we want to show you a new image of the monster hurricane scene for the international space patient. take a look at the disruption after irma richter the caribbean island. great. it's incredible. lauren: to think more hurricanes are on the way. it's expected to sign the dominican republic and they continues to head towards florida. 25,000 people already evacuated from the florida keys. only one layout. >> concessions can be replaced. your family can not. this is serious and we cannot take chances. it is life-threatening. this is not a storm you can wade through. lauren: out this coming as the atlantic basin has to react to hurricanes for the firs

i'm lauren simonetti. i think they will be a trillion dollars company.ke an excrement say it like attend. top democratic leaders announcing they made a deal with the president to protect so-called dreamers during a dinner at the white house last night, senate minority leader chuck schumer and house minority leader nancy pelosi issued a statement. we agree to an trend of protections to daca quickly and work out border security excluding the wall that's acceptable to both sides. >> file in a statement, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders quoted this. while daca was discussed, excluding the wall is certainly not agreed to. senator schumer spokesperson also treated the president made clear he would continue pushing the wall, just not part of this agreement. cheryl: also a lot of confusion about the tax plan. a republican tax plan will not benefit wealthy americans. blake irvin at the white house with details on that. >> wealthiest of americans may not be getting a tax break and might even pay a little more. that was the message from president

let me send it over to david and lauren simonetti for "after the bell." >> so close. we'll it a couple minutes before we know, david. david: popped into record territory as you were talking. lauren: nasdaq hit a record. dow closing up 6 points. ending brand new record high for the fifth day in a row as investors see renewed hope for tax reform. s&p 500 logging new record as well. nasdaq, oh so close five or six points away from a record. we'll see once numbers settle. i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa francis. david: good to see you. i'm david asman. this is "after the bell." more on the big market movers. here is what else we're covering for you in a very busy hour. an historic day for president trump making his first appearance at the u.n. the president teasing some of his ideas for u.n. reform today ahead of his big address tomorrow. steve hilton will be joining us whether we can ever expect real reform from an organization as corrupt as the u.n. >>> the equifax hack, how scammers are taking advantage. situation. how you can spot them. >>> protests in st. louis tu

let me send it over to david and lauren simonetti for "after the bell." >> so close. minutes before we know, david. david: popped into record territory as you were talking. lauren: nasdaq hit a record. dow closing up 6 points. ending brand new record high for the fifth day in a row as investors see renewed hope for tax reform. s&p 500 logging new record as well. nasdaq, oh so close five or six points away from a record. we'll see once numbers settle. i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa francis. david: good to see you. i'm david asman. this is "after the bell." more on the big market movers. here is what else we're covering for you in a very busy hou

well, hi, everybody, i'm lauren simonetti, welcome to cashin' in. rachel, juan williams, larry glasier and scott martin. welcome everybody, to the show. >> thank you. lauren: the media still attacking president trump, even as america deals with the tragedy in texas and louisiana. what do you make of that? >> look, when you have a tragedy of this proportion, what you want from your president is competence and you want authenticity. not everybody is a hugger, not everybody is an emoter and i think that part of why we're having the hug counting, how many hugs he gave or didn't give, why we have silly discussions whether the first lady can wear sill stilettos on the way to air force one. they're handling this well. i think there were plans in the media for stories how he dropped the ball and mishandled his first big crisis. this is a huge flood, a huge natural disaster, and things are going as well as you could hope for. lauren: rachel, you say the word huge, they criticized him, the mainstream media, you know, for saying the storm was epic and horrific.

lauren simonetti with the details there. lauren. rapidly strengthen, roll over caribbean islands that were devastate by irma days ago, the storm expected to be a major hurricane when it hits islands and not the only one we are watching. hurricane josÉ moving north threatening dangers and currents along the east coast in the next few days. some m&a in defense industry. northrop buying and assume 1 and a half billion dollars in debt. 134.50 a share for orbital. check out shares, up by 30%. mcdonalds, happy meal is getting healthier, dropping minute-made juice, the change prompted by participants who increasingly prefer giving kids drinks with less sugar. take a look at mcdonalds share for the year, up almost 29%. maria. maria: all right, lauren, thank you so much. trump administration is considering stricter travel ban while the original order heads to supreme court. we will talk to judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano on the other side of the break to get legal implications. we break down the movies that came down on top. back in

lauren simonetti on one such example. lauren?ig party here. just check out the floor. henrik lundqvist just entered the building, you can here the deejay in the background. this is bgc charity day. they have raised in the past 12 years that they've been doing this charity for victims of terrorism, natural disasters, raising for hurricanes harvey and irma today, they've raised $137 million to date. so you see presidents like bill clinton this year, donald trump last year, celebrities and athletes coming out to raise money. i did speak with new york giants' quarterback eli manning moments ago, and i asked him about what j.j. watt is doing for texas and if that's what nfl ratings really need right now. do you think they want to see what j.j. watt did and not what colin kaepernick is doing? >> i think that's a better story to the fans. see the good things that are happening. there's so many athletes that are doing great things for their communities, for this country. and, you know, it's setting great examples for how to use your spot

lauren simonetti. obviously the market is the big story yesterday. huge selloff. lauren: was huge selloff. know everything congress needs to get to. drain to a lot of breaking news this morning. of course we start with the most powerful storm ever recorded in the atlantic making its first landfall in the caribbean as it heads to the u.s. hurricane irma, winds of 185 miles per hour. irma seen from the international space station. so strong is showing up on equipment to measure earthquakes. lauren: president trump has declared the u.s., virgin islands. >> if there is an evacuation ordering your area, please follow it. i can't stress it enough. remember, we can build your home, but we cannot rebuild your life. lauren: live report from adam klotz in a few moments. trained to the workload is starting today. the house set to vote on the relief funding package for the dems of hurricane harvey. lauren: tracee carrasco live with the very latest. good morning, tracee. train for congress to spend back to work for one day. gop lawmakers on how they will tackle their growing to

here to explain how all of that can be true is lauren simonetti of the fox business network. good evening, lauren. >> good evening, bret. it's strange how that all works out, but if you round out the report we got this morning, the trend is positive. 156,000 jobs added last month, that was it his appointment. those were provided lower. unemployment was higher coming in at 4.4%, but we are seeing wage growth. not much, just by $0.03 an hour last month, but if you look at this on a year-to-year basis, wages grew 2.5%. so the point is all of these are signs pointing to in improving economy and improving confidence. in fact, a happy now with their jobs than they have been in over a decade. so these are some of the reasons were finally for the first time in two years, getting the gdp primed to 3% and investors reactions to all of this is why the stock market, just give us the numbers for today in the week is actually up to five months in a row, this being the first day of september, bret? >> bret: and about investors, lauren, how much of that in washington? we've got congress, if t

i'm lauren simonetti. [inaudible conversations] amazons attack another big retailer.e do have breaking news this morning. hurricane maria slamming the island of dominica with a monster category five storm. widespread devastation. we shall survive by the grace of god. puerto rico one high alert to clearing the state of emergency as maria is getting close after hitting to medicare with a category four storm with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. trained to maria expect it to make landfall tomorrow morning for the storm threatening other islands already devastated by hurricane irma and put in the hard it reddish virgin islands. >> everybody's right about it, maria. still gradually recovering. they can rebuild their homes, protect them against flooding. cheryl: well, this should be the most powerful storm to directly get puerto rico in 85 years. for more on this, live report from fox meteorologist janice dean in just a few moments. lauren: president trump will deliver its first address to the united nations a few hours from now expect it to target north korea

donald trump, mark zuckerberg, lauren simonetti with the latest on this back and forth.t is going on now? >> i like you call it battle between the billionaires. i'm calling it tit-for-tat spat between president and ceo of facebook. donald trump tweeted yesterday, facebook was always anti-trump. network for anti-trump. fake abuse, "washington post," "new york times," anti-trump collusion, question mark. his tweet about month before facebook plus other social media companies they testified before federal investigates looking at just that, colluon, possibly, among russian oratives trying to influence u.s. politics this is how zuckerberg responded. trump says facebook is against him liberals say we help trump. both side are upset about ideas and content they don't like. that is what running a platform for all ideas looks like. responsibility for what happens on the platform of two billion users is finally being owned by zuckerberg. he is handing in over 3,000 political ads, bought by russians to congressional investigators as they determined whether those ads helped donald t

in new york, good morning, i'm lauren simonetti. l: good morning, i'm cheryl casone and obviously hurricane irma is on her way and then we've got all the other big news coming out of washington today. lauren: earthquake to tell you overnight. cheryl: breaking news on massive earthquake off the coast of southern mÉxico causing buildings to collapse in chiapas state triggering a tsunami warning. at least five people have been killed including two children. lauren: u.s. geological survey magnitude 8.1 quack caused build to go sway violently, power knocked out in many neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, severely damaged. mÉxico's president said it's the biggest the country has seen in its century, cheryl. cheryl: hurricane irma is moving through southern bahamas right now, maximum sustained winds, 155-mile per hour, irma is expected to directly hit florida early sunday morning. >> the largest hurricane they've ever seen coming out of the atlantic and the winds are the strongest most importantly, this is the real problem, the winds are the

. -- i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa francis. david: thank you, lauren.me rallingly for tax reform. the president saying this plan can remake the american economy and lead to quote middle class miracle.

. -- i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa francis. david: thank you, lauren. white house and republicans wasting no time rallingly for tax reform. the president saying this plan can remake the american economy and lead to quote middle class miracle. but latest details of the plan need to be taken into consideration. we're covering them all. the president taking a big step today to help relief efforts in puerto rico. a live report from san juan coming straight up. >>> three months after a gunman nearly killed him on a baseball diamond, congressman steve scalise returning to capitol hill. the emotional response from his colleagues in a moment. lauren: back to the markets. the dow closing higher second day in a row. nicole petallides watching action on floor of new york stock exchange. investors looking at mcdonald's today. they like what they see, nicole. >> no doubt a nice upgrade giving boost to macdonalds. majority of points thanks to mickey d's. it was up 2.2%. upgrade from longbow research to a buy rating helped boost the stock itself and added maybe 25, 28

that is great show, and i say this because my co-host lauren simonetti happens to be there for liz claman to say good morning, cheryl, have a beautiful weekend. good to see you. waiting the white house press briefing and want to listen into texas governor abbott giving an update on the situation in texas. >> 42,399 in shelters. of those amount, 6,000 are in state parks. in addition to that, our great friend and neighbor louisiana has about 3,000 texans in shelters. and i want to express my deep gratitude to louisiana and to the governor of louisiana for helping

. >> it seems money going in the wrong direction how are you lauren simonetti. >> we're seeing major rotation facebook, amazon, netflix, popular names and into the small cap stocks. russel 2000 at all time high and major averages done across the board in fact dow down 3 days in a row. what the futures are doing is hugging flat line. fed share swranet yellen will give us up sight why it's so low and when the fed will return with higher interest rates. >> when the do you and nasdaq are down you know something strange is going on this. >> sec and hack we talked a lot about the private business hacks or you know public businesses whatever the corporations are. government hacks we don't tend to talk about so much. this is a big one. >> this is a huge one. new sec chair jay clayton will be grilled today about sec hack. you have to remember many senators already facing calls if angry constituents about equifax hack wanting to know how information whether personal or corporate is not being protected properly by companies and institutions and sec is one of those institutions, clayton was told

lauren simonetti is off today. breaking news this morning. vladimir putin says overnight north korea would rather eat grass than suspending nuclear weapons program. putin also warning the escalating tensions could cause a planetary catastrophe and a huge loss of life. putin's comments coming amid speculation in north korea is getting ready for another missile launch. multiple sources say the rogue nation could be prepping for one after the hydrogen bomb test. tensions are high and south korea halt the live fire drill that simulated attack after the hydrogen bomb test happened over the weekend, all this causing the fury of firestorm. nikki haley, u.s. ambassador to the united nations to impose the strongest possible sanctions on north korea. >> enough is enough. they've taken an incremental approach and despite the best of intentions, it has not worked. the tag for half measures of the security council is over. it's come to exhaust all of our diplomatic means before it's too late. >> remember, the night is called for the emergency meeting yest

lauren simonetti is life where a major charity effort is underway. as an unbelievable 16 years ago today candor the gerald loss 1658 of their friends. in four years of that they tried to rebuild. they started at the relief fund and they had raised millions and millions for the families of the victims. every year you will see presidents and celebrities come together to raise money. it is a great day. i'm usually the work they are doing. especially right now with everything going on in florida in houston. the great reminder that you need to help those people in need. i kinda forgot about it because you've had so much tragedy leading up to today and now today it is really sorrowful. >> what makes estate so special as you cannot forget the numbers. hundred $37 million of that does not include everyone. you been there for 20 years now. today must be tough for you. it makes it a lot easier. by the way we are talking that they are raising money for harvey. this is money that goes $10 million after super storm sandy directly to the families that need it. tha

joining us from the fox -- excuse me -- it's a friday -- the fox business network studio, lauren simonettir: good morning. [laughter] >> it must have been a long week. happy friday to you. how are we looking on the mark. >> reporter: i feel like that's a loaded question this morning, allison. >> uh-oh. >> reporter: you have another north korea missile launch towards japan second in a month. this is the longest one has ever gone and you also have terrorism in the london subway station during rush hour this morning. these are two major geopolitical events and the market is fine. three record closes for the dow in a row. futures are barely lower this morning. it's a numbness that we have to geo politics and i'm going to go with this and this will lead us into our next segment. it's an optimism that this bipartisanship we've seen with the debt ceiling immigration and tax reform is really igniting wall street and giving them confidence that the agenda will get done. >> okay. let's talk about tax reform. looks like it might get done. >> reporter: yup. i know, are we getting a tax cut? is the mid

lauren: i am a lauren simonetti.t a week in the sport in protest of travel ban breaking overnight. the restrictions affecting people come into the country from these eight countries. they take effect october 18. the citizens of north korea, chad, iran, libya, somalia, venezuela and yemen. north korea and venezuela were not listed in the earlier band. valid visas would not be revoked under these new restrictions. controversial ban on six mostly muslim countries expired yesterday said this is his third travel ban. cheryl: the white house of course having to let the courts know they've done a revision heading to the supreme court. also in washington, it's now make or break time for the senate to repeal and replace obamacare. this bill may be doa. they need a simple supports have come out against the bill. she finds it very difficult to imagine the scenario where she would support it. more senators for support here. the effort to kill obamacare is not dead. >> we're trying to win over the support of the last couple senat

and tomorrow morning talking about whatever it is appal announced and if it's tv show starring lauren simonetti then i call insider knowledge on that one. >> no unfortunately. >> okay. >> we'll find out tomorrow. see you then. thanks >> bye. >> bye-bye. >> 6:25 now. hi, tuck. >> disney the shut down disney never shuts down 30 million a day is what it claims it lost due to storm and it will reopen today at 9:00. >> okay. >> it was bad when the happiest place on earth closed. >> you know it. >> something with the goovry french fries cost twice as much. >> cloudy skies to start the day. we're currently upper 50s, low 60s, 64 in city and winds calm and mostly cloudy day today and might be a shower or two. some of the remnants of irma will try to sneak into neighborhood and for the most part we'll hold this off for another day or so. but again mostly cloudy today. temps will number mid 70s with a sprinkle or shower this afternoon. quick look at 7 day. little more humid little more irma like by wednesday and thursday. with showers around again. it will be leftovers not looking at hurricane or big sto

. >> lauren simonetti. how i do add door you. see you tomorrow. thanks for the business headlines. >> yes, you will. >> longer tweet would -- >> the think about twitter that's fun is boom, boom and you're out >> unfortunately for twitter, that's not a money making thing there. the move on part >> >> you're on a roll today. that was a good segment. >> did you like it >> let's do the forecast. we're 73 now in washington. we're going to be near 90 again today, and at this point, i know many people are feeling >> it's almost >> wave the white flag and do a little bit cooler >> at first i didn't know what month it was. it's almost october. >> i know. it's not even like the beginning of september. now we're well into, yes, turning the corner to october. that's maria, she's stuck. as i said yesterday, she's like a boyfriend or girlfriend that won't go away >> or like gwen always says, an unwanted house guest, shout out to you, gwen tolbert. >> she will finally by the way, she's tropical storm kicking out to sea over the next 24 hours and with it we'll ge

i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: good morning, everyone, i'm cheryl casone. we are getting update. ructive storm. lauren: yeah, triple threat, it's the wind and the rain and the storm surge of hurricane irma that is making people very cautious and worried this morning and breaking news right now. we've got the latest the eye of hurricane irma passing key region, now 75 miles an hour, knocked out power to just about 4 million homes and businesses, at least four deaths reported thus far. you're looking at footage that show it is destruction in naples after irma rift through that city last night. streets were flooded and many homes damaged. cheryl: look at this video. this has a roof being peeled off a two-story building in miami. this happened earlier yesterday and three three construction cranes have collapsed. police say they've arrested 30 people for burglary and looting, irma center will stay inland before she decides to move up into georgia, alabama, tennessee. president trump has declared major disst err in the state of florida, that makes federal aid available, the president in

that is great show, and i say this because my co-host lauren simonetti happens to be there for liz claman, lauren? >> i'm tempted to say good morning, cheryl, have a beautiful weekend. good to see you. waiting the white house press briefing and want to listen into texas governor abbott giving an update on the situation in texas. >> 42,399 in shelters. of those amount, 6,000 are in state parks. in addition to that, our great friend and neighbor louisiana has about 3,000 texans in shelters. and i want to express my deep gratitude to louisiana and to the governor of louisiana for helping with search and rescue missions, helping to save the lives of texans and express my gratitude to both individuals as well as first responders from louisiana for being such tremendous humanitarians. a pressing issue in texas is the issue of fuel. now, this is an issue that is pressing in part because of a reaction to some media reports, where the facts are that there's plenty of fuel, plenty of gasoline, in the united states of america. there's plenty of gasoline in the state of texas. all that said, we are e

artillery within a few miles of demilitarized zone and a large share of seoul's population lives lauren simonetti than 30 miles much of the north korean artillery. one doesn't have to use missiles. if we had conventional warfare exchange with north korea, there would be tens to hundreds of thousands of casualties on our allies side and probably tens of thousands of casualties on our side. this is not something where there's a lot of open desert and we can maneuver so far the way the first gulf war was. this is militarily very, very challenging situation. trish: all right, i go back once again dealing with the character himself, embassador, do the chinese have the capability of moving in and basically depotsing him, putting him off in the corner somewhere and putting a regime that would be friendlier to the world in place? >> they have the capability but i don't think they want to do it. they are more or less happy with continuing to stir the pot a bit with kim jong un and holding him in reserve but not going all the way along with what the west wants. trish: then that's the answer. i mean, that's

joining us from the box business network studio lauren simonetti. monday. >> reporter: good morning. happy monday. >> it's a good day on the markets, right? well, yeah. >> reporter: not terrible. this is a very telling week though. we have a lot coming out of washington this week that wall street is looking forward to. tax reform maybe midweek, we see what the plan looks like, right? everybody wants to know those details and of course the end of the week saturday is the deadline for the republican effort to repeal and replace obamacare. anyway, futures relatively flat this morning. slightly lower but here's the thing. we've told you this time and time again. september is the worst month of the year historically for the stock market. yet the broader market is up 1 percent so far this we have a little over a week left but this hasn't been so bad. >> all right. september this year september 17 looking already. let's talk about maria and basically wherever her reach is. now it's affecting the manufacturing of some of the pharmaceuticals that people depe

joining us from the fox business network studio lauren simonetti on a friday.g. >> reporter: good morning. happy friday. >> happy friday. >> reporter: we got a lot going on. >> we do. let's get right to it. want to do a quick check of the markets. >> reporter: sure. mixed bag yesterday. the dow was down 22 points. mostly because of disney but also the insurance stocks. irma is approaching florida. they were hit really hard. the nasdaq rose four points so mixed performance. >> all right. and speaking of florida, what we always see sadly is people taking advantage of situations and we're seeing massive price gouging there. >> reporter: you know, but if you hear from the attorney general there, pam bundy she's coming down really hard against companies, merchants, retailers that raise their prices dramatically as a disaster is approaching. very forceful. first they set up that hotline and then she said immediately look we got 45 calls complaints coming in that chevron specifically was inflating gas prices astronomical. think about it. you have hundreds and hundreds

lauren simonetti thank you.u tomorrow when it would be glorious friday. >> reporter: friday. yay! >> have a great day. >> reporter: you, too. >> i like that move. >> me, too. >> go and get the voucher and get your ride home keep he everybody safe. >> new york, colorado. >> not only do i like the move but i'll probably use it. >> please do. >> i'm guessing if it's in the 80's this weekend a lot of people will be out enjoying the weather in the city for maybe the last time. >> that's a good point starting with this afternoon t-, really starting with yesterday we were well into the 80's. we'll do it again today. last full day of summer today. fall arrives at 4:02 tomorrow if you want to be technical. >> i do. >> we like to be technical and accurate here at fox5. >> 4:02. >> we'll be off and running into fall but it won't feel like fall this weekend. sunny and bright for us for most of the day today. i think we'll be dry this afternoon. and just like yesterday daytime highs top out about 10 degrees above normal. 88

joining us is lauren simonetti.comes to market activity at least yesterday and maybe today. >> reporter: yeah, we had a major selloff the day before. came back a bit yesterday. selling off a bit today. so, basically you can just comfortably, that's what you can describe, everything from north korea and the severe of nuclear war to the protection any of the america first policy. investors kind of finding their happy place. in fact, it seems overall that stocks only go one direction, and that's up and it's interesting the head of goldman sachs basically said that, the fact in stocks are only going up is creating anxiety among many investors. so, we're anxious because things seem too good in >> why can't we just be satisfied, lauren? why can't we just be happy and keep that good karma going and let it go up and up and up in a perfect world. >> reporter: because it can't continue forever and every season investor knows that. >> what goes up must come down i get it. what's happening with irma, people trying to get out of

joining us fox business network studios, lauren simonetti. it's friday.ter: you want bad news or the god news first. >> i want the good news first. >> reporter: all right. the good news is the nasdaq set a record high and the other major averages are pretty close. august is done. this is september, right? and we've seen five months of gains in a row. that's the bad news. this is september. september is really bad. historically really ugly for the stock market. >> lauren, the green that you are wearing is so green we have to have all arrows pointing up today. >> reporter: i know. >> it could not go against -- >> reporter: i was trying to reverse the bad omen, i know. [laughter] >> we're looking for a jobs report today. anything else we're keeping a close eye on as far as today. >> reporter: really the jobs number is because there's a lot of talk that this month when the fed meets, yeah, this month, it is september, okay, about 20 days from now, they might decide -- it's not the interest rate increase that's more of the concern now. that's expected in decem

joining us hello there lauren simonetti. how are you today. >> reporter: well, hello. i'm okay.'m fantastic. how are the markets? i saw a nice little uptick yesterday. >> reporter: yeah, first time in five days the dow rose, nasdaq up 1.1 percent. we'll take it. investors liked the administration's tax plan or at least what they saw of it thus far. the question is do democrats like it and does the american public like it. is this a tax cut for the middle class. >> that is the big question. >> reporter:. >> reporter: absolutely. >> that's my question to you. that was the pitch yesterday from the president. is it is a tax cut for the middle class but how will we know until we find out what levels of income we're talking about with different tax rates and when might we find out. >> reporter: that's what's missing. individual taxes, you have seven brackets. you'll have three brackets. between 12 and 35 percent but there is the that fourth bracket which basically would not cut taxes or if it did, just very little for wealthy americans. we don't know how much money it's going to take,