nearly a dozen oil refineries in the gulf are offline. industry analysts say how long the refineries are offline will determine how much gas prices will jump. also impacting prices... a surge in demand over labor day as millions of americans hit the road. get the latest updates on harvey -- and our local forecast -- no matter where you are. just download the stormwatch 7 weather app for the forecast at your fingertips. happening today-- back to school season continues. today is the first day of class for thousands and prince williams counties. we want to see your back to school pictures! send them our way, and we just might show them on air. just sign on to burst dot com slash wjla. it wasn't pretty-- but the washington redskins get a picked up a preseason win sunday against the cincinatti bengals. but the team still has some work to do on it's offense. in the second quarter, quarterback kirck cousins is picked off by vontez burfect. and he takes it all the way back down the sidelinesd for a 62 yard touchdown. washington fights back and r

we have highlighted venezuela, libyan production offline. another i am concerned about is north korea. if this situation were to escalate significantly, asia is a key source of demand for the whole complex. if that intensifies, that is another negative geopolitical hit for the market >> has latest development given your own background, is that a big escalation given this missile launch crossed over the land mass of a u.s. ally >> not only has it crossed over it japan it is the timing of the loss the fact that this was done while the american president was focused on this. president trump has not minced words in terms of his words in response to north korea. we are all going to be waiting in terms of his response >> how should investors be positioning themselves as they try to digest not just hurricane harvey but the recent provocation? >> there is no exit ramp that is readily available for north korea. he is not going to give up his nuclear capabilities he seems imperfevious to sanctions. the risk is unintended escalation through miscalculat

my life is offline. schechtman believes retailers must pay more attention to offline experience, because that's what human beings want. to that end every story has themed events: classes, workshops, panel discussions. and at fresh story, fresh-baked cookies. >> someone doesn't just need to go to a store to buy something, right. so here you can taste something, you can learn something, you can do something with a friend. it's not just commerce, it's content and community. >> reporter: that's also true at warby parker, says gilboa. >> humans are social animals and are always gonna value face to face interactions. i don't think that's going away. >> reporter: it's a view shared by the c.e.o. atop lord & taylor, saks, and others. >> there will always be physical stores. until they invent the transporter, like on star trek, there will be a reason for stores. it's still the only way you can touch merchandise instantly, feel it, try it on. >> reporter: or, for that matter, eat it. >> i'm breaking my diet for yo

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our policy was to stay neutral, and one of the core tenets we espoused was we never took someone offline. when you're explaining, you're losing. we found ourselves explaining that to a lot of people and explaining why it was dangerous for us to take customers offline. at some point we needed to say, this is why this is dangerous, and while we think that this content is repugnant, having the power to pick and choose who is and is not online, that's dangerous, and we need to have a public conversation about that. >> it sounds like you're actually making the case for the exact opposite action of the one you took. what's your rationale for other than the bad mood thing. what's your rationale for making the decision you did make? >> pretty difficult for us to have there, it was a distraction to us. >> what were the things. >> we got reports they started to take abuse complaints that had been submitted to us, and then when we would turn them over to their hosting provider, they would harass or threaten violence against the people that were submitting those complaints. that's when they got on m

, most of the production offline.pipelines, infrastructure is safe. 450,000 miles of interstate gathering lines plus gas utilities, hundreds of thousands of miles to make sure that still stays online. the third thing i've heard you talk about a couple times this morning already have to do with refineries. obviously that is a real challenge for us. 6 million barrels of oil are refined in texas today. that's about 30% of the country's oil refinery capacity. 10 refineries as of last night. that is about half of our refining production by day capability. at least 3 million barrels offline and potentially growing. lauren: it is not just -- we just had a guest talking about gas stations shutting down, contaminated stations, contaminated fuel lines to get these refineries back online. you got the larger impact to the u.s. that the second part of this story. how fast can these refineries get up and running to not just get production up and running and energy to texans, but also the rest of the country. >> that is important. t

water that makes like right now it's offline. most people think that crude production and gas production capacity. we not be affected in a big way but if in fact. major risk that maybe underpriced that maybe out under appreciated by the market and not to be collected next. well as the global market. some of them most immediately affected markets we've been great mexican product markets we should increasingly dependent on us exports. yeah i'd be at another mexican gasoline come from the u. s. gulf coast does exports would be offline for awhile. so there would be a significant repercussions both in the us domestic market and overseas as well. atlanta hello if i'm gonna have to leave they thank you so much. what? and another snooze and in his first visit to israel since becoming you end a secretary general antonio guterres got an earful from his hosts of this monday. binyamin netanyahu taking aim over the world body's recognition of palestine at eunice code. book the israeli promise to seize as biased when it comes to denouncing hum

think about 15% of america's refinery capacity offline.lus some big corporate news this morning including uber choosing its next ceo. and a big pharma deal. the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now >>> live from the beating heart of business, new york city, this is "squawk box." >>> good morning welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc live from the nasdaq marketsite in times square i'm wilfred frost along with joe kernen and kelly evans andrew and becky are off today we've got full team coverage of this rapidly unfolding situation in texas jackie deangelis is live in corpus christi brian sullivan is along the gulf coast in galveston, texas. let's begin with contessa brewer live in houston with the latest this morning contessa >> wilfred, good morning like so much of houston the theater district in downtown is flooded. you can see the intersection is filled with water. that's the hard rock cafe down here in the theater district and controlled releases from two houston dams are adding to the flooding concerns, as the army core of e

prices rose further on tuesday as over fifteen percent of the country's refining capacity remained offline after the passage of hurricane harvey. and while the full extent of the damage has yet to be assessed. analysts say many refineries could remain closed for several weeks producing a knock on effects that could have repercussions for the country's energy market. more than thirty percent of total u. s. refining capacity is located in the gulf coast and in fact with the storm first hit corpus christi. there are five refineries with about four percent of us refining capacity all of them were knocked offline if electrical power is out for any appreciable length of time two or three weeks we could. definitely see price spikes in them along the southeastern area and possibly as far north. as new york as a result. the storm also disrupted around a third of the country's chemical production threatening shortages for basic industrial products such as chlorine. the ports of houston and corpus christi both major international trading hubs remained closed on tuesday. and rail and road traffic were

the electronic privacy information center said tracking credit card use offline is an invasion of privacy> a cybersecurity firm is investigating after an employee was hacked. fire eye said hackers targeted a senior threat intelligence analyst. yesterday hackers published records from the employee's social media accounts. they're threatening to leak more information. fire eye tweeted this morning saying there's no evidence the company's systems were compromised. >>> tesla workers who want to form a union have gone to the company's board to make their case. business insider reports there are a list of demands focus on improving equipment to reducing workplace injuries. tesla stock dropped 3.5% in the first trading session after the delivery of its long promise to affordable model 3 car. wall street analysts are wary after ceo elon musk told workers they would be in production hell for at least six months. musk says he expects to turn out 500,000 cars by the end of next year. >>> pandora shares shot up more than 7% after better than expected second quarter results. the music streaming compan

churn out and it looks like as of now, projections indicate that 2 million barrels a day have come offline. that means that prices most likely at the pump are likely to rise as well. for "nightly business re i'm jackie deangelis, corpus christi, texas. >> with the severe flooding along parts of the gulf coast, the price for u.s. gasoline futures jumped to a more than two-year high today while domestic crew fell nearly 3% as the market tried to assess the storm's impact. john joins us now to tell us what this all means for gas prices. founder partner of again capital. good to see you, john. thanks for joining us on set tonight. >> sure. >> really an unprecedented situation. as we were just talking, this storm is moving so slowly. they're in for more rain. how is the market for energy trying to price this i >> the market for energy, i think, is really struggling with what we're dealing with here. we're used to big storms coming and trying to hit the heart of the refining sector. we but them all there for whatever reason. they're vulnerable to this sort of thinge built to withstand it. high w

so another 240,000 offline, you're going to have well over 25% of u.s. refining capacity right now offline because it's corpus christi, it's here and i'm not going to speculate as to when these refineries may open but i can tell you this much, the rain -- if we got the rain, if they are getting it north that we just got, whatever situation they had that is bad, it's only going to get worse so i would imagine it's going to be a long, slow slog to get these refineries back up, guys. >> we'll be watching closely brian sullivan in galveston. meanwhile, morgan brennan is live here in the studio. >> i want you to take a look at this this is a google map of the houston area right now you could call this a rough sketch of what the road closures look like in the houston area. all of those red lines and the circle with the little dash through it, these are road closures and basically closed from flooding and other obstructions in the area. now, brian just talked about cars and the rescues happening with cars. this means that trucks are also having a hard time gett

both oil and gas are now about 18% offline.hat's an improvement of about 6% for gas and 3% for oil. so they're already working hard. and this is incredible because we're going to need this oil and gas production to come back online to help rebuild houston, and it's amazing how they can do this. now, there's also good news on the refinery front in galveston. two major refineries that were shut down. the damage was not as bad as feared. they're getting ready to restart. now, if we can get the houston shipping channel to open so that we can move it, we might actually see some of the impact not as bad as feared. >> yeah. that's interesting, todd. because if you really center in on houston, so many of their gas stations are either out of gas or out of water, and the trucks can't get it to them. what do you do in a situation like this? how much higher are prices going to go? >> well, yes, you're right. logistics are going to be an issue. but when the water subside, and i think they can get a better assessment of whether they're going

we know already that nearly a million barrels of refining capacity have been taken offline in anticipationof the producers and what we call the eagleford area which is one of the biggest oil fields in texas also took their production operations offline. so when you consider somewhere between half a million barrels and a million barrels of production and refining capacity have come offline, we're talking about over a billion dollars of economic impact, and that's just in the short term. if we see more flooding, more down time, extended outages, it could get bigger from there. mike: ryan, have you seen significant damage to oil and natural gas facilities, or is it too soon? >> it is a little bit too soon, a although if we'd seen any notable what we call catastrophic incidents, they would have notified the railroad commission already. a lot of people around the country don't know that the railroad commission is a misnomer. we are the energy regulator for the state of texas, and when there is a release or event, we're one of the first groups to know, and so far we haven't heard anything. so i'

the longer they say offline, the larger the price increase, longer it will last.sident trump will travel to texas later today to get a firsthand look at the devastation in and around houston. mr. trump discussed the trip during a news conference yesterday with the president of finland. >> i'm wondering what you can tell the people of texas to expect in terms of long-term recovery efforts and in particular you have been feuding with some key congressional leaders, you have also threatened a government shutdown potentially next month over border wall funding. are these going to hamper long term, the funding that will be needed long term for recovery. >> no, i think that, you are going to see rapid action from congress. certainly from the president. and, and, you are going to got your funding. it's a terrible tragedy. your governor has been -- absolutely outstanding. and the job he has done. and this entire staff. and i will say that, that i just spoke with greg, he is, he is -- 24/7. we expect to have requests on our desk fairly soon. we think that, congress will, w

nearly 20% of the country's daily gasoline refining capacity is now offline, that is over 2.5 million barrels a day. including the exxon mobile refinery in baytown, texas. it's america's second largest, typically producing 560,000 barrels daily. gas prices are up four cents nationally already. labor day will be more expensive for drivers now. >> we already anticipated that prices will go up about five cents around the country, now maybe even ten cents or higher. >> reporter: tamara johnson expects those places to include hard hit gulf states. >> a lot is yet to be known in terms of refinery damage. if refiners are down for an extended period of time we could see the higher gas prices upwards of 20 to 30 percent. >> reporter: when katrina definitely stated new orleans gas prices spike nationally. any increase of energy costs from harvey could extend beyond pain at the pump. >> people will see higher prices trickle through. not just higher gas prices but also perhaps higher prices for fruits and vegetables as it costs more to get them to market. and a higher price for the airline ticket

i'll take the answer offline, thank you very much. ost: good question for us to end on. guest: i'm not sure i get dates - the oval office back to 1909, so the most have never n fact had access to it. abraham lincoln met with his what is today called bedroom.oln on in his era it was his office. richard nixon rarely worked in office, he worked across the street in executive office building. used more by e is some presidents, less by others, of course, andy, what the gentleman was talking power and symbolism of the office, nothing like it in the world and when you step oval, it's smaller than it looks on t.v., about 700 or so, not the biggest room, but you are ju -- you near awe and awe-inspiring feeling to be in that room. i'm curious to see what it will e like when they are done with this project. host: for more stories on the this roof" is the name of paul brandos book, presidency and the white house. your time, thanks for joining us via skype. you.t: thank host: up next, we're going to end our program back with the program we began the with, president trump's remarks on

. >>> a public safety app rolled out by police had to be taken offline. the reason, a security issue. the app called property lock box allowed users to joup load information of photos and personal belongings in case they were ever stolen. the problem, users could e see not only their items, but their neighbors too. the security expert warned police and that app was taken offline. >>> it's time to peddle in gloucester county. they launched their new bike shair program today. it features a e kiosk with ten bikes. kiosk is right near the new health and fitness trails. they are free to ride and you have to download an app. you get a code to unlock one of the bikes. >>> entertaining the kids comes at a ko. dorney park wants to change that. starting today through the 2018 season the park is offering pre-k passes that allows kids between 3 and 5 to get into the park for free. parents have to go online to register for the pass. >>> overlooked eed by others d aggression. >> he's given more to us than what we have had had to give to him. >> why this south jersey do

currently offline. this water guys is about 9 feet higher than it should be and you can see that water went in see where those sort of sleds or whatever they are called, there's water in that and there should not be water in that. there should be a wall that you see here but the water has overtopped the wall. that is one of the refineries shut down here i guess the good news is the water is -- and contessa as hey better view, it's beginning to recede down. you can clearly see the high water mark and unfortunately the high water mark is marked by a lot of garbage the water here slowed down but i think this is probably representative of a lot of the cleanup that is to come, this is just one small sliver. we'll come back in a few minutes and talk about the chemical plants, not just oil and gas. >> thank you very much for that. now to contessa brewer in houston where some businesses are starting to reopen contessa >> reporter: yeah, and the businesses that are reopening are seeing a lot of people lining up

because we are self segregating in all of our areas of life, whether it's online or offline, right. and so you are actually more likely, or at least as likely to run into someone on social media saying your friendship network on facebook who voted for a different presidential candidate than you, than you are say if you wanted to find a republican on the streets of aspen right now, right, we're only about 20 percent -- 20 to 24 percent of the population here voted for donald trump, right. and that's so much of our lives right are self segregated in neighborhoods, where it's an reinforcing our political beliefs in the offline world that we see that, the fact that we see that on the online world should not be too surprising. nevertheless, when you start looking at hot topics or politics and the like that you do see twitter networks which are, we're -- democrats are re-tweeting democrats, republicans are re-tweeting republicans and people are of course gravitating to many of the sites that -- that i showed you on the first slide, all right. now moving to the last two unique features of

it is a marriage, a marriage of offline to online. or online to offline.onym, o-to-o. we have taken the two companies, the best and the brightest minds, you have 500 million people on alibaba's platform and we are marrying them with 100 million of marriott customers. you got 125 million trips by chinese travelers last year, and the largest percentage of those were to asia. so the biggest benefit of this, is of course, to asia but it will benefit companies around the world. >> u.s. payments process agreed to buy the uk's world paid group. $10.4 billion, part of a trend of increasing consolidation in the payments industry. should investors be happy with the deal? >> if you come in at the ipo, it is being sold for around 63% higher, but it is a stock deal. if you come in around this year and you are looking at a 22% premium, it is in line with some of the other deals that are happening in the sector now. it is such a fascinating company though, because if you remember, this is a company that rbf was supposed to sell as part of its bailout, but it sold it to p

>>> energy is in focus gasoline futures surging to a two-year high as harvey takes more refiners offline. we are drilling down on the market impact. >>> and talking taxes. president trump expected to make a major speech on reform today it's wednesday, august 30, 2017, "worldwide exchange" begins right now. ♪ >>> good morning welcome to "worldwide exchange." i'm wilfred frost. >> i'm morgan brennan in for sara eisen >> great to have you with us let's get straight to the latest on harvey in a few moments, first a check of global markets. in an extraordinary turnaround. yesterday at this time, we saw dow futures down 150 points, p in the end they ended up 56 points higher. that turnaround coming a half hour after the open in terms of the most pronounced fashion, consumer confidence came in, but the main reason is that that realization that the north korean missile test did not affect things much we got that turnaround and it's continuing today the dow higher by 45 points. the nasdaq by 15 ten-year treasury note fell below 2.1% we're back above 2.1, but the net fall in yields yesterday did w

a half barrels to come offline. the observed 4 million barrels of products. there is additional flooding hard for workers to get to those plans. the plans for precautionary reasons are slowing down. we can expect a big impact, not just in texas, but the world as all the oil and gas. train to another galveston port is still closed. tens of thousands of them still stranded out to sea. the impacts of this are incredible and as you play now, sort of wide ranging. appreciate you joining us on the phone. stay safe anonymously everyone appreciates whatever you can do to help out. all the best. >> thank you for having me. you all have a great day. elizabeth: tropical storm harvey continues to linger of the state of texas. images and social media hard to ignore. plenty of people giving us a glimpse of the flooding and devastation in their homes and neighborhoods. for more, we turn to branyan is who has the very latest. >> icon elizabeth. and they call for help. people homes in the houston's mayor said he received at least 20

facebook and instagram were both offline for some user around 9:00 this morning.acebook blamed an unspecified technical issue and said it was working to fix it. it is still unclear what caused the problem. >>> now a new family friendly indoor playground opened this weekend in washington township that let's customers really have a blast. darts of war nerf style arena. people come as individuals or groups and compete in foam dart games. doug and christie from gloucester township decided to open the arena on the black horse pike in washington township to give families the type of safe and fun environment that they wanted to send for their own kids. >> we want them playing. we want them running around. we don't want kids sitting on their computers and watching tv. this is what we wanted to do to have our family doing something together. >> darts of war is open daily and the cost is $12 for an hour long session. >>> now check out this incredible sunflower grown by a chester county family with a serious green thumb. sis see cole sent us this photo of her daughter michel

. >>> also, a saturday morning spent offline for many people. what facebook is saying about an outage that affected the site and instagram. hurricane harvey in texas closely .. but there )s also a new >>> president trump has been monitoring the situation with hurricane harvey in texas closely. but there is a new political storm over the president's pardon of former sheriff joe arpaio of arizona. kelly o'donnell reports on all of it. >> reporter: today's white house hurricane response is headquartered at camp david where president trump led a teleconference with the vice president and cabinet members that directed his federal team to remain fully engaged and positioned to support his number one priority of saving lives. notably upbeat on twitter, president trump wrote we are leaving nothing to chance and we have fantastic people on the ground, so far, so good. the president authorized emergency federal money for texas after governor abbott's request. >> we are so pleased that the federal government and white house have stepped up in the strong wa

men who work in these refineries no doubt live in the dickinson area, so the refiners story, 15% offline. we get that. there's no ships in the harbor there would be ships here normally they need supplies to run the refineries but they also need people if you don't have people it doesn't matter what the condition of the refinery is, guys, and based on the roads we've driven around and we've showed you and now the evacuation orders. even if these refineries believe they can open up it's not clear how long it will take to get the people back. if your house is submerge had had or your family is at risk and your boss says come back to work, i would imagine you would say sorry, boss, family first. i talked to the folks at shell they have a deer park facility that they split with pemex they say there's no timetable on when they will ask workers to return in hurricane ike some of them were closed for weeks or even a mount. that will draw down the 23 days of gas line inventory that the united states currently has so i'll leave you with that dickinson, texas, 18,000 people, mandatory evacuation we

. >>> a new safety app is taken offline. it allowed users to upload information in case they were ever stolen. the problem is they could see information about their neighbors as well. >>> and the park is offering prek passes now through the 2018 season. it allows kids between the ages of 3 and 5 to go in for free. >>> and you are in luck. we're two days away from the clear the shelters campaign drive. the spca is one of dozens of kbrups participating. they have more than 100 animals waiting to be adopted this saturday. >> we just participated in a rescue. we've got really cute big dogs right now and kittens and adult cats. >> all have been spayed and neutered. help us clear the shelters this weekend. nearly 50 shelters are waiving adoption fees on saturday. you'll see a full list of all the shilters and rescuers participating. >> that is a great event. >> did you get out there last night? >> let's find out what's to come today. steamy i'm guessing but look at the temperatures already. >> my dogs saying you go for a walk. he'

forces refineries along the texas gulf of mexico cost to shutdown. 15% capacity is estimated to be offline. crude production is said to be less effected and refinery fortified against the weather, but the inability to give back to facilities will have a bigger impact. >> so aside from the gas prices, what else do we know about possible economic toll of harvey. >>> well, estimates that harvey will result in $5 billion in lost economic output and 10 billion in property damage. that's similar to hurricane matthew last year. in kpcomparison. quick check of markets on wall street. could start the week off in the red. markets coming off a positive week. are still lower for the entire month. investors get a lot of economic data this week including reports on housing, consumer and jobs. tracey, back over to you. >>> landon, thank you. >>> 5:26. breaking right now, rush to rescue people trapped in texas floodwaters. this morning, a controversy why weren't people in houston forced to evacuate. >>> prone to flooding. the flaw in the nation's fourth largest city that puts millions of residents in dang

illnesses can inventor invented it in part because they can hear is incinerators most of them went for offline if they found out. in the mean if they would have realized. and we didn't. we didn't fix the mess in the took action to fix it. he didn't. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all that wasn't good then an indemnity folks so if the screw anything up they don't have to pay for the bill get stuck on the american taxpayer there would be an indemnification even for negligence on reasonable access k.b. or managers agents and borders if they fell within the definition of what is covered even if they caused the injury or death to these. other provisions or those clause that is correct even if they cause injury or death to civilian employees. under the provisions of a cause that's occurred even if they cause injury or death to the american soldier . does not and does not carve out an exception for civilian with our soldiers which means that means that if in fact the activities fall within the definition of a clause saying k.b.r. could could apply for reimbursement

you're looking probably at close to 3 million barrels a day of capacity that has been taken offline andu've seen all day from the rain that continues to fall, no word at all on when any of those refineries or the ports will come back online. >> all right, brian, thank you we'll check in you a little bit later. brian sullivan in galveston. put the hood back on. >> the neck, the hat doesn't work. >> yep. >> supply chain disruption, the chairman of the texas railroad commission joins us live next with the latest. >>> har hurricane harvey impacted the energy industry in texas. lets bring in our railroad commission, i am glad we cleared everything up, christie, i have awfully a lot of questions ready for you about the railroad actually, i do have one. i know it is not what you do because railroad are with energy -- you don't worry of the rails the way you worry of trucking or ports are. once the water is gone, the rails are fine, have i got that right at least >> well, thank you for having me >> you make the assumption that the rails are fine if you had major flooding. you can have ground sh

offline if they were to found out. in i mean if they would have realized. what we did. we've got to fix this in they took action to fix it. if they didn't. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all that wasn't good than an indemnity folks so screw anything up they don't have to pay for the bill get stuck on the american taxpayer there would be an indemnification even for negligence on unreasonable acts by kavi or managers agents of course if they fell within the definition of what is covered even if they caused the injury or death to these. but under the provisions of those clause that is correct even if they cause injury or death to civilian employees. under the provisions of a cause that's occurring even if they cause injury or death to the american soldiers. it does not and does not carve out an exception for civilian with our soldiers which means that means that if in fact the activities fall within the definition of the clause thing k.b.r. could could apply for reimbursement preferable even for death or injury to american soldier that is

if the refines are offline, it's less demand for the raw product.laying out his vision for tax reform with a speech in missouri. and congress is going to be returning from the august recess next week and they've got a lot of heavy lifting to do. so reports are suggesting that mr. trump will be elaborating on plans to curb deductions for high-income taxpayers in a move designed to please his populist base. and the last piece of news i want to bring you up to date on is what is happening with uber. it is cooperating with a preliminary investigation into possible bribery law violations. . the company confirmed that the u.s. justice department has started a probe into whether or not its managers broke u.s. laws in bribing foreign officials. it's foreign officials we're talking about here and we're not sure whether or not the d.o.j. is looking into just one country or several countries but this news did come before the official announcement by the board of uber of the appointment of the former ceo as the new leader of uber. >> the saga continues there. t

or offline if they were to found out. in i mean if they would have realized. and what we did in the fog of war we got to fix this in they took action to fix it. that's good he didn't. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all that wasn't good they had an indemnity folks so if they screw anything up they don't have to pay for the bill get stuck on the american taxpayer there would be an indemnification or negligence on a reasonable. manner of orders if they fell within the definition of border of cover even if they caused injury or death or. even if they cause injury to civilian employees. under the provisions of the cause of her even if they cause injury to the soldier. it does not and does not carve out an exception for civilians are soldiers which means that means that if in fact the activities fall within the definition of the clause i think k.b.r. could could apply for reimbursement perhaps even for death or injury to american soldier that is correct even for the death or injury to report a service one. that's correct even death

ten inches of rain in three hours, becker said the pumps were overwhelmed but he admitted some were offlineintenance. some were operating at 52% capacity. now two are out. mayor mitch landrieu has asked for more. >> this is unacceptable on every level. >> frustrated residents like naaman stewart ask for answers. >> if we flood like this in a typical rainstorm, what's going happen in a hurricane? >> reporter: dwayne boudreaux is still cleaning up water left in his grocery store. >> it got up on the shelves on the coolers. anything it's touched,'ve got to throw it away. the mayor says even if the pumps were working in full capacity, they were no match for this past weekend's storm. demarco morgan. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," the google employee is speaking out. >>> plus rvs are making a comeback. americans are heading into the great outdoors and buying recreational vehicles at a record place. we'll show you how the millennials are driving the resurgence. >>> and -- >> reporter: under all this green in salinas valley is an old crop gaining new status. cauliflower is hot and trendy, bu

. >> what we're trying to do is integrate the best from on and offline into an experience that gives customers more information and also helps them get, you know, a new way to discover books. >> reporter: no browsing rows of book spines. the books face out. they are helping customers find books. here's another unique experience. this is called the if you like section. if you like this book, you'll love this book. >> it gives you insight. i see higher stars books. you want to read these. >> reporter: shoppers here are loving having that new book smell back in their neighborhood. >> this is nice to have a bookstore back in here. >> one thing i'm kind of a book person, so it's fun to always browse even if you don't buy things. but i'm sure they will do very well. >> it's not old school. it's a customer-focused store designed to spur discovery. >> reporter: what you just might discover besides those highly raid books, perhaps the next hidden gem. in san jose, jessica flores, kpix 5. >>> the north bay's smart train will start service tomorrow. the route runs from downtown san rafael to th

focus this entire time gasoline futures surging to a two-year high as harvey takes more refiners offlinewe'll talk about the storms impact on oil, plus a look at gold and the dollar, after yesterday's big moves in both of those markets. >>> and north korea calls its latest missile launch over japan a prelude to more military operations general wesley clark it here to discuss the options on the table for president trump as the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now >>> live from the beating heart of business, new york city, this is "squawk box." >>> good morning, everyone welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc, we are live from the nasdaq marketsite in times square i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and melissa lee again the futures at this hour have been in the green things have picked up just as we saw the markets turn around yesterday. stocks actually rose after suffering some losses early in the session. this morning it looks like the dow futures are indicated up another 46 points, shaking off all of these concerns surrounding not only the hurricane, and the storm that con

here's why more and more online retailers are choosing to branch their business offline. >> i think amazon ref lucianized the way we shop especially online. >> this amazon bookstore now 1 of 10 brick and mortar stores for the online retail giant. >> this is not a bookstore. as a retail expert i call this a web room. >> the director of retail management institute for santa clara university said this is the beginning of a growing trend for online retailers trying to target those hesitant shoppers. >> many consumers today, primarily start their shopping journey online. but there are a number of products that are new that are somewhat different for whom the online experience is just not good enough and you need to go to a store to confirm certain things about the product. >> it's nice to actually touch and feel and look at the sizes. >> she brought three pairs of glasses from an online retailer that began opening up brick and mortar stores and now has more than 50. >> i have purchased so many things online and you get it at home and it doesn't feel the same or you didn't read the fine print or

now silicon valley is kicking them offline and it's stirring up a constitutional debate. platforms like google and go fund me are now cutting off hate groups, banning sites like the daily stormer from using their services to communicate and fund-raise. apple has blacklisted known hate sites from its payment platforms. paypal one of the largest payment processors in the world now canceling accounts. even dating site okcupid today banning white supremacist chris cantwell for life tweeting there's no room for hate in a place where you're looking for love. the internet blockade has forced some groups to search for new homes online. many on the right are turning to new social media site gab which allows controversial discussions with limits. >> so long as they're not inciting violence, so long as they're not advocating for criminality, so long as they're not doing any harm to the public in regards to the law, they're allowed to speak. >> reporter: as hate groups are booted from popular online tools, first amendment scholars say tech companies are navigating a fine line on what

about 70% of et lean supplies kno from texas and 40 to 50% of offline. while not that common of a name goes into a lot of things you use including bottled water, packa pack consumer product, auto products and thousands of other products, suppliers are going to b a meantime, as the ws clearly recede, housn may he problem, which is the clean up. no doubt, like you can see, the the buffalo bayou, the clean up will be long, missy and eck pensive. for "nightly business report", i'm brian sullivan in pasadena, texas. >> back in houston, some businesses began to open their came. contessa brew er is in houston wh as sunshine pierce the sky as reseed businesses that could open saw an immediate boom. >> community's been benefitting. that's what we're here for. >> i'm hoping the pharmacy's open. i have some prescriptions, but didn't get a chance to get out before the storm hit. >> with limited stming te moh i asked customers to line up and take turn, in some cases, offering water and snacks for the long wait. >> i really don't need anything. i was going stir crazy,

at least ten oil refineries in houston and corpus christi are offline this morning, and that's reducing gas supplies nationwide. gasoline futures spiked 7% overnight. futures determine what gas stations will pay in the next few days. it usually takes about one week for price spikes to trickle down to drivers. >>> president trump is back at the white house after a weekend at camp david where he monitored developments in texas. the president is praising the great coordination. he says the all-out effort is going well. mr. trump says he's ready to travel to texas as soon as he can without causing disruption. the white house now says that trip will happen tomorrow. >>> if you would like to help the victims of hurricane harvey, we have resources on our website, abc7news.com. you can also text harvey to 909999 to make a $10 donation right now and join us here at abc 7 on wednesday when we host a phone bank in a show of bay area support. right now our meteorologist mike nicco is tracking the storm as well. he's here now with a closer look at the impact. mike? >> kristen, hi, everybody. we'll g