he's relieved of certain pressure that donald trump has. paulwant to ask you allysia a president uses i hereby order american companies to find, to relocate from china, i mean, that isn't something american presidents can do and since when do they -- it's not what bernie sanders would do let's be honest? >> right, i think joe biden has actually proposed imposing tariffs on businesses and just like donald trump that try to import goods from china to the u.s., the issue is no, you cannot order them to. there's no way to force businesses, some of them tried to relocate already to vietnam, malaysia, mÉxico, proving a lot more difficult than they imagined because as bill pointed out the supply chain, the local partnerships, highly or highly-skilled workforce in china makes difficult to replicate in any other country. >> in the president's defense, he was ordering them to look into this possibility and i think -- [laughter] >> fair argument that very few multinational companies had not been looking this since he started this spat. paul: well, i think

. >> paul has been tracking those for us. >> we are still three or four days away from landfall.much can happen in and change. we know this. it is strong and getting stronger. the advisors come every three hours. in between the advisories, they category 3 to category 4. they said they are not waiting, let's make it a category 4 right now. when will this happen? will this happen before it makes landfall , or will it make this turn on landfall. we don't know exactly what is going to happen. we know that a very strong storm is heading in the general direction. we will keep it on the for you. >>> 80 degrees in and is a today. 87 in santa rosa. remember this, hurricanes feed off the warm ocean water. we will never get a hurricane here because of the warm ocean water. 59 degrees for a low for san francisco. the pollen count have been high, they are getting higher. labor daweekend, tcout for the grasses and the elm. very high and getting higher as we move toward the weekend. for us, hot weather, cold weather, humid weather, it is all somewhere else to a ridge to our south. not hot inlan

to my sports car you could hang one tradition across many more months because paul has become funny. not according to my notice my return to the votes. would have been with the no more tickets also here's what i would do we've got the bulk of the song absolutely but only one more pass of. the end there baby so proud don't just. say. funky. well you know that your metal music well done. well. i am doing the reverse but. for tomorrow it is important to spread that not only in the main cities it is important to find a solution for different ledgers for the free market areas to just see how we can contribute to the development of these scary yes and how we can help people to stay and be able to work in areas where they were born and great. that's only going through the garbage her out. in the stores and got this meeting in the open of a hostel in boise guy are there and there's just one boris yes mr linden this piece of me is young john because for us in the. if me the star single bit of a hostile i'm too low then us moved us a little they knew us where they get their butts good or thin

paul has been in the weather center tracking the storm for us. >>> we are looking at a storm that is approaching the caribbean. it is getting stronger. and will likely be the first storm to impact laces like puerto rico or the lee leeward islands the next 24 to 48 hours. the latest stats we do have a storm sustained winds 60 miles per hour. stronger gus. that is the center of the storm. the center will likely pass over a few islands including barbados. over the next day. those colored things around some the islands are tropical storm warnings. the storm itself is moving west and northwest at 14 miles per hour. this is the forecast cone. not a guarantee he will follow this path. most likely prediction from the national hurricane center is take a category one hurricane closer to the south of puerto rico. by wednesday afternoon. somewhere close to hispaniola which is the island which encompasses haiti and the dr by thursday afternoon. will this become a problem for the bahamas of florida? it is too early to tell. if it were to happen it would likely happen friday or saturday . a tropica

that is what paul has been looking at in switzerland. is often the things they cannot see that are the most dangerous. the helmet i am wearing has a thermal imaging camera fitted to the side. what is unique is that it incorporates a small google glass style heads up display. it is visible over one eye giving firefighters thermal imaging without obscuring normal vision. firefighters thermal imaging without obscuring normalvision. i'm firefighters thermal imaging without obscuring normal vision. i'm going to use it to enter this very smoky room and see what i can see. it is not too smoky and here at the moment andi not too smoky and here at the moment and i can actually still see but once the smoke really starts to get up, as strange as it may sound, my hearing is going to completely disappear. ina in a modern building, there is a lot of synthetic and materials, buildings are close together. so there is a lot of smoke development and fire actually may be hidden behind smoke or they may were you don't see it, the thickness of the smoke is a

.>>> >> reporter: paul has the numbers right. i have all the reaction to those numbers. it feels like an oven out here making hot. your clothes your shirt pants everything sticks to your body. we are in the 6 pm our exhibitors are starting to cool down. a lot of folks are coming out to enjoy the festivities. we have the farmers market here atwnto concorde. live music played right now. a lot of folks are starting to come out this way. i want to take you back to the to 3 pm our when the heat was at its peak. >>> it looked like a ghost town at the local playgrounds. not a>>> hot. lots and lots of hot. i don't like this weather.>> reporter: a lot of people make their way to the pools.>>> it feels great. cools you all. >> reporter: due to popular demand the city of walnut creek found enough lifeguards to reopen. it quickly filled up. >>> we were said to be close all week. since it was so hot the community was requesting it and we have staff available. we opened the pool. >> reporter: the heat brought emilio and his daughter to the concorde community pool. >>> those not as luc

now a french and venter has crossed the english channel on a jet powered how aboard frank is a part of took off from sangatte mia callaway he waged over in just over 20 minutes paul then has his story. emerging from the early morning mist flanked by helicopters frankie's apart and his jet powered hoverboard reached over just after 7 30 am local time. it was an extraordinary sight and a remarkable achievement. the french inventor reach speeds of 160 kilometers an hour flying just meters above the waves. 110 years after louis blair is famous crossing of the english channel a new name has now been added to the record books. and feeling happy and so happy for my my family my friends and my gym is just an amazing moment in my life you know it's just. now i can take some rest. there was a probable tension as a part of took off from song no county in france a previous attempt last month that ended with him falling into the sea this time though the mid-channel refueling stop went smoothly as a partner swept in past the famous white cliffs of dover. having waved him off from song got supporters white had waited nervously for news when the phone call from dover came the re

indicate a personal bias against our team google has been here before when it comes to accusations of behind the scenes algorithms for instance conservative pundit paul joseph watson has repeatedly attacked google saying the company shadow banned him. yes it's totally normal then when you search paul jews if what some you tube channel and google my youtube channel doesn't even appear on the 1st place of results there is no bias situ all they literally broke their own search engine to sense to me and many others that's as eric schmidt the executive chairman of google's parent company alphabet previously revealed that google would try to do you rank r.t. we are working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and again the ranking the ranking those kinds of sites it's basically are put nick are the 2 and there's a whole bunch of coverage about what we're doing there but we're well aware of it we're trying to engineer the systems to prevent it we don't want to ban the sites eventually google responded that it doesn't have an insider ranking system search is no use to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results to with any political

jeff paul has that story. >> they want to make their individual cases about the best person to challengesident trump. but the one democrat polls say is the best chance is a no-show. joe biden and pete buttigieg skipping out. >> this is about the future. what are we going to do? what are our positions? reporter: but across the country back in san francisco one candidate is now bowing out. that's congressman seth moulton. voters, independent like obama trump voters and disaffected republicans, bring the country together around beating the hateful politics of donald trump. reporter: john hickenlooper ended his bid in the last few days. >> sleep right candidates with millions of twiller followers, and billionaires who buy their way on to the debate stage. reporter: the dnc saying there are a dozen issues to focus on and zeroing in on one could set a difficult precedent. the next time the dnc will get together will be in july in mitch mcconnell when they nominate a candidate for president. liz: a judge appointing a powerhouse possible youthor to probe why charges were suddenly dropped against

jeff paul has more. what are we learning about the victims?> that was the news that everybody was dreading hearing about, that two more people have died as a result of this mass shooting. medical officials said one died overnight. the other dying this morning. we're starting to learn more about the people murdered in this mass shooting. one of the stories involves a married couple, jordan and andre. they just dropped off jordan's daughter at cheerleading practice before they headed to walmart before they did birthday shopping. they were there with their infant son, paul, buying the items. that's when the shots went off. both tidied trying to protect their infant son. >> the pain is unbelievable. you should never bury your son or daughter. >> i'd give my life for her. any day i'd get rid -- >> that couple had just celebrated their first wedding anniversary. jordan, the mom, leaves behind three kids. this is only just one heartbreaking story. there's so many others that we'll hear about. >> shepard: how is the community responding, jeff? >> that

then the next day he said i've spoken to paul, paul will talk to those guys in the next day he said paul has talked to the people and they're going to get back to you. the next day i get back in answer saying i been busy for the last few months but we give you some time at the end of march. if you look at the beginning of october to the end of march that is six months in a tight race. and four days after this paul died of a heart attack on his way to work. so this struck me in two ways, one, i knew somebody who knew somebody who knew someday, i was in an inter-circle. if i had been outside the inner circle, there was nobody i could write to to intercede. i don't know what would've happened. and i point out, the fate, if i would've waited two weeks there would not of been one to talk to. i just think, we all think science is a logical thing that flows along but it flows inosine with waves that cast you in whatever direction. so there is a lot of circumstance in fate. >> you spend a lot of time talking about nature in the history and how it's interpreted. and you also talk a lot about them. hi

this is from chapter 16 verse nine, acts of the apostles where paul has a dream that the macedonians appear to him and say to him, come over and help us. so, this is, the puritans are thinking of this project as like paul 2.0, they are engaging in a similar project. what you think? true or false. they have this seal, the charter, we are going to preach to the indians. when they arrived they put all their energies into doing that, true? or false? false. it is a strange thing. nothing happens in the beginning of the 1630s. there are a couple small attempts. a couple individuals who try to do some missionary work. but the real story of these encounters is trade and war. there a lot of trade goods being exchanged, and there is also a massive war in southern connecticut. the pequot war in 1637. there is a huge war where english and their allies including -- as well, they essentially attack the pequot's . they are intermediaries between a variety of trading partners including the dutch here. the pequots are one of the most powerful communities in southern new england and they attempt to wi

david: ignore your calendar, paul has finally arrived.eartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tum tum tums with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. all right brad, once again i have revolutionized the songwriting process. oh, here we go. i know i can't play an instrument, .. david: apparently fall is upon us, it's that smell of pumpkin spice in the air. not from real pumpkins. but from starbucks. the pumpkin spice latte rurps today. they are unveiling a new pumpkin beverage. should they just sell the flavors year-round and get over this gimmick? >> no. just like the easter eggs with the hard shell that only come around at easter time. it's not just the smell of starbucks. spam is going to come out with the flavor as well. pumpkin flavored spam. i ate a kit kat that was pumpkin spice and it was gross. i threw it out. >> the scarcity makes it appealing. not unlike the mcrib. and they have innovated. they innovated this entire pumpkin spice category. look how many copycats are piggy backing on starbucks innovatin

our chief meteorologist paul deanno has been watching the temperatures. still pretty toasty. >> it is warm inland. hot in fairfield. 4:00 p.m. it was 102 degrees. unlike any other place in the united states of america, in the same general area it was also 59 degrees. at the coast 43 degrees cooler over 42 miles. more than one degree per mile. 59 pacifica this afternoon. 102 fairfield. what does this mean? increase in humidity and cloud cover and we will share a few degrees off the inland temperatures. concord above average. high of 94. oakland 4 degrees above average, 78. 72 in san francisco. may have noticed in the south bay cloud cover working north. those tropical clouds head to the north as an old tropical storm dissipated. the cloud cover will impact your tuesday. your full 7-day forecast coming up in 12 minutes. >> thank you very much. >>> looking live now at sfo where major runway changes are on the way septembering september 7 a runway will be closed for repairs. 28 left. one of the run ways for international landings will be closed for 20 days. w

i have looked hard to find something that paul krugman has said that is right. this is the one thing i found. you can make me total dictator of the country and i could do everything i know to work and i could not change the growth rate by a couple 1/10 of a percentage. that is a true statement. he would do everything he thinks would work, and he still wouldn't get you up by more than a few tenths of a percentage point. thankfully for krugman is not the total dictator of the united states, president trump is the president of the united states, and for that reason republicans will prove to people that government is not the solution, that you are the solution, that we can run our own lives, we can take care of ourselves and make america great again. thank you all for having me. i very much appreciate it. [applause]

despite biden's early lead, paul says the state is still up for abs. >> he's popular here, but he has he's got to be here more. i think he's got to talk about the future >> reporter: some voters are more blunt about biden. >> if he were the primary candidate i'd still vote for him. but i don't wa him to be the candidate. i want someone new and fresh >> reporter: among those angling new and fresh is california senator kamala harris, third in iowa polls. her staff is energetic and her fair crowd was large, but she dipped in the last poll here, and admits she's still building. >> we have over 65 staff in iowa. d you know there are people in this race who have had national inofiles for many years. i'm still introdmyself to people. >> 2020 >> reporter: quickly surging here is massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, now second in the iowa polls, and captain of what many see as the best- ornized ground-game in the state-- with fired-up volunteers like joie otting. >> i think it's impousrtant that wetake a new, almost radical-- not to call elizabeth warren radical-- but take a big change in d

encore models. ♪ try my $4.99 barbeque bacon double cheeseburger combo. >>> that's the news, paul deanno haseen listening to that this afternoon. outside lands at golden gate hurt. >> it is a concert, the music is good, blink 182 is on the stage tonight. tonight and tomorrow and sunday. the weather will be cool, mid 60s and the weather will be fine. typical august weather in san francisco. let's look at the radar because with the radar we see numerous thunderstorms developing over the coastal waters to the west of sonoma county. this is looking north the so coastal sections of mendocino and northern sonoma county may get impacted by showers. and they may see seem lightning strikes or the ocean. high temperatures tomorrow, mid to upper 60s for san francisco and the coastline. 70s for oakland in your the bay and highs will make it to the low 80s and many inland locations. it will be sunnier and warmer on sunday. the warmest weather will be monday, tuesday and wednesday with 70s near the bay and upper 80s to low 90s and land. vinggood time, 210,000 are people expected this weekend. >>> paul, th

the details are very cloudy, but from what we understand, baby paul has recovered from the crime scene with his mother on top of him. we got word that andre had jumped in front of his wife to protect his wife and son throughout the whole circumstance. so very devastating. >> we've heard that the infant may have even been grazed by a bullet. the family says that jordan was also a mother to two other kids. their ages, 5 and 2. think about what they have to grow up with knowing, and now not knowing. let's get to the latest now on that investigation. we have erica hill with us here in el paso. it's good to see you. i wish it wasn't here. >> likewise. >> but this is where we need to be. one interesting distinction as i read there. the feds are considering this as domestic terror. the feds are considering this as a hate crime. the problem we have is a gap in the law. if you changed out, and this isn't about politics, it's about prosecutorial discretion. if this were extreme islamism, it would fit right into a category of resources and realities under the law that punish it in a certain way a

paul: in terms of how the u.s. hasching the trade dispute, they have been effective at gaining leverage but it hasn't translated to results. what is the best path to getting something tangible done? daniel: leaking as a diplomat, and i am letting my bias show, you can't effectively communicate with your other negotiating partner through telepathy. you have to really talk. while there have been encounters between the u.s. trade representative's, they have been pretty unsatisfactory and they haven't really reflected either a very good understanding of the other side or the spirit of compromise. hade president trump has occasional meetings with president xi that resulted in at least the appearance of a truce, none of those have lasted. there has to be real engagement, discussion, negotiation it i have dealt with china on behalf of the u.s. government for many years. i'm not naive. china will not accommodate our interests by us just saying, pretty please. you do need leverage but you also need a strategy and engagement. th

to white house deputy secretary hogan gidley in a minute, but first we go to el paso where jeff paul has more on the active investigation. jeff? >> melissa, the police chief in el paso releasing some new details about what happened just prior to this mass shooting. he said the suspected shooter drove for more than ten hours from the dallas area before getting here to el paso. that's when they believe he somehow got lost in a neighborhood and ended up at the walmart because he was hungry. we continue to learn more about this ongoing investigation. this community is now preparing for a visit from president trump tomorrow. some locals in el paso, as well as politicians, want the president to stay away. but the mayor saying it's part of his official duty to welcome the president. >> i will continue to challenge any harmful and inaccurate statements made about el paso. we will not allow anyone to portray el paso in a manner that is not consistent with our history. >> last night there was also a memorial service for one of the 22 people murdered. just 15 years old, how the year a mere rodrigue

. >> from what we understand, baby paul has recovered from the crime scene with his mother on top ofhat andre had jumped in front of his wife to protect his wife and son throughout the whole circumstance. so very devastating. >> unbelievable. leo campos and mary bell hernandez, they dropped their dog off at a groomer before heading to walmart to do some shopping. also killed 86-year-old angie. arturo benvides, who was in the checkout line when she was shot. 7 of the 21 killed in el paso were mexican citizens, they're sara esther regalado, adaufl owe hernandez, more va garcia, elsa mendoza de la mora, gloria irma marquez, maria eugenia, rothe and ivan filiberto manzano. please remember those names today. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase. our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. wit

social media platform twitter has announced it will no longer accept ann's place by government controlled media paul carter has been looking at who exactly is affected. twitter users fear not the admins are taking new steps to protect you from the big bad state controlled media no longer will you be exposed to their alternative information via advertisements it's all for the best. we want to protect healthy discourse and open conversation to that and we believe that there is a difference between engaging in conversation with accounts you choose to follow on the content you see from advertisers in your tweets experience which maybe from accounts you're not currently following by by b.b.c. and voice of america right well they might actually be what the social media giant is calling taxpayer funded and titties it's different and twitter has put together a diverse team of western media organizations to draw the line between good and bad that's right freedom house the apparently independent and u.s. state funded n g o that helped the cia with a 980 s. propaganda campaign twitter picked the right state fu

mules in honor of a batch of brand-new home bakers. y berry's been sharpening her knives and paul hollywood hasy much been sharpening his hair quiff with the aid of some cow gum and whale grease, and they're about to be unleashed on this baker's dozen. -this year, over 10,000 people applied, hoping to reach the tent. t's a bit like waking up on christmas day, sort of excitement, and then coupled with, potent that i was going to have to do an exam. -and now 13 of the best home bakers from across the country have finally made it. -i hope i just don't get too fazed by things and remember that this is mething that i do literally every day at home. -over the next 10 weeks, all of theirtoaking skills will be the test. -i don'tant to be the guy that everyone

presidedent paul scenaro has decided not to respect his climate commitments under these conditions fronts will oppose the maquis sir agreements as it stands. the mercosur free trade agreement was signed on june twentieth but front said with any ratify it is such an environmental commitments were on it. ireland has also threatened to block the deal unless b brazitatakes actionon o prprotect the arm is an-- meanwhile a g. seven members meeting in france this weekend michael was pushed the wild fires to the top of the agenda. to eighteen our house is burning literally. balsan are a tribute suffice increased droughts and accuses ngos of whipping up a an environmental psychosis to harm brazil's economic interests. both international pressure mounting the brazilian leader says he's now considering sending in the army. to save the world's largest tropical rain forests. well the n number of firess in e amazon has increased by 80% from last year the rainforest produces a fifth of the world's oxygen and as a buffer against global climate change. but it's also home to over fifteen thousand people fr

paul thayer has more. well the latest figures from the campaign against arms trade reveal that the u.k. government granted export licenses to the tune of some 6200000000 pounds over a period of 4 years since the saudi led coalition began its strikes in yemen back in march 2015 there is no public darter however over whether or not the license holders exported the goods in their entirety or half or none but essentially what it does show is the is the amount that they were entitled to export the bombing has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and it wouldn't have been possible without the complicity and support of downing street these arms sales are immoral and illegal. the campaign against arms trade says that the total amount is likely to be higher because many of the weapons and ammunitions that were used by members of the saudi led coalition in fact were licensed by a separate body for which there is no public darter now back in june of this year the court of appeals ruled that the u.k. gov

paul snow has been arguing that the attention being paid to the devastation in the amazon right now is unwarranted despite the fact that this year an estimated $950000.00 tears rain forest have been destroyed much of it for cattle ranching and soybean cultivation with the explicit support of his administration and it's not just brazil that's suffering either right now fires are raging in a number of other neighboring countries to. show sister channels being filled with the consequences. but on the fact there's there could be a number of causes usually when scattered sparks from the fires point of origin prompting the growth of the area on fire even a cigarette thrown out of a window could cause a fire which can spread for kilometers. but little of it was about what we are going to suspend the election campaign for at least one week leaving the president the morality of his. running mate will suspend all extra work to teach us that we will dictate ourselves to taking care of the entire region affected by the wildfires out of the entire believe in amazon out of . what is next the push to

paul: it has been a mixed picture. you need to be selective. we are in a stock pickers zone. lot of people we talked to like tech at the moment. sonny: that is right. you have had such great these platforms have done a great job over the years to build themselves into these mammoth businesses. we quite like facebook very we think that is putting aside the regulatory risk. what we have seen in china in the development of platforms, social commerce, that trend could very well find its way into the u.s., and facebook is a strong platform that will be a part of that. we want to still stick with the strong, putting aside regulatory risk. we are finding structural growth at a much more attractive valuation in asia. some of the tech names in china whether it be alibaba, significantly cheaper than those opportunities then you find in the u.s. we still like a lot of those names in china. hold on for a second because we are getting earnings from bluescope steel. we are getting tons of earnings out of australia. bluescope reporting underlying profit for the full year that beat the highe

now paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. now diane has mentioned that my passion and i'll admit this, i will admit to this, my passion is blackpast.org. now a 15,000 page website. essentially a work that's based on volunteers. you can see some of it being skrold. i'm not touching on it. you can see the scrolling. it started as kind of a project for our students at the university of washington and we forgot to gate it and as a consequence somebody wrote from new zealand and said, you know, share the information with us and answer questions and we realized this is going every where. then about, i don't know, six weeks, six, seven weeks later i get an invitation from someone at the state department saying we would like to send you to siberia -- we want your passport number and your bank account. and i'm thinking this is a scam, okay. but as fate would have it, as things turned out the person really was from the state department. we really did go to siberia. we toured a number of universities in siberia. they all loved african-a

paul: american airlines has won .a workers union to stop encouraging staff to delay aircraft repairs and reject out of time assignments and over time. and cathay pacific cancels more flights. kong in afrom hong moment. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> singapore is revising down there growth forecast almost zero as the global downturn deepens and the trade war goes on. the ministry of trade and industry sees the economy expanding between nothing to 1% down from previous projections 2.5.1.5 to the u.s. and china are sparring over trade. and the spat between japan and korea is widening. trade andry of industry says korea will split the fast-track category into and japan will initially be the only country in the second group. this news comes two weeks after tokyo forced korea off the road own list, a country deemed safe enough for export. on, those countries who failed to uphold principles in the management of export control will be included in this new group. japan will be the first country to be included in this group. formeride

has including in some of the early voting states. i think it was a very smart ad and i saw the screen shots of obama in there. [ laughter ] paul: how many times, like every shot. >> i think joe biden realizes that has a lot to do with why he is leading this race. his attachment to obama is still a very popular figure among democrats and him saying to people, wait, these guys want to attack obamacare, they want to attack obamacare. do you want to attack obamacare? and i see where he's going with that. i think it's effective. paul: kim, you wrote a couple weeks ago about elizabeth warren on health care. she has endorsed the bernie sanders medicare for all bill in congress, she said she's for medicare for all. you said if you look at her specifics, she is very fuzzy on the math and the details. explain. >> well, yes, she doesn't have anything. i mean, this is -- remember, her whole catch phrase is she's got a plan for that. but you go to her website, there is no official plan for health care. she has gone out there and said that she's with bernie on this but there are no specifics. and as we all know, health care is quite complicated. ther

paul was one for the history books. >> reporter: what did you love about him? >> his sense of humor. he got me laughing. he was the one for me. has him? >> that's me and my pauley. m reporter: kris and paul met in 1988, and after dating five years, they became one of the first couples in the world with downs syndrome to get married. h i proposed to him. >> reporter: you proposed to him? >> yes. i whispered, "would you marry me?" and he looked at me with this big, beautiful smile, and he shook his head yes. e> what's on the menu for tonight? >> reporter: but kris' sister, ersan scharoun, says it took a hat more than "yes" to get them to "i do." there were marriage classes, asunseling sessions, and a whole lot of push-back from supposedly able-minded people. >> yeah, there really was quite a bit of resistance. fere was a feeling that it was drke children getting married versus two, you know, very capable adults. >> reporter: today, people with down syndrome who want to get married still face resistance. there's still some question as to whether couples like kris and paul love as deeply as the rest of us. and, in fact, we saw evide

it has been hard to see direction one way or another. paulyou're optimistic on the consumer, a lot of people are. the retail sector is looking better than many expected. i want to take a look at this chart and get your thoughts. this is u.s. pmi's compared to global peers. we see that the u.s., the yellow line, is getting towards zero along with the rest of the world. what does this tell us? the consumer might be ok, but how about the manufacturer? ann: great question. i think with that chart highlights is it is a tale of two economies. the pmi data shows for a number of quarters a slowdown. if you look particularly towards what the impetus might be for further rate cuts, it has been the manufacturing sector. it has been the pulldown and that part of the economy. that is part of the reason jay powell pointed to justify the rate cut we had in july. that would be the data set that is a focal point. we will see the conversations unfold the end of the week. shery: we have seen defensive outperform. this chart on the bloomberg showing the s&p 500

paul: that was the huawei chief security officer. later, the unthinkable hasfor hong kong. anxiety is growing that beijing may send in the pla after weeks of street protests. this is bloomberg. ♪ sophie: this is "daybreak :asia." paul: singapore banks kept it a positive earnings season with better-than-expected numbers. we are joined by a senior bloomberg analyst. pretty good performance all around. what are your key takeaways? >> good morning. the numbers are quite interesting. points --ree basis margin point -- three basis point margin gain is good. at 20. that is an interesting take away. or 9% ofabout eight profit growth which the street did not expect. i highlighted on monday i think they could add in this quarter. at two basis points margin gain. a couple of these factors have worked out well for the banks. very good numbers. also the earnings calendar is the state bank of india, set report later on friday. what do you expect? >> that's another one. if you look at last year's 49 billion gains and loss, they will have a strong rebound from that level. som