s. leslie and his wife find that the arguments for staying in south africa are few and far between. just last month's sim bob with barry its former leader robert mugabe loved by somebody loathed by many more the erstwhile freedom fighter turned dictator is seen as responsible for triggering the dire economic crisis as dog the country for years many have hoped that the current gov and the president emerson. could finally find a way to jumpstart the still ailing economy so far off spin little sign of much change. that will take everything has come to a standstill once again there's no electricity wonder money is so has a major figure wales but the power grid has just gone off and his small mechanical engineering company in harare has come to a standstill. if the office we did maybe things are going to be ok good jobs playing on the floor but you can employ some time there is it comes . to of midnight it goes around 4 o'clock so you know we need or is being done. it's been like that for months now and often there's no electricity anywhere in the country during the day the government ca

abc 7's leslie brinkley joins us from downtown lafayette. >> well, i know that i spoke to some small business owners and i was told that many of them called, spoke to pg&e this morning at around 9:00. they were told power would come back on it by 6:00 p.m. they had to make a decision. do we open a day. stay closed today. many of them told employees not comen only to have the power come back on 30 minutes later at 9:30 this morning. so a lot of frustration. they lost another day of business and lost more money. >> communication we got from them was tentative. very iffy, and it really didn't -- we didn't know what will happen until it actually happens. >> 9:30 a.m., the lights came on in downtown arinda theater square. 11:00 a.m., power restored to this shopping center in downtown lafayette. >> how much money are you out, do you think? >> something around 700. >> per day? >> per day, yeah. >> it adds up. >> it's okay. as long as we don't have any fire, it's okay. >> reporter: but this dry cleaners didn't have staff as they tried to reopen and the credit card reader wouldn't work so the

s own leslie marshall, young american for liberty president, cliff maloney and his bright red shoes, welcome. >> welcome. kennedy: thank you for welcoming me, i never get welcomed, i appreciate that, and hillary is welcomed to enter the race, this is great, politics is so insane, she is the savior that we've been waiting for you. >> are right. so many people are tired of continuing to see her pop up, if i am a democrat, i have to be thinking are you kidding? why are you putting out joking tweets, trump knows how to get democrats riled up. i think if you are a democrat you want to get away from hillary clinton as far as poaj, not evepossible. kennedy: democrat by and large do not want her to run, 71% say they do not want her near the race. if that is the case, why can't she take that hint? is it her wounded ego that needs constant stroking? >> we're not riled up, there was a tweet, she responded. >> she is riled up. >> get out more, that not real head up, i'll show you a party later, she responded to a tweet, she has a book with her daughter, she is on campaign circuit, other night, l

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s&p. he is trying to think now, i want to get the economy going and do not want to be in a recession. francine: well elizabeth warren struggled to find donors? lesliea strategy that is reaching out to a broad base. ok, butt she will be the bigger question is whether a more moderate voter will take her seriously, and whether independent voters will vote and support elizabeth warren, and i should also add republican voters who would like an alternative to the president, but elizabeth warren is likely to be too far to the left. ri andne: leslie vinjamu trevor from chatham house, both stay with us. syria, what itr means for geopolitical risk. today marks 10 years since greece triggered the euro zone debt crisis. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is bloomberg "surveillance." the e.u. is expected to unveil untagged trust -- antitrust measures against fraud,, a rare occurrence of asking a company to pause activity before the conclusion of the investigation. companytell -- tell the -- they could tell the company to stop buying chips. bellagio -- it is under pressure from investors to unload its remaining casinos. africa, as calm as carrying out rolling blackouts

leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >>> people are getting more and more frustrated with pg&e. without electricity in the north bay. the owner of santa rosa's oakmont village market restocked freezers with pints s and pintsf ice cream earlier today. he kept frozen products inside giant ice chests after his power went out on wednesday. many other items like produce, spoiled. he estimates he lost about $25,000 on account of pg&e. and his insurance won't cover it. >> for small retailers, that's a big deal. for a large corporation, maybe not such a big deal. >> there should be much better solutions in strengthening and isolating the grid system to avoid the massive power shutdowns. >> and pg&e helicopters inspected the power line near highway 12 before turning the power back on. >>> the family of a man who died 12 minutes after electricity was cut off to his home blames the planned outage for his death. >> the coroner says 67-year-old robert martis died from severe coronary artery disease and had a history of copd. >> officials did not corroborate what the family believes, at least not yet, that he died because his electrically powered oxygen machines turned off. >> report er giacomo luca has te st

leslie picker in for sara eisen. we're live at post nine of the new york stock exchange. shest since september 20 as the earnings picture is mibsed. >> our road map starts with the earnings mcdonald's, and hasbro reporting. >> under armour ceo stepping down we'll talk about the future of the company. >> a first on cnbc interview with discovery ceo david zaslav talking about treaming, conten wars and all of the content they've got there. >> first a bunch of earnings to get to this morning as you can see, the market is mixed this morning. starting with p&g, helped by strong demand for the beauty brands, the stock up more than 30% so far in 2019 on the opposite side, shares of hasbro plummeting after missing their earnings expectations with tariffs boosting costs you also have dow component travelers, also moving lower today after reporting mixed results. bob pisani joins us now, taking a look at today's numbers. >> and leslie, several notable beats and raises, but a couple disappointments. take a look quickly here procter & gamble nice beat, raised guidance. sherwin williams

generating 4.8% return on a net base versus 6.9% in the s&p in that time period investors in his fund will be redeemed by november 15th, guys. >> all right, leslieby the aforementioned jeff vinik, c.e.o. and cio of vinik asset management it's only eight months, jeff 4.8, you're almost matching the averages what was actually your decision to not give it a go for a little bit longer >> yeah, well, thank you for having me on this morning. you know, this has nothing to do with performance actually. i was quite pleased with my performance over the last several months given the challenges of the market, the under performance of international small cap and all. i actually felt good about performance and where the fund was headed you know, i thought as you guys said, i thought i was going to be able to raise $3 billion right off the bat. obviously i did not have a goo understanding of the hedge fund industry of 2019 not only did i fall well short of those goals, but here we are in october, and i'm sad to say there's no, you know, it doesn't look like we will get any money at the end of the year and despite the fact that i've had dozens of good conversat

we are on record close watch s&p looks set to hit one nasdaq just shy of it at the moment coming up after the close, we'll also get results from beyond meat and leslie at a preview of that. leslie >> not a bad day to report analysts are expecting beyond meat to turn a profit of about 3 cents per share with revenue of $82 million. that stock, though, has faced some pressure, cut in half frits july peak on concerns about additional share supply hitting the market, which hampers beyond meat's scarcity value. the last time beyond meat reported quarterly numbers, if you recall, the stock took a nosedive after the company announced a secondary offering tomorrow, beyond meat will release nearly 49 million shares from their lockup agreement. the company may need a strong enough beat today to compensate for some of those share supply concerns although that stock up about 4% heading into the close, guys >> thank you very much, leslie that stock has been up it's been down but of course, like sht about in half from its highs, at least. >> i fear if you have a good quarter, you'll have sellers into it. if you don't have a good quarter, you might have the sellers

excels and, and i miss leslie jones she left the cast this year i thought they needed the writing was lacking. >> all right do you guys watch it? >> i watched it after the fact but funny sthe republicans too much. but then still throw shade on democrats and plans that out they don't but starting to here and there a little bit. i would like to see more, of course. prchg joe sorry that didn't work out. see you back soon thank you so much. sir still ahead the nba under fire this morning not from america but from china. chinese businesses are cutting ties with the houston rockets fake a look at why next hour mornings with maria, back in a minute. ♪ . . . announcer: fidelity is redefining value with zero account fees for brokerage accounts. and zero minimums to open an account. at fidelity those zeros really add up. ♪ maybe i'll win ♪ saved by zero maria: welcome back. good monday morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo. it is monday, october 7th. your touch stories right now, -- top stories right now. concerns about u.s.-china trade issues weighing on tar markets, futures indicating a decline at the start of trading. we are well off the lows o