joinings are stef, the senior research analyst at pipe are jaffray. some of the students are joining us now as well. eleanor hagen, matthew rosado, kathy martin and nick versioli, all seniors here in new jersey. you can go to cnbc.com/vote and tell us where you shop and what you're buying. good to see you guys. welcome. good to see you again, stef. >> likewise. >> i can't believe it's back-to-school season already. this is a high stakes season for the retailers. >> absolutely. >> especially because we're seeing traffic spike. we were just talking earlier that teens aren't shopping in august anymore. they're going back to the malls after they go back to school. >> usually i'll take like two shopping trips, which is usually over the summer. once el get back to school i do my actual fall shopping in early october, late september. >> what are the trends that you are seeing? >> for guys, i think the j. crew. i really like sperrys. that's the big thing. when it comes to sportswear, nike is always up there, underarmour, but i think the prep. >> the classic?

now let's join stef for all of the weather. stef, pretty wet in china, isn't it? is right and we need this in rain and unfortunately not all at once. if we look at the satellite picture there is a blanket of cloud across southern parts of china and given some of us some very downpours and the worst is in the far eastern parts where we have seen just over 150 millimeters of rain and taiwan has seen wet weather, the most i have seen is 164 millimeters of the wet stuff. but when it comes to flooding the worst here is actually been in the western parts of our map. here are pictures from chong-ching and saw 305 millimeters of rain in three days and that was enough to give us this damage and helps pull down people's houses and left hundreds of people homeless. over the next couple of days the monsoon is very active in china and taiwan as well. you see the dark green blue here indicating we are expecting heavy rain and actually over the next three days we could expect to see somewhere between 300-350 millimeters of rain as we head through the next three days. so that wil

in japan is saturated and going to see flooding here and land slides as well, steven. >> thank you stefo i'm told remnants of a hurricane possible in the southern uk and we will talk about that later and more to come including a food band and sanctions on moscow are targeted. and fashion trends around the world and struggling at home because of china, details coming up. in sport rory is on the charge again with the golf's final major of the season and we will have that. ♪ @j ♪ you are watching the news hour, i'm steven and these are the stories making headlines this hour. the pentagon says that two u.s. fighters have dropped bombs on islamic state group in northern iraq, u.s. president obama authorized air strikes after isis made more gains in the area. a child killed and 8 wounded in israeli air strikes on the gaza strip and report says an agreement has been reached over most major issues of talks in cairo and unclear if israeli delegation is in the egyptian capitol. afghanistan's rival presidential candidates signed a deal to cooperate on the formation of a national unity government a

to the eastern coast and here it could cause us a few problems with flooding, jane. >> thank you, stefsts in syria say 11 people including 6 children have been killed by government bombing in homs and happened in this area and barrel bombs were dropped on residential neighborhoods. in gaza five day cease fire agreement between palestinian factions and israel continues to hold and people are returning to their homes and assess the damage but there is uncertainty over the future of the fighting because there has been no agreement on a long-term truce. delegates from both sides returned from cairo where negotiations were held with constitutions and despite the truce, israel is continuing to mass the troops with gaza and ground troops pulled out of the strip last week but tanks and armored personnel carriers are stationed near gaza and they launched military offensive more than a month ago and thousands of people have gathered to protest against the extension of the truce between israel and palestinian and many are from israeli towns on border where rockets are from the land and kimberly r

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final trade, stef in? implts i like tjx. >> chesapeake, chk. >> you're going to buy it?going to buy it. >> josh. >> if you're afraid of junk bond lqe might be more your speed. >>> i'm going to go with delta. look at the way that thing flipped around today. >>> that does it for us "power lunch" begins right now. >> michelle, thank you very much. we're going to begin but updating you on several different stories. that's the kind of airport that the us -- that's been striking artillery did it early this morning. u.s. time, this as the sunni terrorist groups takes more ground from kurdish forces in northern iraq. i.s.i.s. has surrounded tens of thousands of ethnic minorities including

. >> tomorrow is stef's turn, we'll find out how she stays so tough. time for the final trades.>> marathon petroleum. >> pete? >> ebay. >> zen master? >> wendy's, down under 8 bucks. think it's a great buy. >> stephanie in. >> i like ryder and their pricing power. >>> meantime, don't go anywhere, up next is ""power lunch."" >>> and we have a series of developing stories at this hour, a potentially historymaking hurricane is baring down on hawaii at this hour. paradise bracing for not one but two hurricanes. >>> the dow is down 65. the s&p is off about a half percent. also at this hour, reports that president obama is considering air strikes and air drops of food to religious minorities surrounded by the terror group known as the islam

. >> thank you stef. still to come - the business of smuggling. will closing borders help venezuela and columbia. and we look at the crumbling legend of the athens olympics. that's after the break. >>> welcome back, a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera - egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak testified at his trial in a court in cairo, saying that he didn't order the killing of protesters or spark chaos during the 2011 uprising. the court will deliver a verdict on september 27th. >> nouri al-maliki, iraq's president, is not recognising his successor, he says he's waiting for the federal court to decide whether he can keep his job. >> it's the final day of a 72 hour ceasefire between hamas and israel in gaza. a foreign journalist was killed in the gaza strip ja. >>> let's get more on the situation in iraq. michael stevens is the deputy director of think tank in qatar. good to have you with us, michael. nouri al-maliki is now saying that he is not going to go without a court decision. why is he happening on so strongly when the u.s. and iran

and we will join stef with the weather and seems to be hurricane horror in the pacific at the moment, typical for this time of the year? >> what you normally get is a breeding ground for storms and usually come in clusters and you don't get one, you get a series of them and that is what we see to the west of the u.s. we saw genivive and these two and hot on the heels. they are working their way toward the west and the initial one which is called iselle is now making landfall in hawaii, following it is the storm julio which is the more intense one. tropical storm iselle has been downgrade so as it makes landfall we expect sustained winds to be 110 kilometers per hour. the real problem from the system is going to be the amount of rain. some spots can expect up to 300 millimeters of wet weather and enough to give us flooding and potentially land slides as well. better news when it comes to julio and it's an intense storm and it's a powerful category three storm and looks like it will track its way to the north and that will mean the worst of the winds and heaviest of the rains shouldn't

. >>> well, to weather and here is stef and low-lying areas in the caribbean are on alert. >> that is and if you are in the area you are worried about landslides, let's look at the satellite picture and see exactly why. this is the tropical storm and it's not a hurricane and not that strong but it's still capable of giving us very heavy rain and it will be the rain from this system that is the main problem. you can see it's a disorganized storm but covering quite a large area and through jamaica and cuba and dominican republic are seeing rain and the center of the storm is to the north of all of us. it's going to creep its way northward but it's moving very slowly and moving around 5 kilometers per hour. so that means we have a prolonged period of heavy rain tan heaviest rain is likely across the bahamas and turks and caicos islands as well and wet for us and could be around 300 millimeters of rain from this system. already though it has given us impressive totals and east of dominican republican and the capitol has heavy rain and caused a problem with flooding already and the risk be

a lot of people are asking, stef, why can't they get more and send it to the victims in west africa? is the huge question. there's a lot of young children who could have ben fitted from this. you hear people saying that. the issue, a, it wasn't supposed to try on humans until 2015. these two patients that have it, they signed off knowing the they were getting something that had not been approved yet. the other issue with the fact they've taken this, there was no control subject. we don't know how much of the virus they had, if these two were getting better on their own. i talked to dr. sapphire about this, she says i would take this vaccine, this drug myself because i've been researching it my whole life. i know what it did in monkeys, that it saved the lives of the monkeys but we don't know how it's going to really interact in big, large masses of humanity and that's what they need to determine. until then it's very much an exploratory adventure. the reason you're talking to me and not the people at malpractice biopharmaceuticals because they're so busy trying to make as much as the