joining me is bloomberg's agricultural market specialist, sterling smith. so good to see you. has been four years since you have been on air with me. sterling: this is our first time in person. alix: the news this week was china significantly increasing its purchases of u.s. goods. what are they going to buy? is it going to be soybeans? sterling: they will be buying more soybeans from the u.s. right now, they buy about 35 million tons a year. we could see the number move up -- close to 40 million if this deal does in fact happen. we also have to remember soybeans are a very competitive market. china has been preferring south american soybeans, not just because of the trading situation, but because of the quality. this is not great guns for soybeans. the balance sheet for soybeans is a lot more friendly than it has been. a lot of things need to verify. it took a lot of speculative money and a big problem in argentina to get soybean prices to where they are. that does not mean we will see stickiness. there are delays in the north, and that will lead to more bean anchors. we saw

smith who police said fled from a traffic stop. police are bracing for what could be a strong reaction and response from its community. sterling brown released a statement flew threw twitter saying it should not have happened. he said he plans to take legal action against the milwaukee police department. jeff. >> glor: okay, demarco in milwaukee, thank you very much. thank you very much. hawaii's volcano emergency enters its fourth week tomorrow with the possibility of a major eruption at any moment. explosive bursts of lava, steam, and ash continue tonight as homes and a geothermal electrical plant are threatened. mark strassmann is on the big island. >> reporter: this is leilani estates, overwhelmed by a river of molten misery. lava has burned and buried more than a dozen homes here. 1700 people fled. some returned to broken homes and hearts. imagine this giant crack running under your house. active fissures push out new lava every day. most of it flows into the pacific ocean, away from people. but some lava menaced this geothermal plant. workers stabilized 11 wells to prevent the release of uncontrolled toxic gases. officia