he said he was done in london. he already won 22 olympic medals. 18 of them his he's got a chance -- he's got a very legitimate chance of taking on maybe three more goals. >> reporter: and don't forget the splash american katie ledecky made four years ago. >> she comes into london as a 15-year-old, wins the 800 free style, stuns the world. >> the future of usa swimming. >> reporter: four years later, she would win a fist full of gold. she wins by jaw breaking margins. >> reporter: in gymnastics, mary says watchout for simone this kid. she's got real heft to what she does. and she does things that nobody else has ever seen before. >> reporter: and mary says don't count out jamaican sprinter usain both bolt. >> he's as big a presence as anyone. >> reporter: this is olympics 13 for mary who has extra reason to love the rio games. >> i've been watching so much television, so much political fighting and you hear the candidates saying i love the idea the american flag is going to go up for the next 17 days and people hav

i'm going to find london. i'm going to find a way. >> coming up. >> you don't know what they've got inside that vehicle. it is extremely dangerous to confront these people. this is their property. they're criminals. ♪ >>> kat french and dottie laster make a second attempt to rescue a trafficked victim named london. despite high hopes, the team fails to extract the young girl again. they call it a night. but soon awake to unexpected news. >> this is -- yeah. this is my excited face. the last thing i texted her driving away, we are not giving up on you. pack a go bag and text when you're ready. i will be there in 30 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> i woke up and i was getting a text. it said i'm ready, and so i immediately tried to scramble the team because there was an extraction. >> yes, this morning. i don't even have time to reflect because we're going to meet london again. i was, like, thank you! the team convenes for an important security briefing prior to their rendezvous with london. scott, head of security outline

it is 4:44 in london. be otc, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: it is time for the global battle of the charts, where we look at the most compelling charts and what it means for investors. you can run the function featured at the bottom of your screen. kicking things off, it is matt miller. matt: i was hoping to go first, because i see mark barton at the european themed charge. i don't, i have a u.k. themed chart. this is london house prices. they are not rising as quickly as they have, or falling -- wait, they are not rising as 1.2%.- wait, they are up that number has not been that low since june 2015. the are still rising year after year. you see the problem i have making that point. they have not quite fallen yet. they did fall in the last month, and the number of days it has taken to sell your house in london has drawn out. i think it is interesting house prices continue to rise year-over-year after the brexit vote. the number is 2746. vonnie: you are basically saying cooling would be the word. matt:

in particular, in the london market, as opposed to the outer london market, is suffering more. francine: what about a weaker pound? does that help with house prices? are you seeing more money from the periphery countries, or even china and the like? >> will obviously, as well as the underlying demand from u.k. buyers and investors, if their assets are in currency that is appreciating on the sterling, that is good news for them. we are hearing reports of more of them circling around, putting in lower bids, looking for bargains. they are going to wait for the right time, pick up the deals that are more appealing to them. oftainly there are reports more foreign investors starting to look around. but not in the volumes we have seen before. francine: if you were selling house right now how do you look at it,? we have no idea what brexit really means. we don't know when article 50 will be triggered, we don't know whether eu people can stay in the u.k., we don't know whether they need passports, what happens to the financial system. how do you choose whether now is the right time to b

an american woman stabbed to death on a london street. a florida college professor's five others wounded amid fears of terrorism. whatnvestigators are now saying. >>> major mob bust. a massive takedown straight out of a movie script, dozens arrested on a laundry list of charges. >>> and the americans to watch. some familiar faces, some new hoping to strike gold here in rio. plus matt lauer with michael phelps. why he says this olympics is so different as we reach the eve of the games. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. >> good evening from copacabana beach, one of the many competition sites for the games starting tomorrow here in rio. of course in this half of the world, it is mid-winter. even though we are just an hour ahead of u.s. eastern time, the sun has been down here time. think february in the states without the cold. we'll have more on the upcoming competition here later. but we want to start with a brand new snapshot of the race for president. a new n

into london. >> leading into london, i didn't want anything to do with the sport. >> reporter: in fact, phelps hated swimming. and often wouldn't show up to practice. but he and bowman put on a good front keeping their strained relationship hidden. prior to london, bob, was there a time you didn't think he was going to go? >> yes. >> reporter: you thought he was going to quit? >> i hoped he would. >> reporter: why? >> i thought it was going to end badly. >> reporter: it all second dui and went to rehab. >> i felt like i didn't want to see another day. i felt like it should be over. >> reporter: so did you check yourself into treatment because you had a drinking problem or because you had a public relations problem? >> i checked myself in because i think i was at a point in my life where something needed to change. >> reporter: he's sober now and there's a sense of self-acceptance. >> ready? go! >> reporter: people close to phelps says he hates to lose realistic? >> there's a number in my head. >> reporter: so if you don't hit the number, will you be able to look at me and say i went ou

it's a win-win for london. reporter: the service was due to start last september but was delayed by a series of strtrike by london downgroundworkers seeking better pay for the anti-social hours. the union came to an agreement in february. let's see if it will boost the nighttime of the clubs. it comes at a cost of 26 million pounds per year. that's over 28 million uros. transport for london hopes to break even in three years. the scheme is expected to create 500,000 jobs. and at 7.4 billion uros to the london economy by 2030. the night trains will run on two central london lines, the viktoria and central. plans to extend to other lines and stations, including heathrow airport. emma: they have confirmed the extent to which france's tourism industry is suffering. the national statistics office say this friday that the number of visitors to hotels, guest houses and campsites across the country had dropped nearly 5% from april to june. that includes the period during win the euro football championship was taking pl

in london. they brought down the scaffolding. it is gorgeous. aght around the corner is building that wells fargo just put $400 billion into. i assume that is currency driven. do you have, in your head, a level on sterling ruby have a feeding frenzy of purchase. >> we are seeing people come into the u.k. market because of weakness of currency. actually, a lot of money has been coming in already. tom: agreed. >> a lot of money from overseas buyers. that has been happening for 2-3 years. actually, if you look at the last 2-3 years, the peak of the market was 2014-2015. i think we will continue to see some softness in the market. ones of 120eet sterling. i get that. halfway there. maybe it is 124. onyou print a 125 handle sterling, what do animals like you do? >> for us, we are in the slightly different position. funde managing pension money, essentially. if we look to sell into the market, this is not a particularly bad time to sell. we went to get liquidity a few weeks ago, it was how much money

. >> london feels like a lifetime ago. i feel like a completely different person. >> reporter: she is already an olympic silver medalist. johnston won that medal four years ago in london. board. >> four years ago i wasn't a strong enough diver. i had three strong dives i could do in synchronize. i worked really hard on those other dives and i teal like i'm ready to get up there and be by myself. >> reporter: in the months entering these games, abby has kept busy with a few things. like finishing her second year of medical school at duke. and a few weeks engaged. medical school, olympics, and now getting married. other than that how is your summer going? >> best summer of my life. and i found out i'm a published author. which is really exciting. i was also in people magazine. i was like wow kind of crushing it here. [ laughter ] >> and northeast ohio has a couple other connections to the rio games that has nothing to dr. mark mendazoon has worked with several track and field athletes competing in rio. he has worked with jen

why london and why now? >> why not. amazing. there is so much going on and so much going and here it a lot of products. great always exciting to reach out to a different part of the world. europe also has doughnuts. what makes you think it will take off? many otherso pastries that are not as exciting and it is something that i really focus on, to push to make sure we have a different bakery. >> if we talk about the balance between brand recognition and the desire to check your brand, how do you balance those things? do every day,t we seven customers by giving them good experience. and very conservative mindful of the business. doing amazing. eu and london and we are excited to be a part -- a part of it. what else comes next? where do you think there will be a big hike? >> always push myself to be creative. it is always exciting not only , --me >> you have brought some things with you. we are a journalistic endeavor here. >> you will be as well in london. a nice crispy outside and flaky and tender and beautiful for breakfast. fre

bronze in london 4 years ago. raiseman is hoping for an on core in rio. looking to go out on top in what could be her final olympic games. welcome to the olympic zone. i'm trey daerr. the opening ceremony get under way tomorrow night. kicking things off enemy rio yesterday and we begin tonight is hoping to capture a gold medal that evaded her in 2 previous olympics. >> reporter: as an olympic veteran byle is used to be on the biggest stage. in 2008 bizzle was the youngest athlete on the olympic team. >> on phelps. i was so young. >> reporter: returning for her third olympic games as captain. >> for me my role on the team is not necessarily winning the medals or being the face of the sport. it's more behind the scenes and being a cheer leader. >> reporter: the rhode island native made a splash at the age of 5. >> growing up in rhode island it's an ocean state. i loved the water. work out in. my parents got that energy out of me by plopping me in a pool. >> reporter: made her way to massachusetts to join the blue fish swim club. >> they drove me there and b

the brutal mass stabbing attack happened in central london. one woman in her 60s was killed when police say a 19-year-old mangan attack -- man began attacking people near the museum. phil black was there. >> it happened after 10:00 in the evening in london on a thursday night and in a station that is -- in an area that is in east central london. it is busy. it is a social night in london. you can expect people to be in this area. they are not huge crowds. it is in this location where police say that a man was seen with a knife. he was attacking people. >> two women and three men were wounded in the stabbing attack. it took police about 10 minutes to locate the suspect. a taser was used to subdue him. >> early indications suggest mental health is a significant factor in this case. of course at this stage we should keep an open mind regarding motive and consequently terrorism as a motivation remains but one line of inquiry. >> it comes as london's mayor says they will deploy 600 armed police on the street in light of the terror attacks. london r

like to buy in london, but i have to buy 140 miles outside of london because i cannot afford it. are you talking about the growth rate of being a little bit? svenjia: at the moment, it is the growth rate not growing is quickly as you have seen. sell your house, unless you really have to, you will weigh in the. he will wait and see. that is because you will take a financial hit. tom: give us a shot of london with the new office building. the third floor looking over the wonderful christopher yen. when you look at at london there are cranes everywhere. it looks like to buy a bunch of years ago. there is a live shot. are the cranes going to be there for multi family housing in london, or is it still i am trying to buy some 19th-century thing that i cannot afford? svenjia: a lot of the development that you have seen has been the regeneration of areas. a lot of foreign investors have been driving the market. suddenly, antidotal evidence is that these investors may be putting deposits on these developments and are now pulling out. or, they are not overly keen to seal the deal so to spe

anna edwards is with me in london. sterling, 1.3084. surprising con founding the world is going to end crew. confounding, the world is going to end crew. to 6.70.etting close anna: coming up shortly is "bloomberg ," with caroline hyde and alix steel. alix steel, what have you got coming up on the program? alix: it is going to be about what to do about the market. to break down the investment strategy, we are going to talk with scott mather, the cio at their responsible for u.s. core strategies. what do you do if the rate is at zero and you do not want to take on a lot of duration or credit risk? we will be building up to your important interview, tom, tomorrow with stanley fischer, pounding the drum towards jobs friday. tom: i would suggest commodities are one of the litmus papers. i know you follow that carefully. but oil is critical in september. alix: very critical, with that non-informal meeting on opec. tom: how do you know that? alix: because i am an oil nerd. we need humphrey bogart to walk in with -- alix: that would help oi

the london market of 0.2%. this is bloomberg. ♪ oil which is about $45 a barrel, asia in positive territory. can the summer optimism hold? will japan's growth star t as it wrestles with slow business spending, piling pressure on the boj to act in september? properties in london are taking longer to sell, despite a summer price cut. we bring you an interview with the director. welcome to "the pulse," live from ldo

division game playing indianapolis over in london. then the early bye for the jaguars. >> cris: i get green bay, and that's going to be a challenge. but it's at home. but after that they pl so we're going to find out about jackson vil jacksonville and if they have stepped up the way they think they have, those are games they can be competitive with. >> mike: that london game a home game. the first four are technically home and three of the next four come on the road. number 22 on the night. >> referee: this was one infraction. defense number 91. five-yard penalty. remains first down. >> mike: michele? >> michele: well, i'm with andrew whitworth. we were just discussing the large number of penalties. but none by andy dalton. what a very nice smooth start for you guys tonight. he took a big leap last season before injuring himself. what are you expecting from him this year? >> continue to be him. same guy we've had all this time we've been together. attitude, he leads our troops. we go as he goes. we're excited to have him back there. >

in london. let us get a bloomberg business flash. juliette saly is in hong kong. juliette: uber will merge its china business with didi according to people familiar with the matter. the new company will be valued at $35 million. uber will continue to run its own apple in china for now. sony shares have risen after a surprise first-quarter profit has been posted of $205 million. a loss was expected. strength in its playstation division outweighed the impact of the earthquake which shut its main manufacturing site. fallen again after the hit game pokemon go dropped from the top of the app downloading charts in japan. the biggest decline in more than two decades. while pokemon go has been a social phenomenon, the tokyo-based company says it does not expect a major earnings boost from the apple. panasonic shares have plunged in tokyo after it were worded worse than it acted first-quarter earnings on friday. net income fell 64%. the firm says it plans to sell nearly $4 billion in bonds. it has hired

the brutal mass stabbing attack happened in central london. one woman in her 60s was killed when police say a 19-year-old mangan attack -- man began attacking people near the museum. phil black was there. >> it happened after 10:00 in the evening in london on a thursday night and in a station that is -- in an area that is in east central london. it is busy. it is a social night in london. you can expect people to be in this area. they are not huge crowds. it is in this location where police say that a man was seen with a knife. he was attacking people. >> two women and three men were wounded in the stabbing attack. it took police about 10 minutes to locate the suspect. a taser was used to subdue him. >> early indications suggest mental health is a significant factor in this case. of course at this stage we should keep an open mind regarding motive and consequently terrorism as a motivation remains but one line of inquiry. >> it comes as london's mayor says they will deploy 600 armed police on the street in light of the terror attacks. london r

alex is in london with the latest. >> today, a london on edge. armed police stepping up security on the streets after an a aparentally random knife attack in london russells scare. a 19-year-old man is in custody. he's of somali origin, suffering from mental health issues. >> i emphasize, so far, we have found no evidence of radicalization that would suggest the man in our custody is in any way motivated by terrorism. >> police arrived on the scene of the stabbing after 10:30 last night. minutes after the first of many emergency calls. >> i could hear the policeman screaming stop, don't move. don't go any further. stay with you are. he turned around and continued running. >> officers used a stun gun to subdue the teen and arrested him on suspicion of murder. >> then he was down. and so many police officers then came here and they blocked the street. >> after several recent terror attacks in europe, london's mayor is urging calm but vigilance. >>iving in london, you live with that threat of terrorism. >> the stabbing spree came within hours of lon

. >>> a deadly attack in london. a man with a knife stabbing six people in a popular shopping districts. was it terrorism? >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm george howell. it is thursday, august 4th. 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. there is said to be frustration with republican leaders upset and disappointed with their presidential candidate. inside the trump campaign, staffers are baffled over how to keep trump on message and out of trouble. sources reveal the campaign has reached out to chris christie and newt gingrich and several other trump advisors looking for anyone to keep their nominee on the rails. >> what's trul truly frustratine is you have a successful businessman who could be historical. he needs to say he is only fighting with hillary clinton and president obama. other than those two people, every time he talks about anyone else. it is an unforced fumble, if you like, or interception as i would have said. it is clearly a mistake. >> one adviser tells cnn trump seemed

i'm francine loquat in london. tom keene isn't london. here is taylor. allegations in a whistleblower lawsuit says celgene donated to patients helping to abort cancer drugs. celgene says the accusations are baseless. a company is-- teaming up with google, $700 billion over the next seven years. uber has ended its war in china with the deal with didi. according to people familiar willthe matter, uber s .ell to didi they have been pushing to sell the business due to big losses. you have more on the uber deal. let's head to beijing. when you look at uber, how does across through your world when it comes to the economy? to keene does not like extrapolate on the numbers. it shows the strength and potential demand for china. absolutely. at the corporate level, there is a lot of logic to this. hemorrhaging. i think the biggest story here -- i think their art to potential ingles is the first discontinued excitement from the chinese consumer, already the biggest contributor to gdp growth. tom: that is right where i wanted to go. the dreaded phrase of joint ventur

breed. >> so supervisor president london breed touched on is one of the my favorite piece of this job the relationships i get do build in the community that helps me decide and determine where to focus so andrea is a community member i had the pleasure of working with for many years but specifically in the intersunset like to introduce her to you. >> hi i'd like to thank the mayor and the city agencies for coming out and also to stress it is not about today we are a western neighborhood it often doesn't get attention from city hall but we video problems and we feel powerless and frustrated with repeated car break-ins and watching people struggle with mental illness and i'm happy that sandra and the mayor recognize the problems are all connected not dealt with separately the city agencies need to work together trash, crime mental illness all those things have to be dealt with what we're doing is in the past clearly not working or not working in my opinion so i'm glad to have everybody here the streets all right look way cleaner than yesterday and i hope this will be more than a one-day

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michael phelps makes history in dramatic fashion and america's london 2012, missy franklin in for a big comeback. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt, reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. >> good evening from the olympic park. americans with a chance to increase their medal count i first, from what in florida is called an unimaginable accident, the fatal shooting of a volunteer who took place in a police academy training drill, the 74-year-old woman seen moments before she was killed when real bullets were somehow fired in what was supposed to be a demonstration. how does something like that happen? keri sanders tonight from punta gorda with late details. >> reporter: librarian, married 55 years with her husband, gary, just moments after they attended a community event on tuesday, gary witnessed in disbelief as this punta gorda police officer dressed as a criminal during a role playing exercise shot gary's wife, first in the shoulder and then a second fatal shot to her chest. mary's son, steve, describes what her

. >> phil black in london. keep us posted on developments of the story. >>> back here in the united states, florida's miami-dade county aerial spraying is set to start a few hours from now covering a ten-square mile area where officials confirmed 15 cases of the zika virus trans t transmitted by mosquitoes. pregnant women and their partners are to avoid traveling to the wynwood area. the zika virus can cause severe birth defects. florida's governor rick scott says free zika testing will be offered to all pregnant women across the state. >>> in the fight over transgender rights, the supreme court is siding with the school board in virginia. the ruling temporarily blocks a lower court decision to allow a transgender male high school student to use the women's restroom in september. school officials made an emergency appeal to exempt them from the obama administration edict. >>> 51 minutes past the hour. most millennials fear they are not making enough money to retire. they are already thinking of retirement. that

this is bloomberg. ♪ frank i am francine lacqua here in london. let's get to the burke business flash with nejra cehic. nejra: -- has removed its ceo sing the role has become so complex that it traditional management profile was no longer adequate. bynk manion will be placed -- with immediate effects. shares have fallen 22% since he took over as ceo in march of last year. talks.ere has held the combination of the two companies will create the world's largest supplier of industrial assets. warren buffets pressure hathaway posted boosted its investment in apple during the second quarter when the stock slipped according to a regulatory finding. 55% to 15.2 million shares. copper miner antofagasta has seen its revenue slump 18.5% on lower prices. speaking to bloomberg, the ceo says he sees profits rising in the medium-term. >> copper has traded sideways this year and we have seen a summer demand in the first half in china which represent around 50% of copper demand. the outlook for copper is favorable in the medium-term. in the short-term term, there

london properties are taking longer to sell. according to a property website, homes in the capital are staying on the market five days longer than in may, the month before the u.k. voted to leave the eu. we speak to the director had 9:30 u.k. time. two terminals at new york's jfk airport were evacuated after reports shots were fired. the new york city police department tweeted that ball terminals have been searched and cleared and no shots were iron. -- were fired. the leader of lebanon's hezbollah group has cited donald trump in accusing the u.s. and president obama of creating islamic state. the shiite leader is the latest american adversary to quote or praise the republican the many. dayal news 24 hours a powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. you can find more stories on the bloomberg had top . i'm tom mackenzie. this is bloomberg. manus: thank you very much. when it comes to putting the great beast of betting together, value is key. william hill rejects a proposal. this is a combi

emily: a teenager arrested in a deadly knife attack in london. antoinette: a metal pole goes right through a windshield, nearly hitting a woman's face. emily: as donald trump heads to new england. it's been a controversy all week. >> you're watching wcvb, boston's news leader. good morning. if this is new center 5 eyeopener. emily: new information on this clash -- crash landing in dubai. cindy is here with us. it's a nice start to the morning. it's not even 60 degrees. cindy: you can open up the windows. we have a clear and sky. i wanted to share this with you. this is a gorgeous sunrise this morning. that sun is up now. you can see what it looks like over boston. widespread of fog this morning. it's not a big issue. temperatures are cool, running 56. we have a lot of 50's short of the cape. it is 64 this morning in boston. high pressure is on top of this. the air is dry, so the temperature will come up quickly. afternoon. we will flirt with a breeze on the beach. it will be 88 upton nashua. we have lots of low to mid 80's. notice south of boston

francine lacqua in london. foreign exchange, euro-yen is all you need to know, strong yen against a more fragile euro. through 21 12.79. all watching sterling, 1.3331. chrisverrone looking for stronger sterling against consensus. francine: coming up shortly as bloomberg and alix steel joins us now. you have a huge banking guest. alix: we have an unbelievable guest joining us, brian moynihan, ceo of bank of america. we will be breaking down the boe decision and the broader state of u.s. banks when you compare them to the european counterparts, and what the situation will become when it comes to market share and profitability. later on in the show we will be speaking with mexico's foreign affairs minister, and front and center is going to be trump and clinton, both backing away a little bit, more of a protectionist feel. what does that mean for mexico who depends on u.s. trade? francine: thank you, alix steel. let's bring in manus cranny at the boe. people forget, this would not only be the first great cut i

in london. this is bloomberg. ♪ "om: "bloomberg surveillance new york and london. we welcome all of you worldwide. francine, let's look at yen. a huge story down at the bottom. stronger japanese yen. we are not on the 99 handle watch it, but we are getting there. oil elevated, and that down just goes up -- the dow just goes up. francine: i think it is mecca weakness from dollar. let's keep things in perspective. i know it is yen, but when we look at dollar, it appears it is dollar weakness. stocks at a record high. we have back with tim crockford. stocks.these u.s. or when you volumes look at yields, they are so suppressed that with all of this cheap money, you have to put it somewhere, and it is equities. tim: there is a lot of factors coming into play to push equity valuation. a lot of people are scratching their heads while they sit on the sidelines and see it continue to go up. going into the u.k. referendum in june, worldwide in global markets, there was a lot of negativity already. the result was unexpected, but cash levels were high. i would not be surprised

gain fromn tack london's economic uncertainty? this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i am live from london. let's focus on the european to economic scene. can germany benefit from the exit uncertainty. announced a $22 million funding round led by octopus ventures. caroline hyde is joined by the founding managing direct there. i am joined. the first question we have to ask his congratulations. what you doing with the money? >> we are investing that into our business. we are growing further in europe. caroline: you are already present in germany but you are not in the united kingdom. >> we are in eight european countries now. we are serving at hundred thousand men and making them look great and there is more expansion to come up in the existing markets. caroline: would you look at the u.k.? has brags it changed your opinion? it, we willbrags have to see. end, men love to be dressed well. they don't want to spend the time to go shopping. that's probably going to stay the same as the u.k.. . caroline: it might become -- >> there is still a lot of potential. the start up. us it is the funding ea

agreeing palkot is live in london. what do we know about the american victim. >> reporter: horrible stuff. we just got off the phone again with florida state university official. she tells me that the university is grieving for the loss of this woman. local media in florida are saying her name is darlene horton, said to be in her 60s, she and her professor were set to fly back today from london to florida. the summer session he was teaching here in london just wrapped up. police are saying they have no evidence of a terror connection to this attack but it certainly was terrible. the 19-year-old norwegian somali man is identified as zachariah bulhan who went on a mad rampage in the center of london at 10:30 loll time last night. police got to him quickly. shot him with a taser gun, brought him down and arrested him but not after he had injured five people, included among those injures, one american man. we do not have confirmation yet whether that this husband of the american woman who was killed, as well as an australi

. ♪ mark: live from london and new york, it is a sunny london. i am mark barton. vonnie: you are watching "bloomberg markets." it is time now for the bloomberg business flash, a look at the biggest is in stores in the news right now. private equity firm ptg has agreed to buy broadband services providers. tpg will pay about $2.3 billion. they are owned by private equity firms. rcn offers cable, phone, internet service on the east coast and chicago. grande is in texas. the price is about $1.7 billion in cash. senses provides smart meters and network technology for its water, electric, and other industries. the biggest ever privatization deal in hong kong. shareholders one approval to buy out the commercial properties unit according to people familiar with the matter. he will eventually move to mainland china where companies are going higher in terms of valuations than in hong kong. that is your business flash. demographicsn, seem to be getting in the way of growth. that is the assessment from high frequency economics carl weinberg. isnberg says japan's problem heigh

in london. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: worldwide this is "bloomberg surveillance" i'm francine lacqua in london and tom keene is in new york. we need to talk a little bit about employeeo politics. the u.s. vice president joe biden has arrived after a coupe attempt. when you look at everything that's going on in turkey, so 2007 vice president there and there's talk about an extradition and there was that failed coupe. allegations flying about who actually started it and then you have turkey dealing with the huge iciss bomber, what's the relationship between europe, the u.s. and turkey right now? >> i would say there's something of a parallel between the u.s. and turkey relations, there's a lot of noise regarding both but the fundamentals will remain until tact because both parties need each other regardless of the deterioration. i hit the it's clear the americans are treating this as a judicial not political process and the government, hink in there haven't produced the -- i think bide seaso

athens, barcelona, tokyo, london, beijing. many people are wondering where is the one going to rank for brazil? and we did get to speak to matt lauer and hoda kotb. they've been going through this information, studying up on the opening ceremony. they could not release one detail about what to look forward to, but they say it is spectacular. you will only see that on nbc 10 tomorrow. you want to keep it right here from opening to closing ceremonies. join our keith jones tonight at 7:30 for "olympic zone." and the opening ceremony tomorrow night at 7:30, followed by nbc 10 news at 11:00. let's send it right back to jim rosenfield in our studio now with more. >> jackie, that surfer, so much pressure on him carrying that flame. it's one thing to run with it, but on water? that was quite a sight to see. >> reporter: i'm sure it is something he will never forget. >> definitely. more from you to come tonight at 11:00. jackie, thanks so much. >>> to news back at home now. a wallet is stolen at the promenade in marlton, and someone ra

london is out today because of a national holiday. the tack and the dax -- the cac and the dax are down. yousef: -- frenchake a look at the train maker, they just won a contract to design and build 28 high-speed chains that trains -- trains for amtrak. if you have ever been on a amtrak, that is $2 billion in shares. companyint cards, a whose shares have been rising. looks like some investors are having a rethink. london petroleum up this morning. there is the green. mostly red out there today. what is us talk about going on in terms of the central bank story that continues to dominate the story. the pledge to deliver more monetary stimulus. hole,ng at jackson president corroded says there is ample space for more using. by jodioined to schneider. how should the market be interpreting president corroded comments -- president kuroda's comments? what clues to we get at jackson hole? >> he gave us some interesting clues in his comments particularly in the way that he worded them. he said that there is no doubt for moreample room using in a

here's demarco morgan. >> quijano: a new harry potter play opened in london this weekend. the new book went on sale overnight. once again, the world is under the wizard's spell. here's demarco morgan. >> reporter: five years after harry potter last worked his magic at the box office, he's back in a new play and book: "harry potter and the cursed child." fans in manhattan waited hours for the midnight book-release. >> three, two, one, whoa! >> i've always wanted to know >> i've always wanted to know what happens to harry in the future and not everyone can travel to london to see the play, so the book is the next best option. >> i've been reading them since i was 12 years old and it's like part of our childhood and continues to be part of our childhood, and have that >> reporter: potter fans from new york to london's west end theatre district were dressed in character for the debut. as for the author... >> it feels wonderful. it has been quite a long time, obviously, since i've been to a potter opening night or a premiere. so i'm having slight flashbacks, yeah. >> reporter:

londoners are waking up today is an increased police presence as a precaution. let's go to matt who joins us live from london. what's the latest in this investigation? >> reporter: i don't know if you can see, but as you mentioned there is an increased police presence and there's really atypical for this tranquil city. as you can see behind me, there's some police officers ou an area in front of russells square here in the heart of central london and that's because lost night there was a knifing and that left one woman dead, five injured. three of those people very sent home from hospital and the 19-year-old is in custody. police subdued him with a taser gun. the major ran on a platform of reducing knife violence her in calm and vigilant and report suspicious activity to police officers. the motive is unclear. police are not ruling out terrorism, but they are saying that it's probably a mental health issue or at least mental health is a significant factor in all of this and remember, this is all playing out over the backdrop of an increasingly jittery europe. he

security is beefed up around london today as a precaution. antoinette: right now, two people are hurt one seriously after a crash in lowell. police say a car struck the man and a woman last night on branch street just after 7pm. the woman was flown to a boston hospital. the driver tells newscenter 5 the pair ran out into the street without looking. no charges have been filed. that's a metal pole piercing her windshield. and this morning her family tells us she doesn't remember anything. internet the eyeopener's sera : congi is live at the scene with the driver's the close call. sera: that crash happened here yesterday afternoon on locust street. the woman was grazed by the pole but it could have been much worse. take another look, that 12-foot metal rod launched right through the windshield. before striking a parked car, a street-light pole, and then a fence, the pole just inches from her face. >> that far from her head. it went right through the middle. if you look where the head rest is, it was here. scary. sera: sawyer lives around the blo

london. ♪ ♪ hush my darling... ♪ don't fear my darling... ♪ the lion sleeps tonight. [snoring.] ♪ hush my darling... [snoring.] ♪ don't fear my darling... ♪ the lion sleeps tonight. [snoring.] take the roar out of snore. yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. >> grant: the the past hour or so officials in london seemed to be leading towards terrorism and what we do know for sure and five others injured after this knife attack in central london the russell square area. the famous british museum university of london as well news partners are reporting one suspect has been detained using a taser apprehend the guy. this comes hours after authorities announced london would be beefing up police presence earlier today the police commissioner said he is assuming that the matter of f or not a matter of if but when a terror attack happened. hours after this announcement that might attack the very well could be care related we will stay on top of developments in london. >> st

. >>> major new developments after americans are attacked in london. what we have just learned about the wife who did not survive. >>> also breaking at this hour, the severe storms hitting now. the funnel spotted, and reports of several buildings destroyed. collapsing as the storms hit. the race to help the injured. >>> the urgent manhunt right now. authorities say a sniper on the loose in an american city has, in fact, struck again. >>> and just in tonight, the new video. carpool karaoke with the american athletes who have arrived in rio. >>> good evening. and we begin tonight with several major developments in the race for president. just a short time ago, president obama with very pointed words about donald trump. the president was asked about trump, who has said the election this november could be rigged. the president was also asked if donald trump can be trusted with the nuclear codes. and the president was asked whether donald trump is ready to receive classified briefings that the national security team gives to presidential candidates every fo

coming up on "early today," braerking overnight a stabbing spree in central london. one person is dead, five injured. police looking into the possibility of terrorism. >> nbc news has learned trump allies may intervention. new video inside a plane in dubai moments after it crash landed, plus service members infected with zika. and jimmy kimmel's rude awakening. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning, everybody and thanks for joining ustion today. i'm betty nguyen. police are not ruling out one woman is dead and others are injured in that attack. londoners are waking up today is an increased police presence as a precaution. let's go to matt who joins us live from london. what's the latest in this investigation? >> reporter: i don't know if you can see, but as you mentioned there is an increased police presence and there's really atypical for this tranquil city. as you can see behind me, there's some police ce an area in front of russells square here in the heart of central london and that's because lost night there was a knifing and that left one woman dead,

in new york. 11:30 in london. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: i am francine lacqua in london. tom keene is in new york. let's get to the bloomberg business flash. taylor: monta passkey says it has acted appropriately following the ceo being under investigation for allegedly falsifying accounts. the lender used derivative transactions to mask losses and was forced to restate accounts. viacom's ceo is stepping down. the company board approved a deal between the ceo and a controlling shareholder. willhief operating officer be the interim ceo. workeror deutsche bank has rejected a reward from the sec. said -- ement, he instead of managers responsible. that is your bloomberg business flash. francine: thank you pay the u.k. posted a surplus in july and task force was changed. figures include data on the economy back into suggest the immediate impact of the brexit vote has not have been as severe as some anticipated. let's review. long conversation with a he zero ceo. they said they were surprised because they had a strong months, because more people bought tickets to travel here. wh

for michael phelps, rival, chad le clos in london. >> there was so much emotion and build up to that race after four years. i don't want to say it was revenge but that's kind of what it was. >> reporter: the night cap was a victory lap for phelps and his team. gold in the relay, the 21st of his career. a moment in history, one his son won't remember but one this father will never forget. tonight, michael semi final event and a busy aquatic center and meanwhile security was stepped up, media hit with rocks and they're urging people to be cautious as they leave this beautiful venues. >> miguel almaguer, thanks so much. after five days of competition, we want to take a quick look day leading with gold medals, 10, total medals with 28. china, 20 total medals so far and japan winning 17 medals overall. >>> to presidential politics now, donald trump was out on t campaign trail today as was hillary clinton the day after trump sparked an uproar with comments quote second amendment people could act against hillary clinton. trump is now defending those comments and clinton herself is weighing

in london. i am vonnie quinn. >> live from london, i am nejr.: you are watching the european close on bloomberg markets. we are going to take you from new york to london and cover stories out of brazil in the next hour. here is what we are watching. the u.k. consumer is looking strong for now, shrugging off any brands of anxiety to enjoy the biggest summer splurge in 14 years. vonnie: minutes from the federal reserve's last meeting. the odds of a rate hike about what markets are lying. t-mobile ceo john legere joins us. is at the start of a new price war?

jacqueline london joins us live from rio. jacqueline, describe to us where you are in relation to the olympic venues. >> reporter: i am standing in the main olympic park. a little while ago we showed you the olympic rings, set up as a structure behind that. you saw the aquatic center. right now i want you to take a look at this gorgeous stadium behind me draped in yellow and orange. that is the tennis stadium. that is where you'll see djokovic, nadal, venus and serena all playing here. it is a beautiful complex that will be filled with athletes very shortly. we can tell you that right now i am in baja where all of the other venus are taking place. the copacabana beach is about an hour away from here. you always hear about the popular copacabana beach. that is where beach volleyball will take place. it's also where i met some very familiar faces. today the "today" show goes to the beach. cope a ka pan a beach, the show on the road in rio. you see opening ceremonies from the spectacle of beijing, to the quirkiness of london. wh