Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs news for this is the cbs morning news for friday, march 20th, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Today is the first day of spring, but winter isnt taking the hint. This morning a snow and rainstorm is pushing over the midatlantic and by tonight into new england. 3 to 6 inches of snow is expected, and that adds insult to injury to places like boston which has seen a record amount of snow this year and could get an inch or two more today. Meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz says behind the snow is more cold. Well, spring may start today, but it doesnt mean it cant snow. Weather doesnt necessarily have to match. Weve got a storm moving its way northward. You see the snow blossoming as we head through the morning commute. For the commute, were watching the dc area, much of maryland working in. Its creeping northward into the day. For the evening drive the corridor o
Winter throws a final punch at east coast. Another cold blast of air, 36 Million People under some sort of Winter Weather advisory. Mississippi, discovery of an africanamerican mans body hanging from a tree. The fbi is investigating if the death was a homicide. Protests continue following the Violent Arrest of the uva student. Disputes reports the student had a fake i. D. Card. The first step for the Prime Minister to clarify what the policy is going to be. I want a sustainable, peaceful twostate solution but for that circumstances have to change. They called goaltending, ucla advanced. North carolina survives oh n. C. State on top. Just a touch. Thru go. Uab advances. Pulling the upset. And the shot. Into an allout brawl in philadelphia. What you saw here today was actually embarrassing. The Solar Eclipse. And zombies here. Absolutely transfixed. All that and americans are quite fond of the royal family. Like them much better than and all that matters. Previous reports of a crash are
Connell there is not any good news. The super bowl is a blowout, the market is down 150 points. Dagen i was not even written for the broncos. Connell hopefully we can cheer you up for an hour or so. Dagen what have you got . This market cannot catch a break. All about dumping risk and fear is back. Nicole petallides with more. Nicole that is right. I will get to that in a moment. The dow, nasdaq and the s p down arrows, all three down a percent or more. 15,547, so that is a loss of 1 . The s p 500 down 17point sitting at 1765, a loss of about 1 . Bank stocks and retail stocks, transportation lower. Utilities, the safe haven of utilities seem to be doing well, they are the one winner along with health care for 2014. You mentioned the vix, we have seen that crossing the 20 levels. We could settle at the highest level since october 8. And pfizer doing well on developments on the Drug Development for breast cancer, that is good news, that is why you are seeing it as a winner. Back to you.
Greece. Our road map begins with retailers hoping that online holiday sales click on this sibler monday. Will they make up for the thanksgiving weekend seeing shoppers spend less than a year ago. Lots of business around amazons Package Delivery via drones. Another month in the books. Well explore whether the trend is likely to continue in december. A number of wall street firms initiate cover of twitter. Well have details on the caller later in the program. First up, welcome to cyber monday, the day that online sales surge following the thanksgiving weekend. Retailers hope that makes up for the Holiday Weekend. The National Retail federation says total spending fell 2. 9 compared to a year ago, the first decline, guys, in seven years. How concerning is it . Well, look. I think that this omnichannel has taken off. I dont classic example. I dont know a lot of people went to the mall. You can say its A Groucho Marx thing. Everyone is there so they dont want to go. I went to amazon. I orde
82 Miles Per Hour. Thats how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was going when it derailed on sunday. Four people died when the metronorth train jumped the tracks on, on a curve, dozens more were hurt. Investigators now know how fast the train was going. They still dont know for sure why it derailed. Lets take you to jonathan martin. He is at the crash site in the bronx. Jonathan . Reporter hey, tony. You know, investigators have said from the start that this is a very preliminary information, but as you mentioned, these two black box data recorders have revealed key information. One frust from the front and one from the back, showing this train was going too fast echoing what a lot of these passengers and witnesses have been saying from the start. Reporter investigators with the National Transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train that derailed was going too fast as it approached a curve. The preliminary information and let me emphasize this is prelim