Garrett, good morning. Clayton and heather good morning to you. Investigators arent ready to say this attack was indeed motivated terrorism. But there are indications early on that suggest that could be the case. Investigators are now looking at a post, a Facebook Post which could belong to the attacker abdul artan. He post it had minutes before the attack was carried out. They are working to confirm it was him. One investigator describes the post as a declaration against unfair treatment of muslims. The method used the fact that he was drooifdzing driving a car i a crowd of people and use ago knife. Isis encouraged attackers to use those things. We are learning bhoer artan the 19yearold ohio state student. He was polite and attended daily Prayer Services at a mosque. A student by the same name abdul artan complained to the newspaper, the lat terne, there werent any places to pray on campus and he thought people were afraid of him because he was a muslim. He plowed his car into a crowd
Acknowledging that the American People are better off than we were seven years ago. Even he understands we made important progress. Connell the Senate Majority leader is here, Mitch Mcconnell is here to talk about his book called the long game. Should have a nice long talk about that. Interesting to hear the white house 8 you as almost a source. Dont know where they got that. I have been saying the opposite. The middleclass is shrinking, the worst recovery after a deep recession since world war ii. The number of people on food stamps is at a record level. The Labor Participation rate is where it was under the carter administration. I dont recall saying anything optimistic. Connell maybe we are better than we were at the depth of the recession. It was convenient for the white house. Another way of looking at it is how does this compare to other deep recessions . The worst recovery after a deep recession, the pattern frequently always has been the deeper the recession the quicker the dow
And the government found a scapegoat. The ahead of tsa security reassigned. The head of the Veterans Administration say they dont check wait times at disney, why should we at va. Best buy, a big hit coming to the stock. Sex, money, politics, what else do you want . Varney company is about to begin. Oh, yes, we do call it the retail ice age. Big named stores clearly struggling, some them at least. The shopping mall, you can say thats threatened. The best one online is best buy. The Quarterly Results beat expectations, good news, but the guidance was incredibly weak for the next quarter. Thats hurting the stock right now. Strong areas where home theater stuff we appreciated with best buy. Appliances and mobile phones and tablets, stock up 8 1 2 since the beginning of the year and its going to get clobbered today because of that weak outlook. You know, is this online sales hurting best buy . Yes, a little. But certainly they say the First Quarter is the weakest of the year. Stuart another
Weve got a shower in allentown. But the heavy downpours have been along the coastline. Theyve been very slow to inch off. Weve been tracking it here for a couple hours. Seaside heights youre still getting wet surf city youre about to get some of this heavier rain. You have been getting hammered in Atlantic City that continues to be the case near hammonton and millville as it stretches inplanned south jersey. Dover delaware getting wet as well as cape may. Were looking at storms in the area right now. Not a lot of lightning with it yet. We saw one or two strikes. We have the potential for Severe Weather. The Storm Prediction Center has us under a slight risk for areas north and west so especially the Lehigh Valley allentown reading lancaster. I really think the main threat are going to be these flooding downpours so were watching for that. 72 trees right now. Its warm, its horribly humid. Its going to get even more humid later this afternoon its going to feel oppressive today when you l
Thats along the coastline aline of downpours that moved through our area and were at a slight risk for Severe Weather to areas north and west later today. So, its in the Lehigh Valley where you have the better chance of seeing strong storms later on, even though right now were talking about downpours along the coastline. Look at these temperatures. In some spots its 16 degrees warmer than it was yesterday morning. It feels horribly humid out here. 72 trees right now in philadelphia 72 degrees right now in philadelphia and reading, 70 in Atlantic City. Today is a bad layer day. The humidity is way up there feeling oppressive. The dewpoints are going to be over 70 degrees which just means oppressive humidity for all of us today. And any time you have that kind of humidity, its easy to get a popup shower or a downpour. Thats what were going to see at any point. Although i think it gets most active later this evening at any point we can get a popup storm or a downpour. By 8 00 a. M. , 74 d