We both always struggle with the dates. Should have that preprogrammed. Either way, a very good morning to everyone if youre just getting up. Oil prices and fed speak in focus this morning. Well bring you up to speed on both in a minute. Plus, well be talking politics. Here are the projected results from last nights gop caucuses in nevada. Donald trump taking the top spot by a pretty big margin, followed by marco rubio number two and ted cruz number three. More from the campaign trail later in the half hour. Looking ahead to super tuesday with clearly trump gaining momentum. Three states hes won in a row. Absolutely right. Hes got the momentum behind him. Can marco rubio be the one to stop him . Doesnt look like it at the moment. First, a check on u. S. Equity futures at this hour. We are pointing to a negative open. Yesterday, all three of the main boards down 1 . U. S. Equities really dancing to oils tune with the main orchestrator saying the saudis wouldnt cut production. Were looki
Wood Bridge High School student. Prince William County say they now have three beam in custody for the death of 16yearold Brenden Wilson. One is a juvenile. The other is 18yearold Timothy Wilson and 20yearold kawain smalls. Delia goncalves lass more now if has more now from woodbridge. Reporter students return to classes here at woodBridge High School with a heavy heart but there is a sense of relief that police say the person who killed Brenden Wilson is now behind bars. Police arrested kawain smalls. I used to walk down that path with my friends. There was a lot of people doing drugs and selling drugs there. We try to report them but i dont think anything happened gl. Stuff like this doesnt happen too often. When it does, it hits the community really hard. Reporter what is today going to be like do you think . Kind of rough, huh . Morbid. Everybody is going to be quiet. At least i am. Very, i mean, sad. Reporter grief counselors will be on hand to talk students through this tragic si
The golden gate. The heavier cells up here. Santa rosa at 6 00 was reporting heavy rains. The first few drops began to fall at the golden gate bridge. As we move in you can see where the heavier cells are up 101. Over by the shoreline also. We will all get it later in the day today. Rain will be moving in. It will be breezy at time , especially the gusts in advance of this little system moving through. The winds are kicking up to about 25 Miles Per Hour. We get showers through tonight and then more rain on the way for monday. Probably a more powerful system then. Sunday we get a break. We got the entire forecast coming up. Thank you. 50 people are out of their homes in Southern California because of the damage from an earthquake. It was a mile east of la habra in orange county. This is following a 3. 6 quake an hour earlier. It caused furniture to crumble. Over night there have been at least 20 after shocks now. In the near by town of braha several people suffered minor injuries when a
We start with a hostage standoff in alabama involving a 5yearold and a suspected killer. A Police Investigation identifies him as 65yearold jimmy lee dykes. The two are holed up in an underground bunker or tornado shelter. Police are able to get medicine to the young boy. But officials arent saying much about communications. Theyre communicating through a pvc pipe. The gunman bored the school bus in midland city. And then killed the bus driver and took the young hostage. A ferocious storm system raked its way through the country. Its making its way north. At least two people have lost their lives in georgia and tennessee. Many have lost their homes and tens of thousands were left without power. Nbcs kurt gregory has more. Reporter wicked winds whipped through charlotte, north carolina, as rain drenched the queen city, all a part of the nasty storm system marching across the southeast on wednesday. That same system spawned a massive funnel cloud in adairsville, georgia. 100 people were
Nbc meteorologist bill karins coming up in weather in just a bit. The debate over gun control is taking place across the country, and yesterday it was heard from the Nations Capital to newtown, connecticut, the town that lost 26 lives in a mass school shooting. Last night that states task force on guns violence and School Safety heard moving testimony from a parent of one of those victims. We lost our son benjamin the morning of december 14th, to an unstable, suicidal individual who had access to a weapon that has no place in a home. Earlier in the day, president obama met with former arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords, a victim of gun violence herself. Giffords was in town to lend her voice to a hearing on guns on capitol hill. The first since the newtown, massacre. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell has more. Reporter her gift of speech is a distant memory said husband mark kelly, yet Gabby Giffords halting words. Too many children. Reporter here as a survivor of the tucson assassination attempt