Natural virginia, youre goingau to get it sooner if youre in the mountains off to the west and north. You will get less, all of this is will get a good soaking rain if not here, into the daytime tomorrow. Bring an umbrella and be ready for showers, late tomorrow afternoon. Showers arriving by 4 00 p. M. Lots more on the weather although we dont have many changes. We will talk about it coming up in traffic. Botrf julie is busy. Li reporter it turned out to d be a busy day. The news is north of town at the washington parkway. This is wherewa we have the accident activity involving a fatal crash. At this point you can see the northbound and southbound of thh baltimore washington parkway,y, shutdown. From this angle you its zoomed in tight, you can see Investigative Team doing their work. And traveling between jessup anu laurel this morning, your better bet is to stick with 95 and use that as the work around, and 20 and 1 are a good option for you. Typical slow down on the outer loop, leav
The bears caused the rally including today. The s p 500 climbed. 42 and the nasdaq jumped. 76 . The enless negativeus, the ones who predicted declines and scared the heck out of you all week, i think theyre behind this move. I know we heard their sirens and they would scare the pants off of anyone. But when the market failed to comply and went the other way, the bears disappeared and changed their coloration, they became cockroaches and i bet they went bullish without our knowing it. It has been such a good rally that they almost had to turn bullish. I thought it would be worth a shot. Were there any fundamental reasons beyond the markets failure causing them to buy . Sadly, not really. It was a totally irrational week. Where buyers celebrated rising Interest Rates, a sign that were not going to have a recession. Made them happy. A lot of stocks anticipated because there were so many bets against them. Just today, hp jumped 200. We saw the same kind of wasnt as bad as people expected t
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. And im erica hill in today for savannah. Happy new year. Happy new year to you. This is our first day tech nknick ally, we were here yesterday, but this is our first day back together. Everybody was here yesterday. Technically. Happy new year to you. A lot going on. In the Briefing Room after that vote in the house, passing the fiscal cliff legislation. In the end, the president got most of what he wanted including higher taxes for families making over 450,000 a year. There were things left out of this bill that have angered a lot of republicans and set the stage for some contentious debates down the road. Well have a live report from capitol hill, straight ahead. Also ahead, a papparazza taking pictures of Justin Biebers car was hit and killed in los angeles last night. And some gadgets and gizmo
Will talk more about that in a moment. Another tough overnight session for global losses in tokyo and india. The road map begins with the retailers rallying best buy, home depot, urban, and they all beat handily expectations, but slightly different than penny. Missing expectations, but trading up as the investors conclude that it could have been worse and appears to be better for eli musk and tesla. After the retailer posts better than stronger earnings and mobile phones and appliances were the strong components of the quarter while gaming is weak. This stock is at a 2 1 2year high today, jim. It is up 2x for the year and a lot of discussion about huber joe l jolie, and if they have found the answer to amazon. Well, that is very good and the gaming is the going to be good in the Fourth Quarter and we have new iterations, and i like gme. This is a remarkable turn, and sometimes you have to say remarkable. Some people have gotten it right. Joey has gotten it right, and shows you how poor
And now Industry Experts say the venture could change the way we drink beverages. We have all that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for thursday, february 6th. It was buy buy buy. That was the order of the day on wall street, sending stocks into rally mode and leading the dow and the s p to the biggest oneday gains so far this new year. And todays gains came on encouraging news about jobs. Firsttime jobless benefits claims fell by 20,000 last week, a sign of steady improvement in the labor market. And it arrived just one day ahead of course of fridays allimportant january jobs report. Many economists are looking for as many as 189,000 new non farm payroll jobs to be added in january along with some upward revisions to decembers dreadful gains of just 74,000. Heres how the major averages each gaining more than 1 ended the session. The dow up by 188 points, first time weve had a 1 gain of a dow this year. Got a big boost from disney shares which shot up by more than 5 after st