Pretty common place these days and today was nodifferent. The only thing that was different was that the dow breakthrough a milestone. Hit iting and closing above 22,0 e time we mentioned last night, apples strong earnings likely propelled the index to a record csi numbers. The dow rose 52 points to 22,016. Most of the gain was thanks to a 5 rise in apple. Nasdaq was flat and s p 500 tacked on a point and with the dow above 22,000, it keeping in mind that this is is historically a bad month for stocks. But as bob pisani tells us, the hope is this time, theres a could we get an august swoon in august is beat a typically a lousy month for stocks. The second to worst month of the year. Its only been up five times in the last 20 years. Thats terrible. E hope is that any cross at taking at technology after apples strong numbers will clos to rotate to the forefront. Rotation centers rrnd two groups. Energy and financials. Is this going to work . Maybe. For oil stocks to get moving, we need o
Wood, it is looking great, fingers crossed. Right now things are pretty tranquil. We will keep it quiet. Can we get storm scan control. That is not what we need to be looking at right now. We will find out, right there that we are seeing clear skies , couple of skies, across the region as a whole and as morning progresses we will fine partially sunny skies and humidity, build ago cross the region as well. Now, as we look across the region in terms of the temperature readings, we are off to a mild start, cross the area as well. We are starting off in the mid 70s. Sixtynineal even town. Fiftynine in mount pocono. At this hour, were currently in the mid 70s up and down i95. Now, again, day progressing humidity will be a concern. It will get hotter with time. Heres the temperatures, graphic we want 59 in mount pocono. Lower zero sevens up and down shore points and around the region as a whole we are in the mid up toker 60s, low to mid zero sevens. Quickly looking ahead at area headlines wi
Eventually, high around 86, 88 s 7 54. So not bad for thursday. Friday a different story. We will talk about the weekend and eclipse day in your seven day forecast which is coming up. Lets take a look at traffic. We start off with the schuylkill expressway eastbound, at 6 01. Not as much fog as we saw yesterday. Everybody moving along okay. Right around spring garden, boathouse row. Looking at i59 at cottman avenue. Southbound is on the righthand side of your screen, and everybody moving into the city, so far so good. Concert at the man center tonight. For the performing arts. It is lala land, will shot movie lal will land, and the orchestra will play the oscar winning, 7 30 tonight, little extra traffic around there this evening. Lets see lala land or watch the eagles . Or dinner en blanc, there are so many options. I know, the choices. Oh, geez. You sound thrilled. You know youre judging. Oh, im judging the event. Im thrilled. But i have my, you know, i can get my tv now on my phone.
The end zone. Flying high the birds won. Were going to break it all down coming up in a matter of moments. Good day everybody on this friday. We made it through another week it is already august 18th. Taking a live look at reading right now were going to have some rain on our heads in basically all areas later today. But right now maybe up in that neck of the woods. Thats right. We have seen some heavy downpours, a lot of thunder and lightning roll through to the north and west of the city. Not in the for seeable future. Well see what pops up. A 6 out of 10 for the balance of the day. Bus stop buddy at the shore and no matter where you are this morning, an eye on the sky today, its humid out there and the umbrella, you should have that with you if youre out for the entire day. If you dont get this thunderstorm, you see all that lightning affecting easton and part of reading as well. If you dont get this round, youll get another one later on in the day. 76 degrees in philadelphia right
Go . And this is our first time seeing some of the new guys. Well, the new guy did very well. Look out. Watch out. All right, darby. Come on, ron. Down to the 16. Oh, were calling him ron now . Yeah, i call him ronny. So i was in the shower naked this morning. Isnt that how youre supposed to shower . Most times i do. And i was so proud of myself. The fact that you were showering. Finally. I fridays i try to shower. Saturday night is a bath. A warm bath. With candles and bubbles. Yes. Anyway, we just saw it so its fine. Ron darby had the interception. A big highlight, new eagle. And im showering im going how can i i know what ill say. He went up over a great defensive player and stole the interception. Ill call that upper darby. Okay . Oh, yeah. I was so proud of myself. Oh, is that it . [ laughter ] well, great minds think alike. Yeah. Are you sure you didnt steal that from them . No, i didnt have the paper in the shower naked. But you have the paper now to make the story up. Thats rea