The opening numbers, 3071. Ore, 3071. I will talk more about the open there in singapore. That being said, with the guide, is talking parliament. You look at the balance, do we go up or down from here . It is balanced at the moment. , he we dollar is on the way down. That is really standing out. Not reallyelse is much conviction. Have a look at the bond markets. The rally continues. Massive moves down in yields over in europe. We sought it down about 2. 3 percent. A little higher on the 10 year yield. There is your move. Were back below. 1 here. On the japanese 10 year bond, and in 10 years time we will get best 10 minutes time we will see if it will help support the market and anchor this. Look at the equity markets. We talked about singapore at the moment. Taiwan is also opening up a fifth of 1 to the upside. Said, not a lot of conviction. Just wrap things up with a look at the touchy here hitachi here. The deals. Do long story short, they have a project in south africa. There is a d
Les and a shotgun along with body armor, tactical vests, ammunition. Lets get to breaking news. One person is dead after a shooting, possibly, possibly over a pair of shoes. It happened on southern avenue in suitland just over the dc line. Bruce leshan has more. Terrifying scene here in suitland just off southern avenue. The initial call to the police was for two people shot. When they arrived they found it was just one. He was laying on the asphalt in a parking lot here at an apartment complex. He had been shot. There were gunshot holes in several cars. A Jeep Grand Cherokee and a wrangler. And intriguing, on the ground, there was a shoe box. A brand new shoe box. Nike shoes. Those two shoes still on th shortly after i got here a woman arrived in a silver car, said she had been out to sell some shoes to somebody. There was a dispute about that. The guy took off, she took off after him. Whether those two things are connected still a mystery. Its sad. We just need to keep everyone in pr
In the charlotte area. A lot of you are in the teens so its 19. Hickory statesville 21 in charlotte. And 13 in boone right now. Yesterday evening if you get weather aall right on your phone you may have found theres a winter storm watch weather alerts. Some areas have winter storm warning. We do have slight changes to the storm forecast. So well talk about that in a few minutes. New this morning president obama says he will seek to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of antonio scalia. It will likely charge no a fight with republicans in congress. Just last night he said a nomination was bigger than any one big party with half a dozen of major cases before the court obama plans to fulfill his lee responsibility to nominate a successor in due time. Scalia died on a weekend trip to texas. He was 79 years old. Sparks fly. The ninth republican event took before the primary that could help decide who becomes the republican nominee for president. The republican president ial
It is basically all snow up across the mountains. Couple inches yesterday, so your temperatures super cold, just snow up there. But it is snowing. Now you get south of there, lenoir, morganton looks like snow. A lot of this may not be reaching the ground yet, as the air underneath is very, very dry, that is more than likely the case in the metro area. However, we did get a couple reports of snow around lincolnton area, but it would be snow, sleet, freezing rain early this morning but very spotty. Simply because the larger storm system is well up to the north and west of us so it may take time to fill in, it probably will, unless we get a lot of precipitation, probably wont be too bad on the commute this morning. Doesnt take only takes a little ice to create problems. Use caution if you are venturing out this morning. Downtown lincolnton getting snow, very spotty, very light, but snow reported at the airport. 29 in gastonia, 22 in statesville, snow in boone at 17 degrees. For charlotte,
Getting more information and bring that to you throughout the morning and online at wbtv. Com. Welcome to wbtv news this morning it is friday, february 12th, im john carter. And School Delays to tell you about. Avery, mitchell and Watauga County schools are all operating on a twohour delay. No other School Closings that we know of. If we get any other delays or closings, well bring them to you. But again, a very cold start to the day again today, here is charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. Wig al it is, john, not as brutal as yesterday. Cloud cover moved in and that ounce times prevents us from getting too, too cold, it is debatable how much snow is reaching the ground. Radar is picking up snow over the mountain and foothills. There may be flurries, but snow a Winter Weather advisory from noon through tomorrow morning. Several inches of snow in the mountain, at best a flurry or sprinkle in the foothillo 25 in boone. 30 hickory and morganton, below freezing ch