Amelia . If you remember, adam, last week we were talking about a heat wave for this weekend. This is what looks to be a sixday heat wave. The humidity not too bad. Parts of the area under a code orange alert. Children, elderly, if you have heart or lung issues, take it ea easy outdoors today. The sun comes up around 6 20. Temperatures in the suburb around 60 degrees. 56 in culpeper. 59 in frederick. Here in the district, a balmy 68. Here is the morning planner, plenty of sunshine, clouds around today. The sun wins out. Look at how temperatures warm. 8 00 a. M. , 72. My noon, mid80s. What to expect this evening and if you have outdoor plans what to expect. New this morning, Prince Georges County officer shot his gun during a struggle with a suspect. Around 11 00 p. M. , an officer heard a car crash and went to check it out. When he arrived, a man was running from the scene. According to police, the man tried to take the officers gun. The suspect was shot during the struggle and rushed
Its currently sitting above 45. And the standoff, mandy. Standoff or standdown. Big one today. Still positive. Lets get right to the New York Stock Exchange and get filled in by bob pisani. Bob. We were hoping perhaps when you close wed see moves on the upside. Nothings happened. Lets take a look here. A couple of big headlines. We were there at the open. Thats where we are at the day. Vacuum volume is on the heavy side. No light august trading days in the last couple of days and the volatility has been rising in the last couple of days as well. The entire market is essentially down. The exception here is a small group of consumer stocks that are mildly on the up side. Lets not quibble. You see what i mean. Down 1 to 2 . Fear measures down a bit. What are the fear measures . Look at the gld. Gold treasures. Volatility, nice. 13 a few days ago. Now its 18. Id start paying a lot of attention when its 20. Its moving in that direction. Keep an eye on that. Weve had a lot of heavy volume. T
Spring Transit Center finally has an opening day. Metro says it will take control of the facility one month from project already years behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget, some are made skeptical. Kevin lewis is live with a look at what to expect going forward. Reporter we are actually standing inside the transit into now. Now center right you can see construction crews have hung the bus route signs. They of activated the realtime arrival plasmas. And the escalators and escalators elevators have a few tweaks left to fix. All the safety tests have checked out. The brunt of many jokes and millions of underestimated dollars, but today we learn Silver Spring train center will open next month. We understand the publics trunk frustration. Reporter he says the three level transit have an acting trains, taxis,c even Hotel Shuttles provided teaching moments. We learn to approach unique projects with added support, added expertise. Reporter commuters have mixed feelings. That is
Is tracking it all. We have the Flash Flood Watch in effect at 4 00 and it extends until midnight. The flood watch area extends up to the Baltimore Beltway as well. We already have showers and embedded heavier rain on doppler. Ive seen a few lightning strikes in this band thats moving into Frederick County and its going to enter myersville in the next 30 minutes. Another band of showers across the i95 corridor through beltsville and greenville. We have that heavy rain falling buoy on route 50 and towards annapolis. Speaking of the tropics, our hurricane has now formed. The first hurricane of the atlantic season. Its hurricane danny. Weve been calling it Tropical Storm danny and now its hit the hurricane mark. Anyone vacationing in the caribbean is going to want to take a close eye on danny. Ill track the thunderstorms and talk about a refreshing change hid. We are following breaking news out of the quantity ceo, virginia quantico, virginia. Five people were rescued from this building.
This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. The World Markets seem to be sablessing this morning despite big sell off in asia. Futures here point to a big surge at the open, despite another sell off in shanghai and tokyos nikkei. In china it turned dramatically negative. The country is cutting the Interest Rates to try to stop the bleeding. Trading opened on tuesday across the Asian Pacific and they opened with baited breath wondering how the market would react considering chinas fall was so tract particular on a monday. The markets were shaky, most of them making losses in the early part of trading. They regained some of that ground as the day progressed, and made up in some cases on those losses. Markets that were in profess certainly saw themselves reach the black again, with taiwan, australia, singapore, but the shanghai composite perhaps the market that many global eyes were focused on ended at 7. 63 down on the day, tokyo said market was