The Coronavirus Crisis that has upended our country, claimed more than 170,000 american lives, has completely transformed this campaign tradition weve all come to know. Were not coming to you from a packed Convention Hall jammed with networking politicians, that convention is canceled. That single stage is all that remains in milwaukee. The headline speakers including joe biden and Kamala Harris wont even appear there. The real nerve center, a high tech control room that will draw in video fields from all over the country. The speeches and live reaction, crowd sourced videos from delegates and every day americans. It is truly a virtual convention. But the president tom line has not changed. Conventions are about unifying parties and electing president s. As we come on the air tonight, our brand new poll shows joe biden and Kamala Harris holding a doubledigit lead over President Trump. But democrats sn s know this eln is not about the popular vote. Hillary clinton won the popular vote i
Dreary throughout the day. But as amelia forecasted, it did clear up in time for the fireworks. And ill take credit for that. No but in all serious ngs we did have heavy rain moving through the area yesterday afternoon. But by the time fireworks came around, it was muggy, dry, it was feeling like summer. This morning were dealing with areas of fog across the region. National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory for all of the counties here in gray. This includes fairfax, parts of montgomery Loudoun Frederick and Prince William counties. This is until 10 00 a. M. Visibilities under a quarter of a mile . In spots. Heavy fog being reported. Aside from that, this morning its a comfortably cool start if youre going for that Early Morning walk, run, bike ride. Heres what you can expect for today. 7 00 a. M. 60s in the suburbs, 72 inside of the beltway. Fog burns off by about 9 00, 10 00 a. M. 11 00, were mild, temperature near 80. Coming up, ill let you know how warm it will be th
Were following a developing story in Anne Arundel County. Police there trying to figure out who left a baby on the side of the road, this near Lake Waterford park in pasadena. Darcy spencer is live where police got the call. Reporter good morning. Yeah, just a sad and tragic story. The between newgood news, it appears that hopefully the baby will be okay. But certainly a lot of questions about how this happened and where are the parents. We are on druitt hill avenue. A very quiet street. You can see right now a police car is about halfway down the block here in the 900 block. We talked to a couple of neighbors and surprisingly they told us they didnt even know that this had happened on their street. Lets go to a picture of this beautiful little baby girl. Were told she is 2 to 3 months old, she was found in a car seat carrier. If you had an infant, you know what knows are. You put them in the carrier in the back seat of your car. Again found on the side of the road. The car seat carrie
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Results of lackluster volume. We will look at that in a minute. The dow is down 171 points, down nearly 1 as we head towards the close. It looks like we will have a down week for the Third Straight week. Lets take a look at the volume on the terminal. This looks at volume by industry. All are down. Telecoms seeing a drop, energy also seeing a substantial drop. Upticky group seeing an of 18 is construing or discretionary is consumer discretionary. Outside from that, not much activity. If you look at the s p 500 over the course of the day, you can see the interior rating prices. This downward decline accelerating after midday, as the s p is down 9 10 of 1 . Asant to look at oil prices well, because we see a lot of correlation between oil and stocks, but that has not been the case today. It has been down steadily throughout the course of the session. It has not seen that downward slide. We cant bring cant blame oil today. Carol talk about whats going on with the banks. Reporter there we c