Holiday heat wave. Alaska sizzling record high temperatures with anchorage hitting 90 degrees and more than 100 wildfires burning across the state. The hottest day of all time. Plus heat and humidity combine for a sweltering day with the heat index above 100 degrees. It will be sizzling in big parts of the eastern half of the country today. Dylan has your forecast. A shocker. The young man who accused the actor of groping him against his will abruptly drops his civil suit with a hearing set for monday. Legal experts now wondering if this was a confidential settlement that could lead to the criminal case falling apart. From nbc news, this is today with Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Im peter alexander. Dylan dreyer is here. Were happy to have my White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson here. Waking up to news of yet another big earthquake hitting our friends in california overnight. Thats exactly right. The state of californ
This video, this is from safeway and this was in san leandro. You can actually see the effect of that jolt this morning. Those items on the floor right there, shaken off of the shelves. Again, we also checked with three safeways near the epicenter of that earthquake in berkeley and they all say they have no damage to report. Also, we have no reports of injuries or serious damage. We do want to check in with meteorologist kari hall for some perspective on this. We know so many people were talking about this earthquake that folks who tried to get on that usgs website got a 503 error meaning they couldnt log on. Sometimes that does happen but we do have it on the weather map showing where the epicenter occurred, it was at 2 39 this morning just east of berkeley. We also had another one that rumbled some south bay folks at about 3 34 this morning. This one occurring near cupertino. Overall we have had over 9 Million People feeling the effects of these earthquakes this morning around the ba
Coming up. We do have quite a rally with the dow in particular. The transports continue higher all the major averages are in record territory. We also have big calls on the Airline Sectors today and the banks as financials get set to report. Were heading into earnings season well have you up to date on those. Lets start on the floor of the new york stock exchange, mr. Robert pisani joining us with a recap of whats going on as we get ready for earnings, right . Yeah, a lot at stake here, but sixday winning streak, just six days in a row since december 17th p nasdaq has the best sixday winning streak since the end of january 2016. Were starting earnings on friday, there are very High Expectations thats my theme. A shortterm risk. The markets. Just on earnings, analysts are much more optimistic we hardly got any last quarter here were expecting bigger beats, not by a penny or two pennies but more than that if youre disappointed youre going to get hit more. Also, we have guidance here. Now
In leicester well be live there after 7 00. Good morning from gateshead where they are launching an exhibition of they are launching an exhibition of the north. 80 days of events running throughout the region over the summer throughout the region over the summerandi throughout the region over the summer and i will be telling you more about it. In sport, britains winter 0lympians return from pyeonchang, with double skeleton champion, Lizzy Yarnold, undecided if shell go for a hat trick of golds at the next games. All of thats coming up later. Good morning. First, our main story. Snow and arctic temperatures are expected across the uk for the rest of the week. The met office has issued both yellow warnings and more serious amber warnings for large parts of Eastern England. Up to 10cm of snow is expected today and as much as 20cm is predicted in some parts of Eastern England, scotland and Northern Ireland by the end of wednesday. Drivers are being warned they could face major disruption.
A coward by donald trump actions after the president says he would have tried to help even without a weapon i think i would have tried to have helped. And American Media giant, comcast, puts in a bid for sky challenging an existing offer from Rupert Murdochs 21st century fox. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im reeta chakrabarti. Heavy snowfall is hitting parts of the uk, causing road and rail disruption in many areas. Police say driving conditions are treacherous in places as a band of wintry weather and very low temperatures sweeps westwards. Hundreds of trains are cancelled, many schools are shut and forecasters say some Rural Communities may be cut off. 45 children were led to safety after a bus crash near Deeping St James in lincolnshire though no injuries are reported. The met office has issued amber warnings for large parts of the country as cold air sweeps in from the east. Up to 10cm of snow is expected today and as much as 20cm is predicted in some parts of Eastern