President trump calling on congress for 1. 5 trillion bill to help fix the country crumbling infrastructure tomorrows report, apple gets a downgrade, disappointing iphone demand and the s p 500 the worst day since may of last year despite the sell off though. Almost, six decades heading into the trading section of the month, each 5. 5. Nasdaq is up 7 for the month. 14 record s p 500 closes is the most since 1955. I have to go back, thats seven years. I heard the speech last night, not only the president , hes literally taking credit for the stock market and hesdone lot to make it so that this rally makes sense. You look at the boeing quarter today. You everyone is skeptical and some of them is antitrump. Come on, this economy is thnot that good. You look at the electricity number, they dont lie and you come back and say listen, what do you want how for real do you want it to be what do you need to see . A 6 gdp number . It is real you can make an argument that it is reflected in stock
Within the past hour. I will step out of the way to show you the dramatic cloud cover looking out towards San Francisco over San Francisco bay. The main front, the brunt of the system moved out early this morning but still, some leftover showers producing some off and on showers over the past few hours. That was a factor this morning. The biggest rainfall totals on the coastal hills and the Santa Cruz Mountains in Sonoma County as well over 3 inches of rain over the past 24 hours. Santa rosa picking up over an inch in san rafael and San Francisco to tenth of an inch so a big range and rainfall totals as we expected but the bulk of the rainfall is really up in the north a. Quite a few reports over an inch for grimble, sebastian, atlas peak. We are watching rainfall rates with fire burn zones but i dont see any flash flood warnings from the National Weather service. Here is the rainfall loop. You can see the action heading out to the east. Its pretty warm out there so results from snow r
Booze for some and cheers for others. An emotional crowd here tonight with speakers on both sides of the fight. What is coal ash . It is bad. Reporter tests run on her well water a year ago showed her water was bad. Higher levels of certain chemicals, some potentially cancercausing. When you turn your water on and you cant drink it. Reporter she has bottles delivered to her own twice a month from duke energy. Representatives were here tonight and said the well water has been taking care of. She should know what her results are from a letter. Reporter she says she has not she got here to speak out. She is asking the state to revisit the tests on the sides in this area. Meetings like these are happening all over the state. To give you some perspective they plan to get rid of the low risk plants by 2029 and high risk plants by 2019. Steve i know that feels like a long wait for people in those communities. In washington, Senate Republicans holding firm to their pledge to block the pic for
By lunchtime 71 and lots of sunshine. Late day more sunshine and 76 degrees. Today by far the warmest of the next seven then it cools off. We will have that in the complete forecast but few we have weather and traffic with amber rupinta. Night. Happy st. Patricks day to you as you head out. We have an issue in Durham County. We will get to that right here. This is a single car accident a car hit a power pole on n. C. 55 near carpenter fletcher road and there is a closure. Two of four lanes are closed in the westbound lanes of n. C. 55 headed to carpenter fletcher road. It is supposed to be cleared by 7 00. We will watch that. We have a detour. Two lanes closed there at carpenter fletcher. If you want to stay on 55 the alternate is 40 east to the durham freeway northbound and you back to n. C. 55 fplt. Again, two lanes getting by. Ncaa tournament at p. N. C. Arena first game 12 40 but the doors open at 11. Last game is 9 50 so watch for added added volume there especially if you use wad
Tisha five Sheriff Deputies punished after a donald trump rally last week at the crown coliseum. The man is seen punching jones. The Sheriffs Office is disciplining deputies that saw it happen but did not take action. Three deputies were demoted and suspended for five days. Two were suspended without pay for three days. When i was threatened on national tv, i would like to know. Tisha he says his life has changed because of what happened. He cant do normal things like he used to. Steve a College Student was flat by a trump supporter at the he says he was mistaken for a protester as he recorded deputies taking down another person at the rally. He was ordered to leave and has deputies were escorting him out people yelling insults and racial slurs at him. As you can see, this guy slapped him. This was my First Experience of racism. It happened at a president ial candidates rally. Steve he says he feels like he was assaulted because he is black. He plans to file an assault complaint. Tisha