Commute and dry day with a mix of clouds and sunshine. Temperatures this morning come out of the 40s, a mild afternoon. The numbers this afternoon low 60s. 7 00 this evening, dry. The numbers heading back into the low 50s. Dry week ahead. Jadiann thank you, j. R. Lets get over to rich kirkland and talk about the traffic. Rich good morning. Save Peanut Butter cups for me. Traffic is clear. Easy sailing. Easy on route 1, topsfield to the tobin bridge is good. Thats downtown, extremely quiet. Not on the expressway. Thats good too. Work crews overnight on route 128 but theyre getting out of the way now. The t says were on time. Rich kirkland, 7 news today in new england. Christa thank you. And moving to our top story, a star student athlete stabbed in everett. This morning hes in the hospital after that vicious attack. Jadiann it happened just hours after Everett High Schools big win in the state playoffs. Victoria warren joins us now from outside that school where classmates and teammates
32 51 it helps. It helps it s justice for dana has been our theme for the last 2 and a half years and that part helps this justice journey is over. We don t ever plan to be over dana but we will get through this and we will see her again one day dressed in justice dor dana shirts dana mcckays fsmily is satisfied that the people who killed her daughter will be put away in prison one of those four people was her husband john mcckay who was sentencrd to 28 years and 2 months for first degree murder. John at one time and he betrayed us he took something from us that we will never get back and it was hard to see john also sentenced his mistress nicole houchin, who will spend 23 years and 11 months in prison. She bawled in court as she apologized to dana s family. Nicole and john hired nicole s husband , nace to beat dana to death back in 2013. He was to be paid 20 thousand dollars to kill her he stabbed her face, cut kff her finger, and beat her with a torque wrench now he will spend the ne
Were down 102 at the moment. Everything got weve climbed back a little bit. Dow down 103. S p, you wafkly are down for the year now. About 2. 5 . Weve dropped at the open. There were a number of sectors that were notably weak today. A lot of comments. I want to show you Retail Stocks right now. Deckers also on the weak side. A lot of these stocks have been hit badly, and they are not showing any signs of recovering at this point. Home builders we did have the National Association of homebuilder, home market index weaker than expected. These are big dwee clinz here. Unusual for the builders to move this much. No big catalysts, but all of them just down. Some a little more volume than others. Then energy stocks. You get that whenever you get that all the big energy names are to the down side. One group on the up side, simon. Delta did beat on the earnings and they talk about 2 billion in fuel savings in 2015. Faebl a company talking about the head winds that you are going to be having. T
Have received 50 more pay. And the widely anticipated movie 50 shades of grey hitting the silver screen. Already breaking Box Office Records in europe. Could have a big valentines day weekend. Universal is part of the comcast family. In the meantime lets go to michelle with a check on the markets at this hour. Yeah lets take a look at the u. S. Futures following yesterdays 100 point gain on the dow and the nasdaq at a 15 year high. Strength in europe feeding into the u. S. The numbers suggest the dow would open higher by 33 points we want to bring your attention to the european markets. Theyre on track to end this volatile week on seven year highs. The german dax crossing the 11,000 mark after germany gdp numbers came in higher than expected. Greece however weaker than expected. Well talk more about that later. Shares of conagra tanking citing a strong dollar and weak sales. They are also appointing former chief Sean Connolly as the new ceo ceo. Kraft is switching up the ranks. Its cfo
Decision not to seek reelection next year. But first, lets get you to the top stories we are following today. Lufthansa may face unlimited liability payments. The germanwings copilot intentionally flew the plane into a mountain. A specialist says that would mean no caps on awards to victims families. 150 people were killed. Authorities found medical documents indicating that Andreas Lubitz was unfit to fly but he had that from his employer. Officials said they want to know about the copilot posse motional state copilots emotional state. Five investigators searched the apartment for clues. Mark yesterday, the ceo says the pilot had recently been found when hundred percent fit to fly. Thats 100 fit to fly. An invasion of yemen is in the planning stages. They are bombing shiite rebels in yemen. The rebels are backed by iran. Egypt and saudi arabia want to send in troops. Their plan is expected to get the ok of the arab league tomorrow. The fighting risks turning into a wider war in the re