We didnt see many of them at all today. Dow gaining 27 points, nasdaq climbing. 36 . You need to understand how extraordinary this whole rally is. Were seeing wholesale reevaluations of what the market will pay for Companies Future earnings. Its remarkable because typically you need something to happen to trigger this kind of euphoric buying behavior. But nothings happened to justify paying higher prices for the same earnings estimate. This is all about an animal spirited bull market that i have to admit seems to know no bounds. Think about it. Think about the absence of catalysts. Start with the Federal Reserve. What did the Federal Reserve do to inspire this market . Actually, nothing. Federal reserve did nothing at all. It merely stayed the course. It said it would be patient. Yet everyone told me wow, thats it. All it did was do what it always does. How about oil . All it did this week was nothing, meandering around the 50s. Earnings have been done. Some good ones, red hat, the ope
Germantown and south and east of there it stretches over to poolesville and then across the potomac to near olney and south of there, ashburn, and now just coming into western Fairfax County from great falls through reston getting a little bit of that sleet and then it breaks up. A little west of there into the central Shenandoah Valley. The temperatures are above freezing, though, so thankfully, any wrp tare where the wintry m falling. Youll need a raincoat and umbrella for the afternoon. A breakdown hour by hour for the day ahead. A look at our. Breaking news on the roads, tom. Thank you. N rou 123 and spout run parkway. There are emergency repairs going on right now. News 4s Megan Mcgrath live with more on that. Meg megan . Ae lar sinkhole down there on the southbound lanes of the g. W. Parkway. You can see one of the detours in place. The ramp from 123 down to the parkway completely shut. These are the folks that werh o parkway and theyre being forced off. So a lot of people kind o
Here at nbc 4 in northwest washington and the farther west and north you go from downtown washington, the more snow youre going to see. Temperature down to 32 at Dulles Airport, 34 at gaithersburg and leesburg. 42 down in Southern Maryland. Heres storm team 4 radar. Theres the quick switch from rain to snow now, moving right inside the capital beltway and on to the i95 corridor. So well be watching this very, very carefully. The rain snow line just now into northwest washington. It will work its way into the rest of the city in the next couple of minutes. You can send me a pictu picture chuckbell on twitter. Winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings remain in effect. Out in the elements, my colleague tom kierein. Here in leesburg, were just south of leesburg now, in the storm team 4 x 4. Were on route 15. Traffic is moving very slowly because the roads are snow covered now. This is the view out the front window of the storm team 4 x 4. Were only doing about 25 miles an hour.
And caught fire. The handrails line the steps at stations. Underunderneath the handrails lights are built in to light the steps in the dark. A couple of those handrail lights overheated and caught fire. No one was hurt. The root cause of the fires has still not been identified. So now all of the lights in these handrails are off and riders are left shaking their heads. I mean it does surprise me its starting on fire but this being a new station you kind of surprised when stuff is breaking already. But a handrail starting on fire was not really in the things you thought would occur. Reporter now, this is an important point to remember here. Metro didnt build the silver line. The metropolitan Washington Airports Authority did. Metro says its going to hold them and their contractors responsible for this work. Coming up at 6 00 why metro is now calling this problem with the handrails a systemic problem. Back to you, jim. Firefighters are still searching for the cause of an Early Morning fi
After 2 00 a. M. At the quality inn on richmond highway. The chief said they had problems extinguishing the fire because virginia power controls the electricity. Paramedics took several people to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Right now seven Prince Georges County firefighters are hurt after their truck overturned. Those firefighters are part of the morningside crew. Thats right of the the truck flipped over on brampbl avenue in hillcrest heights. Part of that intersection is now closed rainfall the Fire Department sent these pictures to us via twitter. Can you see the overturned fire truck right there. All seven Prince Georges County firefighters are out of the hospital we are told. We are looking at one minute after 6 00 hour. Happy sunday everybody. We want to start off with a check on the forecast. Storm team 4s chuck bell on the verge of more rain. Is that right, chuck . Weve got rain to the south and clouds to the north. Everyone is going to get a very nice finish to their we