Mason a new mission to save Mission Control. Houston, we have a problem. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. On wall street, it was a day of highfives for five highs, five in a row, as the dow gained 72 points to close at 21,1963. Since donald trump was elected president on november 8, 38 weeks ago, the dow is up nearly 20 . In the First Quarter of this year, the average 401 k retirement account held more than 95,000. The average average, a ra, more than 98,0. The. Reporter for the fifth straight kay day, the dow jones closed at a record high, just missing the 22,000 mark the president predicted it could hit. Wall street is full of smiles these days. We would give the stock market probably an a right now. Reporter but joe zidle with gene bernstein advisers points out the market reflects not politics but profits, and corporate profits have been climbing steadily for last year and a half at giants like mcdonalds and boeing. And
Mostly cloudy skies in philadelphia. Few breaks in the clouds. King of prussia mostly cloudy. Chance well see showers and thunderstorms at noontime. This is why i say maybe when it comes to 90 degree mark. It wont reach 90 degrees in the suburbs. May not reach it in philadelphia either. The showers are more lickly during the afternoon hours. That goes for Lehigh Valley also. Breaking for sunshine. Chance of shower and thunderstorm. More likely during the afternoon hours. Philadelphia at 74. Partly sunny. 84 at noontime. Clouds and thunderstorms hold off in philadelphia. We will make it up to 90 degrees. Thats a maybe today because of the thunderstorm threat. 80s for the suburbs and delaware and the Lehigh Valley. Show you when showers are more likely in your neighborhood. First, Jessica Boyington has first alert traffic. Starting in Gloucester City in new jersey. 76. Portion of the freeway turns into 76. Just after tv bridges. Approaching philadelphia. Theres a crash there. No huge del
Since i was 28 i have been selfemployed. Now they assume there is a conflict of interest. They want me to figure out how many hours i spend on my ranch. Kristine some believe its not been effective. We have had 160 cases. Only 26 were found whereondoing. Representatives disagrees. I think it worked well. I think that this is not the way to start a new congress. Kristine they have amended to a broader house rules package. In a statement the congressman said the proposals have been misrepresented by the opponent and by some member of the media. On capitol hill, im kristine frazao, abc7 news. Jonathan the swearing in of a new congress means a change for the maryland delegation. Chris van hollen was sworn in office today. The now for taking over the seat held for 30 years by Barbara Mikulski who is now retired. Both van hollen and mikulski are democrats. Maureen new developments in the search for the killer of Democratic National Committee Staffer seth rich. Republican lobbyists jack burrm
Similar big gains. Big. The dax in germany, the cac in france, up by 1. 5 . The ftse is up close to 1 . Look at the dollar. You will see in currency markets just focusing on whats happening with the dollar. The dollar is up across the board. Euro at 1. 0541. The dollar yen at 113. 62. Interest rates finally went up. 2. 42. Up from 2. 35 yesterday. 2. 42, were calling that up. Good to see someone making europe great again. You know, sara eisen told me we should focus the show on the peso. Thats not a bad idea. It is interesting, even europe. Those are big gains in europe. Lets get caught up on some of the big corporate stories. Snap inc. Expected to have the ipo after the close today. The Company Targeting a 17 to 18 range, valuing the company at 25 billion. Separately the Company Reportedly developing a drone. The New York Times saying the drone would be used to take puck chores and video. Youtube planning to launch a Live Tv Streaming Service featuring broadcast news and cable channel
The winds will slacken a bit on sunday but a cold weekend. So the cold air in place. We get through sunday as the cold air is locked in. Through the day area of low pressure moves north. Its become significant east coast snowstorm. Will it be a snowstorm for washington or philadelphia or all of us, a mix . All snow . We are working on that. We will have a full discussion update for you but put it on the calendar. Late monday night and again on tuesday. Some wintry weather. Looks like its certain around the area. Alison i guess its about time. Thank you very much. Well, if you go to the tidal basin, of course, you will see the trees. Jonathan some are starting to show. If you head down there its beautiful. It seems like a week away from the peak on this stuff. But will they survive the cold snap . Alison Richard Reeve is on the tidal basin. Rich, here, every degree matters, right . Richard absolutely. 27 degrees you could lose 10 of your blossoms. 24 degrees and you might lose as much a