[000 00 58;00] we want to check our weather and this recordbreaking pattern of rain were getting. Chuck bell, when will we get relief . Dont i wish that we had a little sunshine in your broadcast for today or tomorrow, but honestly, it could really be friday afternoon before we have any real glimmer at the sun and it may be sunday before we have a sunny rainfree day. So no relief in sight. The rainy days continue feeling more like march. Temperatures only in the 50s right now. That warmup coming up on friday, much warmer air may bring in a chance for thunderstorms friday afternoon and friday evening. For now though its in the mild upper 50s. All clouds, here is the rain right now. Mostly along i95, but it is lifting northbound, so grab the umbrella. Temperatures here, your rain coat is your best friend. My dog doesnt even like going out in the rain. I dont know how shes managed to hold it for two week. And now Melissa Mollett with a check on traic everything is going along just fine he
Welcome to countdown everybody. Friday morning, i am an and words. 6 00 here in london. Let us talk about the Global Equity markets. Yesterday we talked about how global stocks had the highest level since december. Things looking more sluggish overnight, a slightly weaker section in the u. S. And a weaker session in asia, despite the fact we saw a pickup in the oil price, often enough to turn the mentality around the stock market. Let us look at the rally during the trading day, here on white in a bloomberg with a rally that we have seen in global stocks, dating back to late january. We have also seen upper limit on in gold and silver, of course we talk about that on the program. Buying Precious Metals and buying the yen, despite the buying a stock. As the title of the chart suggests the markets are perhaps far from convinced about the strength of the moves that we have seen in equity markets with a rally we saw and equity markets the last couple of months or so. Let us check out the r
The open. Stocks surge and as bloomberg reports the boj may help banks offer negative rates on some loans. Good morning to you, caroline. We got a whole bunch of really cool stories doing the rounds. We are watching what is happening with this brexit story. Obama intervention could change the terms. Does this convince britons that maybe the u. K. Should stay in . Cars are in focus as well. Caroline they are. The british pound getting a bit of a pop on the back of that, with the u. S. President saying the u. K. Is better off in the European Union. In berlin, im seeing mercedes on every high street, and daimler once again being embroiled. Tore seems to be no end where the scandal starts and lies. Weve had mitsubishi, now time for, the u. S. Wanting investigation. Already trading on the futures market down 7. 7 according to trade gate. Could see some big moves lower from daimler. Mention of that story we saw last night in the numbers. Going to be interesting. We will find out, as you say,
Couple minutes. Right now that is resortcams. Com giving us king street in boone, where we have wet streets, my understanding is that the grass is covered with one to two inches of snow. It is at freezing right now, we have School Delays up there but the roads are essentially just wet in town, back roads could be a little slick. 32 in boone, 34 morganton, hickory, statesville, 38 gastonia and charlotte over to monroe and albermarle. 40 in wadesboro and 39 in rock hill. For today, get rid of the clouds, and eventually see sunshine, process will take a good chunk of the morning for that to happen well wind up at 57, close to average this time of the year and ten degrees above what we could manufacture yesterday when all the clouds rolled in. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, rst alert traffic is sponsored this morning by toyota of north charlotte. Here we go, rolling in fri
Unfortunately, were out of time. The time necessary to mount a Winning Campaign for the nomination. Alison well, Vice President joe biden says he will not make a third run for the white house. Jonathan biden will remain vocal in trying to influence the Democratic Party. The senior political reporter scott thuman has more on the decision. The timing of the announcement caught a lot of folks offguard. They knew he would announce this week. Its interesting with if benghazi hearings going on with Hillary Clinton. Scott you are right. The last couple of days he had been signaling perhaps a run. He had been talking a lot about the amount of oneonone time he was spending with president obama to clarify his role in the decisionmaking process in the race for usama bin laden. So there were a lot of cards being played that led people on the hill he was going to announce a candidacy. But instead he sought donors and delegates had been lining up behind the people who would have been his competition