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Good morning. Im daralene jones. Its 7 00 on the dot. We will have more on our top story in a moment. Take a look at this. This is a live look over downtown orlando this morning. The dense fog seems to be getting worse this morning. You said its all because of that cooler weather headed our way. Yes. And definitely all of the rain we saw yesterday. With the rain and the winds, it was a perfect setup for this. Its thick from volusia, polk, visibility at a mile or less. It is thick. As you head further west and north, we are seeing about four to five mile visible. You can see big improvements around 11 00 a. M. It will be clear at that point. Which is awesome. Current temperatures in the 50s we will have a chance for rain and isolated thunderstorms. I will break that down in a few minutes. Darlene. Deputies are trying to find a main who they say raped a woman several times in the same week. And a woman who is accused of being an accomplice is waiting to see a judge this morning. Julie, t
Oil stable. And tenyear has crept down to 1. 77 1. 77. Futures falling. Earnings painting ableak picture. Greece continues to weigh on the markets too. Seven Dow Companies, p g, pfizer, caterpillar, dupont, 3m microsoft, and united technologies, all seven lower. Nyc largely escapes storm unscathed but Boston New England battered by heavy snow. Well get live updates on Flight Cancellations and travel around the region. A rough morning in store on wall street. Wave of earnings news sending futures tumbling. Dueuponting proctor gamble, pfizer expect the stronger dollar to weigh on full year profits. Caterpillar, a warning for 20157 the ceo on Squawk Box Oil is a piece of our energy and transportation is worth about oil and gas is about a third of that business. The natural gas piece of that business is doing pretty well and so far holding up. The oil piece, though what were taking down and thats the primary number for our reduction in 2015. Jim, not only did he say when it rains it pours
July. Julys prices are not what they are now. Folks are locked in. They talk about being frozen in someplace, well, their prices are also frozen in. Well we know and understand the challenges when it comes to energy. We know and understand the challenges that come when it comes to keeping your house warm or your lights on. So we have every interest to make sure we are pushing out, we are being innovative, we are being as efficient as we possibly can when it comes to energy use and consumption. I want to urge us, to push us, to be really aggressive in pushing us towards those technologies that will allow us in a small population state that has no real energy grid, so to speak, to figure out how we can how we can be more selfsufficient, get us off diesel get us off 10agallon oil in kobuck alaska. Weve got to figure this out. Were going to be doing it. Were talking about the challenges that we face. But i think as we begin this good robust debate on things like climate, i think we need to
He was such a skinny guy they kept giving him ice cream to eat. Its incredible he remembered what the eisenhowers were like. The dying breed of person. I wanted to take should be to these people. Tonight on cspans q a. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts takes you to museums. Opened in 1829 philadelphias eastern state penitentiary operated as a prison until 1971. We visited to learn about the history that coined the term penitentiary and tried to reform criminals. Host my name is nick, a tour guide at eastern state penitentiary. Today, we will spend the next hour looking to this beautiful building. This is today an estate of stabilized ruins. This is after 142 years used as a prison, which when it first opened in 1829 was considered experimental. It was a brandnew type a prison. It was so unlike anything else tried at the time. They did not want to call it a prison. They invented a new word penitentiary. The root is penitent. This is the first attempt at the humane treat