Dollars, but hes in luck and our traders are here to help him fix his portfolio and we start with the major news on gilead that weighed on the major averages gilead dropping on reports that the companys coronavirus des v remdesivir it is difficult to part through because it was halted from china that didnt have enough to finish the synopsis on these partial results were posted by the World Health Organization on its website immediately taken down, but not before the Financial Times and stat news got a hold of it. What that showed was that 237 patient were enrolled in this trial and 158 of them were on remdesivir and they had planned to enroll 453. One of the gauges they looked for for success was mortality and how many patient surs viefed at 28 days they found 14 of the patients on the drug passed away versus 12 in the control group. In a summary of the screen shot here they said that remdesivir was not associated with clinical or virological benefits. We regret that the w. H. O. Prema
Developing now on action news an elderly man is found dead inside a home. We have an update on the investigation. Today could mark the beginning of the end of the src. The bodies that control the board are about to take a crucial vote. Accuweather is tracking rain followed by increasing wind. Pick your poison, rain, windy, david and karen. Reporter i would pick wind because rain messes up the road. Reporter how about both of them. The rain came through on the accuweather schedule. Looking at future tracker 6 double scan its breaking down pushing north and east of philadelphia, but even where you dont see the green there could drips coming off the trees and it is going to take a little while for everything to dry out. The movement of the precipitation is off to the north and east, though, as you can see were in the process of improving. Temperatures are mild, 48 degrees in philadelphia. 47 in allentown rm 4 48 in trenton. 57 in wilmington, 50 in millville. Not too bad, assuming you have
Some side streets mights be icy and even in places where you salted last night you might find that the impact of the ice was so significant that you still have a freezeup. Icy sidewalks and icy windshields combine to make it not a great morning walk for the kids to the bus stop. 31 degrees by 6 00 a. M. , 32 by 8 00 a. M. So the ice probably doesnt break up much between that time period and i mentioned icy windshields because sometimes people just make a little hole and they try and drive like that makes it harder to see kids entering and exiting the streets. Satellite shows you theres some cloud cover out there but it is breaking up and we expect a fair amount of sunshine overall today. 29 degrees right now in philadelphia, though, below freezing. Winds out of the southwest at 8 miles per hour. And here are your numbers across the region. Obviously anybody who saw freezing rain halfway up Camden County salem county Burlington County and points north still have the ice on the ground an
For those slick spots. Of course not as bad as yesterday but thats not saying much. Not really. Yesterday was just horrible. Lets get you to satellite. We have some sunshine on the way. You can see cloud cover trying to inch its way in from the west and we might see some patchy clouds later today. Temperatures right now, though, are cold. Still below freezing. 27 degrees in philadelphia. Winds are calm so we dont have to worry about a wind chill. But as karen mentioned some icy patches are still possible especially on some sidewalks maybe a couple side streets. 21 degrees in trenton. We did melt some of this stuff yesterday but it didnt all dry out so there has been refreeze in some cases. 19 degrees in allentown, 22 reading, 27 in wilmington. 32 in cape may. Other than a little ice beneath your feet this morning you also need to brace for the cold. Not a lot of wind but pretty chilly out there. Again some icy sidewalks are possible this morning. Roads mainly okay. Karen will keep us u