Everybody. Im rob nelson. And im sunny hostin. We begin with the weather extremes. Winter warnings in effect this morning in eight states with snow and plunging temps from kansas to michigan. That follows a day of soaring record highs. Violent storms are still sweeping in this morning from texas to the midwest. Theyve spawned several unusual janitor nay does that flipped rvs and sent trees and powerlines crashing into homes. Accuweathers jim dickey has more. An unusually warm day expected. A strong system moving into canada. Plenty of rainfall with this. Strong storms. Temperaturewise, many areas challenging if not setting new highs today. 69 degrees in the b. C. Area. Mid 60s in pittsburgh as well. 80s across florida. Rob and sunny, back to you. Thanks, jim. For much more on the weather ups and downs, stay with us for good morning america. Sam champion will be here with the latest on the snow, the twirss, and topsyturvy temperatures. Old man winter taking us for a ride. The other big
And hopefully you got a chance to enjoy it yesterday. Things could be changing. The mid section is getting hammered. You are right. Seek whats going on. But you know what, we have got video in from indianapolis. Our sister station. I want to show you this because they have video of downed trees and snapped power liens across the area and all of it is courtesy of the system across the middle the nation right now. You can see the heavy rain coming neigh cross the area. It will continue through the Morning Hours and reports of trees into houses and telephonepoles blobbing fire trucks as well. This line of showers and thunderstorms will continue to push into our area as we go through the rest of today. You can see underneath the yellows and the greens here. Some reds and pinks. These are tornado watches and warnings across the area. This line will continue to slide in as we go through the rest of today. As it comes towards us, we have the potential for some gusty winds across the area as w
And for the reasons that shares are trading at near record levels, were pleased to say we are joined here in new york by abcs tahman bradley. Good morning, tahman. Reporter good morning, sunny and rob. So nice to be up here with you, i brought some good news. Seems like the economy is turning around. New data is are giving both investors and home owners reasons to smile. The economy posts numbers we havent seen in years. It looks and feels like a comeback. Stocks and the Nations Housing market are soaring. The dow jones nearly hit the 14,000 mark yesterday, closing at 13,954, its highest level in five years. After an increase of 850 points in january, the dow is only 200 points away from its alltime high. The result, American Investments are surging. The average 401 k retirement account increased 20 in the last year. From 64,000 to roughly 80,000. The worst case scenarios, that people were looking at in 2008, they can start to say, all right, were not going to go there. Reporter on the
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