Life on mars and liftoff. The worlds most powerful rocket successfully launching into space sparking a new era of other worldly ambitions, a tesla car now orbiting earth on a mission toward mars, so whats next . Good morning, america. The first liftoff of the sundtrack right there. Brandnew era in space exploration. Theres another look. Uhhuh and seeing that tesla with starman, the mannequin, driving into orbit a car. Its a real car and some people dont believe that image but it is a real image. The New York Post has this, car trek. I love it. David kerley was there, lucky man, there to witness the incredible launch of that and he hes joining us from titusville, florida. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, michael. A new space race is on this morning and elon musk just took a half billion dollar leap ahead of the competition and launched a private company, the biggest rocket in the world successfully with the most unusual cargo weve probably ever seen. He sent his car into spac
And the colder air coming. So coming up well talk more about the snow chances and the timing of it and ill talk more about this mild weather from today. But for now lets check the roadways this morning. Good morning. So taking a look here 95 northbound after 17, this is still our Biggest Issue this morning as far as delays. Still have just those two right lanes getting by this morning. 50 eastbound, the ramp to 202, wanted to talk about this because this has changed a bit. Right now the crash is blocking that ramp because the tow truck is on the scene. Inner and outer loop of the beltway, no problems. Same thing bottom of the beltway, all those routes into town and out of town. Thank you. It is 5 01 and we have breaking news, a car drove into a house overnight. What we know out of Prince Georges County. Take a look at this. This red car crammed into the side of this house. This is out in the Capital Heights area. Video of the scene showing investigators still there on the dunbar oaks.
Over, windy and cold, temperatures way below freezing on friday morning it will indeed mean it could be very icy. So a couple of very tricky mornings coming our way. Winter storm watches are issued for northern maryland, frederick county, virginia. I fully expect a Winter Weather advisory that will include all of the d. C. Metro area will be issued later today. A low to moderate impact on your thursday morning commute is to be expected an a couple of inches of know is a real possibility. Ill give you the exact amounts that were forecasting, but right now lets go out to sheena whos enjoying this nice start to a wednesday. Yes, it is a beautiful start to this wednesday and yes, i am live in bethesda, and a lot of people already starting to come and grab their train and you know, the light jacket is typically what were seeing this morning. Very mild for this time of the year compared to whats considered normal and we are close to 10 degrees warmer than we were yesterday morning. Temperatu
Stocks fell yesterday after the release of the fed minutes. The dow dropping about 90 points. You can see right there, 16,040 is the final trade. The s p 500 traded within a point of a new alltime high before falling 12 points by the end of the day. The futures this morning, at least at this point, is weaker. Just barely, though. The dow futures down by 8. 5 points. Dow futures off by 11. 5 points. The Consumer Price index and the weekly jobless claims report, those will both hit the wires at 8 30 a. M. Eastern tim. Cpi is expected to rise by 0. 2 . First time claims are expected to come in at 335,000. And joe ill send it over to you. All right, beck. Tesla shares. Where is your mike . Oh, im sorry. What . Never mind. I heard you. You threw me all off, beck. Can i start over again . Yeah. Take two. Tesla shares are Opening Statement rise action. Tesla shares are on the rise. Reported Fourth Quarter profit 33 cents a share. Tesla shoulder nearly 6900 model s vehicles during the quarter,
And american skier ted ligety wins gold on the slopes in sochi at this hour as bode miller comes up short and bows out of the games. This youth minister takes home gold on the halfpipe, the secret good luck charm from his wife and this morning we go oneonone with americas new skating sweethearts only on gma. Good morning, america. And good morning, america. And what a morning it has been for ted ligety. Taking gold for america in the giant slalom just a few moments ago. Becomes the First American man to win two olympic gold medals in Alpine Skiing. Terrific. And bode miller had a knee injury in his first run. Remember he sat out all of last season because of a knee injury. He has just bowed out of saturdays event. This could very well be his last olympics and, again, five olympics, six medals for bode miller. I hope its not the end for him. Me, too. Congratulations. He wouldnt want to go out that way. Right, exactly. Then also coming up, american medalist david wise winning the gold in