Obviously coming to you this evening from the new york stock exchange, where traders spent most of this day just riveted by washington, werent we all. Wall street did not appear too concerned about what the former director of the fbi told lawmakers. In fact towards the end of james comeys testimony on the russia investigation, the dow actually hit a record high before pulling back. The nasdaq did close at one today. Many investors do not think the hearing produced a smoking gun that could harm the president s businessfriendly agenda. In the end, the Dow Jones Industrials Dow Jones Industrials added eight points, closing at 21,182. Nasdaq gained 24 points and the s p moved fractionally. While the drama wasnt felt on wall street, there was plenty of it on capitol hill. E m eamon javers has more. Reporter the integrity of james comey was questioned by President Trump. I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of his meeting. I thought it important to document. That combinatio
We begin with robo calls that interrupt you both at your home phone and on your cell phone how can you fight back andrea day explains how you can let scammers know this is urgent that you contact us. Reporter its a robo call, automatically dialed call bothering millions of americans. 30 billion calls a year now. He developed an app to try to stop the madness. Its a pitch for emily the travel scammer or fake microsoft. Important notice regarding your automobile. I get ten calls a day. The do not call list was supposed to stop so why does it seem its getting worse . It works for legitimate businesses the problem is all of the people who dont respect it who could care less. People fall for the scams enough to make it worth while we sat down with the federal trade commission behind the do not call list. The ftc says consumers lose 350 million every year falling for robo ripoffs. We investigate unwanted calls and where they are coming from and bring Law Enforcement actions to stop them. Rep
S track all night. I m going to send my shovel to my brother in virginia. Cindy they are prepared for the amount of snow they are going to get. It s rare they see a storm produced 20 inches of snow. We are not expecting that. A winter storm watch is for the south coast of new england. This is in effect saturday afternoon. You can see the blizzard warnings up around york city with winter storm warnings in effect. The brunt of the storm as to the south. We will continue to ride that edge across southern new england. You can see there is some snow with it already. It s going to intensify as a carolina tomorrow. Blizzard conditions to our south. This continues into saturday night before the thing pulls away sunday. The potential for the most snow , we could see 326 inches. North of their, there is a possibility of two to four inches south of boston. The possibility of up to a couple of inches of snow are there. It s a quiet day. We ve got another day to watch the system. The windchill is c
Lauren taylor. This is al jazeera, alive from london, also coming up lebanons migrant boat tragedy survivors tele, their grief not being able to save others. At least 97 people are now feared dead. Dozens of people are killed in bangladesh when a boat carrying hindu pilgrims, tips over and sinks and Mass Evacuations and major flood warnings as the philippines is pounded by. Super typhoon north ah hello pose in italy due to close and about 2 hours in what will be an historic general election. As the expectation the country will elect its most right when government since the 2nd world war. The most recent polls forecast victory for an alliance said by the brothers eventually party that would pay the way for its far right leader, georgia, maloney to become the 1st female Prime Minister. But theres been a 2 week polled blackout leaving scope for surprise. That could come from the center Left Democratic Party of former Prime Minister in the letter, the voters taking place against the backgr