En happy wednesday morning im Lauren Simonetti welcome to fbn amy l. Cheryl its thanksgiving eve. Thanksgiving eve. All right good morning. Lauren good morning. Cheryl Cheryl Casone no food has been made. Lauren money is moving this morning holiday shortened week but look market continues to melt up towards new record highs all three major averages will open in record territory today dow up 37 and 100th record close under President Trump. So many thingses happening in asia and markets are chosely following every twist and turn of u. S. China trade negotiations. Pretty much youve got green across the board xepght for shanghai a little bit of pressure over there overnight. Stocks are trading to the upside as well half of a percent gain in london and in frankfurt. Cheryl we start with breaking news a massive Chemical Plant explosion just happening within last couple of hours this has sent flames shooting through air this is happening near beaumont, texas right now. This doorbell camera fo
Weather a 24 tornado reports of the deep south there were three fatalities late last night you can get severe tornadoes this time of year a few isolated showers to the west where the higher colleges for there is coverage is for there is nothing widespread. Cloudy skies we mentioned mentioned a few leftover showers 60 degrees the eight day forecast in just a few minutes. Right now we have a couple of accidents out for this one coming in from the west side 90 eastbound it is actually in the right berm with flashing lights if you cant scrooge over with an assist are too pleased to their 55th and broadway also has an accident i have really busy intersection for sure and then 77 northbound the accident is getting by their single file and 77 going through we have our water main break at is 64 then quincy early this morning and they have a portion and with a peek of that not so much water but they close to the street of the left quickly as close between 64 and 66th street. We want to get you
Pretty much as warm as its going to get in between 55 and 60 since really late yesterday evening. Breaks in the overcast the rain has moved out. Storm fox radar showing a few showers play out over the lake now. Impacted areas west of vermillion. Notice the movement generally out of the southwest. Southwest. Temperatures the other story now cooling off into low 50s with breaks of sun further west. Akron down to 53. Pretty heavy rain this morning south of akron canton new philly most of that is move out. The forecast as we look further south at the line of thunderstorms which produced some widespread Severe Weather late last night 24 tornado reports in the deep south. Three fatalities because of that. For us your starting to see some improvement although will have higher Rain Coverage used coverage itself still overall will be relatively small temperatures remain middle and upper 50s. We will get improvement today not anticipating anything down only going slightly below average. I think
Is sort of marking just how large this fire is. Authorities are telling us again that there were about 200 evacuations as this fire continues to spread. We are expecting the possibility that we could see more evacuations tonight. Well keep an ear on it and keep you updated. Back to you. Thank you. We want to go to Elizabeth Cook in the newsroom. She is watching the live pictures come in from chopper 5. Liz . Reporter veronica, we have literally had a birdseye view of how crews have been attacking this fire. You just saw an airplane drop retardant on the flames. Some of the shots of the flame and smoke are eerie. We have asked the chopper to maneuver over the most active part of the fire. Now, this is at one of the ridgetops of pope valley. You can see how the flames have made a run up the steep hillsides making it very difficult for firefighters. If you look very carefully, those are those spot fires that christin was mentioning. Now, what they send up that dark ominous pillars of smok
Good morning, everyone, im scott mcgrew. I saw a billboard recently that absolutely stopped me cold because its message was so spot on. Here it is San Francisco, meet your minimum wage replacement, an ipad. Hello, may i take your order, it says. It was placed there by a think tank that opposed the citys move to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour. Though thats exactly what the city did. And i tracked down the fella behind that billboard. Hes Michael Saltsman of the employeement Institute Based in washington, d. C. And funded by big business. Now, i suspect michael and i disagree on a whole host of opinions, but not on this because this is not opinion, its fact. The fact is technology is quickly replacing workers. Not just in factories. We knew that but especially in entrylevel, lowskilled jobs. There are no toll takers on the Golden Gate Bridge theyve been replaced by fast track. Grocery store Self Checkout nothing new, and restaurants like chiles now take orders via tablet. Mcdonalds