A couple other things were watching besides the radar. Temperatures you see, just a few of us mainly in the sand hills along the i95 are above freezing and thats barely. Everyone else in thes to of 20s. Anything falling and that stuff already on the ground is going to remain frozen or get frozen. Then we have the winds. A lot of ice on power lines and trees. I dont know if youve heard t but trees snapping, Power Transformers popping all over town because our winds keep blowing that ice around on the trees and power lines and its gusting even higher than that. So Power Outages will continue to be a problem. In addition to stuff still coming out of the sky, issues with travel and were not going to warm up tomorrow. We do have warmer weather and sunshine in the forecast. Ill take you to that and go hour by hour through tomorrow in a few minutes. With the precipitation continuing to freezing rain and sleet, theres a wide range of downed power lines as wes was saying to slick sidewalks and
Carolina. This is a picture of work trucks in spartanbuorhere is what duke energy is report Greenville County is 460, anderson at 400 21, spartanburg at 161 and Transylvania County at 55. Carolinians have been seeing flooding all morning and into the early after noon. This is a live look at Biltmore Village. Wyff news 4 myra ruiz has more from buncombe county. Myra we are in Biltmore Village where Business Owners are spending the morning cleaning up after all that rain. Take a look at how muddy the side blocks ar this point. We are hearing there might be a problem with one of the drains, not being cleared, y see where the water crested at this planter. Actual reports are about loving local, but when i am clearing drains, i am not feelingmyra Business Owners looking for answers about why this place gets so floodemyra ruiz wyff news 4 asheville. Allyson thank you. Also in buncombe county, the North Carolina department of tr today that part of Town Mountain road in buncombe county was clo
Exxonmobil and t. Boon pickens. Jcpenney getting a big downgrade. And more optimism for apple. Another analyst ups the price target. First up, one day after the dow closed at record highs, the private sector added 208,000 jobs last month. That was a bit below street forecast. Meantime, Oil Prices Rising slightly this morning but down almost 35 from six months ago. Last night on mad money, Oil Tycoon Boone Pickens says he expects crude to return to 100 a barrel. Take a listen. Weve increased production, a Million Barrels a year for the last three years. And that is remarkable. No place else in the world has that happened. So consequently, i think youre probably going to see opec do something in the First Quarter of next year as far as cutting production. But im not so sure how much they have to cut to get to where i said you would be in 12 to 18 months. Youll be back at 100 a barrel. Fascinating. There is a school of thought that when production responds, you will overshoot the opposite
Biggest quarterly profit in its here. Demand for iphones in china driving results. Fedpushing markets to gain back some ground after yesterdays significant tumble in the major indexes. Boeings Quarterly Results soaring past expectations. The company seeing 2015 jet deliveries outpacing 2014. Apple is the big story, up sharply in the premarket after posting 18 billion. Ipad sales helped by Strong Demand in china. Tim cook demand has been staggering, shattering our expectations sales over 74 Million Units driven by the unprecedented popularity of iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus. This volume is hard to comprehend. On average we sold over 34,000 iphones every hour 24 hours a day, every day of the quarter. At least 75 million iphones. Estimate 69. Average selling price bucking the trend. Switching from android, hard to find much wrong with the quarter. People say if it doesnt take out 119, november high its going to be a fail tock. Let say, dont trade it own. This is a mesmerizing quarter. I thi
Almost creeping down to 52 on west texas. The ten year steady at 2. 18. Our road map begins with the last trading day of the year. Full day. No half day for the markets on this new years eve. Better than expected weekly jobless claims number helping futures point slightly higher this morning as investors look to end 2014 with a bang. Sony hack sent the company back to the stone age. Forced to revert back to note pads. And why ipads could make a comeback in 2015. First up, stocks are edging higher a little bit. Brent crude hitting new lows this morning. Jobless claims up to 298. All major indices solidly in the green. Nasdaq up 14. 4. Russell up about four. Well talk about sort of the annual performers. The best s p stock, southwest airlines. Worst s p, transocean. Ibm has the dubious distinction of being the worst dow component two years running. Thats not happened since 1995 when it was bethlehem steel, believe it or not. I guess the other ones on the dow are the Oil Companies . Chevr