for you. let me try that again. should be sunshine to start your day and we ll have the clouds moving in later on today. mostly cloudy and the rain will move in during the nighttime hours. we ll see if that transitions into winter weather. high temperatures in the upper 40s and by 4:00 p.m., the clouds will start to move in and they ll start to lower and thicken. more details on the forecast in a minute. let s check out the traffic with julie. all right, a lot is happening now. we re receiving word of an accident involving a tractor trailer tieing up the commute. that puts it south of this area. the sky fox is in route to the incident. coming in and out of the area, no trouble in and out of centreville. the lanes are open. this is a crash near 123 and it s cleared near the shoulder. julie, thank you very much. we re following a story out of a town in virginia. people in culpeper are shocked after a woman was killed by the police. we re live in the news room with details o
accompanied by heavy volume. something they usually don t need in order to affirm another leg up in the markets. nevertheless breaking through significant last week. let s take a quick check of the dow components trading higher and lower today. ibm trading at a nine-year high and a mixed picture in industrials within the dow industrials. the sector as a whole is lower. gm is weaker. along with alcoa. i mentioned commodity stocks weakened. alcoa was a winner earlier in the stegs. trading down about 11 cents. one area that s getting hit today is the transportation sector. large part because of the weakness we are seeing in the airlines. the dow transport which is up 18% this year. it is down just about three-quarters of a percent now. you can attribute that in part to the weakness we are seeing in airlines, higher oil prices and, of course, concerns about added security measures and how this may affect the companies. attempted bombing on the transatlantic flight to detroit, put
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he sort of was rather happy with the acquisition he made that accounted for 75% of its profits for the bank of america in the last quarter so i would suspect about six months to a year from now, he s going to be telling this tremendous victory of this of acquiring merrill lynch. but all that being said, what we really i don t know why we re spending our time to find out what happened between the 15th of september and january 5 first. all we all know is a hell of a lot went over the dam and particularly in that spectacular two-week period after september 15th. i want you, one, before you leave here, to tell this committee and the american people what kind of jeopardy the american system and the world system was in so we reiterate that moment that we weren t all a bunch of relaxed confident people walking around making clear judgments but we were making emergency judgments, working 20-and 24 hour days and not with the clearest heads in the world. is that correct. thank you