8 00 this evening. For today, mitt and miss rain chances. Rain chances at 30 today. Todays high, 85. Rain chances back by thursday and friday. Ten minutes from now its amelia segal in kingstowne, virginia, but now its Melissa Mollet with traffic. Good morning, chuck. Nice to see you again this morning in the 6 00 hour. Taking a look at the map here, our first slowdowns of the morning. Were looking here at d. C. 295 past 50 southbound slow as we widen out here a little bit looking pretty good otherwise around the beltway. Into and out of town on all of the major routes, 66 at gallows road is looking good. One thing to warn you about in brandywine. A Police Investigation shut down floral park road closed between dobson and South Springfield road. Megan mcgrath is on the scene. Well hear from her in about two minutes. That breaking news another night of violence rocking the streets of ferguson, missouri. Protesters shot at Police Officers and officers fired tear gas at a group throwing mo
Control. Nbcs jay gray has been in ferguson since the violence started more than a week ago. He joins us now with the latest on whats happening there. Jay . Hey there. Yeah, another rough night overnight here. And it seems like police are changing their strategy, their tactics almost every night. They even included the National Guard now. Theres just been no end to the violence here. The streets in ferguson exploded with violence again overnight. Numerous reports of shots fired. We had two fires. One at a business. One at canfield, our officers came under heavy gunfire. Our officers confiscated two guns during a car stop near the staging area. These are not acts of protesters but acts of violent criminals. Rocks and bottles were among several things apparently thrown at officers along the front line. 31 people were arrested in the chaos, including a group inside this pickup where police found what was a possible molotov cocktail. Violence continues. Despite another change, which allows
Tomorrows game in l. A. There are protests scheduled for tomorrow. Reporter the controversy is bigger than basketball. And its the crowd of hockey fans at tonights game at the staple center. Its all about the shots. All about the shots winning game seven. Reporter a call for a stern reaction against sterling. Ever since audio recordings of sterling the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers making racially charged comments surfaced theres been calls for his ouster and sponsors are bailing. Including car max, state mark and virgin america. The teams partner since 2012. I expect the nba to act quickly, something has to be done. Reporter the nba has hired a forensic expert to look into the recordings and is planning a News Conference tomorrow in new york. The controversy overshadows the play off series with the warriors coach calling for a boycott. If im a warriors fan i wouldnt show up tomorrow. Im not sitting here saying clipper fans, i wouldnt show up. Reporter so if you show up, there if y
Are protests scheduled for tomorrow. Reporter the controversy is bigger than basketball. And its the crowd of hockey fans at tonights game at the staple center. Its all about the shots. All about the shots winning game seven. Reporter a call for a stern reaction against sterling. Ever since audio recordings of sterling the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers making racially charged comments surfaced theres been calls for his ouster and sponsors are bailing. Including car max, state mark and virgin america. The teams partner since 2012. I expect the nba to act quickly, something has to be done. Reporter the nba has hired a forensic expert to look into the recordings and is planning a News Conference tomorrow in new york. The controversy overshadows the play off series with the warriors coach calling for a boycott. If im a warriors fan i wouldnt show up tomorrow. Im not sitting here saying clipper fans, i wouldnt show up. Reporter so if you show up, there if you do show up, you will likely
First, lets get you caught up to speed on the markets this morning. If you thought the wild ride was over, think again. Futures are selling off sharply this morning. Right now, dow futures close to 200 points below fair value. The s p 500 futures down by another 30 points. This is not something thats been constant through the morning. At one point this morning, futures were in positive territory. You can get we will continue to see wild swings up and down. A lot of volatility. In fact, if you add up all of yesterdays swings, the dow moved by about 1300 points during the session. It was down 460 points at the low. The blue chip index eventually closing off by about 1 . The this was the heaviest volume weve seen in nearly three years. If you were watching the yield on the ten year, it dropped below the 2 before coming back. This morning, it is below 2 again, 1. 995 . Asia following wall streets leadover night. You can see the nikkei closed down by close to 2. 25 . The shanghai down by 0.