Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news, with lester holt. Were tracking matthew. The massive hurricane on the verge of strengthening as it bears down on the bahamas on its way to a possible punishing landfall in central florida. The storm has already taken at least 25 lives on its march through the caribbean. This infrared satellite image of matthew is generated a lot of attention today. Appearing to many as a skull to others as an animal. Right now computer models show the hurricane walking a narrow tightrope as it reaches the florida coast friday morning, possibly as a category 4 storm. With palm beach among the places preparing for the worst. Al roker is watching it all for us. Whats the latest guidance . We see nothing thats going to lessen the storm right now. Category 3, 205 miles southsoutheast of 120mileperhour winds. As you said, by friday morning its a category 4 between melbourne and miami. And continue
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Put investors in a buying mood and lifted the major indexes for the first time in the fourt first, oil prices settled oh so close to 50 a barrel. Then there was a spade of solid economic repor that reversed fears that the economy hit a wall in august. More on both of those stories in a moment. First here are the closing numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial average climbed 112 points to 18,281. The nasdaq added 26 and the s p 500 was up 9. Lets talk about oil. First, which has its sights set on 50 a bar the price of domestic crude hit its high yefl level since june. The commodities settled up more than 2 to 49. 83. But will those prices hold at these levels . Jackie deangelis takes a look. Reporte the price of crude oil up about 12 in the last month. A tentative deal from opec to freeze product near record levels, boosting prices. While analysts feel capping producti at 32. 5 Million Barrels wont necessarily impact the supply demand dynamics, they think its an important step, a sign, perha
And lifted the major indexes for the first time in the fourt first, oil prices settled oh so close to 50 a barrel. Then there was a spade of solid economic repor that reversed fears that the economy hit a wall in august. More on both of those stories in a moment. First here are the closing numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial average climbed 112 points to 18,281. The nasdaq added 26 and the s p 500 was up 9. Lets talk about oil. First, which has its sights set on 50 a bar the price of domestic crude hit its high yefl level since june. The commodities settled up more than 2 to 49. 83. But will those prices hold at these levels . Jackie deangelis takes a look. Reporte the price of crude oil up about 12 in the last month. A tentative deal from opec to freeze product near record levels, boosting prices. While analysts feel capping producti at 32. 5 Million Barrels wont necessarily impact the supply demand dynamics, they think its an important step, a sign, perhaps, that saudi arabia is admitt
Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news, with lester holt. Were tracking matthew. The massive hurricane on the verge of strengthening as it bears down on the bahamas on its way to a possible punishing landfall in central florida. The storm has already taken at least 25 lives on its march through the caribbean. This infrared satellite image of matthew is generated a lot of attention today. Appearing to many as a skull to others as an animal. Right now computer models show the hurricane walking a narrow tightrope as it reaches the florida coast friday morning, possibly as a category 4 storm. With palm beach among the places preparing for the worst. Al roker is watching it all for us. Whats the latest guidance . We see nothing thats going to lessen the storm right now. Category 3, 205 miles 120mileperhour winds. As you said, by friday morning its a category 4 between melbourne and miami. And continues its trek hugging