From the cme. Lori rothman on floor of new york stock exchange. Hello, lori, youre looking at the days biggest winners in the s p. Reporter biggest winners across the board guys. It was another recordsetting day. Look at stats. If it seems were reporting lifetime highs in the benchmark averages every day, well it is pretty close. For the dow the ninth record of 2016, the nasdaq the fifth record, i had to throw that out. The numbers are just staggering. Looking at s p yeartodate it is up 7 . Dow just about 7 gain for its part. Nasdaq up 5 . Driving the s p 500 today, micron technology. This is a chipmaker. Analysts are saying the Pricing Power climate is looking pretty good for micron. Shares are up better than 4 . Wynn, the operator of course the big casino, wynn resorts in macau, got approval for 4. 2 billion resort to commence operations on august 22nd. Also let me tell but the vix. Interesting trend, the vix, volatility index was down as stocks were soaring. But towards the close it
Early thursday morning. Sit close if you dont have the fog, its easy to see. Fog and low clouds there and some mist and drizzle in the mix as well. So the coast bay not changing. There is an okay delta breeze. Its not rueing but its there. 50s on the temperatures or low 60s. Cooler in the north bay. South bay 51. 51 Scotts Valley. Boulder creek at 61. Saratoga and santa lara. For some, its cool. Others, its on the mild side. Little lows to the north. That have is going to be with us for a while and may trigger some thunderstorm activity in the sierra which is nonexistent since early june. 5 01, sir. All right. What do you have something on the chp there . Thats right. We do have something on highway 4 h. Ill show you that in just a moment. It is in the same general area of the bay as the tracy super commute. We are looking at a commute here over the pass that is going to be busy. Stop and go traffic on 205 and 580. No problems getting into the livermore valley. If you are driving on hi
Were off to a good start here in downtown san jose with northbound 280 on the right. That traffic looks good. 402. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. That huge fire is still burning out of control. There are still some new developments. More details about the man suspected of intentionally starting the fire saturday afternoon. 40yearold Damon Anthony faces 17 arson counts. The sacramento reports an arrest record last september identified him as a construction worker from San Francisco. Investigateors are not commenting on what lead to his arrest, but they say he is a serial arsonist. That fire has burned 4000 acres, more than 170 buildings including many of them homes, and it is still only 5 contained. Nee vac wees say they cant understand why anyone would deliberately start such a destructive fire. People lost things that cant be replaced. Why . You know, why . What was so bad . What was so wrong that he had to do that . Cal fire says the suspect now lives in clear lake and is
Us, for we need you every hour. May our lawmakers remember that their success comes from you. Give them the wisdom to seek justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with you. Lord, free them from any entanglements that dishonor you. Protect them from dangers seen and unseen, as they strive to return good. When they feel overwhelmed, remind them that in everything you are work being for the good of those who love you. Help us all to strive to dploarfy you gluerfy you in to glorify you in every action, both large and small. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore pleae join me in reciting the pledge f allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell id like to bring a little perspective to todays vote on the clean c. R. Zika package.
Thunderstorms. Today were going to keep them further south from sarasota south the better rain chance. Overall 20 . That means with a lower rain chans, the heat goes back up to partly cloudy and hot today and vanessa, im looking at 92 for a High Temperature, okay . Vanessa thanks. And on the roadways here, were not dealing with any notable crashes but we do have a couple of road projects that will be causing blockages for folks. Starting off with this which we learned about yesterday afternoon. Citrus county, u. S. 19 southbound lanes completely blocked due to hole in the roadway. This is near the Crystal River mall. Work around here is northwest sixth avenue and this picture of the hole coming from Citrus County sheriffs office. You can see its quite large. State road 72 remains closed this morning, also due to a hole in the roadway. We have emergency road work six days away from the reopening but meantime, 72 is closed from east of myakka park to west of sidell are blocked at 16th av