robb elementary school. the family of those victims as well as the survivors of the shooting continue to grapple with a massive failure of law enforcement. more importantly, the vice gripping with the gun industry holds to america and its lawmakers. legal actions have been filed against daniel defends, the manufacture of the ar-15 style rifle that the gunman used in the shooting. one of those positions was filed by the school staff member who previously it was wrongly claimed left open a door that the shooter had used. another was fired by the parents of amerie jo garza, another victim. they are also the manner in which they marketed their firearms. this is an issue that has been raised when somebody discovered another ads posted in social media just days before the eovaldi shooting, which featured a young child holding the firearm with the caption,, quote trade up a trial, in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. daniel defense will not be
A gain of 115 points expected if we were to open here s p is indicated up by 8 points. The nasdaq up by 31 points overnight in asia, youll see that the market theres also ended higher with the nikkei up a third of a percentage point. The hang seng up 0. 8 . The shanghai up 0. 59 . And the kospi up 0. 84 in europe this morning, you will see similar moves. Gains across the board there the dax is up by 0. 55 so is the cac. Ftse up by 0. 8 . If you check out wti, crude oil, 50. 27 wti for july broke a fourmonth losing streak. Had its best month since april 2016 look at the dollar index, the dollar index saw its worst month since 2016 dollar is stronger against the euro and yen trading at 1. 1813 and the dollar yen at 110. 34 fifth negative month in a row. Lets get you through some big stories. The s p 500 will start excluding companies that have multiple classes of shares. The move bars snap from the index. The Company Offering new investors a class of common stock with no Voting Rights. T
You have to bundle up if youre heading out. Chris sowers is at the action news big board, hi, chris. Reporter you had three months to get your act together, old man winter. Now we are approaching spring and it is cold. Windchills ranging ten to 15 degrees above zero. The present air temperature, 24. Down in the teens in the suburbs. Allentown 19, lancaster, 19. Poconos 10. The current windchill minus 5. Trenton, 20, millville, 18. Atlantic, 23 degrees. The angle of the sun this time of the year is higher in the sky than january or february, that will help things out a little bit, but still, the air mass thats moving through is very, very cold for this time of the year. If were lucky well hit 35 or 46 degrees. With the wind it will never feel like that. Blustery and cold, windy, wind could gust 35 miles per hour. Its milder tomorrow and more so monday, ill be back along with those details and were tracking rain in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Gray . Thank you for the upd
Key cabinet positions. Lets begin this hour, with cnn political reporter sara murray who can update us on all of this. Lets start out with the breaking news on the transition. What you can tell us . Lets talk about nikki haley. Shes going to be visiting donald trump at trump tower and sources are saying shes the kind of person they believe could be a good fit, as a potential secretary of state and Donald Trumps administration, now obviously the person that weve really been talking about is the leader of a potential secretary of state, has been rudy giuliani, but the fact youre seeing donald trump meet with nikki haley, he has a full slate of meetings, but i feel like nikki haley is the headline here, because she was really critical of him during the campaign, publicly critical, ultimate critical. She said she was going to vote for donald trump, but if were to be seriously considering nikki haley for secretary of state, as sources say, if he were to pick her, that would be eye seer our
Palm beach, florida for the weekend once again. Also the Vice President , mike pence, is in wisconsin to talk about the republican plans for healthcare. Hes in House Speaker paul ryans hometown to talk about the planned replacement for obamacare, the Affordable Care act. Speaker ryan is there with him as is the new health and Human Services secretary, tom price. Wisconsin senator ron johnson is with them as well. As the president focuses in on education in florida today, the focus back in washington continues to be on the Trump Administrations reported ties to russia. The attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has agreed to recuse himself from the investigations, but now there are new questions about other members of the president s inner circle. Our senior white house correspondent, jeff zeleny is joining us. Jeff is at the house. Our Justice Department Laura Jarrett is with me in the studio. Jeff, the president is in florida but he cant escape this entire russia controversy, can he . He ca