November 30th, 24,000. 25,000 this week, well, we are very close. The latest gains are all about tax cuts, the house votes today, it will be a yes. The senate votes later today or tomorrow, yes, looks almost certain. The president could sign it into law on or before christmas eve. Yes, this has been a remarkable story. Weve had a frontrow seat to financial history. What a ride . Get ready for another big day, we are running right at 25,000 and Varney Company is about to begin. We are moments away, literally from white House Homeland Security adviser tom bosset holding a briefing. He is going to publicly blame north korea for the wanna cry cyberattack that crippled Computer Systems around the world. We are going to watch this to see if calls it act of war, important, ashley. Ashley very important. This virus that link back to north korea went out on may 12th, computer worm with ransom ware. More than 200,000 and ep crypted the encrypted the data and the ransom part, you pay us money and
Coming up later on the program prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of black wednesday. That is Norman Lamont at 9 30. Lets get straight to your data check. Quite a lot going on in the markets. We are seeing a little bit of risk off. Stocks are mixed in europe. Edging lower and then going higher. What investors are nervous about is north koreas latest Missile Launch, raising geopolitical risks. Gold and yen showing markets are becoming immune to the provocation and diplomatic reaction. There is not much of an impact on yen. We are seeing pound, the 25th anniversary of, of course, what we saw in 1. 34w31. There is a little bit of movement on treasury. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian President Trump says he likes and respects janet yellen not made a decision on whether he will re nominate the Federal Reserve chair for another term. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin sets janet yellen is among those being considered to run the central bank. In the u. K. That
President trump rescinded an Obama Administration directive to allow students to use the bathroom that matches their the white house says the decision should to be up to the states. Abcs Kenneth Moton has the details and reaction from washington. Trt 1 35 soc dc mayor Muriel Bowser reacting to last twitter. She wrote dc is an inclusive city. We will continue to protect and support inclusive policies. The hashtag dc values. Vice president mike pence will be in maryland today a dayaf the Vice President was in the st. Louis area for a factory tour when he stopped to help clean up a Jewish Cemetery that was vandalized earlier this week. Dozens of headstones were knocked over at the cemetery. The Vice President denouncing the attack. Police are poring over Surveillance Video to find who did it. So far no arrests have been made. Heated confrontations and rowdy town hall protests, spreading around the country. And Many Republican congressmen are in the hot seat. Some town halls have been move
Temperatures through saturday shower Thunderstorm Risk saturday afternoon noon to 5pm back to winter sunday 49, feels like 30s today partly sunny. Unseasonably warm. Isolated pm west of d. C. Highs 7176 winds s 510 mph tonight mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows 4955 winds s 5 mph friday partly cloudy. Maylike temperatures. Highs 7277 winds sse 515 mph were following breaking news in the district. A traffic stop, leading to gunfire. Q mccray is live in southeast q . New overnight a fire breaking out at washington. It started around 1 30 this morning on kisconko road. Firefighters had the fire out in less than thirty minutes but the home is still a total loss. No one was hurt. Some civil Rights Groups are upset about a transgenderrelate d policy change by the Trump Administration. Hundreds of people protete white house. Theyre upset that the administration revoked an obamaera mandate. It compelled Public Schools nationwide to permit restroom access on the basis of gender identity. The Admin
A single car crash. That white car you see flipping a number of times, we are told. The driver was trapped inside the car. He was cut out and transported to the hospital. His condition is unknown. We were told, initially, serious injuries. We are trying to get word on his condition right now. No word on any other injuries involved in this. It appears he was the only 1 the only driver at least. So right now, one lane, the right lane still closed before you approach the south capitol street, nationals park, downtown exit your on 295. These are the northbound lanes. Southbound not affected by the subtle. We were told earlier by this at all. It would be earlier closed while the cleanup continues and while investigators try to piece together what happened. The good news is for traffic they have that live picture, it looks like they may have just moved well, i still see the car, actually. The car is still here on the side of the road, so folks will have to be careful for a little bit at leas