Its monday, january 6th early today st and a good morning to you. Im cori coffin. And im frances rivera. We begin with breaking news from iran where mourners have packed the streets gathering in tehran for the main funeral for the top Iranian Military commander, qasem soleimani. He was killed at an american airstrike ordered by President Trump. The ceremony comes as iran fully ends its commitment to the limits created by the 2015 nuclear deal for the latest on this, we are joined by chris in beirut. I hope you can hear me among those bells tolling. Whats the latest fallout and response from iran reporter yes, frances. Life goes on as usual in the middle east. You can hear the church bells behind me. Nevertheless, everybody is on edge waiting to see what happens next following the assassination of soleimani starting in iran they wasted little time in electing a successor to soleimani, a man by the name of esmail ghaani. He wasted no time in announcing he would avenge th predecessor. And
During a desperate get away. A shoplifting situation turned into this. Plus, would you drive through these flames to get to work . New footage from the fire burning from a california freeway. First at home, a cooldown is coming. If you think today is cold, you really need to bundle up this weekend. I see temperatures in the 29 up there. These are current temperatures and the sun is not up. Good point chuck. But we are. So whatever. You still have to walk outside in it. Unless we work from home. Take turns. Well take turns. Meanwhile, weve got breaking news on the commute. We have breaking news on the roads this morning. This is in chill em. We know this is an investigation and lanes are blocked. Between road. University boulevard. Live pictures from the scene here this morning. Another investigation down south in la plata. Between bell alton, and cooksey road. Youre able to get around with police on the scene. Around that one. Another situation, westbound 50. The crash there with all l
Towed away a suburban a few moments ago. Behind us, it appears to have skbroos crashed into the power pole behind us. Two cherry pickers trying to repair the pole. They have to stabilize it and remove. It does not appear any power is jeopardized to the area here. You can see why traffic is closed in the area of eastwest highway between riggs and also New Hampshire and why both lanes are congested at this time with this crash response. That is the latest live. Justin finch. Back to you, melissa. Good to see whats happening there from the ground. Eastbound 70, 85 e street. Two right lanes blocked by a crash. Inbound east capitol, near rfk, truck blocking the center of the road as well. This is what chopper was over a short time ago in the sunoco gas station parking lot and the outside area there. Northbound road. No major problems. As far as your travel times, 66 inboubd is fine. 95 north is also looking good. Top of the beltway rolling along. Listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in you
Good morning a warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc im wilfred frost. Lets get straight to the market picture. We did see yesterday the s p flat, the dow down about 0. 15 the nasdaq was up, 0. 2 . Theres been some concerns of a selloff. Weak to date were only down half of a percent for the dow and s p. The nasdaq is down a full percent. Its not that bad given the great runs of late this morning bouncing back, nearly 40 points higher for the dow. The s p up 5 points. The nasdaq up 25 points or so. Lets look at europe it was down yesterday, but not too badly. Having sold off more meaningfully at the start of the week germany up a half percent. About a quarter of a percent of gains for the uk and france. Asia in the eye of the storm yesterday with quite significant declines lets get more on the markets in asia from Nancy Hungerford she joins us from singapore. Hey, nancy thats right. A different story here for asian equities lets start with the comeback story, the nikkei 225, h
So a cold start but a very nice afternoon. We will talk more about our temperatures and the wide range we will have over the next few days. Mike is tracking transit details. Especially for bart, outside station folks you have a delay out of fremont, about ten minutes, but thats tough in this colder weather. I just heard about this delay for train number 520 thats for our capital corridor line looking at out of oakland there is a 35 minute delay. There was something that held that train up from leaving, should be on its way again continuing to the end of its route. Thats just train 520 right now. Smoother drive on the roadways, you might as well drive through oakland with no major problems. We are looking to san jose with one crash just popped up, now over on the shoulder, quickly made it there northbound 101 at oakland road, that distraction might add to the build as we do have more traffic heading through the area so we will track that south bay commute. Right now Silicon Valley no re