Best january since 1997. That does it for us. Fast money at 5 00 will be all over how the market closes and Apple Earnings as well. Follow me on twitter. And keep watching power lunch because that show starts right now. Scott, thank you very much. We have breaking news in washington and on wall street today. Both having an impact on the other. Eamon jappl eamon javers and john harwood. But first, sue at the stock exchange. Hi, sue. Hi. We are not quite making history yet but there is a lost optimism as i talk to the guys on the floor. Were not that far off from historic highs. 90 minutes ago, the dow crossing the 2007 high which was 13,780. Right now the dow jones up 68 points at 13,781. The alltime high for the dow, 14,198. About 400 points away from that High Water Mark set in october of 07. So far this year, the dow is up 5 and thats only really about 14 trading days. Turning to the s p, more than 4 higher this year as well. That indaeks now just, give or take, about 75 point from i
Now. Lecturing in istanbul, the International Center for scholars, a special adviser to the turkish president in the snows. Named one of the most 100 powerful arab women last year, appears on u. S. Cable news channels quite often and the founder and chairman of the independent think tank beirut institute. Safeen, a member of the kurdistan democratic party. Hes also a member of the was a standingin member of the Iraqi Governing Council of the authority in 2004. He was exiled to the u. K. And returned to his homeland and is playing a very key role in its development in the kurdistan province. Lets make it a conversation, more oprah, fewer speeches, and hopefully everybody gets involved shortly. I want to begin by asking all the panelists to take a birds eye view first. How you see the flow happening in the region generally, in syria in particular, and where do you see some connections happening. Afra, would you like to begin . Hello, everyone. Good morning. Im replacing my colleague from
Cuba. All eyes are on sandy this morning. It sounds cuba with sustained winds of 114 miles per hour. It turned deadly overnight killing two people in haiti and jamaica. 07 of jamaica is without electricity this morning. 70 of jamaica is without electricity this morning. Parts of florida are under a Tropical Storm warning. Good morning again. Im sarah simmons. Im still wisdom and that is still tucker. Thought we were going to go right to tucker. Im just getting an update here. Lets go back to it real quick and just show you. An eye developed there late yesterday afternoon during the evening showers. That tells us the storm is intensifying. Still a pretty strong storm. Bahamas are next and we have to watchhis as we get into the end of the weekend and early next week as it may be a player in our forecast. Ill have more details in just a minute. Thank you, tucker. Im not done with the weather yet. Oh. Were just getting started. I dont know if you knew this or not but im taking over this wh
Still hanging around out there on your morning commute. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. Welcome to fox 5 morning news and tucker barnesis here. Certainly the potential for it. What you are referring to is Hurricane Sandy. Category two hurricane. Lets take a look at it. It really intensified in the last 24 hours and looking fairly impressive on our satellite signature here. You can see the eye there now emerging off the northern shore of could you be a maximum wind, 105 with gusts to 115. It has the potential to be close enough to the mid High Pressure atlantic that it could interact with a cold front that will an approaching and we could be in for some soaking rains and maybe some railroad gusty wind. Well have more on that come be up. There is the latest with sandy. We are cooling off into the low 60s. That is not typically cool for this time year. We should be in the 40s. These temperatures on the mild side. We are seeing some fog develop across the area. 62 at Reag
I forgot about halloween. Thats the other thing. Yeah. We have to see and were talking about sunday, monday, tuesday time frame. Well, normally at this point in the show we would check in with tucker and say hes now down in the weather center. But tucker today forgot to put his make up on and getting him tv ready. Oh, boy. Hey tucker. Very funny. Were doing the transformation here. Stay tuned. They tell me im going to look handsome here in a little bit. Lets do the forecast real quick. As we get into our daytime highs. Little later this morning well see the sun breakout and decent day for us with highs in the mid 70s later today. Nice drive thursday for you. Theres a look at your satellite radar. Temperatures down a little bit. For us for today, plenty of afternoon sunshine with temperatures in the mid 70s. 75 in washington. Little cooler closer to the bay. Details on the weather and more on Hurricane Sandy coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. 12 days now and counting until voters