Lyndsay doing good. Should be a beautiful weekend. A little chilly to start right now, most away from the city are in the upper 20s. 30 in charlotte and in hickory, other than that at 27 in salisbury, albermarle, 28 statesville, 27 in boone and in lancaster and rock hill, upper 20s. Cold to start, this afternoon cool, back in the 50s to more the better weekend pick for sure. Well in the 60s. Little bit of a warmup, so more on your forecast details in a few. Kristen thank you, lyndsay. In campaign 2016, polls open at 7 00 for the democratic primary today in South Carolina. In the polls, Hillary Clinton has a big lead over her challenger, bernie sanders. In a final push to voters, mrs. Clinton spoke in columbia last night saying she will work to break down barriers and lift people up. Sanders will head off to minnesota by way of texas searching for friendlier terrain on the republican side, a campaign twist, donald trump stopped his closest rivals in their tracks with a high profile endo
Sky 7 hd was over the scene where seven cars were involved in this crash. As officers approved the bmw, the suspect opened fire, police returned fire. One officer was struck. He was taken to the hospital and has been released. The suspect surrendered. Well have a full, live report at 11 00 on channel 7 and you can always follow us for breaking news on twitter. Thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Our other top story tonight, a Major Development in the death of prince. Both the u. S. Attorney and the Drug Enforcement administration are joining the investigation. It turns out people close to the pop star called in a mill valley doctor to help prince with a drug addiction. It was the doctors son who found princes body and made the 911 call. Eva pilgrim has the latest. Reporter the very day he died, princes inner circle was trying to get help for his addiction to pain pills. The wednesday night before his death, dr. Howard cornfeld was contacted, who is an exp
On companies that maintain a lower taxdress to bills. Stocks are falling around the world, as europe is down. Iron ore has fallen before below 80 a ton for the First Time Since september, 2009. The u. S. And arab allies have expanded airstrikes against the Islamic State into syria. Fighter jets and tomahawk missiles were used in syria in a bid to push back the groups rapid advance. For more on the bolstered efforts, i am joined by willem marx. This is a different operation and many of the arab partners are going nameless, but how does it compare to the group that went into iraq . Beene russians have criticizing the airstrikes. The french that have been cooperating with the u. S. Say they are leery about international law, and they might be trespassing on sovereignty. The u. S. Is taking some criticism from allies and russia. Turkey is on board. They are on board, and a lot of the diplomats that have been held by Islamic State have recently been released, and that frees up their hands a
But still, the dow futures look like theyre up about 24 points above fair value. S p futures up by 5 points and the nasdaq up by 11 1 2. Among our guests today, we have Lee Cooperman joining uts at 8 00 a. M. Wholesale trade and monthly samestore sales. As for earnings, well get results from pepsi before the bell. Alcoa kick off earnings season last night. The company posting better than expected results. Ceo clause clinefeld was on cnbc last night. On an absolute basis as well as on a margin basis, we saw an increase of profitability year over year of 45 in the mid extreme. And the best quarter in the upextreme brings since the second half of 08 when it started to get weaker. Shares of alcoa are up about 50 in year. In other corporate news, amd is replacing ceo rory reed. The market value is nearly halved since he took over in 2011. The chipmaker is trying to expand beyond its core pc market. Lisa su will take the chief executive role. Some annists were surprised by the timing announc
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