Illinois governor gave an update on the States Coronavirus pandemic. He was joined by his sister former commerce secretary who spoke about efforts to raise money in her capacity as chair of the illinois covid19 relief fund. We will also hear from senator richard durbin. Good afternoon to everybody who is here in the room and our teleworking reporters and those joining us on television, radio or streaming service. I want to thank again the reporters and press working so hard to cover the vital stories of this pandemic. More than ever, people need clear, factual information to rely upon. I want to thank the Illinois Broadcasters Association and tv and radio stations all across the state that are joining forces today to come back hunger and shortages during this crisis. One of our hardest working Agency Directors during this crisis is department of Human Services secretary. Secretary is here to talk about the essential role in our response to covid19. And maintaining the continuity of Hum
Open, wall street looks to close out a recordsetting week. Peacock joins the streaming wars, how comcasts forthcoming platform looks to separate itself from the streaming flock. Joining the four comma club, alphabet more than 1 trillion all together more than 17 of the s p 500. Stocks looking to hit new record highs upbeat news on the economy as Housing Starts rise in december to their highest level since 06 up 16. The and just to put that into perspective we are looking for an increase of 0. 4 amazing, and of course the commentary from tepper and druckenmiller over the past half hour has done a lot. Its fed in the same direction. Well pick apart if weather was a factor in the Housing Starts and the rest but that is when the equity futures took another leg higher when the numbers were reported comes after we got other good housing data its become very hard to decide that the headlines are going to get in the way of a market thats been on this autopilot higher the guys like david tepper
For the faint of heart, the daredevils doing tricks tens of thousands of feet above ground. You see it there . Oh, no. Wow. That would not be me. No, i cant do it five feet above ground. Welcome to february 26th. Its a monday and it was just a beautiful weekend. To the energy, the people we were in great moods. I started playing pickleball. Oh, wow. Thats how good the weather was. My whole personal is now changed. Oh gosh. Athlete back here though, when its sunny its like i want to get out. Its so beautiful. Youre doing things you never thought youd do. Yeah. Pickleball. Hes an athlete. Do i look different today because of it . You look in my eyes now. Theres a huge switch in the last 30s. Sorry about it. Sorry. The last uh the last couple days. Beautiful. Today you know, its a nice day. Its just a little different looking. We have cloud cover in our sky ahead of a cold front that moves through here. The exploratory camera showing you those clouds. Heres the front to our north. Itll mo
Glassboro, 70. Fortescue, 71. Cinnaminson, 69. Smyrna, 63. Satellite and radar this will be a beautiful day, walltowall blue skies expected from start to finish, mostly sunny, high temperatures somewhere between 87 and 89 degrees. Mostly sunny in philadelphia, warm, 88 is the call from accuweather. All right, we have one concern this is going to continue for the next several days, the rip current risk has been high all week. It continues to be on the high side today anticipate tomorrow a lot of this is due to jose. Its no longer a tropical system, but Strong Enough and spinning east of here where were seeing the effects of the rough surf and large waves, 4 to 6foot on the sand. And rip currents. Now that jose is pulling away, here comes maria, tracking up the eastern seaboard. Right now category 3 storm maximum sustained winds up to 120 Miles Per Hour with gusts as high as 140. Fortunately, maria is going to make a right hand turn and go out to sea. You can see how close the projected
Orlando nightclub attack. It comes as the president p and Vice President head there today to meet with victims families. Our Jennifer Davis isjen following the latestg the s developments from capitol hill. Reporter quite a night, jen. Reporter it was. R good morning to you guys. This ended up being thnie ninthh longest speech in modern mer Senate History as youry ayou mentioned it lasted nearly 15 hours and in the end thehe e democrats who started it say say they did get republicans to agree to have votes on two guno control measures. So, when it comes to a t filibuster typically it is is used to try to block or delay legislation but in this caset it was actually used to tryuallt and get legislationegisti considered. Democratic senator chrisat murphy of connecticut is the one who started it. He, of course, saw greatat tragedy in his state two years ago when 20 children wereren w killed at sandy hookandyook elementary. He says its unconscionableonscl that lawmakers have not acteded sinc