We are also getting some breaking news out of china for end of july Foreign Exchange at 3. 1 coming in trillion. It is a touch above that. The markets also focusing on the stimulus in the u. S. That may or may not be coming. President Donald Trumps latest attack on Chinese Companies also stoked tensions with beijing, which is why we are seeing treasuries and dollar actually rising. The president signing an executive order prohibiting u. S. Residents from doing any business with wechat, tiktok, or the owners of these chinese apps. Now, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. There has been no headway in talks between the white house and democrats over a new virus relief package. There are still major sticking points and both sides are accusing the other of refusing to compromise. One key difference is the top line number. The democrats want 3. 5 trillion of aid. The republicans want 1 trillion. Another round of monetary stimulus is expected from the bank of england. Policyma
Morning, gary. Not as gloomy. Were not talking about well i just will say this. Theres a little bit of sunshine from time to time today and a lot of clouds too. Any sun would be great because clouds is overcast. More surprise Christmas Day. Thats my Christmas Gifts to you. Listen i wont make a big deal out of this. Its possible. I mentioned this yesterday we could have a few evening snowflakes around. Ill be more specific coming up in a few minutes if you stay with us and ill give you the full forecast. It does not look like accumulation. All that looks like it take place back to the west of us for Higher Elevations back to western virginia and West Virginia and western maryland too. They could pick up 2 to 4 of snow today and this evening. It could be a White Christmas out there. Not for us though. Look, we have rain streaming up to the south along a fr frontal bound write down th there. And it looks like later on this afternoon and this evening some of this comes and into rain if it
Thanks for starting your sunday off with us. Well start with a live look outside on december 1, 017. You can almost see how crisp and cool and clear and freezing cold it is outside. Were going to start off with dar gar in the Weather Center this morning keeping an eye on what really has been brutal cold here you. Covered it all, tom, well take it back here then, thank you very much, gary, thanks for seeing you. Very, very cold. You have more . I have to cover two minutes. So ill take my share here. Listen, heres whats going on out there now. Lets just say its going to be an arctic new years eve. This arctic air started last night trickling in and dew points dropping and arctic air is here and it will get colder and colder and windier and windier out there and that will make it feel oh, so cold. And wind chill advisory in place for Northern Virginia and central virgina western virginia and all the way up to mary pennsylvania. And part of this out west is in place. It runs from 9 p. M. T
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