1 00 p. M. , the bond market i believe at 2 00 p. M. We are poised at what would seem a higher open. Were not going to get a lot of hours of trading in. As in for the 10year note yield, lets take a look and see where we are. There it is. 27. 66. And well go to the map in europe where i can never figure out the geography. You know the boot is italy. I know the boot is italy and i can pick up russia. Our road map here back in the United States starts with what else, retail. Millions of shoppers, yes, millions hitting the stores for black friday. Well go live to say how sales are going. Brian . The markets are open today for an abbreviated trading session and we are poised to open at record highs again, which will be about the 40th time this year. I guess you guys could say that here on squawk on the street. The nasdaq finishing wednesdays session at a 13year high, kayla. And thin trading today on a shortened trading day. And also bitcoin keeps on surging, topping 1,200 earlier today, doe
September 21st, more than two weeks ago. Family and friends have been desperately searching for her this whole time. Yesterday a hospital worker finds a body in an exterior stairwell on the fourth floor. If this body is lynne spaldingss, as i said repeatedly today there are a lot of questions San Francisco general will have to answer as to why that person was not found for 19 days. San francisco general not saying much right now. Only that the situation is distressing and that finding out what happened is top priority. To that end, police are investigating, talking with staff and combing through surveillance video. Also investigators have cordoned off the stairwell where the body was discovered calling it a crime scene. Live in the newsroom, abc 7 news. Thank you. This morning a Stanford University professor is one of three researchers whos won this years nobel prize in chemistry. This morning the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences honored the work of Michael Levitt along with scientist
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning everyone. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Welcome to day nine of the Government Shutdown. No end in sight. Embarrassing for lawmakers in washington. We want to report some furloughed workers are back on the job. They are with the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Theyre back on the job. Theyre still not being paid but theyre brought back in because of a salmonella outbreak linked to chicken. First, todays top story that Andrea Mitchell broke. It is a story of military families caught in the middle of the political infighting. This is the live look at Dover Air Force base where behind those gates, family members are gathering for a somber ceremony as they collect their loved ones remains. It is happening about 100 miles way from washington where
Of how long it would be closed. All theyll say right now is its going to be a while. They havent released any details yet on the driver. Their investigation is still under way. Live in richmond, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Amy, thank you. A check on the morning commute. Its definitely affecting you if you are going to be traveling through richmond. We are getting folks reporting bumper to bumper traffic. It looks like berkeley is also starting to slowdown significantly. Weve got plenty of red as you come out of East Richmond and towards el ser rcerrito. Traffic building up. Give yourself an early start. Right now we know the off ramp Central Avenue to westbound 80 going to be shut down until further notice. As we talk about drive time traffic, 101 slowing down into San Francisco. Across the golden gate, quite a few extra headlights in the southbound direction. Across the bay bridge, its actually going to be about 15 minutes now. Looks like more traffic is heading away from the maze acr
Im kristen sze. Im eric thomas. A sig alert could make a mess of the morning commute after a fatal accident on interstate 80 involving a suspected dui driver and the chb. Abc News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live in richmond with the latest. Amy . Reporter eric, look at the car behind me. It flew off of the freeway, rolled down that embankment and landed right there. This is on the exit ramp for central here in the richmond el serrito border. The driver did die. The off ramp is closed. He was westbound on interstate 80 passing a construction site when a chp officer who was at that site saw him passing and noticed his front tire was so flat he was driving on the rim. The officer was going to pursue him to see if he needed help. To see if he was drunk. Just to see what was going on with this guy. But investigators say they dont even know if the officer had time to turn on his lights and siren. That this all happened so fast. They put out a Little Information over the radio. All of a sudde