Trading thats normally done on the New York Stock Exchange has been handled by the nasdaq so stock trades are going through, but like an airline stoppage because of computer issues things are pretty backed up on wall street. Theres also a lot of uncertainly because of this kind of stoppage. When it comes to the Worlds Largest and most trusted financial machine, uncertainly is bad news. Let Dow Jones Industrial average, which we track by the second down by 1 about 182 points lower, so a very rough morning as the Exchange Works to get things back to normal. The trillion dollar question is how does the entire stokes get hit with a computer glitch . Its not the first time. In october of last year the nyse haus wit by a glitch for about ten minutes. Were seeing some movement but no trading. Theres a computer glitch at unite dd airlines. All flights were grounded. Checking sfo, most united flights are on time though a smartering rub canceled including a flight to chicago. Computer experts do
Not only thunderstorms, but severe thunderstorms are likely as a line of showers and storms moves to the east. Damaging winds is the greatest threat with this not the flooding like we saw yesterday. Theres even a threat of one or two tornadoes in the area by the time the day is over. The highest risk of storms as you can see, is in our part of the country. Especially from the philadelphia area, north and west, most of our pennsylvania counties, included in all of this and extreme northwest delaware. Anywhere in that yellow area has a threat for severe storms during the day today. Were dry now. Early showers moved out, so there may be clouds around. But its not going to rain for quite a while. This is the activity thats going to be moving our way. Its going to be strengthening as it goes into the hotter and more humid air. Clouds have kept the temperatures down a bit. Were still in the midto upper 70s. If the sun comes out, that will help fuel the storms even more. It already is into th
Humidity, it is not going to be hard for any storms that do develop to become strong. Once again, yesterday we saw the flash flooding. That was the biggest threat. Today, that threat still a threat but not quite as high. It is the high winds that we are going to be dealing with. Yes there is a low threat of a tornado today best chance of that northern portions of maryland around the masondixon line. Continue to track it for you throughout the afternoon. Amelia segal and i are in all day. With the stroke of a pen, South Carolina governor nikki haley is about to end the controversy that has divided her state for more than half a century. Haley is signing a bill that will remove the Confederate Flag from the state house grounds. These are live pictures from columbia, South Carolina. This move will come hours after the state house passed this legislation. The Governors Office says the flag will come down in a ceremony tomorrow morning at 10 00. We are closely following this breaking news.
Orange. Were talking damaging winds in excess of 60, 70 Miles Per Hour we could see some Power Outages and more Straight Line wind damage. There kohls be isolated tornado tornado, small hail a threat, some downpours and also vivid lightning as we watch those cells kind of move toward our area over the next several hours hours. So you can see were pretty quiet, dry right now across parts of the area. However, as we watch how things play out, you can see by five, 6 00 oclock the activity starts to move toward the pocono mountains, Lehigh Valley and then it continues to move into sections of Chester County, montgomery, bucks county by 7 00 8 00 oclock. Watching some of those cells as well as watching the potential for a bowing company indicative of some Straight Line wind damage potentially boone 9 00, 10 00 oclock you can see it finally moves into parts of south jersey as well as central and southern delaware before it moves on out of here. So the bottom line the timing of the system sta
Young children of either gender so in the all voluntary military, this is a new thing where we have these children at home where these parents are doing multiple lengthy deployments. When i finish talking, desma took the microphone and said i just want to add something to that. She said, i am earned a lot of money during my deployment. I got combat pay and i chose to enlist and i chose to fulfill those orders. I appreciated having that opportunity to earn that money. I earned a lot more money doing this than i was making as a waitress at a truck stop, and i wouldnt want my experience used in a way that would deny anybody else the same economic opportunity. And so, she was essentially saying, you how in thorpe the author of this book might think its not a great thing deploy a single mom, but thats easy for you to say because you werent trying to raise my children on what i was earning. She told me later that she thought i was uppity, i think she meant upper class. [laughter] i think she