Meghan hughes reports from columbia. Reporter candidates are looking to score with voters this superbowl sunday. Following big plays last night on the debate stage. Let me talk, quiet. Front runner donald trump appearing on this week, standing by some of his most controversial stances. Evan sorry about that, folks, looks like that was an older story there. We will try to get the new one coming up in a few minutes. News 13 did send crews throughout North Carolina for yesterdays primaries. Coming up in the next half hour, we have Team Coverage from the state to our south. A seventh person is confirmed dead overnight after a shooting spree in kalamazoo county, michigan. Police say they have a suspect in custody. An undersheriff says a man in his 50s started randomly firing at people at multiple locations shooting victims in an apartment complex, a car dealership, and outside a restaurant. Attacks have been connected to the same person. A mototcycle accident in woodfin is the third in our
Lets head straight to the markets desk where julie hyman has breaking economic numbers for us on the Services Side of this economy. The nonisn Manufacturing Index for january. Julie the nonManufacturing Index coming out at 53. 5, worse than the 55. 1 economists had been estimated. We saw a revision higher in december to 55. 8. This number is an important one. The largest part of the u. S. Economy. We have seen stocks turn lower in the past i should say in the first 30 minutes of the session we have seen it give up gains. It is the fourth consecutive month we have seen manufacturing declined, but we are looking at nonmanufacturing to see what happens on the Services Side of the equation. All three major averages are now lower. The dow is not lower by very much. I also want to mention some headlines that came out of wells fargo. It denied a report in hedge fund alerts that it was in talks to buy banks and credit squeeze businesses. Fargo spokeswoman has denied that speculation and denied
Here are the top stories were watching ahead of the opening bell. Informatics is now the biggest leveraged buyout of the year. From europe and the canadian pension plan Plan Investment board are buying the company for 5. 3 billion dollars. This has been a target of activist management elliott managed activist target for elliott management. Drillers idled oil rigs for the 17th straightway 17th street we. Rand paul running for president 2016. He officially kicked off the campaign in louisville. Another story we have been watching this afternoon, the lights are coming back in defeat. They briefly lost power earlier today. Going to managing news editor in d. C. What happened yet so who is still without power. All of the main government holding, the Justice Department and white house who all locked power intermittently them to be back. The little hope our Company Local Power Company telling us there was a big hit lotion and that since programs riffling through the whole. Got a little bit ne