Last night iran launched Ballistic Missiles at iraqi air bases that housed u. S. Troops and none hurt, nasdaq was higher about an hour before the close so is this market being resilient or are investors being complacent sell sell sell. Why not both. Thats what it needs a combination of these two forces first lets cover complacency. Few days ago the president of the United States ordered the killing of an extremely bad iranian general who has been major architect of state sponsorship in the region. Im not litigating whether that matter what matters most commentators immediately assumed we were headed for war with iran do not pass go do not pass 200 they figured both sides would keep escalating and saw the price of gold soar and same time the stock market ignored it. Even when it became obvious retaliation was imminent iran launched when the market closed more than a dozen air missiles and the overnight futures plummeted. Equal to 500 dow points. Next thing you know the president tweets
Speaking of fastnachts, lets take you out and about this morning, why . All of the action taking place right now, steve keeley, good morning to you. Reporter you will get both stories, story of haegeles with one of the original employees here, first job as a kid, scott clark. Scott. Yeah, you have eagles sweat shirt. Mike jerrick are you watching in the news room if mikes in the news room get his attention he has a versace man purse and he is proud of it, right out of seinfeld,. And your first job here. Yes, as a kiddy scrubbed pots and pans, scrub the floors with hot water and bleach. I started foundation. It is a tradition here every year, here at 5 00 oclock every morning on fat tuesday. Look what he wearing . He has moved up. He is going to the cruz line to work as a consultant testimony and heading where. Antiking was, quad loop. Do you get paid to take a cruise. Paid well. Absolutely. Are these go to go make it on the plane. They are for an event, my Catering Company use the most
Liberty one and two, come on comcast get with it turn the white lights red can do you that for me . In problems working your way in to downtown there noise closures, on the overnight with construction. They are working here on the schuylkill here, eastbound down to one lane in the tunnel s, under 30th street station, and over here in new jersey, route 70 got emergency work westbound right here near 295, abe again that would be coming in toward philadelphia, so look out down to one lane, they have been out there all night long, and for gang up along county line road no problems or delays. Sue mentioned we have dried out from that rain so that is good news for a Tuesday Morning rush hour, and we are looking good here along i95 as we pass our camera at girard. Mass transit looking good, karen and thomas back to you. Time right now 4 01. We are in the middle of one of the war flu seasons it is so bad some people are getting it a second time around. Local hospital even turning people away b
City. I think its just a very stupid comment. The comment was insebstive. I am jewish. Its offensive to the jewish people. Its offensive to me and my family. Reporter brenda is also j jewish and said the remarks were shocking and not surprising to her. Hes stupid. E he doesnt know what hes talking about. Thats my first reaction is his stupidity. Steven is with the Jewish Federation of greater philadelphia. His reaction when he saw what happened. I said, oh, my god. Unfortunate. There are insensitive, hopefully unplanned comments, but really unfortunate. Words matter. He took issue to comparison to bashar al assad. To say hitler didnt use gas is is not even correct. Suggest that hes worse than hitler theres nobody worse. Sean spicer has tried to clarify his comments. Let me read you what hes saying. In no way was i trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the holocaust, however, i was try ing to draw a contrast of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers. Now that
The fog looks like its lifting a little bit in wildwood with an increased visibility of 4 miles but below a half mile actually in allentown and around a half mile visibility in reading. A bit of an improvement in lancaster. You can see how that gray color is shooting through most of Chester County and in through a good portion of bucks and Montgomery County so those will be the places where i would slow down. 69 degrees in philadelphia, 67 in allentown, 67 in wilmington and trenton, 70 degrees in cape may this morning and its a bit muggy with dewpoints in the mid 60s which is definitely moderate humidity. And even higher humidity than that down in those 70s areas in south jersey and delaware. As we roll through the day, 69 degrees by 7 oclock. Okay for your run. Wary flect tiff clothing though he if youre in one of those foggy communities. 75 degrees by 10 oclock. By noon 79 degrees and by 3 00, 83 way high of 84 around 4 oclock this afternoon. Thats your next 12 hours. Looks like its