[000 00 59;00] i love you, reagan. Weve got a heartwarming happy family update for the holidays. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. And thank you for being here on this thursday before christmas. Tonight, as millions are set to begin their holiday journeys, storm systems threaten to disrupt Holiday Travel across several portions of the country over the weekend and into christmas including rain moving up from texas to the midatlantic eventually bringing rain, snow and even ice to new england. All of it a recipe for air travel delays. Lets walk over to the weather map. Al roker is watching it all for us. What are we looking at . 107 million of us will be traveling this year according to aaa. Tomorrow we start seeing big problems down south, memphis and nashville, looking at problems for the airports, the roads, i70, i40 problems. Evening snow in new england. We move on into saturday. Look for rain along the coast and inland, but snow will continue in interior sectio
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A warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Lets get to the market picture. As we said in the open, the nasdaq and s p closing at record alltime highs the nasdaq up 0. 7 the s p up 0. 2 the dow was negative, but fractionally this morning pointing to a higher open for the dow and the s p. Just slightly for the nasdaq we got to the 2. 6 level in terms of yields. Just pulled back the last couple of days from that level, but rising again today 2. 63 the yield on the tenyear holding nicely above the 2. 6 level. Dollar board for you, we lost about 0. 2 yesterday the dollar is sliding significantly today. Steven mnuchin did say on the ground in davos that a weak dollar is good for u. S. Exports. Its partly that, but really just a continuation of the trend of a weak dollar weve seen recently in europe, weve got about a third of a percent move higher for the euro we had some composite pmi numbers that came out, 58. 6 ahead of forecasts of 57. 9 the highest level in 139 month
A nice place to live in surrounded as it is under. Constant war zone within and without. Islam the army of islam holds most of east ghouta as the name may imply these guys crusading for democracy and when they arent busy killing each other they share power with nuestra while kiat in syria and a number of smaller groups. These are ruthless people in a cage civilians literally put woman and the elderly in metal cages and hoisted them onto roofs where they left them a literal human shield made of civilians to protect themselves their fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say theyre fighting to free the country from outside then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves. These infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and al qaeda remember what the u. S. Led coalition deeds to isis in mosul. One of its k
Missing estimates and comcast dividend boost well go through the report and tell you everything you need to do the Big Bank Ceos are speaking out on everything from taxes to bitcoin, well hear from jamie dimon. First up, ge missing its Fourth Quarter results of weakness and Power Division its cash flow is improving this is John Flannery on the Conference Call talking about some of the early challenges that the company has faced you heard a lot from us since i came ceo in august i recognize the news we share in that time, power and insurance have been tough. We have moved to tackle the issues our responsibility is to reshape this company and ensure that ge matters as much in the next century as it has in the past. They did say we expect more challenges to continue at least for power right, the relevance of ge is largely going to be aerospace and power is a disaster. Sometimes you wonder whether what did they do to make you feel that power is good. You know who seems to be as interested