Temperatures. She joins us with more. And it is cold. Just downright cold out there this afternoon. Its so cold that you wish that we just had some snow on the ground to go with it. I know. I dont wish that. You dont wish that . Not going for the whole thing yet. Well, i tell you what though. We are going to see yes, today is the coldst temperature so far this season and this afternoon, even though we have the sun shining not going to get much better outside because were still keeping those gusty winds going. 31 degrees right now in d. C. Winds right now are gusting 31 Miles Per Hour. So this is creating that windchill effect where it feels significantly colder than the actual temp outside. Were up to 28 in frederick and 26 in gaithersburg. 28 in waldorf. Now let me show you what it actually feels like outside. A solid 10 degrees colder than the actual temp. Windchill right here in d. C. Is only 18 right now and its just a whopping 12degrees in gaithersburg. So feelslike temperatures t
But it did not close above that level. We saw the major averages give back by the end of the day some off the morning highs well keep a close eye on this this morning green arrows indicated once again this morning dow futures up by 57 points. S p up by 4. 5 points the nasdaq up by 8. 5 points. Look at asia, the nikkei gave back some grounds. Hang seng up by 0. 7 the shanghai was up by 0. 9 . Then if you check things out in europe, its a mixed bag ftse up by a quarter percentage point. The dax and cac are weaker stocks in italy are down stocks in spain slightly higher. Check out crude oil prices you will see that crude oil looks like it is up about 29 cents. 47 57. 45 for wti. We are watching a couple big stories this morning were learning more about that deadly amtrak crash in Washington State yesterday three people were killed, nearly 100 more injured when the train derailed the ntsb confirmed that the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30mileperhour zone the crash left sev
Kelce continues, to be the man of the hour as fans, flocked to celebrate the super bowl win. Plus were tracking Stormy Weather that has triggered a flood watch for our region. Accu weather alert has been posted for this weekend, lets get details from meteorologist chris sowers, chris, lot of rain expected today a lot of rain. No snow. Temperatures are fairly mild. We are expecting 50s today and lower 60s heading in to sunday afternoon. Problem is numbers have been cold over last few days so ground is still frozen and because of that and heavier rain we are expecting flooding is likely into sunday afternoon. Lets look at the temperatures around the region. Look at reading upper level hand part of the screen already close to 40 degrees. They should be in the low to mid 20s. Allentown 35. Philadelphia 34. Dover 35 and 40s showing up from the beach haven all the way down to wildwood and cape may. Looking at the satellite and radar cloud continue to increase from the west and looking to the
Today, boss tick and caplin, claims fall to 222 roadmap begins with rate shock jitters as investors continue to digest the hint on hikes. Could the ecommerce giant account for 25 of the s p 500 gains this year such as netflix and microsoft. Walmart looks to challenge target and amazon making a big investment to boost online sales for home goods. Stocks are looking to rebound from the big swings on wednesday. The dowrose more than 300 points and only to give up gains and finish down 167. The blue chips and s p in the midst of a twoday losing streak and nasdaq is down for three days and has not had a fourday losing streak since november of 2016 thats how long its been for the nas. It looks like they were going to be in good shape yesterday and held onto the gains until the digestion of the fed minutes and amazon crossed 1500 for first time and fang really powered the nasdaq higher until of course, the minutes. Now the journal is looking at individual stocks that are responsible for the y
Possible. We need this Problem Solved now. Reporter cycling advocates have been complaining for years about the lack of mile markers along the metropolitan branch trail. The met branch trail is one trail of many in the district and so we are going to have to have the same solution implemented on Anacostia Waterfront trail crescent trail has markers but more trails coming. Reporter without those markers along biking and hiking trails, 911 dispatchers have a very hard time sending bliss or paramedics to an exact location. Last week when witnesses called police during this attack on a female cyclist, they were told the trail location was not in the dispatch system. The head of d. C. Homeland security and Emergency Management tells news4 they have come up with a shortterm solution, gps coordinate fosser landmarks along the met branch trail have now been added to the 911 system. It is not a perfect solution. The perfect solution is to get as much information on its trail so people know wher