Sun goes down at 833. Were going to see how this moves into Northern Virginia. Ill continue to track the heat and storms and humidity. All right. We would like to know how you are staying cool out there show us by showing a video on social media. Use the nbc4dc. Today a. Grand jury indicted a man on illegally owning a gun. Lieutenant john home. And they thought they were burglars. Coming up at 5 30, more on why lumpkin was not supposed to have a gun and what the states attorney had to say about the case. And a transgender woman shot on the fourth of july has died. Dee dee dodds died after more than a week on life support Kristin Wright is live. Reporter she is gone violently and unexplainably. The question that so many keep asking is why. What was she doing . Reporter why was Dee Dee Dodds shot on the fourth of july and left for dead on division avenue in northeast d. C. . Was it because the 22yearold was a transgender woman or Something Else entirely . Joanne lewis raised her since sh
Cindy in the 50 s overnight. It comes with wet weather. Heavy downpours and a lot of the eastern seaboard bracing for strong and severe thunderstorms. Doug various colors. Cindy the green, there could be thunder around here. A massive storm. A tornado watch around raleigh. The elements of heavy rain developing and back to parts of western carolina and tennessee. This is the area that will move through tonight and in front of it steadier rain in new york city and that will work in our direction this afternoon. A little bit of light drizzle this morning, not terribly wet but temperatures near freezing in northern worcester county. Touch and go with a few icy spots in Higher Elevations. I 6 00, upper40 s in boston and everybody into the 50 s overnight. Weather comes in. 11 00 tonight, the downpours in the western part of the state, those move in overnight and heavy downpours, cannot rule out thunder and damaging wind threat with the system. Could see gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour. We will
Points and the s p, moving the monitor so i cant see it. Up threequarters of a point. And the nasdaq is lower by 31 points. Where are we headed to from here . Lets get to bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Bob . Hello, michelle. Were flat because ibm has been a drag and tech has been a drag and the question is can we hit new highs and the key, remember, may be earnings. Markets have moved up. They have been a floor under the market and the market believes that, off the low and china hasnt gone away and its been a lot quieter. Earnings have been the big problem and the missing ingredient. Weve had four consecutive quarters of negative Earnings Growth right now and q2, the one that were in now that everyone is talking about, only down about 3 and its been stable in the last week or so. Not reducing the numbers anymore. We could go positive meaning that ends. Johnson johnson and Philip Morris raised their guidance on the weaker dollar helping how the. This week its go
Their highs of the year and the two things that helped get them there are the same two things that held the Broader Market back for so long, china and the financials. Data out of china overnight put po expan in a buying mood. For the first time in nine months but it was earnings from jp morgan that sparked rally in the beleaguered Banking Sector helping stocks across the board. By the closing bell all the indexed gained more than 1 . The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 187 points 17,908. The nasdaq added 75. The s p 500 was up 20. Bob pisani has more on the rally in the years worst performing sector. Reporter jp morgan kicked off earnings season for the big banks and markets and the news was positive because they beat expectations and ceo jamie diamond wa modestly upbeat noting the u. S. Economy continues to chug along. Now if that doesnt sound like much, rem, most bank stocks are down more than 10 this year including jp morgan. Theyve been like zombies wandering around aimlessly bec
But so far no candidate is calling it quits. After securing key victories in several delegate rich states, donald trump is shifting his focus to the general election and his Republican Party. Im going to get along great with congress, okay . Paul ryan i dont know him well, if i dont, he is going to have to pay a big prize. Ted cruz in oklahoma and texas. The strongest campaign to beat donald trump is our campaign. The super tuesday wednesday are soaking fear in the republican establishment who question whether his nomination would keep him out of the white house. I think were about ready to lose to the most dishonest politician, Hillary Clinton, nominate somebody who is crazy. Rubio picked up one win in minnesota. Im the only candidate that if donald trump can grow, it will split the Republican Party, and split the conservative movement. Democrat Hillary Clinton widened her lead over Bernie Sanders. It is clear that the stakes in the election have never been higher. The people that sta