Great to have you with us in this 7 00 oclock hour, Thomas Drayton with. Karen hepp, hi, good morning to all of you. I had to think bit. Mike and alex is off today. Bob kellys off today. Sue serio is back from vacation. Yes, we are busy, sue. We have a lot going on, a lot more then we did yesterday because yesterday was Christmas Day observed. A lot of people had off. Now we are back. We have a situation we will start off with a look here, this is in the lawncrest section of northeast philadelphia. It is a tractor trailer fire, which looks like from this scene that the tractor trailer probably hit that truck there. Yep. And a pole. Umhmm. It was all near a gas station. The streets oxford avenue and levick street. You really want to avoid that area because there is a lot of investigating going on now that there is a fire, tractor trail are involved, it looks like a shop right tractor trailer there and now that the fire is out, cops will be investigating that situation. That part of the
You may notice its not quite as chilly but still 45 degrees in inverness and brooksville. Still need the long sleeves for sure. 46 in zephyrhills, and it is a little bit warmer than yesterday. Plant city 7 degrees warmer than yesterday, clear water is 10 degrees warmer. By the afternoon i expect us to hit 81 degrees above the average of 78, very comfortable tonight with a low of 62. The big cold front comes through by hour through today and get you through friday, through the weekend. You still have to get to work. In sarasota right now around university a little bit of overnight construction there and weve got an issue going on 275 right near the kennedy exit you can see that truck there in the median. And then weve also got an accident coming off the Howard Frankland bridge, apparently a report its tying up the right lane but i see university in the westbound lanes center and one other lane at university and also northbound i75 coming away from clark excuse me weve got construction a
Leighs got the forecast. Its looking good yeah. Yeah, step out the door this morning theres a slight chill in the area chilly up in inverness 45, plant city 57, 60 in tampa. 59 in sarasota. Heres that perspective for yous warmer in plant city than it was at 6 00 yesterday morning. By the afternoon 81 degrees which is above the average of 78. And 62 tonight but you want to stay tuned to course ill have whats happening with the colder air coming this weekend. Pretty good drive right now. Its been really nice. Kicking off to a nice friday. Maybe everyone is nice and relaxed because a nice holiday next week. In ybor a great drive and the veterans expressway no delays right now. Lets move over to the sun coast parkway also looks good and further to little bit closer to hillsborough avenue right at 56th street we have an accident there. Its off to shoulder but a little bit of a slowdown. Thats a look at weather and traffic. All right. An 8 on your side alert this morning a new twist on an ol
The markets desk, where julie hyman is tracking the moves. The fed, the doj, with big corporate m a deals. Julie it has become a busier week today with microsoft and linkedin, yet today it seems like faster tracking oil prices, not necessarily those other events. When oil started to make a recovery, we saw stock to the same. Now stocks are tracking right along with it. Alternate day averages briefly in the red after going briefly positive midmorning. The nasdaq is now down three quarters of 1 . Take a look at whats going on within the groups here. Overall the s p 500 is tracking oil prices, trajectory why is it does remain higher. Tech shares are weighing the most on the s p. Taking a look at the big cap within the group thats falling, microsoft declining after ring to buy linkedin and apple shares shareshe report that will fall 8. 6 yearoveryear. Facebook has been lower, missing a price here for some reason. A bit of a glitch going on here. But they did say they were shorting shares o
Certainly been the case all this week. Everybodys waiting for donald trump to take the stage where you now see venture capitalist peter teal warming up. A lot of focus here still here today is on what senator ted cruz last night did or didnt say. Vote fur conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution. I dont know back at the stock exchange, bill, but that was the moment of the night despite a fiery speech of Vice President ial candidate mike pence last night. Tonight, we have a big round of guests from the rnc and speaking with Cleveland Clinic ceo toby koz grof and had the move of blocking Health Care Mergers and the head of the National Association of homebuilders tells us why he thinks donald trump will help give the Housing Market a boost. And looking forward to this, retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, he is going to respond to trumps controversial comments about setting conditions for defend