Where they are, we would appreciate that. So with that out of the way, we can get started on our talk today. When chester a. Arthur became president , most americans expected at best a lackluster leader, at worst, an inept one. As a surprise, everyone including himself [inaudible] one of our least remembered president s from ideal list to [inaudible] as greenberger says in the book, it is a tale of a good man [inaudible] but rediscovered his better self with the help of an ordinary younger man who believed in him. Scott greenberger is a biographer and a journalist, an executive you would to have at state line, the Daily News Service of the Pew Charitable trust. He and his team cover state politics and policy in all 50 states. Before that he covered education, crime, health care, housing and other pressing city and state issues at the boston globe and at the Austin American statement. Hes now a d. C. Local. Please join me in welcoming Scott Greenberger to politics prose. Thank you. [app
In just a few minutes. But first Jessica Boyington is watching your first alert traffic. Starting on the schuylkill expressway our catch raws around south street. Right after south street on that onramp, the cones start to push everybody to the side and theyre diverted off until the vine street expressway. Ful you are diverted off of this offramp you can get back on around the vine. And also watching the pa turnpike. Westbound and eastbound from route one to valley forge, 22 minutes. Vai and tracy, back to you. Because of the weather weve been talking about pennsylvania employees working in philadelphia can report to work three hours after their morning start time this morning. You can turn to the nbc app throughout the morning, track the wintery mix. You can also see the forecast right in your neighborhood and get instant alerts sent to your phone. 4 02. Lets talk eagles. If you want to be part of the biggest celebration philadelphia has ever seen, you really need to prepare now. Yeah
Drugs. With a little radio shack, he said the man was almost untraceable. We have a credit card set up at the pump so that keeps record of everyone who got fuel. And sure enough, the name showed up there. Thats how federal agents tied the pilot to el chappo. Notorious drug dealer once described at most successful drug cartel. Federal investigators do say drugs were moving throughout this area in Lancaster County and saying that several dealers were arrested. Some of them have served federal time and have been released. Reporting live in Lancaster County, nbc 10 news. Gostd documents revealed the dea had intelligence on at left tw plots to help el chappo escape from a maximum security prison. According to internal dea documents, there was first information on escape plans in march of last year. That is about a month after being captured in mexico. Then another plot last summer. Guzman escaped from a tunnel from his jail cell last friday. Now to your first alert weather. Showers could fa
Some of the worst wildfires the state of california has ever seen have killed at least ten people and forced around 20,000 from their homes. At least 1,500 properties have been destroyed as the flames spread in hot weather, whipped up by strong winds. Governorjerry brown has declared a state of emergency in the wine counties of napa, sonoma and yuba. The bbcs dave lee reports from san francisco. Fierce winds and low humidity the perfect conditions for a raging blaze to spread across californias famous wine region, north of san francisco. Late sunday night, dramatic videos posted to social media showed locals desperately fleeing towns that were being engulfed by the flames. Slow down. Stop winds as strong as 70mph meant the fire spread quickly and unpredictably. What started the initial blaze is not yet known. 11 oclock somebody came around honking their horn, like, just crazy. Were just like what is going on . And i dont know what inspired me to look out my bedroom window, necause its
Going straight up the dow is up a little bit as well. Not far away from 23,500 now is it . One more thing despite the hurricanes in september, the economy is still expanding at a 3 rate. Who would have thought . Add it up please, technology surges profits across the border really strong and trump budget win to growth and trump rally rolls on this friday morning. Varney company about to again. All right lets start with overall market dow futures showing a gain of maybe 20 points, hello. We have a bell for you a little later. Looked a nasdaq way over 6h100 well because technology is very strong. Look at this. Amazon microsoft alphabet promise to show their preMarket Performance. Will you look at that. A. M. Son premarket up 80 i cant read 87 dollars per share. Google is up 44 dollars a share. And microsoft is closing in on a 6 per share gain. Jeff is with us with circle square alternative investment dont comment on three stocks. Comment on the overall market. Is the performance of Techno