Welcome to power lunch. Stocks are lower at this hour and dow and the s p 500 slightly higher telecomes are the best financials fedex more than 300 and wild trading day for bitcoin plunged 10 earlier and sinking again now. A lot of news. Hackings, bankruptcies and selling from a major player. Well dive deeper into it. Blackberry the company topping expectations and 2018 revenue and stitchfix, however, tanking. The Apparel Company increasing its Customer Base but its bottom line was impacted by higher costs. And chipotle taking a drop the stock is lowered by more than 2. 5 . Brian . Michelle, thank you. We begin today with the latest out of washington, d. C. The tax bill passing, again. All the angles of that bill covered. Abram at the president where the president is expected to hold a tax bill event at 3 00 p. M and kayla is on the next big story. Thats a funding bill to keep the government open. Lets start with elan. Brian, it is Done Congress has now passed the most sweeping rewrite
Flag there blowing in the wind. Gusts up to 25 Miles Per Hour now and that makes it feel so much colder. A storm system came through earlier today. That system brought a little bit in the way of snow associated with it down across parts of our area. It was just really flurries and snow showers. The bulk of the activity stayed to the south. Its bringing in the cold air. Look at these windchills. Down to 13 in d. C. And 5 in hagerstown. 3 below zero in pittsburgh and the colder air works its way in here. We wake up to frigid windchills tomorrow. Snow chances, yeah, we still have a couple of them. They are not big. Well talk about that. More cold for the new year and even colder than what were predicting for tomorrow and tomorrow is going to be one frigid day. A lot more on this and how long this cold air sticks around. Its not going anywhere fast. See you back here at about 6 17. You were just full of good news. Thank you so leaders are urging plows to get off the road and the airport is
Isnt that bad compared to what theyre dealing with in the midwest. People in chicago and minnesota reported temperatures, 35 to 40 degrees below zero. Thats before the wind factor. Those conditions, frostbite can set in, in less than 30 minutes. 4 31 right now. Were tracking a developing story out of Fairfax County. Eight people, including a Police Officer are recovering after a police chase and crash in herndon. Chopper 4 over the scene near frying pan road around 8 30 last night. Fairfax county police say they went after a suspect who assaulted a child and carjacked a pickup truck. You see the truck slammed into a minivan on the scene here. One of the injured had to be flown to the hospital. Adam tuss is gathering the latest on the story and will have a live report at the top of the hour. Now to a daring chase in germantown. It was the store owner in pursuit. When he heard his pizza shop was being robbed at gunpoint, jumped into action. Th a last night at tasty 5 pizza. One of his em
Fresh air. Did not do that this morning. Did not do it. When i pulled out of the garage this morning, it was 16 degrees in northwest washington. That is roof closed kind of weather even for me who prefers cold to warm. Outside right now, four things you need to know about the weather. Number one, shiver me fingers. Thats cold outside. Yes, indeed. Windchills down close to 0 this morning. Cold air in place. Moisture coming. A bit of a snow chance coming up on saturday. Well be watching that. It doesnt look like more than a inch at the moment, but well keep it closely watched. Remember this term from last winter. The polar vortex. Yes, indeed. The polar vortex returns which could make next weekend colder than this one. Right now, we got to get through this one. Thursday morning starting off, windchill minus 1 in gaithersburg and minus 3 in martinsburg. It will be a breezy d morning. Temperatures teens now, low to mid20s by noontime. Highs today only in the mid20s. More about that weekend
Manassas. Highs in the low to mid20s. Most of the outlying areas, 28 for a high today. Colder air coming and its a little better chance for snow on your saturday. That and a look at the new years eve forecast coming up in a few minutes. For now, traffic time. Lets go to mr. Stallworth. Good morning, chuck. Good morning folks. On the beltway, through montgomery county. This is the outer loop before river road. The crash is blocking two left lanes. Just before old georgetown road off the southbound 270 spur. Northbound New Hampshire avenue near the beltway, a crash along the right side. Well take you to virginia. Pretty much so far as you leave fredericksburg towards the springfield interchange on to i395. Thats the latest from the traffic center. Im Rob Stallworth. Aaron, susan, back to you. Back to the Team Coverage on the bitter cold temperatures outside. D. C. Activated its cold em aimee cho is live in northwest with more on that what means and how you all can stay warm today. Report