Cape canaveral. First time in almost a decade americans are going to be sending americans into space. This is a big moment for elon musk and his spacex company. In fact will use tesla vehicle to bring the two astronauts out to the ganttry here. This is launchpad 39a. That should ring a pell, where all apollo flights took off, including apollo xi, the one that landed on the moon. You will see see key players there. People on cocoa beach. They say better part of valor keeping your distance. Try telling a people not seen a manned launch from Cape Canaveral in a decade. We we have phil keating at Kennedy Space center in Cape Canaveral. Phil . Reporter at this moment all systems are go for the historic launch 4 30 p. M. Eastern time, roughly four hours from now. This is the fires time, a private space company, spacex will launch astronauts from their rocket and capsule, ever. This is big deal. Lives are on the line. This is the only second time the space dragon capsule has gone from either
All the way to lawnwood did not after that you can see whos blocking two lanes because of water was pulling on the interstate near par street causing a danger to drivers. People farther south felt the strong winds. Look at this wind damage in venice. Sarasota Sheriffs Office says no one was injured by this. And look at this video from one of our crews in orlando as they headed out for the story this morning. You can see the windshield wipers could not go back enough to keep up with the rain as they drove along mcguire boulevard neocolonial drive in orlando. And the rain may be over for now but as commented more is coming. Make sure youre prepared by downloading our free weather app to all of your mobile devices. Were following breaking news right now out of Volusia County where a body has been found in the st. Johns river. Skywitness 9 is live over the scene and investigators sent out both in divers to retrieve the body. We are told a man at a nearby fishing dock spotted a contacting d
But today was different. And historic. It took just a twopoint gain for the s p 500 index to cross and close above the 2000 level. Its 30th record so far this year. There was some euphoria about the dow, as well. The blue chip average hit a record high of 17,153 in intraday trading but pull back by the close. Some good Economic News helped fueled todays gains. Consumer confidence climbed to its highest level since 2007. Also driving stocks, an unusually high number for big ticket orders called durable goods. Those numbers jumped more than 22 . Skewed by International Demand for aircraft and record orders. Heres a look at the closing digits. The nasdaq up 13. And the s p up two points to the new milestone, 2000. 02. Our guests watched every move of the s p today. After all, aaron begins gibbs is with s p capital iq and joins us now. Erin, so nice to have you with us. Thank you. It looks like the s p 500 index is on track for its best august since the year 2000. So 14 years. How do you s
And historic. It took just a twopoint gain for the s p 500 index to cross and close above the 2000 level. Its 30th record so far this year. There was some euphoria about the dow, as well. The blue chip average hit a record high of 17,153 in intraday trading but pull back by the close. Some good Economic News helped fueled todays gains. Consumer confidence climbed to its highest level since 2007. Also driving stocks, an unusually high number for big ticket orders called durable goods. Those numbers jumped more than 22 . Skewed by International Demand for aircraft and record orders. Heres a look at the closing digits. The nasdaq up 13. And the s p up two points to the new milestone, 2000. 02. Our guests watched every move of the s p today. After all, aaron begins gibbs is with s p capital iq and joins us now. Erin, so nice to have you with us. Thank you. It looks like the s p 500 index is on track for its best august since the year 2000. So 14 years. How do you see things going between n