Weight steve, i can read your lips. Its one of those things. Okay, we have to make up a forecast. Okay. We will talk more about that. You know about what is happening in traffic right now. I do, as a matter of fact traffic is doing very well and weve had mostly fair conditions and traffic continues to look good and carpooling is not something you can do with social distancing so all the lanes are open and all the toll plazas dont have anyone taking money although you will be charged in the mail. That have been no major issues on bridges and highways so far. Already looking to be another rough day there for stocks after the three major indexes fell yesterday between one and 2 1 2 the dow dropping nearly 600 points and the s p 500 and the nasdaq dropping 89. Right now it looks like another 500 point drop are so for the dow. The big drop was partially part of the bottom of the crude oil prices, oil prices have we can because of oversupply and a collapse in Global Demand due to the decline
Later on in the show, you wont want to miss it. First, the dow had a major milestone that even the president had something to say about. We did in fact break 25,000, very substantially break it, very easily. So i guess our new number is 30,000 but what it means is every time you see that number go up on wall street, it means jobs, it means success, it means 401 k s that are flourishing it also means americans are getting richer from the stock market the s p 500 opening the year with three Straight Record closes this is the first time thats happened since 1964. 54 years ago, for those keeping score. The dow and nasdaq on their own recordwreaki recordbreaking rallies. Could 2018 be better than 2017 how long can this euphoria on wall street last i remember 1964 like it was yesterday. It was yesterday for you. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Dow 25,000 is a big deal. Why . People that typically wont be talking about the stock market are now talking about the stock market people that havent looked at t
Before the weekend hits. We could get a few flakes. It does not look like a big deal for folks. Ill have more in a few minutes. But to the roads with amanda. We were acquired this morning. Morning. Quieter this it is a little windy out there. Use caution if you have a Higher Center of gravity vehicle. Are running without delay between alexandria and oxon hill maryland. Have windidge does warnings in place. No vehicle restrictions. Use caution. If you areong nicely heading westbound through annapolis, you are good to go. No problems. As 66 in virginia look good. We had construction along 395 southbound. You may see some are delays. A nonevent at this point. I will send it back to autria and jimmy. Remain a bigges problem this morning, especially in maryland. They have 46,000 customers without power. Potomac edison has nearly 30,000 customers in the dark. It could take days to get the power back on in frederick. Branch is toppled onto power lines. The city is littered with tree limbs as
The domestic terrorism side, a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that weve investigated are motivated by some version of, what you might call White Supremacists. The majority of the domestic terrorism cases, says the fbi director, white supremacist violence. Good morning, welcome to morning joe, its thursday, august 8, im willie geist. We have White House Reporter for the associated press,on that lan mere. Former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state departments elise jordan Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer four Washington Post and msnbc contributor, and senior White House Reporter shannon, an historian, author of the soul of america and rogers professor of the presidency, at the vander built university, john meachum, an nbc news contributor as well. Good morning, we will dive into the president s trip yesterday but just your broad stroke thoughts over the last couple of days, youve had a piece talking about the power of a president s words. Yes, i mean i think