Economy stuck on hold, inflation sliding, unemployment unchanged, but a slight uptick when it comes to business sentiment. Willsia airlines new ceo step up in the middle of a restructuring after the twin disasters of 2014. Do let us know what you think of our top stories. Follow me on twitter at that hashtagse trendingbusiness. Lets get straight over to steve for the latest. We are having a continuation shaped recovery in china. 50. 0 is the line between ,xpansion and contraction optimism and pessimism. It is still on the borderline. Month,50. 1 the previous so a tenuous recovery at best. Services outperforming expectations, nonmanufacturing pmi at 53. 7. The previous month was 53. 1. 53. 7 is a robust number for it has been the strength of this economy. Banking, telecoms, new technology, while the older economy, coal and steel production, traditionally manufacturing, they have been struggling. With this recovery, we have seen the sub indices show some weakness, especially on the jobs
The tech center cam. This is passed handed out to bellevue. You see these cars off to the left side of the highway. We have a truck along there. Just the right two lanes are getting by. Hes accused of eating marijuana infused candy and killing his wife. And today we could learn if richard kirk is mentally fit to stand trial. We are live covering that case. Reporter after more of a year in delays in his Mental Health evaluation the report is finally ready. A judge will review and he will decide today if richard kirk is fitted stand trial. Last September Kirk changed his plea to guilty by reason of insanity and a judge will review that report and decide whether to set the case for for treatment. The defense suggests that when kirk killed his wife in may 2014 he was so impaired by the marijuana infused candy that he may not have intended to kill his wife. Before her death kristin kirk told dispatchers that her husband was acting more drunk crawling to a bedroom window and cutting his legs
Wooster as well. 52 in keene. 40 in concord. Cooler to the north because we actually have some clear skies in parts of central New Hampshire. The wind is gusty. Thats churning up the seas as well. So we have a high surf advisory. Otherwise skies mainly cloudy although some peeks of kind of starlit sky in northern massachusetts through the merrimac valley and southern New Hampshire. Thats the trend today. Well see a few of those patches of blue sky, 50s to low 60s. Could be a little bit of spotty drizzle right at the coastline. Most of the day is dry, though. Sunset at 6 28. Ill let you know when steadier rain comes back in the mix. No traffic yet. There is a lot of construction happening around the city. Theres some work happening up on 495 that will be happening during rush hour. Its going to be northbound between exits 54 and 55. That is route 150 to route 110. Until 6 00 a. M. This were southbound it would ab i problem for the morning commute. Northbound shouldnt be so bad. I am exp
Bugs to restore the galaxy. Im lindsey l ogue. Lets head over to bill logan with the most accurate forecast. May the force be with you. It was with us yesterday until later in the afternoon when we got the force of some storms coming in. Looks like thats going to be much the same today. Absolutely clear right now on titan doppler radar. Well widen the shot out, go back 12 how those storms built up. And then kind of pulled in toward the middle of the state. We did have decent showers in through hillsborough and polk county last night. Right now like i said we are dry. 79 for tampa, 80 for clear water and st. Petersburg. Winds right now pretty much out of the east and northeast. Well watch those winds shift later on this afternoon as we 91 degrees. Looks like well got more rain in the forecast into the workweek, even more than those scattered afternoon showers were expecting today. Ill explain about that when we come back with the action Weather Forecast in less than 15 minutes or so. Li
96 was the high officially at the airport. Were going to be right up there again today. After that were going to have a gradual drop and then much nicer for indication week. Take a look at our rdu skycam. Looks pretty out there this morning. A little bit of high thin cloud cover. But i think, once the sun comes up higher, youll see plenty of blue sky. 69 in holly springs, 68 in wake town by town, 71 goldsboro. Thats our cool spot. It is 72 now in southern pines. 89 lunch time, a high of 95 this afternoon. Much hotter than normal. This is 10 degrees above normal this time of year. It stays dry today and saturday. Then we start to see a little more of an active weather pattern as we get into the indication few days. Brian, of course, taking a look whats going on on the rods. Starting to get a little it is. We have a couple crashes that have popped up here just the past minutes. 7 02. Well start off on the south side of raleigh with a report of an accident on trion road. Maybe a little bi