Jones, but take a look at the major averages on the last day of trading, we saw the dow close at a record yesterday, coming down today along with the other major averages. So just off the record levels we have seen, the nasdaq 100 underperforming, even the nasdaq composite, but the nasdaq and nasdaq 100 of the big winners for the year, we saw a big rally and a lot of questions about whether the reliance, if you will come on the bank stocks for the years gains are something that are a negative one way we are slicing and dicing it is looking at the percentage change, minus the percent of change in the s p 500. It is 9. 4 percentage points, that is the outperformance of the nasdaq. As a can see by the chart, historically it is not that unusual to see that kind of performance gap. At least by this particular measure, the nasdaq is not necessarily signaling euphoria. Joe thank you, lets check in on the bloomberg first word news. Kaylee . Thank you, new York City Fire commissioner says the b
Berks county, seeing much lighter rain activity, but where we have some of the heaviest rain, actually in south jersey. Through atlantic county, burlington county, from pemberton all the way down where we have the yellow that, indicates more moderate rainfall. Thats going to be causing a lot of problems on those roadways. Make sure you drive slower today. As we head through the evening time, ill time it out for you, as you can see, by midnight actually expecting the rain to increase, it will become even heavier. It really moves in from the south bringing in a lot of moisture. This is what were waking up to early tomorrow morning. Look at the band of heavy rain. All the way from new york through trenton, philadelphia, wilmington, back into baltimore. And this is going to continue as we head throughout the entire day of our sunday. For that reason, we have a flood watch. If you know those flood prone areas, you know youre located near that, be aware potential for some flooding. This rain
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Right now a conversation from this mornings washington journal. With White House Reporter Bloomberg News help us through the white house and response harveyek to hurricane and remnants. Where is the president going to how soon you expect him tob on the ground in texas . Spent the president weekend camp david talking to cabinet officials about whats houston. In he held two cabinet meetings. Were pictures sent out by white house. Back at the white house. Hell spend the day at the white house. He has a number of different meetings with the Vice President and secretary of state. He has a meeting with president of finland. We hear the president will be going to texas on tuesday. Hes going to if go directly to houston or other areaareas that were impacted bye storm. Were hearing that the president wants to get down to texas as quickly as possible. He tweeted over the weekend that he would like to get to texas as quickly as possible without causing any disruption. We can expect if he does go