Remains high today for millions, following a day of heavy hail, tornadoes and flooding. Several areas have the potential for dangerous conditions today, including the plains, the tennessee valley, parts of texas and most of the c east coast. U the fierce weather system already left its mark in colorado. Tornadoes and large hail pounded the denver area, damaging cars and even airplanes at the airport. W5k abcs Tahman Bradley has the latest. Reporter a powerful storm socked the denver area. It spawned tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and giant golf ballsized hail. The sound, menacing. People ran for cover. M y cars slid, more than an inch of hail fell in some areas. So, it had to be shoveled or even plowed. Extreme weather shut down Denver International airport. Frontier Airlines Says some of its planes were damaged. Snowplows cleared the runways. Tense moments in and around the city, after these ominous clouds formed and tornado warnings were issued. Im so scared. I dont know whats goin
Lets end it on a happy note. Have a great weekend, everybody. Thanks for watching street signs. Closing bell is coming up next. See you monday. Hi, everybody. Happy friday. Welcome to the closing bell. Final stretch for the week. Im Maria Bartiromo at the New York Stock Exchange. S p 500 today struggles to close at the fiveyear high it hit yesterday. Final hour of trading decides what happens. Nice to see you again, maria. Im scott wapner in for bill griffith. Back on monday. We are tracking the market. Also following several other big stories at this hour. Forget pay day. This is tax hike day for america. Uhoh. Nearly every working american saw the government take more money out of their paychecks today. How that fallout could shape the debate on spending cuts versus higher taxes. Then wells fargo kicking off the banks and this earning season. Its cfo here to talk to us first, and the business of the fluff as it sweeps across america. Running low on vaccines and tamiflu. The Dow Jones
Police say he had no obvious connection to the school in decatur. The school was evacuated and no one was injured. The gunman told one School Employee he was sorry for what he was doing and was willing to die. Tarika duncan has our report. Reporter Elementary School children sprinted to safety after a gunman opened fire at the ronald e. Mcnair Discovery Learning Academy in decatur, georgia. What did they tell you . There was a lockdown because someone was in the building. Mmhmm . Right . And it was scary. Reporter 800 students were evacuated. No one was injured. Police say 20yearold Michael Brandon hill snuck into the school with an Assault Rifle and ordered a secretary to call an atlanta tv station. Station employee lacy lecor answered the call. The front desk called ahead to say im transferring someone and she says shes in a School Office with a gunman. I asked her what he wanted and she said he wanted us to start filming as police die. Reporter Authorities Say hill fired several sho
Political joining us. The meeting . Of it sounds like harry reid is ready to go forward with the Nuclear Option, to change the senate rules by 51 votes, rather than the normal threshold of 67 votes. The higher threshold is usually your usually set to make it harder to occur. He says he is so frustrated with the use of the Majority Party to block legislation moving forward that he will invoke this very unusual procedure to change the rules by 51 votes. We want to vote change the filibuster rules so no longer 60 votes will be required to facinge a filibuster president ial nominees for executive branch positions. Would only affect executive , noth decisions traditional nominees, not legislation, it wants to move forward so that no longer can a senator block a nominee for epa, Defense Department, by requiring , 61 votesinstead would be required, a majority of the senate. Majority lent leader reid wants to move forward, what would the next step the in the senate . There was going to be a jo
Two events in North Carolina. Lit beth warren campaigns in las vegas. Bernie sanders holds an event in minneapolis. A lot going on. Thats going to do it for us on this tuesday. Im betty this tuesday. Morning joe starts right now. The unfairness of the tax laws is unbelievable, and its something i have been talking about for a long time despite being a beneficiariy of the laws, and i am working for you and not for trump. Good morning. Its tuesday, october 4th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have veteran columnist, Mike Barnicle and mark halperin, and jon meacham, and in washington, msnbc political analyst eugene
robinson. Joe, we have been waiting to see if that debate had any affect on donald trump and Hillary Clinton, and this morning we have got the numbers. And not just i dont think its the debate so much as what happened after the debate, the man had what some call the worst week in president ial history and you look at the rambling second half of the performance and th