Doubt a very tense capitol hill, where Kayla Tausche is standing by ahead of the Health Care Vote. Kayla . Brian, House Republican leadership are rushing back and forth, scurrying about with a lot of prescheduled items on the calendar. But, just a few moments ago, the House Majority leader was shrined by reporters here in the hallway and asked three separate times if he was committed to bringing this Health Care Bill to the floor for a vote, regardless of whether it looked like there was enough support for it to pass. His answer was, why are you guys always so negative . He didnt answer the question straight on. Reporters kept asking and he just accused the press of being negative and only focusing on the negative. Thats important, because this vote is supposed to take place in a number of hours. Nonetheless, republicans are still trying to coalesce the support that is needed to actually have this passed. And one more thing that might be important to the market, is mccarthy was asked w
Im glad you found a little smile because its International Happiness day. Happy friday. A little friction in the first ten minutes. We had a fight over the twitter question, which is still to come. But you must get involved. A loving fight. We havent worked out what the twitter question is yet. Anyway, back in the black. The dow positive on the year. Extraordinary turnaround when you think about where we were a couple weeks ago. Blue chip index on track for its best quarterly comeback since the end of the great depression. A weaker dollar and stronger oil helping to propel stocks this week. U. S. Ek wiquity futures right n lets take a look. They were broadly flat earlier. The s p and nasdaq called open by a small amount. The dow similarly called open but only by 25 points into positive territory. A big reason for the stunning turnaround in stocks, the correlations with other assets. Lets show you the price of oil right now. Wti topping 40 a barrel for the First Time Since december 7th,
Drinking water is safe. Today in new york starts now. Good morning. Friday, march 18th. At this 5 00 a. M. Hour. Im michael gargiulo. Im darlene rodriguez. Chris cimino here with the forecast. Good morning. Good morning, guys. The last couple of days, winter officially going out quietly. The first day of spring were worried about. Mid and upper 30s. Chill in the air toward the upper hudson valley. 46 in white plains. 49 in the city. Not bad. Northwest new jersey, 30s as well. In the pine barrens, down to the 20s in westhampton. Closer to 44. Most locations across long island. We have a weak front to the north that will drop in. Maybe a sprinkle or two this afternoon but a few more clouds. The storm were concerned about sunday into monday, beginning to take shape in the plains states. It will dive towards the gulf of mexico and the turn toward the middle atlantic coast. How much snow we do see, sunday night into little rain today, maybe a brief sprinkle. Temperatures mild and generally
Three left lanes are blocked, starting the back up already nearing the scene. Its two minutes past the hour now. Breaking overnight, miamidade pice trying to figure out what led to the accident that sent Baltimore Ravens corner back and miami native trey walker to the hospital in Critical Condition. Nbc 6s Michael Spears is live outside Jackson Memorial hospital hospital. What do we know about what happened . Reporter right now we know trey walker is still listed in Critical Condition at Jackson Memorial hospital. Miami police say he was riding this dirt bke when he was involved in a crash with an suv last night. You see bike just lying there in the street. It happened just before 8 00 p. M. We learned that apparently his bike didnt have any lights. Also new this morning, an and his family. Family ravens teammates sending prayers and well wishes to the neighborhood. He attended miami northwestern and played college ball for texas southern. The ravens released a statement who said, oh,
What a shameful day this is. The government of the United States of america will close. They are talking now about not raising the debt ceiling. They will only talk after the government shuts down. Id like to say good evening, but it isnt a very good one. The president is driving the government shut down. The president is not willing to come to the table. He wants the checkbook. Maybe hes not the problem. The president s not asking for anything. They have to get a life. This is not a game of chicken. I feel sorry for Speaker Boehner. The sheer ridiculousness. Insane. Republicans have left the point of reason. Republicans are stail still playing games. They dont believe in government and tomorrow will be a bad day for government. A day of celebration in the republican dominated house. Tonight the United States government ends. The government shut down washington. This is the finale of [ bleep ] gov. I didnt come here to shut down the government. In 237 seasons this transformed in to an