Area was hit with heavy reign and thunderstorms. And evacuations in popular resort town and the flames are at the edge of dollywood theme park in pigeon ford. The fire fueled the situations are absolutely dangerous. Theyre dangerous for our fire fighter and daivrping are you four residents and daiching for for visitors. They forced workers to evacuate and had to leave more than 10,000 animals behind. Animals shoulding safe as long area through tomorrow as well as this weekend not clear if its enough. Well get to the story in a secretary. Lost night circumstance until gaithersburg and two to three people were injured and scene is clear now. Those victims injuries not lifethreatening no words on arrests or what led to the stabbing. Unidentified plume on potomac. Crews monitoring the substance floating done the potomac maryland with the latest. Whats going on, mel. This is important plant has intake valves and sucks in four million gallons of water today and that becomes drivring water fo
Good wednesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Carl quintanilla nia with jon fortt and Kayla Tausche at post 9. Joining us from Henry Blodgett and jason calacanis. Good morning, guys. Weve got breaking news this morning. Weve got top executives from at t and time warner testifying on capitol hill today before the Senate Judiciary antitrust committee. Were going to monitor that and definitely keep you up to speed. In the meantime, Time Magazine naming donald trump the 2016 person of the year. The president elect appeared on the today show this morning, talked about everything from his upcoming cabinet picks to his relationship with business in the u. S. My trade policies are going to be terrific. And by the way, were lowering taxes in this country. Were getting rid of 90 , maybe 85 of the regulations which are stifling business. Boeing is going to be a tremendous beneficiary of that and maybe even mostly regulations. I mean, people are more happy about the regulations, even though wer
Rainfall throughout the course of the morning. Good morning. Im sam brock. Im kris sanchez. The roads and the highways are wet. The commute has been rough. Though weve got a little break. Well look at San Francisco right now. You can see the clouds and the haze and the droplets of water on the camera as well. We deployed our storm ranger Doppler Radar to San Bruno Mountain to give us a groundlevel look at the weather systems in the bay area. We have Team Coverage of the microclimate weather alert. Nbc bay areas rick boon is in the elements. Mike inouye watching the traffic partners. Patterns. We begin with kari hall. We are once again taking a little bit of a break. Were going to look at the storm ranger radar as we get a view of, once again, the San Bruno Mountain. We are tracking some of the rain. It gives us an hd view of what should be on the radar and that rain coming down out of the clouds. And most of that rain has moved east of San Francisco and into the inner bay. And the bigg
Could make this the summer of the road trip. And what happens if gasoline prices start to go up again . We have a recap of that coming up here. But lets start with todays top story. That speech from janet yellen, steve liesman, where she did. She thinks its headed toward a 2 goal with the oil prices up and dollar stabilizing. She said in a conversation at harvard she expects the economy to strengthen and rates to rise. Its appropriate and ive said this in the past. I think for the fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight Interest Rate over time and probably in the coming months such a move would be appropriate. Thats in line with what other fed officials have said in the last several weeks. Ultimately the data is going to determine whether theres a fed hike in june. Theres a lot of it with Consumer Spending on tuesday. Vehicle sales very important right there. Now, just note, folks, adp which normally comes out on a wednesday because its a holiday week comes out on thursd
All given to him in an instant. So that makes him a formidable presence i think in the party going forward, if we were to looking at 2020, or beyond there. Jamie, go ahead, jump in, jim. One of the people she didnt name, her own governor, nikki haley i think would probably be on the agenda in 2020. You know, she is finishing her second term now. There is a prospect of a woman in the white house. She would be an attractive female candidate on the republican side so. You have to include her. Paul ryan and who knows. They seem to have a deep bench. Republicans have a much, much deeper bench of potential president s who have no bench really. That is one of the worries if you talk to democrats about the vp Selection Process on their end is, tim kaine is probably, like the main allstar of what the future of the democrat bench could look like. But tom vilsack is someone, not exactly a new exciting name. Some of the folks being left out of the conversation there, like the castro brothers or ot