Welcome in, everybody, to power lunch. Im tyler mathisen. Glad you could join us. Three hours left in the trading session and stocks showing animal spirits. They are in the green. As you see, the dow industrials up about a third of a percent or 65 points. Ditto the s p 500, a third of a percent of 2148, thats a sevenpoint gain and the nasdaq leading the way up. 75 . Big winners, boeing, 3m and microsoft, microsoft trading at an all time nominal high. Im michelle carusocabrera. Here is what else is happening at this hour. Consumer reports naming lexus its most reliable automotive brand. More on that coming up in the next hour. Nike topping forbes list of most valuable sports brands. Oil cracking below 50 a barrel, right around 49, 50. Right now crude down 1. 9 . Back to you, tyler. Thank you very much. We got a big two hours ahead. But lets kick it all off with the deal of the year. At t, there you are, announcing plans to buy time warner for 85 billion. The ceos of both companies weigh
Nydia is off, alicia joins us. Hopefully you set your clocks back before you want to bed. Most people realized they would get an extra hour of sleep, lets go outside to chris sowers with the accuweather forecast. How is it looking out there . Reporter its very nice. Look at the comparison i put together, these are the morning lows from yesterday. Lehigh valley far western suburbs, temperatures got into the upper 20s, allentown, pilots, quakertown 29. Hammonton and south jersey 30 degrees, smyrna i in delawar, 34. Philadelphia, 56. Mill millville 57. And atlantic city, 60 degrees. In the span of 24 hours were 25 degrees warmer thanks to a warm front thats in the process of pushing through. The warmer air will stick around for the most of the sevenday forecast. Double scan live as the front pushes through it could trigger a brief shower in spots, maybe a spritz or sprinkle. Forecast for today. Mostly cloudy, limited sun after that brief morning shower, breezy and warmer with highs sky ro
Looking good between manassas, fair lakes, fair oaks, falls church, good shape in each direction. Troublefree trip virginia beltway, 95 corridor heading up from wood bridge into springfield, looks good. Route 50 between annapolis and the beltway, cheverly, looking good as well in maryland. No early issues to deal with there. Andrea, mike. Thanks, beverly. After a break earlier today, weather is again, hampering efforts to recover victims and wreckage from air asia flight 8501. More bodies and coffins were flown inland for identification. There were 162 people aboard the twohour flight, which disappeared from radar less than half way into the trip early sunday. The bodies recovered include 22 yearold Flight Attendant still wearing her red uniform. And relatives gathered to wait now and provide blood samples for dna to help them identify the victims and their family members. Divers are also on stand by with an unmanned underwater vehicle so they can survey the ocean floor and that vehicl
When has anyone been lucky in this ordeal . And she believes that the plane is not at the bottom of the ocean. She is hoping that the plane was taken and that the love of her life is still alive. Also in world news, why is russia warning that ukraine is a hair away from a civil war while russia amasses its own troops near the border . Is Vladimir Putin pulls the strings on the uprising in ukraine . Good evening, welcome to the special prime time edition of the lead. Im jake tapper. And tonight, ill begin with the world lead. They are 12 hours ahead of the eastern time zone in the search area for flight 370. The flight that vanished 33 days ago with 239 people on board. Crews are once again narrowing their search area from the day previous using every aircraft, ship, gadget they can deploy. The ocean, the ship that is carrying the pinger locater. That ship picked up what could have been two separate signals from the black boxes but those pings have not been heard since. And there is a v
Theatrical. I asked do you have body bags . If people do not leave and we get 140mileperhour wind gusts in some of our mobile home places, were going to have fatalities. This is like no storm in the record books. Were concerned about people staying in areas under major evacuation orders. Thousands of people took that advice and made for safer ground but others decided to stay to ride out the storm and hope matthew weakens as it comes ashore. Good morning. Its friday, october 7th. Welcome to msnbcs continuing coverage of Hurricane Matthew. With us, White House Correspondent for the huffington post. Theres a big political impact with this storm. Well get to that in a moment with sam. The strongest hurricane to hit the u. S. Coast in a decade is showing signs of weakening. Matthew has been downgraded to a category 3 but the danger is still very real. Sustained 120mileperhour winds recorded parallel to the coastline with an 88mileperhour gusts on the shore near satellite beach. The western