This morning. The dow logging another record high as it marches toward 20k. Day one of that fed meetinging. President elect trump announcing exxon mobil chairman and Ceo Rex Tillerson as his pick for secretary of state. Plus, microsoft cofounder bill gates speaks out. Trumps policies on trade, relations with china, Interest Rates, and a lot more. But first up, the march towards 20,000 continues. The dow is on track to open trading at an alltime high one day after posting its 15th record closing high since the election. We also have the fed kicking off the twoday meeting, many expecting it to result in a rate hike tomorrow. Jim, i assume theres no doubt in your mind about that. No. And i think that the banks have to have it. We saw the banks waivever. This is not an all trump stock day. We got china, good numbers. Italy, major recapitalization. I think there was another time this market would be up huge just recognizing these italian banks are getting their act together. Im worried abou
Drop of rain on your windshield and thats why. Overall well call it purse partly sunny skies 35 in allentown, 34 in reading similar numbers in wilmington and down toward cape may where youre at 40. Just 30 in millville and 32 in trenton. So Everybody Needs to bundle up and the winds have picked up a little bit over the last half hour in philadelphia but in most cases were expecting them to stay fairly light. So, maybe you hunch your shoulders a little bit this morning but not too bad windwise. As we go through the afternoon its still going to be sees plea chilly. 36 degrees by 7 oclock. 40 by noon and by 3 oclock 42 thats your high before we dip back towards the freezing mark by 7 oclock. Today is the day to get stuff done because tomorrow well be sitting in the low 20s through most of the day and strong winds going give us wind chills even worse. Ill have details on all of that let you know how long this next cold snap lasts karen coming up. All right, getting ready for that cold snap
6 00 a. M. , friday, december 23. Tam is off, nydia han joins us. Reporter were following several breaking stories, holiday tragedy, fire crews in montgomery are searching for the cause of a house fire that left a person dead. Were live on the scene. Breaking, a woman gets into a bloody struggle with two men who bander into her home overnight. Accuweather and santa is tracking wet weather. It will be dry today before rain moves in Christmas Eve. Karen rogers is here filling in for david good morning. Reporter good morning its cold outside, well a cold start to the day. Its a prettier day than yesterday, we have bright sunshine, go ahead and take a look, you can see that on satellite and radar, we have the clouds that cleared in the overnight hours. We can see the clouds spilling in from the west, though, they will fill in later in the day. Well start with bright sunshine. 31 in quakertown and pottstown, 30 in coatsville, 29 in kennett square. 28 in browns mills and ewing. 30 in cinnami
Veronica for sure we have have those days that have been warmer. Really looking through february it looks as though we will continue with the upanddown temperatures with a more active pattern. Snow mixed in. Today we are not getting any big storm at all, but we will see higher temperatures at 50 degrees today. Higher than the average of 44 degrees. Scattered cloud cover across the area. Leesburg, temperatures all over the place. 49 to 50 degrees at 4 00, lower 40s this evening and the early part of tonight. Not going to be all that cold at all. Snow showers in western maryland. The next system is not until the roads, julie, are looking dry, with some sprinkles late afternoon. We will have more on this sunday system coming up. A lot of folks asking if im going to be ok late on sunday. Julie because after the Super Bowl Party at your house i have to get back home. Chronic a makes a great dip. I cant wait for that. Looking forward to the party. The wilsonpen by bridge. We might have some
Most in northern virginia. Rgini. Dominion reporting about ab 15,000 customers without without power. Pepco reporting about 1100ou0 people in the dark, bg ebg e customers also without powero with the company reportingep more than 2200 outages. Ut lets get to tucker withcker more on the winds. N the wi. The big question will they w inue tod today. Yes, theyll pick up againeyi a little bit as we getck the sue up here we start to mix up theth atmosphere again but hard had hitting last night. Reminiscent of the derechoed. Ere were fecw years ago. 26 the currents wind gust in washington, 29 in29 in gaithersburg. 44 in annapolis. Apoli were still really blowing outw there. Once we get the sun up gp in an hour the winds are goingrg to pick up again and gust atustt times to up to about 50 milesut per hour later today. Oda quick look at your high wind wd warning just a reminder a highah wind warning locally until until 6 oclock tonight. Oclock well have plenty ofto sunshinee today. It will be o