3 3 3 3 the rain is helping to melt the snow in henderson county. But slick roads remain. That is why schools are canceled there for another day. News 13s Lauren Brigman was in mills river last half hour. Now she is live from flat rock. Lauren. Are you seeing a difference in the 3 3 3 in just the last few minutes, Haywood County schools announced they will be on a 2hour delay this morning, no buses on icy roads. Officials have been out checking roads since 3 30 this morning because of the freezing rain advisory. Students there will have saturday school from eight to noon to make up a snow day. So far the School System has had five so far this year. 3 2128 when you can mamae one up on a saturday, that feels really good in may or june because you havent extended the year. If parents feel their students cannot get to class this saturday, School Leaders say they will make every reasonable effort to code absences as excused. 3 3 more delays and School Closures in the mountains today means p
From the Security Community there is a wide understanding that you cant prevent incidents. But that understanding hasnt always made its way to Corporate Leaders and to policymakers. So having the response the processes in place to respond and recover from an incident we also see are critically important. And then i think to the point of the question i think we have to remember if you go back to aris presentation earlier in the day, this is one element of many that are going on that industry is undertaking, that the federal government, that the state government, International Governments are undertaking to help manage this problem, and we think together we hope that, obviously, it will have the approach of making things better out there. David, if i could just build on adams comments and i agree with him and particularly the last one about how many things we are dealing with here and you know in thinking about the title of the event as to whether were gaining traction or losing ground,
In russia, though, the benchmark micex index fell by more than 3 at the open. Right now, its down by just over 2. 3 . The u. S. Futures at this point are hanging in there. Theyre showing a slight rebound after yesterdays selloff in wall street. You saw that decline when the dow was down by 230 points. Also saw the s p and the nasdaq down significantly. We will have a deeper market discussion with our panel in just a few minutes, plus a live report from kiev. Secretary of state john kerry gets ready to meet with his russian counterpart in london. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Michelle Caruso sa brar ra caught up with ukraines Prime Minister who was here. There was a question that he wouldnt answer. In fact, he walked away from the camera. Thats coming up at 6 30. About bitcoin . No, not just bitcoin. It wasnt whether he was the that was the guy that we pegged as the person that looked like no, that was not the question. Because andrew said the guy didnt look like the actual guy.
Stuart look at this. Big rally on wall street. Janet yellen is driving it. Extraordinary measures. Interest rates are expected to remain low for a long time. The market probably likes that. Sixteen for is where we are now. Some of the dow stocks are hitting new highs. Nicole that is right. We have some record highs. We watch those at new highs. Stuart i really want the trumpets to be sounded right. All you naysayers. 4114 right now. Take that. Did you walk into mcdonalds and get your free coffee . Take that taco bell breakfast menu. Right now back up to 98. Just before i went away it was 93. 94. The market is rigged. Here is the clip from 60 minutes. Listen up. It is rigged. The most iconic market is rigged. By whom . The stock exchanges, the big wall street banks and highfrequency traders. Stuart he is referring to highfrequency trading. Just look at that chart. 8000 points over the last five years. On the one hand, you have that whopping great Big Stock Market rally. Michael lu is sa
Happy friday. Im betty nguyen. A Government Shutdown is imminent, and with three days to go, congress looks no closer to a deal. Happening today, the senate will take up a shortterm funding bill, but democrats plan to remove any language calling to defund the president S Health Care law. And its that move that has lawmakers at each other. It delays obama care for one year for all american families. You can huff, you can puff for 21 hours, but you cannot blow the Affordable Care act away. The president says im not going to negotiate. Well, im sorry, but it just doesnt work that way. The tea party put them in this hole and the tea party keeps them Digging Deeper and deeper. Nbcs tracie potts is live in washington with the latest. Tracie, good morning. The clock is ticking. Do you expect to see progress today . We expect to see a vote today to fund if government through november. A clean bill has nothing to do with health care and it is something that the house is probably going to reject