Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, happy labor day, im brandi hitt. Im dan kloeffler. Did you have a nice weekend . I did. Did you enjoy yours at the beach, huh . I did. We had a lovely time with friend at the beach. Now back to reality. You got a little sun there. You look good. You know, i cause chaos in the makeup department. Why dont you put sun block on. Because the sun is out. You know . Easy to forget when you are having fun. Completely forgetful. Uhhuh. We begin this halfhour with the millions of americans, cleaning up this labor day after taking a beating from a weekend of severe storms. Everywhere east of the mississippi, concerts. Sporting events washed out. Dozens of flights, delayed or canceled, and entire neighborhoods flooded. In the midwest, ominous clouds, high winds, torrential rains. This is dennison, iowa, one person struck by lightning. Severe storms, hammering the nations midsection right now as well. And it is not over yet. Heres abcs
Matt delucia is live on the scene. How long has the road been shut down and how much longer will it be like this . Reporter well, vai, the crash happened about 7 15 this morning, right here at the intersection of dupont highway and bear road. Ill get out of the way. Most of this has cleared up now. Theyre bringing in a sweeper to clean up the mess that has been out here and all the fuel that spilled out on to the roadways. Were expecting this road to reopen shortly. But state police tell us one person died as a result of this collision that involved four vehicles and it was quite a mess out here. Had a Ripple Effect on traffic in this area. Skyforce10 has a better angle of what happened at this intersection. One of the cars you can see was completely destroyed in the crash. State Police Brought out an Accident Reconstruction Team to put all this together. That took up quite a bit of time in delaying reopening of this highway. From the ground a Large Police Presence was out here going o
Out. I feel we had a chance to get kayla out. This morning her familys heart wrenching story, the way they are honoring her legacy and the last letter kayla wrote from captivit and the never ending winter. Yet another storm takes aim at millions in the south as half of the country braces for yet another bone chilling arctic blast, today monday, february 23, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today, todays oscar afterparty with matt lauer live from los angeles, and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to this split edition of today on monday morning. Im matt lauer along with al roker here in los angeles. Savannah, natalie and tamron in new york city. Were going to start with an award of our own, the award for least sleep. You tell us how much you got. I was going to start with the award who stayed up latest. Tamron wins. I watched the whole thing. You guys, you had to hit the parties, al roker, right . I got tw
The dollar is stronger. Gold is down sharply. All the markets telling the same story. And there are plenty of investors talking, joking perhaps about the property that they are looking at in greece in italy, across europe because if you want to theres the euro dollar today up another 1. 5 . The low 10. 09. 109 1. 09. Extraordinary to remember a couple years ago when it was at 1. 40. That will have a huge impact on their economy and on ours as well. Book your vacations to europe. Europe is on sale this summer. With just an hour to go before the close, a steep selloff. The dow is off almost 300 points. Off 277 this hour. It brings it to 17,861. The nasdaq is off 56. 4,926 for that index today. Here we go. Time for our closing bell exchange. Dorothy weaver of Collins Capital is with us today. Formerly of the board of the Federal Reserve bank of atlantas miami branch. Jeffrey cleveland from payton and regal. Our even Steve Liesman and Rick Santelli santelli. Steve, Pay Attention here. Are
Alcoa kicking off earnings season. Europe was missed and the nikkei was up about 1 . Our road map begins with history in the making. The president set to nominate Federal Reserve vice chair janetijanet i yellen to be the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, shed be the first woman. Young, costco and Family Dollar all down after issuing disappointing results. First up, though, history is about to be made in washington. The president will nominate fed vice chair janet yellen to replace chair ben bernanke. If confirmed, shed be the first woman to head any major world central back. The official announcement taking place at 3 00 p. M. Eastern time in the east room. Jim, its been said theres one less uncertainty that we have to worry about. Breathed a sigh of relief. I felt a sigh of relief because its just nice that something came out of washington that, well, just happened and immediately we saw reaction that, well, corker, my love because he comes on squawk might be against.