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of higher interest rates. i ll have more in a moment. human eggs have been grown in a laboratory for the first time. and carol has the weather. good morning from the roof of broadcasting house in london. broadcasting house in london. will cross the rest of the south east. south east. some wintry showers, most prolific in the north and west. most prolific in the north and west. some of them will be over lower levels and heavy. levels and heavy. we will see when 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. of the winter olympics in south korea. in pyeongchang shortly to watch the event. allegations have lost a last minute appeal to take part in the games. our correspondent, stephen mcdonell reports. after years of preparation, the pyeongchang winter olympics is here. pyeongchang winter olympics is here. the venues are ready and the spectators are pouring in. spectators are pouring in. the political manoeuvres being played out of these games. played out of these games. ....
those losses right after the numbers came out. and one of the reasons facebook shares may have traded lower is because the stock had run up so much in anticipation of strong earnings in a quarter where the company beat pretty much across the board. revenue, earnings and user numbers all better than expected. cfo david wayner who we spoke to right after those numbers were out telling us that video as well as growing engagement particularly on mobile devices are factors driving results. we have nearly 1.5 billion users on facebook. that s nearly half the world s online population. and that s growing very nicely. we added 173 million people to facebook year over year. that s our strongest growth in nearly two years. and those people are coming back. we ve got 65% of our monthly users coming back every day. on the earnings call we re going to be looking for more insight into the success of those video ads as well as the role of instagram ads. and we re going to be looki ....
weather and traffic with katie and meisha. you were so excited it is friday. i m right there with you. so i can tell you also that the roads are looking really good. still really early, looking dry, but we do have some protests coming up later on blocking some roads, we ll talk about that. pack along the umbrella it won t be raining for your morning commute. but later into the day today rain will be coming down. so little foggy, little sad, if you forget your rain slicker today. but dry conditions right now. lit bit chilly. certainly damp as you step outside early this friday morning. 34 degrees right now in philadelphia. so we re off to colder start than yesterday. winds are calm. not so much after windchill impact. down to 30 degrees, sub freezing at the shore, actually more mild in the poconos, than along the coast, 31 degrees right now, with wind out of the south-southeast at around 5 miles per hour. storm scan3 showing us we do have high level cloud cover in ....
on trade and immigration, after their first summit meeting at the white house. but there was little talk about the story that has been gripping the headlines: national security adviser michael flynn has apologised for his discussions with russian diplomats before the inauguration. our north america editor jon sopel reports. announcer: the president of the united states and the prime minister of canada. this is the neighbour just dropping by. but were there ever two elected leaders so different in style and substance than donald trump and justin trudeau? both men were on their best behaviour, because on one particular issue they are thousands of miles apart and that is whether to allow those fleeing persecution into the country. on the day after president trump signed his controversial executive order banning refugees and travellers from seven mainly muslim countries, justin trudeau tweeted this: to those fleeing persecution, terror and war, canadians will welcome you ....
you can see some of those foggy skies out there. not impacting very much. we do have visibility down to about .30 miles in raleigh. 1 mile in henderson. that fog is very patchy this morning. we will see some of that fog lingering over the next couple of hours for the fog lifts we see sunshine across the area today. not showing any wet weather here, a few showers sitting offshore, off the coast. it will actually stay there throughout the day today. i area stays dry all day, as we start off your weekend here. 67degrees right now in raleigh, 68 degrees in durham, 69 lillington, 70 fayetteville. overall with this area of area of high-pressure tour northeast experts are mostly dry and warmer day today compared to yesterday. i temperatures in the mid- 80s this avenue. 68degrees at 8 o clock, 77 will see tomorrow afternoon with a high temperature of 80 d egrees. i will let you know how long the warm weather will last coming u p. we began this hour with the breaking news in ....