Should expect. Plus, tweet your tweet, new years resolution to keep happy in 2017. Dow up 33 points, s p up 5. Nasdaq up 10. Pretty firmly in positive territory a few hours ahead of the opening bell over in europe. Stocks have actually been down in the trading session there led by a fall on the ftse and london, four tenths of 1 n asia overnight, mixed markets there again on the last day of trading for 2016. And amazon reveals plans for a highflying warehouse with a fleet of drones. You have to see how this is going to work. And all of that coming up with me this morning, president dominic is here and Rachel Campos, dagen will be up in just a few minutes. Happy new year, not there yet. But we are like a second from time square and i swear, at night i finished hosting the kelly file, the streets were filled with tourists even though those threats exist, people just keep oncoming occupy. No where better to be than new york city on new years eve. Sandra depends who you ask, rachel. [laught
The latest on all this. Reporter hey, carl. If a few hours ago, it was the calm before the storm, it now feels like the storm is approaching with members of the house scurrying back and forth, a flurry of activity as people are taking meetings and going back and forth from the floor as we build up to that vote this afternoon. Of course, this comes in the wake of what you mentioned, that ultimatum coming from the white house delivered by budget director mick mulvaney, although this morning on squawk box, he did now say its up to republicans to reach a consensus among their own party. Heres what he said. As to whether or not negotiations are ceased, i think we made it very clear last night that if the republicans need to work amongst themselves on the hill in order to tweak the bill a little bit here or there, in order to get the necessary votes to pass, thats fine with the president , as long as it doesnt change the underlying bill, and i doubt that it would at this point. Reporter ther
Temperatures now in the upper 70s to the lower 80s and the satellite picture a breezy day today afternoon hours gusty winds tropical feeling with temperatures in the 80s. A few isolated showers east of i75, overnight skies will clear early on and then after midnight we are looking at showers first thing tomorrow morning an issue for the commute , hour by hour partly cloudy morning and the front has a big impact on the weather for the we can. We will talk about that coming up. The tampa bay Hurricane Hunters will soon leave their longtime home at Mcdill Air Force base but they are not going for far. Theyre moving to lakeland. Ryan raiche tells us the main reason that could be a big deal. It is a different view of the storm. Storm, the Hurricane Hunters flying all day and night into the thick of it so everyone can prepare accordingly. The crew has saved lives undoubtably. Today they are staring at their new home at the airport, the move has been a long time coming, for more than 24 years
I want to show you the maps right now if we can get to those. Look at that area shaded in yellow. Thats where we are seeing this area of patchy fog between lakeland and plant city and then south of i4. The good news is once you get into downtown tampa look at it here. Interstate 275 there just 5 minutes from downtown to the Howard Frankland bridge. Thank you. The search continues this morning for a man accused of groping a woman over the weekend with friends at 1st avenue at her favorite bar. She said the man cornered her, shoved his hands up her shirt and grabbed her breasts. It was caught on Surveillance Video. Three men rushed to hospital but the suspect ran off. St. Petersburg police hope someone will recognize him and turn him in. New this morning, the second inmate who escaped from jail is now back in custody. Police finally caught him after a stand off that lasted more than 7 him hiding this the attic of a friends home. They shot tear gas into the home at least twice earlier tha
Im lets head over to meteorologist mike bennett. Hey, mike. Let me say this, though. Heavy rain for some of us. Others of you even by tuesday or wednesday may be saying what rain . So lets get right to it. Heres the Hilton Clearwater beach cam. You can see the waves have been rough all day and thats going o be the case for the next four or five days, so regardless of the rain, not exactly the weather through midweek. Heres how much rain weve seen so far. You see its pretty scattered over most of the area. The one exception being out across the nature coves. Look at those rainfall totals ot of hernando and citrus counties. Were talking more than 7 inches of rain according to radar estimates on shore. Youre talking about 1, 2, 3, 3 and a half inches of rain, right hernando county, close to 2 inches of rain, so certainly this has been the area thats seen the most rain over the last several hours and this will be the area that well have to wath closely in the coming days. As far as rain go