Coast with the latest update. David want to get you back to the markets before more on the hurricane. The dow inhaving after todays disappointing jobs report. Home depot, united tech, walmart and biggest losers. Gold seeing a big drop for the week although up slightly today. Phil flynn, price futures and fox business contributor has details. Ashley webster on floor of new york stock exchange. Ashley, there was this flash crash of the pound before our markets opened. It kind of turned around but what happened . Reporter asia overnight, david. It absolutely plummeted some 6 just like that going down 114 to the dollar. At one point only cost you 114 to buy a pound. Computer algorithms is best guess of everyone that saw this. It recovered back to 124. In fact at the end of the day the ftse in london outshown the rest of the european markets an gained thanks to a weaker pound. Flash crash, looked at algorithms, picked up a word, gave them jitters, sell orders came in but the. Recovered. As
6 00 and on line. Also developing this afternoon, a group of protesters gathering at the statehouse to demand stages to the minimum wage currently sitting at 7. 25 an hour. The South Carolina Progressive Network says if adjusted to meet inflation that wage would be 10. 56 an hour. A big difference they want lawmakers to take notice of. Some workers say theyre not making enough money to make ends meet. If we get the minimum raise wage, well be in a better position to even if we work a few hours, we can save some money in order to prepare for things like that. But right now, youre living paycheck to paycheck and they dont understand that. According to the South Carolina Progressive Network, 34 of jobs here in South Carolina are low wage jobs. All right, well turn now to bone chilling cold really just wont let us go. No. Another thing thats gone very low is the temperatures outside an early spring, it does not feel like it outside. Well turn things over to meteorologist jonathan kennedy.
Kennedy. 33 we want to give you a update as you head out and morning. Here are some trouble spots that you might encounter. 33 abc columbia wants to help start your we have a quick rundown of your top morning headlines. President ial hopefuls donald trump and Bernie Sanders sweep New Hampshire. Theyre the projected winners in the Granite State after the nations firstinthesouth primary. For the percent ofofthe vote. And in a surprise finish. Abc news predicts john kasich will finish in second place. With 16percent of the vote. Battling for the establishment vote. Ted cruz, jeb bush and marco rubio. The race for third place is still too close to call. The latest results show cruz in the lead with 12percent. While bush and rubio each take 11percent. On the other side of the political spectrum. Bernie sanders is taking his first victory in the 2016 president ial election. Sanders edged out democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Sanders with 60percent of f the vote. To clintons 39percent. The de
Probably cost us a couple thought votes of undecides at the last home. So that was on me. That wont happen again. Reporter after the debate, critics called rubio robotic. Were here to see marco robot, is he inside. Reporter several robots followed rubio, taunting him in spartanburg. We thought the robots could come down. Reporter the robots arent the only thing working against rubio. Other critics clap hes too young claim hes too young. Publicly endorsed jeb bush, he said, quote, i think marco rubio will be president of the United States one day, i think hes one of the most gifted people ive ever met, i like him a lot, i just wasnt ready to be president atat4 end quote. You hear a lot about rubios age brought up in the campaign, but voters say its not a concern for them. I dont think age makes a difference. Maybe we need somebody young to put in that time. Rubio focused on trying to stay united within the party. Listen, none of the republicans are a socialist. None of them is under fbi
Today nc d. O. T. Crews will be deciding how to treat the roads for mondays Winter Weather. They say treating roads for freezing rain is different than treating for snow. After they make a decision today they will be tackling highways. More crews are on call if we get more than we expect. We have dozens of pieces of equipment just within Mecklenburg County alone. We also have potential for 90 contractors that we can bring on site. Nc d. O. T. Says that crews have already used 24 million worth of materials for storm preps. That is more than half of the states budget for the entire year. You can always stay informed on the weather in your neighborhood by using the wsoc tv weather app. You can use the interactive radar, get Severe Weather alerts and hourly forecast. Just download the app. Its free on your android or apple devices. Over night channel 9 not have a half a day today. Students were supposed to make up for days missed during the last round of Winter Weather. Several School Dist