Do you own amazon stock . Here comes another alltime high. Try 1,067 a share. Founder jeff bezos about to to overtake bill gates and become the richest person the world. The latest Financial Report from amazon comes out today. Oh, please, watch out. So heres the story. Big tech, the fabulous five, call them what you will, are still on a tear. And they will push the overall market to levels we have never seen before. The dow is closing in on 22,000. Here is the news from the swamp. Not entirely depressing. The wall street journal reports increasing support for a socalled skinny obama care repeal bill. Something would be better than nothing. And we expect an outline of the tax reform plan tomorrow. We have more reports of higher taxes on the super rich. Whod have thought . Here comes the most exciting financial show on television. Varney companys about to begin. Stuart we have no choice. We have to start with facebook. The stock is surging, and i do not use that word lightly. E. Mac, wai
Cbs 2 news is tracking the latest details on a Fatal Shooting in cedar rapids. Rapids. Police were first called to the scene late last night. Night. Thats where we find cbs 2 News Reporter stephanie johnson. Johnson. Stephanie whats the scene like right now . Now . Well guys, Cedar Rapids Police did confirm with us last night that two people were shot at the cedar valley townhouses apartment complex on j rapidswe havent been able to confjrm their coitions at this point, but our crew on the scene last night did see a body bag in the area where officers are investigating. Right now there is no information as to what lead to this shooting, but ill be on scene all morning and will bring any upuptes. Covering the corridor in cedar rapids. Stephanie johnson, cbs 2 news. New this morning, donald trump is victorious again, this time in nevada. This is the billionaires Third Straight win after coming in second in the iowa caucuses. Caucuses. Right now with of the precincts reporting trump has a
Cruzs and rubios because Trump Supporters are drawn to him becuase of his personality and tv exposure and less through grassroots outreach. That works fine for a trtritional primary but a caucus like the ones in iowa and nevada require more of a Time Investment that might hurt trump like it did in iowa. Marco rubio also needs to keep making decent showings proving to the establishment wing of the party that he can edge out john kasich whos actively stealing support from the florida senator. You look at second choice preferences, if you get rid of kasich, almost all of those second choice preferences go to rubio. Rubio. The numbers are coming in right now well have the latest details about whats happening in nevada tonight coming up at 9 30. Kevin barry fox 28 kevin thanks. The democrats are preparing for saturdays primary in south carolina. Carolina. Thats where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and vermont senator Bernie Sanders held a town hall meeting tonight. Well have more
Of 36 will be possible north and east of us. Most of the snow should be done by noon sunday. Sunday afternoon is looking dry and mostly cloudy with highs close to average in the low 30s. It should be a nice enough afternoon for the kids to go out and play in the newly fallen snow warmer weather will finally start to take shape over the midwest and iowa next week with jack 2shot good evening. Welcome to local 5 news, home of we are iowa dot com. Im jack miller. Stephanie 2shot and im stephanie angleson. Glad youre with us tonight. Stephanie concussions they are showing up more and more in pro athletes, as well as in players at the high school level. Now iowa state lawmakers are getting involved to make sure schools are watching for concussions very closely. Jack a bill will be introduced on monday that will require an athletic trainer to be on hand for any varsity football, soccer, or wrestling event. Its up for a vote before the Senate Education committee. Stephanie thats one side of t
Biggest fundraiser for make a wish iowa. Tonight, see how the wishes will still happen. The news starts in 30 seconds. Youre watching local 5 news at 10 in hd. We are iowas most Accurate Weather Team brad wx wall weather adlib today is the First Official day of winter, which means that tonight will be our officially winter, it is really not going to feel much like winter this week. Tonight will be cool and dry with decreasing clouds late tonight. We should start out with some sunshine tuesday but then clouds will make for a partly sunny afternoon. With some sunshine and southerly winds returning, we will be able to get our temps back into the 40s in the afternoon. Tuesday will be dry, but it is looking a bit rainy for wednesday. Another system will be coming out of the sw and bringing us a good chance for rain. The heaviest of this rain will fall again over eastern iowa where about a half of an inch is expected. Thursday Christmas Eve we are going to have a slight chance for some snow