Points and the s p, moving the monitor so i cant see it. Up threequarters of a point. And the nasdaq is lower by 31 points. Where are we headed to from here . Lets get to bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Bob . Hello, michelle. Were flat because ibm has been a drag and tech has been a drag and the question is can we hit new highs and the key, remember, may be earnings. Markets have moved up. They have been a floor under the market and the market believes that, off the low and china hasnt gone away and its been a lot quieter. Earnings have been the big problem and the missing ingredient. Weve had four consecutive quarters of negative Earnings Growth right now and q2, the one that were in now that everyone is talking about, only down about 3 and its been stable in the last week or so. Not reducing the numbers anymore. We could go positive meaning that ends. Johnson johnson and Philip Morris raised their guidance on the weaker dollar helping how the. This week its go
Incident at Westfield High School in chantilly in fairfax county. The building was partially evacuated a short while ago. Firefighters are trying to clear out smoke. The smoke came from a students cell phone and that the battery might have been punctured. One person was taken to the hospital. We dont know if its a student or teacher. We do know theyll be just fine. Barbara . Thank you. Developing now on capitol hill, the house votes to pass the spending bill. A huge step in keeping the government running past tuesday. Right now the senate is debating the bill and will cast their vote later today. Looking live at the white house, its a busy last day before vacation in a few hours, president obama will host his final press conference of the year. You can watch a special report on nbc 4 at 1 50. Then later tonight, he will fly out to San Bernardino to privately meet with families affected by the latest mass shooting. He will then be heading to hawaii for their annual vacation. Temperature
Get ready for a cold blat of air today. Youre waking up with the highs much cooler. We want to start right off at going to Kristin Wright at the live desk with breaking news. Thats right. We have more information on the crash up in upper marlboro. We learned from the police it is a fatal accident and one person died. Youre looking at pictures from the scene overnight. Two cars involved here. A headon collision. Largo road and front gate road. Right now that area is shut down. We are working to get as much information as we can. Police are there. The crash happened around 10 30 last night. Our molette green is on their way now. Thanks. Chuck bell as a break down of your weather going into the weekend. Did you say teens, chuck . I sure did. Windchills back into the teens by the time your weekend actually gets starting first thing tomorrow. A lot of clouds in the sky this morning and there are raindrops to contend with. Check it out on storm team 4 radar. Just a couple of drops. Rain chan
The top of the beltway. You can see were looking good this morning. Lets keep it this way for everybody who still is in town and has to go to work or school right now. Lets keep it nice and light here this morning. A big look at the beltway. You can see we dont have any other issues there. There goes my slow role in here once again this morning. Taking a look at that issue we had earlier. It might be slow for folks looking there. 66 and sudley looking quite good this morning and then remember in fairfax, Camp Washington intersection there, that kind of threeway intersection, the crash on main street at fairfax boulevard, thats where Megan Mcgrath is for us this morning. Well have travel times in ten minutes. Thank you, melissa. We just learned of the name of the man killed in a crash in upper marlboro. Maryland police say a 20yearold died in the headon crash last night. The scene was just cleared by police in the last hour. Were working to find out how badly the other driver was hurt.
We will put together a list of participants on our nbc washington app. Are you all done . No. Its because were working so hard, right, david . Lets check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell whos checking in on the weather. What do you think, chuck . Its been an incredibly milder month. Its been on average 9 degrees above average. It will be a gusty and blustery kind of afternoon. One weekend of winter will be saturday and sunday and then back to 70 for santa. Are you kidding me . Watch what happens with your temperature here. 46 now. Hardly anything in the way of a rise of the temperatures. In fact, i think well stay to the mid to upper 40s. By later this afternoon, look at this. Temperatures falling during the afternoon while the sun is still out. Winds will be increasing to ta 15 to 20 miles per hour. Windchills will be down to near freezing by 5 00 this evening and your friday night will be a frigid one. Youll need the heavy coats again. Windchills back into the 20s. How l