Ashley thank you very much, charles payne. Great stuff as always. Hi, everyone, im Ashley Webster in for liz claman. The dow is off 179 points and back blow that, i guess, psychological mark of 40,000. It breeched it in the final moments of trading friday but pulling back today. The s p 500 and back below 500 and so far so good and s p 500 will be a squeaker and needs five points for the 24th record finish of the year and tups 5. 87. Could be interesting. Reports from lowes target, tjx and big key events on wednesday, nvidia earning ands, yes, the fed minutes. Vice chair Phillip Jefferson saying cautiously optimistic about inflation fight but its still too early to tell if the slow down of inflation is long lasting. Very noncommittal. Itll take awhile to be confident on inflation. Take a look, 2year yield hit ago oneweek high in the session today. Two year at 4 hadnt 48 and 10 year up slightly at 4. 44 . By the way, the 10 year holding above that 4. 4 ever so slightly for the second da
Southbound 50 inbound residual delays. And next. 7 01. And we learn that deadly train sdmaent Washington State may have been caused by speed. Later fox five Melanie Alnwick is live outside head qu5r9ers. Mel, good morning. First full day for ntsb go team which left here in washington d. C. And headed to Washington State for that crash. When they arrived at the seattle tacoma area quick briefing gave jaw dropping information and 80 miles an hour in 30 mile an hour zone. One of the trains then data recorders. Interests state 5 there in Washington State this is about will be closed for a portion of the day. Still today while volingttors landed on to interstate five. Train was making its inaugural run on fast iter root from see at toll port long, horror. There were 08 passengers on boards. Theyre looking at many factors including spied. And the speed limit is known to operators and and the speed limit and that is will help show us. We can tell you that crew members have not yet been interv
Sua cravens is in the med lines saying he was racially profiled during a traffic stop in northern virginia. Good day at 9a starts right now. All right. 9 01 is the time right now. Good day dc is on your tv. It is tuesday, december 19th, 2017, and were yet another day closer to christmas. Yes. Its not feeling like christmas though, right . Foles like springtime. Well take it. No complaints. No complaints. Look at your beautiful pink shades, though. Definitely feels like the se season. Wanted to coordinate. I like the the new comedy father figures hits theaters this friday. Kevin mccarthy he has interviews with two of the films big stars ed helms and owen wilson. Looking forward to this. Looks like a funny movie. For sure. Im excited lets take live look outside right now as we mentioned another very comfortable morning with great day on tap for tuesday. Lets get over to tucker barnes. He says the s word is in the long forecas you mean sunny . Yes. It is in the forecast. Well take a look
Going 80 miles an hour in a 30 miles an hour zone when it wept off the rails along a curve near tacoma killing three and injuring dozens more. They are still unsure if the high speed caused the accident and are looking into whether the conductor was distracted by an employee in training. The train which was carrying 86 people was on its first journey on a new route from seattle to portland. Fox talked to a local soldier who helped passengers to safety after the crash. I couldnt afford to be scared. I couldnt afford to be shock. I had to do what im called to do and focus and channel that into helping these people around me, um, get to safety as best as possible. One passenger described the crash as quote like being inside an exploding bomb. Some of the images you are about to see could be tough to look at a dead horse dumped near auto yard in north philadelphia. All right jeff cole has more on details and joins us live in stewed eighty seven jeff. Reporter we want to give folks a heads
Taking a live look outside right now at the washington monument. Many people are busy with last minute traveling, and probably some shopping ahead of the christmas holiday. Time is running out. Lets check in with gwen for a look at what you can expect outside. Hey there, gwen today brought exactly what we did anticipate and that was clouds and some rainfall. I know, everybody wants the snow. However, Mother Nature was not cooperating today at all. Because we had rain across many areas, take a look at this National Satellite radar map because i want to tell you anybody traveling from the deep south all the way through to the northeast are running into problems right now, because thats where we have a lot of active weather, and some snow, some rain, some wintery mix, and there are many as a result of that. Here at home, as the rain continues to head through, well see some lingering through before we get a bit of a break, if you are going out to do last minute shopping or maybe some of th