Girl school created a stampede that left 20 dead and more than 100 injured. Afghan officials are having difficulty gauging the extent of the damage as mobile phones arent getting a signal in most parts of the country. Pakistani authorities have deployed military forces for rescue operations. Officials there are also struggling to ascertain the extent of the destruction. Damaged network base stations knocked out mobile coverage in some areas. Authorities plan to dispatch aircraft to survey the situation. Turkey has a general elect scheduled this weekend. Authorities are stepping up efforts to combat Islamic State militants in a bid to maintain stability in the country. Security forces raided the hideouts in the southeast. Turkish Officials Say seven Islamic State fighters were killed and a dozen others were detained in the city of diyarbakir. Officials said the militants had a large stock pile of guns and ammunitions. Turkish media report the operation targeted 17 locations in the city.
What special day oh, loris birthday. You know, bill, the earth stands still on this day as you have your accuweather forecast. Because it is miss loris birthday. Thank you. Happy birthday, lori. Thank you, billy. Have a happy birthday and so many more. Me and ken on the other hand not so much. Great day on loris birthday. The sun always shines on loris birthday. Comfy temperatures, 67 degrees. A wind out of the southwest. Humidity in check. 53 kingston and poughkeepsie. 62 bridgeport and 55 around wrightstown and 59 to we will warm back up to the mid 80s quickly. By afternoon, it will hit 87 degrees. What a nice day. Heather, we can thank lori for the beautiful weather. Already have. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about mass transit and the situation with Long Island Railroad. There was a Freight Train derailment. So, the Port Jefferson Ronkonkoma Branch is running wearing 10 to 15minute delays. Service changes eastbound after 6 00 a. M. Hicksville expect delays. Track work at 14th
Impending homes later this hour. Black friday numbers are in. Cybermonday deals are in full swing. The u. N. Climate change conference kicks off today in paris. Well take you there live for the latest. Amazon with a sneak peek of new delivery drones and taking a shot at regulators saying theyre ready to deploy when they have the regulatory support they need. First up, indications are that the Holiday Shopping season is off to a tepid start. Americans spent about 12. 1 billion over thanksgiving and black friday. Thats a decline from last year. The National Retail federation says more people shopped online than in stores, choosing not to wait for todays deals. A lot of these numbers are surveys. A lot of people throwing some shade at the quality of the number. Dont take it to the bank. You cant. I think at one point it was easier when we said, look, we can pick 20 malls and decide how things went. Look, i think it was an Amazon Holiday season. I think it will be today. I dont know if you
Equities did end off their lows. Lets get right to the closing numbers on this, the first trading day of the new year. The dow industrials dropped 276 points to 17,147. It had been off as much as 467 points earlier in the day. The nasdaq declined 104 points. Thats 2 . And the s p 500 lost 31. The trigger, china and more evidence of slowing growth in the worlds second largest economy. A new report out of that country showed the Manufacturing Sector contracted at the end of 2015. The shanghai stock market plunged almost 7 and then Circuit Breakers kicked in and trading was halted. From asia the selling spread around the world to europe first and then here to wall street. But china wasnt the only cause for the drop today. Bob pisani has more on todays rout from the New York Stock Exchange. Reporter ugg. What a lousy open for the year. Most of the market was down 2 the whole day except for a very brief rally at the close. There were several reasons that stocks traded down. First we had a p
Equities did end off their lows. Lets get right to the closing numbers on this, the first trading day of the new year. The dow industrials dropped 276 points to 17,147. It had been off as much as 467 points earlier in the day. The nasdaq declined 104 points. Thats 2 . And the s p 500 lost 31. The trigger, china and more evidence of slowing growth in the worlds second largest economy. A new report out of that country showed the Manufacturing Sector contracted at the end of 2015. The shanghai stock market plunged almost 7 and then Circuit Breakers kicked in and trading was halted. From asia the selling spread around the world to europe first and then here to wall street. But china wasnt the only cause for the drop today. Bob pisani has more on todays rout from the New York Stock Exchange. Reporter ugg. What a lousy open for the year. Most of the market was down 2 the whole day except for a very brief rally at the close. There were several reasons that stocks traded down. First we had a p