Morning. With phase two talks with a president ial trip to beijing at some point to follow. That is how we end this year. Pretty much where we began it. With the markets up and trying to figure out what is going on between the u. S. And china. Deirdre bolton at the New York Stock Exchange with war things stand. Happy new year to you, deirdre. Blake, same to you. Happy new year to you too. On last day of trade for the year, a little bit muted on the dow. Even if there is no green on the screen at this particular moment this year has been a standout year, this decade has been standout. The dow is up 22 . S p 500 up close to 30 . The nasdaq has returned 35 . Apple by the way is the standout stock for the year and for the decade. It is the best performer, up 84 in the past 12 months. Analysts say apple services, wearables, especially airpods many people asked for christmas, still havent gotten because they were in high demand, boosting the companys profits certainly. Certainly boosting the
Espn2. Greenhousearing on gas standards on vehicles and how its affecting the industry. This is just over two hours. Well, good morning. Today we are here to talk about the fuel program in the Greenhouse Gas emission standards at the u. S. Epa. This program was established by congress in 1975. The goals of the program are to improve fuel economy, reduce oil consumption, and secure the Nations Energy independence. It has gone through major changes in the past four decades because of political and economic forces. Less than 10 years ago, the epa standards are created to incentivize the production of more efficient vehicles that will use less fuel and less Carbon Dioxide. Various states have enacted their own standards relation to automobile omissions. Behind theseon garments are created in a complicated rep. Torres came. Energy independence important goal but realworld facts and must drive her to tory choices. Choices. Regulatory there is an attempt to create a National Standard guard to
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Different amendments. One is basically a repeal of obama cared and the other one would be to add an extension of the Export Import Bank which expired at the end of june. These are not amendments obviously that have a lot to do with the transportation bill itself but their amendments to the bill and then they will go back to the actual highway bill which i see you explain expire the authorization for highway funding expires after this friday. There is a lot of pressure this week. Host what is a price tag on the bill . Guest the real issue here in congress right now is the bills have two very different bills in each chamber. The senates plan is a threeyear plan so it is an ambitious plan that looks at funding highways. The house plan is much less ambitious plan. It is only 8. 1 billion it goes through december 18 of this year and that is going to be the real issue. The senate will send over to the house if they pass their bill a much bigger plan. The house authorities said they dont want
We have should be fairly clear today. A front could bring us some rain for, say, thursday morning. Ill show you that coming up on future cast. In durham its 28. Its 28 in wake forest and here at the tv studios. Its 25 right now at our sensor in cary. 28 in roxboro, 26 in south hill. Its a cold morning out there. 29 in Southern Pines and 34 degrees in fayetteville. By 8 00 a. M. Temperatures will be climbing back up to about freezing. 50 at close to the high of 54 yesterday. We have high fire danger because its extremely dry. The the winds will be a bit more calm. Officials ask you not to do any out door burning today. We will talk about thanksgiving day. Coming up. Bryan has some spot s to avoid. If you had to use capitol boulevard yesterday afternoon you will remember that it was because of a water main break that continues this morning and will continue through the day. That is between capitol boulevard and wake forest road and wade avenue as we take a look at it. Comes in from 440 t