Notes about her emails, issues about the investigation and that a concussion was an issue. And more refusal over the Colin Kaepernick not standing for the National Anthem. Now officers may choose not to work home games. Why they say their officers is being treated unfairly. And taking a break. She dominated the olympics and now gold medal winning gymnast simone biles says its time to rest. She announces shell take the next year off to pursue other opportunities. What she plans to do with her year away from the gym, today, saturday, september 3rd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and Stephanie Ruhle and dylan dreyer. Busy morning. Busy morning. A lot to get to. Lets get right to it. Its our top story this morning as we follow Tropical Storm hermines path as it slowly makes its way up the east coast. The storm hammering the coast overnight. The st
The s p is down 0. 6 . S p went negative for the year this morning when it was down a little bit more than 1 . One of the main reason behind the drops was crude oil. Around crashing down 7 30. You could see that we had a Real Recovery in the late morning and now we are sort of bumping along unchanged territory. Crude oil drag everybody down this morning. I also want to point out the euro. There is more strength in dollareuro. If you go from here im going to bridge over to brent crude that is with the use primarily in europe and trade as a world benchmark. Look at my terminal and you will see the spread between let me close this little window i have some popups you can see the spread between brent and west texas intermediate tightening up so much. It is almost at the same price. Brent came down below 40 per barrel. Take a look at the metals charts. We saw a real drop in prices for iron, copper gold came down as well. If you look at those drops, you can see why we have here is copper bou
Temperatures in the east. Is this unusual weather . Heating or cooling the economy. Thats our cover story this week. Decembers heat wave sent more than 1,000 record high temperatures across the northeast and midwest. Out west its another story. Winter is in full force with treacherous road s and packed slopes. In droughtstricken northern california, winter is more than welcome. At this tahoe ski resort, 152 inches of snow and counting. No drought buster but a boon for a business thats been dry. Businesses are seeing green and not the good kind. We need the temperatures to change or at least be seasonal so we can get the product out and get the facility open. By this time last year upstate new york was buried by snowstorms. What a difference a year makes. Buffalo broke a 116yearold record and boston which blew past its alltime snow record last year has temperatures in the 60s. Louisiana. Vegas. Nino. We have seen a recordsetting el nino pattern over the Pacific Ocean trance importanting
Maintenance, money spent or anything. Again, were standing by for all those details in the preliminary report from the ntsb. Could get that into the newsroom any minute. Well bring you the latest details as soon as we get them. Reporting live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you. The mind set of some metro passengers seems to be changing these days after mondays incident. This morning, abc 7 saw several people tweeting about smoke in the rosalynn station just down the street as a matter of fact from our studio here and we sent a crew out and they found an odd smell there in the station but things running just fine. But richard wolf tweeted this picture noting the orange line train emptied at rosalynn and smoke fills cars. And then steve cuff tweeted this. Orange line car at rosalynn starts getting something burning smell before metro even says anything. People get the hell off new reality. That could be the case. Abc 7 did call metro and we found out there was a
One person had to be rescued after the high winds sent a tree crashing into a home in Delaware County. Funk weve got it if you think weve got it bad try living in boston, the city has set a new snow record. Those stories, but first lets head outside to chris sowers in the cold. Reporter were seeing low digit numbers in the Single Digits and low teens. 8 in reading, 13 in reading and 13 in millville. And 12 in wilmington. That is what it feels like when you step outside. Feels like 17 in the below in the poconos. 8 below in philadelphia, and 8 below in wilmington. High wind warning looks like its just been canceled by the National Weather service about a halfhour ago it was in effect until 2 00 p. M. For winds gusting 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looks like its been set to expire. Peak gusts in philadelphia, 43 Miles Per Hour at this hour. Reading, 37 Miles Per Hour. Wilmington 40. Atlantic city at the airport, 39 and millville, 37mile an hour wind gust at midday. Forecast for today bitter