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as lawmakers seek to approve a sweeping tax form. including what it means to your bottom line. a rodent could be to blame for the power outage that has some airlines scrambling. not a good night in atlanta for folks. the problem is, this time of the year, there s so few seats available. all the flights they have to reschedule. some won t make it. i grew up in atlanta. when you live there, that s the world s best airport. the moment there s trouble at hartsfield forget it. it s the critical cog in the wheel. we ve been watching the travel weather. hopefully, as we get closer to the weekend, not too bad. one day to enjoy it? yes. the last great day of 2017. no complaining allowed today. sunshine, temperatures near 60 degrees. it will turn colder tomorrow and stay on the chilly side for most of the rest of the week. nothing too terrib far as cold is concerned until the day after christmas. know this. santa is going to really deliver the cold shot early ne ....
but 51 currently in martinsburg and hagerstown. a big spread. clouds have been thicker during the overnight. what to wear? maybe a medium coat and sweater for later on. don t forget your sunglasses. temperatures, upper 30s to 40. recess for the kids, 58 at noon and still in the mid-50s as late as 5:00. the high today at national airport should reach 60 degrees. yes, indeed. rainy and cloudy and colder weather eventually. the five-day forecast coming up. chuck, thank you. we re staying on top of this breaking news this morning. federal safety investigators now say the train that derailed in washington state was going more than twice the speed limit allowed around that curve. ntsb said it was traveling 80 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. the train was making its way from seattle to portland along a new high-speed than 70 others were taken to the hospital. including ten with serious injuries. ntsb investigators are expected back on the scene today to figure o ....
overall, traffic flows smoothly throughout the bay. we just passed the 20 minute mark. that s how light it is. back to you. in washington, at least three people are dead after an amtrak train derails putting the cars on the traffic to interstate 5. here is the latest at this hour. we know the train was going 80 miles per hour, in a 30 miles per hour zone when it went off the track. 100 people were injured in that accident yesterday morning. they are being treated. the train derailed as it was making the inaugural trip of a fast service between seattle and portland. 80 passengers and five crew members were on board. we want to go live to today in the bay s kirk hawkins at the scene to bring us up to date on the investigation. kirk? reporter: marcus and laura, that new information about the speed came from an overnight news conference with ntsb officials here. now, they are planning to spend today trying to figure out why. is everybody okay? i m still figuri ....
422. look good so far, eight minutes eastbound from route 29 to the schuylkill with speeds into the 60s. back to you. 4:31. this morning we re learning new details about that deadly amtrak train derailment overnight. investigators revealed the train was speeding before plunging off the tracks near seattle. nbc s kirk hawkins joins us live from dupont, washington, where the cleanup effort is underway this hour. kirk? reporter: ntsb investigators held a news conference here a short time ago, and they told us the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour, more than twice the legal speed limit of just 20 miles per hour. is everybody okay? i m still figuring that out. we ve got cars everywhere. and down on to the highway. reporter: an amtrak train on the inaugural run of high-speed train service to portland derailed, then veered off an overpass 40 miles south of seattle. several cars crashed into the busy interstate 5 freeway in the middle of monday morning rush h ....
a warm welcome to worldwide exchange on cnbc. i m wilfred frost. i m seema m)$( infá for sara eisen. good morning. good morning to you great to have you with us let s get to the global market picture. it s an encouraging one. yesterday, record closes note just for all three main indices that you re looking at, but for the russell, for thel transpor as well. the nasdaq up 0.8% the s&p and dow up about 0.6%. the year for the w3ow that s roughly one every four trading sessions.e extraordinary statistics rp&r yesterday. utilities the worst. could be another positive set of record closes. the dow higher by 72 points, nasdaq by 10 s&p by 5 it was a risk-on day for the bond xdarket. we saw selling of bonds. yields rising. the ten-year pushed up to 2.39%, where it sits this morning as well global stocks have had an encouraging start to the week. let se1 look at how asia perford overnight. mostly tof4ñpside.c the shanghai upqnearly 1%, hang seng up about 0.7% ....