Move what youre trying to do welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Stocks are lower, but steady, headed in the long holiday weekend. Nasdaq trying to scratch out gains. Dow 20,000, will have to wait. Still on track for its seventh week of gains. Health care, by the way, the leading secretarier in todays session. Heres what else is happening this hour. A developing story were watching closely, the fbi investigating a hack at the fdic which regulates the big banks. More on this story ahead. Reports that u. S. Government is now requesting select foreign visitors provide their facebook, twitter and other social media accounts when arriving the in the country. Consumer sentiment on the rise and new home sales rising 5 . We also have jon fortt here with us for the hour, riding shotgun. Welcome. Thank you. Good to have you here. President elect making waves today when it comes to russia. Our Nuclear Weapons arsenal and the future of our air defense forces. Both stories front and center this
Hirsbrunner. Rain this morning followed by heavier rain wednesday. Flooding concerns increase by midweek. As an investigation continues, students at Hargrave Military Academy are back to their normal schedule. Message was recieved over social media last week with possible ties to isis, the campus shut down for the weekend. Law enforcement spent the weekend patroling the area and students were allowed to go home. School leaders say schedules are back to normal and there are no updates on the investigation. Pittsylvania county sheriffs officers say they are aggressively following up on many different leads. The man accused of abducting and killing teenager Nicole Lovell now has a new attorney. David eisenhauer hired Tony Anderson from roanoke to represent him in court. The Montgomery County juvenile and domestric Relations Court confirmed the change yesterday morning. Eisenhauer was first appointed christiansburg attorney chris tuck by the court. Natalie keepers is also charged in lovell
Suffered its worst trading session in 15 years. The ruble bounced back at the open this morning, but it has since dropped once again, falling into negative territory against the dollar despite these extremely hard core moves by the russians. Russian stocks selling up again as Oil Continues to decline. Michelle ka reduce sa cabrera will join us with the russian story and why the markets are very worried in just a moment. Headlines out of china grabbing attention this morning. The first flash reading of the hsbc pmi showing the First Manufacturing contraction there in seven months. It was a reading below 50. This is the latest sign of weakness in the chinese economy. Stocks rose on hopes of more stimulus from chinas central bank. As for how things are shaping up here at home, check out the futures this morning. At least in early trading, remember yesterday, everything reversed by the end of the day. We were up 100 points in premarket. But in the premarket this morning, dow futures are in
Morning. Most of it will be done by saturday noontime. We are offer to a cold start now. We are just in the went from the bay west all across virginia maryland and into West Virginia. We will have these temperatures stay below freezing here through much of the morning. And then by noontime in the upper 30s hitting mid fourth midafternoon with increasing clouds and then the rain snow arrives tonight. Next weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 5 11 a look at your bus stop forecast for this friday. A right now a water main break in Prince Georges County is affecting a short cut that you may take to work. Megan mcgrath is on old an napannapolis road with more. Reporter look at this hole. This was created by a broken water main. They have started the work of digging up the pipe, but they havent started the repair yet. So this will be with us for a while. This is a popular cut through. A lot of people take to goat from 450 over to 197. But all lanes are blocked this morning. You are not
All the counties youre seeing in pink will be under that warning. A winter storm watch will begin this evening. Thats going to run through monday evening for hour ward Loudoun County northern Fauquier County and all of Frederick County maryland. Rain and showers arrive in the early evening hours and overnight tonight. During the day today were looking at mainly all snow very little rain chances mixing in, especially in the d. C. Metro area. Delays are likely because of that tomorrow morning. Well continue to track this storm system very tricky storm system. Coming up in ten minutes, ill have your full forecast on how much snow you could be expecting in your neighborhood. This is the storm here moving through illinois and air areas to the best. Snow totals in ten minutes, adam. Thanks amelia. With this next round of Winter Weather coming our way, road crews are gearing up. At 4 00 the d. C. Snow team will deploy, more than 200 trucks will hit the roads. More trucks could join them durin