ever today and it closed above that milestone too. sprinting from 17,000 to 18,000 in just 119 trading days. now, that s fast but not the fastest move, not by a long shot. back in 1999, the dow jumped a thousand points in 24 trading days. why the big spike today? you can thank the bold, burly u.s. economy. we learned today it grew at a 5% annual pace in the year recorded. that s the fastest quarterly growth rate in 11 years. consumers are feeling good. one measure of sentiment clocked in today at 8 year high and growth of personal spending doubled in november from october. with that encouraging news about the u.s. economy, here s a look at the final tally on wall street today. the dow off its high at the session but still jumping 64 points for that new record high of 18,024. nasdaq though, down by 16 on a pullback in biotech stocks and the s&p 500 added three, settling at its own record close of 2082. that s the 51st all time closing high this year. stocks have been notchin
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out, there so not all coming from the same system, but the net is the same, cloud which rain showers, you can see on storm scan3, the rain to the south moving to the north, expect showers by the time we gee go through later this evening, right now clearing, actually going on, but, that is not going to be lasting all day long. our weather watchers are up. we love that they are. atlantic city, 32 degrees, collegeville, budd says it is 27, norristown, tracey says it is 27, newark, john says it is 23, and of course that atlantic city temperature from our friends tim mitchell. colds temperatures warming up to 42, start to pick up shower chances later this afternoon specially the farther south you are. we also have this, if you are going to the north, and this is from 6:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, we ve got some freezing rain advisories, out there, for the poconos, just take it easy, trace of ice could be expected, in those areas. otherwise it changes over to rain for the res
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pour yourself a tall glass of hater-ade, this is the the nightly show ! (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central larry: whoo! yes! thank you very much! thank you, i appreciate it. welcome to the the nightly show. i am larry larry, larry (cheers and applause) we ve got a story that really blew up over the weekend. yes, the mets have won nine games! unbelievable! (cheers and applause) also, this new blowback today to the espn reporter whose abusive rant went viral. britt mchenry has been suspended for a week after she was caught on camera berating a towing company employee. larry: well, you know. (audience reacts) yeah, but, you know, you get your car towed, you re going to be angry. i mean, i remember one time i said to the lady at the tow place, hey! i m angry! so i get it. what could she have said that s worthy of a job suspension? i m in the news, sweetheart. i will (bleep)ing sue this place. (audience reacts) larry: yep, sounds like