institute senior economist and policy. of good morning to you. i want to start with a new york headline that caught your attention over the weekend asically saying as jobs grow and dow climbs trump takes credit. question, should he? what do you this? guest: it is a pretty simple know. the momentum in the labor market started before he came into if anything it slowed we t the last six months added 179,000 jobs on average. to per month compares 208,000 over the same six months last year. anything it is a little bit of a slowdown but generally thumb is the president takes credit. before we e a while can see any trump effect. host: stephen moore. guest: the economy has accelerated almost in every regard. a good jobs report on friday and that is a a good report we had the months before. the stock market, we saw what appened the day after the election where it went up 700 points. investors are very encouraged nd anticipating this trump agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and so on. g
know. the momentum in the labor market started before he came into if anything it slowed we t the last six months added 179,000 jobs on average. to per month compares 208,000 over the same six months last year. anything it is a little bit of a slowdown but generally thumb is the president takes credit. before we e a while can see any trump effect. host: stephen moore. guest: the economy has accelerated almost in every regard. a good jobs report on friday and that is a a good report we had the months before. the stock market, we saw what appened the day after the election where it went up 700 points. investors are very encouraged nd anticipating this trump agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and so on. grew 1.5% with obama last year so it was de decelerating. now we are seeing an acceleration of the economy. point i would make about everybody looking at right now in the washington times i think trump has to get the tax cut passed to keep the momentum going. you see a record high
during the day tomorrow. reagan national now 36 degrees. dulles 33. bwi marshall 34 degrees. quiet start to the day. cloud cover at the moment. and as you look to the south and west, look into western tennessee and northern parts of mississippi and alabama, shower activity. that s our next storm system. will be moving in our direction. i ll have more details on what time it might arrive and what we can expect tomorrow coming up. for today, partly sunny conditions and should be relatively quiet for you. winter weather advisory goes in effect early tomorrow morning for northern maryland and parts of west virginia, and virginia as well. winchester under the advisory. likely will be expanded. this is where we re most likely to see accumulating snow in northern maryland and certainly a possibility even here in the city tomorrow we could get light accumulations. i m going to give you the seven- day forecast, might as well give it to you early. snow, rain for saturday. and quieter w
begin with a winter weather alert, another round of snow heading our way. thanks for joining us tonight. a winter weather advisory for the d.c. area will go into effect in just a few hours. fox 5 s gary mcgrady has the latest tonight. thanks a lot. cold out there tonight is the first thing you ll notice. the snow is still hours away now. temperatures outside really dropping out in the suburbs, frederick right now 28, baltimore 32, here in town holding at 38 degrees, manassas is freezing, culpeper freezing, winchester freezing, martinsburg below. once this precipitation overspreads the area, i think it s going to start as all snow, here s what we re talking about. we re already beginning to see the faintest of returns back out to the west just about to cross over into at least parts of extreme western virginia. most of west virginia is covered up with some sort of precipitation now. distinct rain/snow line, too and the snow is falling around towards indiana up towards ohio,
recent days. many parts of our regions saw snow as well as snow and slush made it difficult on some of the roads. fast forward and here s how things are looking out right now. much of the snow and slush gone but it is windy and cold out there. gwen tolbart has the latest on the weather. [ no audio ] [ no audio ] can you hear me? where we ve got the satellite radar composite and you can see where all the snow has moved off to the northeast and headed to the canadian maritime. here at home, things are different. clouds rolling in across the area but we will see clear skies into the course of tonight. not bad with a few clouds hanging around. here s a look at current wind gusts because that is a big story, they are gusting up to 33 miles an hour in many of our neighborhoods between 33 and 40 into the day before it s said and done. temperaturewise we are into the 30s, however, factor in the wind and it actually feels like it is only in the 20s across our area. take a look, only