Has real questions about whats going on at metro and how not only how its managed, but frankly, whether the people who serve metro in all capacity have the competence to do so. We are not waiting for the ntsbs final report to work on making the system safer. Work is already underway on 14 early actions to improve safety, Emergency Response and the suspects state of good repair. The National Transportation safety board officials were also there, but they had no new information or details about the incident to offer as their investigation is still going on. They did say, however, they expect to have a final report sometime next year. Just hours before that hearing got started metro announced they are looking to hire a fire officer to work in that nerve center for the rail system. That person will be a fulltime liaison to fire and rescue crews coordinating communication between metro and the first responders. There is new information from Court Documents in the case of the lyon sisters. T
Into this second debate with the lead in the polls, a lot of momentum, but that huge target on his back and really, you should look for jeb bush who is lagging desperately in the polls right now to change his tone a bit and thats what gop insiders are saying coming into this thing and they want him to stand up to trump and challenge him directly and it should be interesting to see how those fireworks play out and rand paul always willing to take a shot at trump. It should be an interesting and perhaps at times combative debate tonight. Lets talk for a moment, jay about the undercard debate and senator graham and louisiana Governor Jindal and former senator Rick Santorum and former new york governor pataki, could tonight give one of them a shot at making it to the big stage . Reporter yeah, you know, it did during the last debate when Carly Fiorina did. She got her chance and she moved up to the upper card if we continue with that line of thinking. Its got to do something to one of thes
Reports of snow and sleet, but we are starting to see in the past half hour the transition from the Winter Weather to just plain old rain. I want to zoom out and show you the stormscan. We are seeing a little bit of a void in the action to the southwest. I think conditions will become a little better in the past hour as the precipitation wraps up. We still have a Winter Weather advisory in effect for parts of montgomery county, gaithersburg, germantown, clarksburg included in that advisory until 8 00 in the morning. Frederick also included. Temperatures mainly above freezing. Gaithersburg, 30 degrees. There could be slick spots on the roadways. The temperatures after midnight really starting to climb and i think a lot of us will be waking up in the morning with temperatures in the 40s. You will want the umbrella for the morning commute, but big changes for the evening commute coming up from the belfort furniture weather center. I will get the details coming up. The Winter Weather is sl
Thunderstorms. Some severe. Well track that coming up in just a bit. First lets go to larry with traffic. I want to let me metro riders know the trains are running on schedule this morning. No issues to report. As well as the buses. We are definitely off to a good star. Looks like the flood water have a problem in the metro. I want to take you right now to i27 0 for those of you in frederick traveling south toward the beltway, no major issues. We have slowdowns as you get closer to clarksburg, so you want to account for that as well. Flooding water taking place on the 1500 block of east he were avenue at addison road. Where we had three cars stuck as a result of the flood waters out there we have been seeing this issue of rising water throughout the metro causing problems for drivers and various accidents throughout the metro, we are asking people to stay away from areas that are dangerous and make sure you slow down and get plenty of time to get to your destination because the roads a
Hear that. You can always hear that. Bob sa pa san any, one week down. What do you think happens in the stock market . A stock market believes the deal will be made in the next several days. Certainly before the punitive october 17th deadline. Take a look at the dow. It wasnt a pretty or magnificent market, but the bottom line is, we ended on the plus side two to one advancing declining stocks. Volume is light. No one is watching volume. Everyone is watching washington right now. Bottom line, smooth and steady as she goes. Watch the tenyear. Its been rock solid around 2. 6 . As long as thats not going crazy, the rest of the market is steady. The vix elevated a little where it was earlier in the week but nothing like back in june. Bottom line, still pretty steady as well. Interest rate sensitive stocks have had a tough time all week. That area is a little rocky. Reits down a little, Home Builders also to the downside. A brand name ipo, the fourth one this week. P potbelly went public, 2