this morning. the dow logging another record high as it marches toward 20k. day one of that fed meetinging. president-elect trump announcing exxon mobil chairman and ceo rex tillerson as his pick for secretary of state. plus, microsoft co-founder bill gates speaks out. trump s policies on trade, relations with china, interest rates, and a lot more. but first up, the march towards 20,000 continues. the dow is on track to open trading at an all-time high one day after posting its 15th record closing high since the election. we also have the fed kicking off the two-day meeting, many expecting it to result in a rate hike tomorrow. jim, i assume there s no doubt in your mind about that. no. and i think that the banks have to have it. we saw the banks waivever. this is not an all trump stock day. we got china, good numbers. italy, major recapitalization. i think there was another time this market would be up huge just recognizing these italian banks are getting their act toge
trading on wall street. john? reporter: president trump news conference was wild and wide ranging. he railed against his press coverage. said military action might boost his popularity and insisted the rollout of his travel ban was perfect until a bad court decision stopped it. overall donald trump said his white house is running like a fine-tuned machine pointing to behind the scenes progress on cutting taxes and replacing obamacare. so we begun preparing to repeal and replace obamacare and are deep in the midst of negotiations on a very historic tax reform to bring our jobs back, to bring our jobs back to this country big league. but the president also acknowledged the heat he s feeling from a series of controversies most notably investigations into interactions with russia that are among other things resulted in his firing his national security adviser michael flynn this week. the president said he wasn t aware of any contacts between his campaign and russian intelli
and consecutive upsets, trump greeted supporters. hillary clinton had phoned him to concede the election. the republican sounded a conciliatory note and thanking clinton for her years of service. i m reaching out to you for that we can work together and unify our great country. during that victory speech, trump brought up national committee chairman reince preibus to the stage thanking him for his service. the next president of the couple of hours ago. as most of wisconsin was sleeping. hillary clinton s campaign chair john podesta told supporters that hillary clinton would not be taking the stage. clinton had called trump to hundreds of protesters marching in california, this is happening right now. in a stance against the next president of the united states. you can see them marching right now. the white house, there s protests going on there. california, the protesters started from the campus of university of california berkeley, the protest became moments afte
morning is clear, warm and humid with lows near 70 and patchy fog. today is mostly sunny, very warm and humid with highs in the mid to upper 80and just a little cooler along the lakefront. tonight is clear, warm and very muggy with lows in the lower 70s with patchy fog. it will be ve don t dry quietincident free roads several overnight closures are re-openiong in the next 5 to happening right now.more delays on delta flights at mitchell international airport this morning at least one flight to detroit this evening is already delayed.the airline saying about 90 flights will have problems again today.this all comes while delta is desperate to protect it s reputation overnight the c-e-o put out a video message on twitter saying this is not who we are. the urgent push to convince customers to stick with delta comes after the airline stakes it s repuon canceling flights.before a system wide computer outage canceled more than 15-hundred flights on monday delta had 100 day
torrential rains with him.the former tropical storm is causing a flash flood watch in the tucson area it s been raining there on and off for the last 24 hours and take a look this is what s become of all that rainfall. already the tucson fire department has had to rescue 8 people and help 45 people who got stranded in their cars.and this is just the beginning forecasters are saying the flash flood threat could last in the southwest, including in all of that rain impacting not just arizona, but utah, new mexico and colorado.let s get right over to storm team 4 meteorologist brian gotter. for a check of your weather. and brian what s incredible is that javier is falling apart - all this rain is just what s left of the storm now. the humidity and temperatures increased yesterday with highs in the mid 80s under a partly cloudy sky. the lakefront cooled into the upper 70s with humid with lows near 70 and patchy fog. today is mostly sunny, very warm and humid with highs i