Were not bluffing. There have been some big changes at the department of justice. Tyler is on vacation. Simon is my partner. Yeah, the monumental approach heading towards 17,000. Now 46 points away. Sarah eisen is joining us on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with more details. Were on dows 17,000 watch. Certainly if you look at the action today of what is driving the gains in the Dow Jones Industrial average, and we are it looks like less than 40 points away here. Caterpillar is the biggest merck had been a big gainer. Its a milestone, a psychological number, and it represents the steady climb that we have seen both in the dow and the s p 500. Were heading for six straight sessions of gains. There is the Dow Jones Industrial average over one year. Last time we saw the big number, that was 16,000, was november 2013. So talk about seven months. Interestingly enough, simon, seven months before that is when we saw the 15,000 left. The point is youre rising 1,000 points every seve
Broadcast center. This is abc7 news. Is Donald Sterling a racist . No, i dont believe it in my heart. Have you heard him say derogatory things about minorities in general and blacks in particular . Absolutely. You have heard hem say derogatory things . Yes. The woman at the center of the scandal that nearly tore apart the nba sits down with Barbara Walters. At times defending the clippers in an exclusive interview. Not only does she say sterling is not a racist, she says she snot his mistress. She is not his mistress. For a week she has been seen and not heard. Now the woman at the center of the Los Angeles Clippers controversy is speaking exclusively with abc news Barbara Walters. You just left Donald Sterling. What is his state of mind right now . Confused. I think he feels very alone. You do not consider him a racist . No. Do you think he should apologize . Absolutely. Do you think he will apologize . Only god knows. The woman who recorded team owner Donald Sterlings infamous racist
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Flooded tonight. This area and this roadway has been shut down for several hours as the flooding continues to grow out here. Ive driven all over the north bay today, and this is the worst ive found right here on highway 121. You can see the water coming over the curb here into the street. A few brave souls tried to make it through but they realized the water was too deep. This was not the only section of roadways that was flooded. This is in sonoma county. The expressway that section of the road had to be closed because of flooding. Take a look at this a little south. This is in petaluma. This is a driving range. No golf today. Another problem on highway 101. They are making sure drains are clear so the highway doesnt flood. Obviously a major concern for them. I did check, i can tell you the chp will continuing monitoring through the evening. They will open highway 121 when the water goes down, but dont plan on that happening until we see a break in the rain. Reporter were tracking the
But we are dealing with showers in the north bay right now, pretty quiet in the south bay as well as the east bay, so we are going to take a look at stormtracker 4 here and you can see dry conditions in the south bay right now. As for the east bay we are not seeing much, mainly along alameda, oakland, berkeley, heavier rain through richmond and panola, the yellow on your screen indicating moderate downpour, about 1 2 per hour. Peninsula quiet but you can see wet on the gulf coast Golden Gate Bridge. The rest of the day in my full forecast later. Kron4s mike pelton is live in Sonoma County where theres flooding that caused some roadways to be shut down and we can see the hazy closed there highways closed there, mike. Reporter yeah, a lot of people trying to get to wine country this morning but this rain putting a damping a damper on their efforts. As you can see here as i pan over this road, the 121 is closed, its flooded out. Thats causing a lot of confusion this morning, a lot of driv