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S&P 500 Hits Record as Optimism About Economy Rises Last Updated This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of By: Ella Koeze·Data delayed at least 15 minutes·Source: FactSet Wall Street’s rally stretched into a third day on Thursday, with the S&P 500 reaching a record high, as investors stopped worrying about inflation and rising interest rates and focused instead on what looks to be an increasingly peppy economic recovery. The S&P 500 rose 1 percent, climbing above its Feb. 12...

Help battle the blazes. martha: there are times you hope for rain and this is one of them. adam, thank you very much, well check in -- well check in with you later. bill: and we are seeing torrential rain causing epic flooding from the gulf coast to the florida panhandle, red cross giving shelter to people from a flooded 200 unit apartment complex in pensacola. look at those images, folks calling it the worst flooding since katrina, summer of 2005. in a moment here a live report on the extreme w...