Hello everyone. Good morning and thank you for sticking around we are thrilled to have the governor of colorado back for the second year in a row i am an Energy Reporter at politico. We have a limited time so we will have a speed round on a number of topics for governor hogan. Colorado has very ambitious climate goals. Can you outline those for us. Yes i ran for office with a goal of 100 Renewable Energy by 2040. We already had several communities that stepped up with more aggressive goals the first was pueblo, colorado our industrial heartland with a goal of 100 Renewable Energy by 2035 also to cities that have already achieved 100 aspen and now glenwood springs. We look forward to have the statewide story. We have a variety of utility providers and number of municipals, some are leading the way, some are lagging that were looking forward to work with everybody to achieve that. You talked about 100 renewables in just 20 years but the plan you put forward has no enforcement mechanism s
Things look good for santa. All his helpers are trying to finish up their preparations. There could be some slippery conditions out on the roads. A lot of clouds building into the midatlantic. The rain is reaching parts of southern virginia. This will turn over to an icy mix. Look at the temperatures right now. It will not be pure rain. We will see some sleet around baltimore. It will be chilly today. Watch out for the slippery conditions. So far pretty light traffic. 1 accident along Greenspring Valley road and spring hill road. Watch for an accident and maybe some lanes closed. Up to speed on the major roadways. Problem free on the j. F. X. Traveling south down to coldspring. Southbound traffic is not to have the right now. Moving well at the harbor tunnel. 64 on southbound 83. This is 895 approaching the harbor tunnel. 295 southbound, 55 Miles Per Hour down towards 100. We will let you know as those problems develop. Maybe a stressful day as the clock is winding down for procrastina
First to sue at the nyse. I have a funny feeling thats going to get messy, ty. Right now though lets focus on the markets, and despite the fact that the markets do remain near record highs the underlying economy is constantly on the mind of traders down here and investors across the country. American companies and, of course, the u. S. Government also concerned with unemployment still at 7. 6 . What are the forecasts for growth Going Forward . Our senior economics reporter Steve Liesman has the latest cnbc fed survey. Steve, over to you. Sue, thanks, not very good is the forecast for this year. Strengthening next year. I want to show you whats happened to the 2013 forecast. When we first started asking about 2013 back in january 2012, 2. 6 came steadily down to 1. 9 by year end and then it went back up above 2. This time around giving up the ghost on 2 this year, bringing it down from 2. 1 to 1. 9 , but what youll see when you look at it at the next year is that belief in a rebound in
The drum roll please. Curtains pulled off two major surprise events. Concept trucks at ford, and facebooks latest twist on social media. Good afternoon, everybody. Im liz claman, the last hour of trading, and countdown to the closing bell begins right now. The big stories in a minute, first, the markets. A wishy washy day. The dow hit the highs of the session, okay, only 13 points. Well take it at the moment. Now its 1516. As it climbs. The nasdaq is languishing, and part of that, of course, is apple. Apple is the real drag on the nasdaq with the stock breaking decisively below the 500 a share level. This number here, 11 month lows, and earlier today, at 484, you know the story. Apple suppliers cutting back on production due to weaker than anticipated iphone5 demand, and then on top of that, china, flashing estimates lowering targets to 530 to 600 a share. Meantime, below all of that anyway. Facebook reversed course. The stock down, been turning back and forth on a dime. Now right arou
Melissa welcome. I am melissa francis. It is like speed dating around here. Welcome, then this field. Dennis sam stovall for bulls and bears alike. What that signals for the market. Melissa kevin brady joins us with his warning on americas growing debt problem. Dennis president obama black on capitol hill for the Third Straight day. After rounds of discussions, are we anywhere closer to a budget deal . Will dobbs has that story. Melissa carnival having yet another problem with one of its ships. Dennis time for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. Our own Nicole Petallides is standing by. Nicole we are really seeing another wedding day here on wall street. We got good economic numbers. Many of these people are surprised. To see up arrows again and had the eighth consecutive record alltime close for the dow. We are up about 62 points right now. Not too far off from our session and alltime highs. Some of the names that are helping the dial along our hewlettpackard, chevron and ibm. This