They are putting plastic bags over our servicemen. In mexico, more violence today. These were two countries where u. S. Investors had relatively been optimistic recently. So the question is, is the tide turning for good over there . And a big mystery in brazil involving one of that countrys biggest countries companies, excuse me. All that and more today on power lunch. And we begin with sue at the new york stock exchange. Hi, sue. Hi, ty. Lets get you up to date on all the numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial average is in the green right now by about 31 points or so. The s p 500, though, is negative, not by much. But it is negative. And the nasdaq composite is up about 13 points on the trading session. The transports rebounded earlier today to fresh highs after the midoctober selloff. Up about 18 since october 5th. Transports are up 23 this year. Helping the transports, of course, as ty mentioned, falling oil prices. Brent crude now down 2. 5 today. Give or take. 26 , though, on a yearto
network is exploring challenges millions of americans are facing as they try to find a job. rich is one of the fbn reporters who contributed to the special report. what did you find out? we examined a number of different issues. i was charged at looking at union membership declined dramatically over the last three decades and with nearly 13 million wok looking for work we examined whether the union decline has helped or hurt the american job market. we spoke with a business owner in iowa. he says he employs about 600 workers and says he prefers hiring in right to work states. if it is a right to work state we will look at it much more favorably because it is in essence going to be easier to work there. reporter: right to work laws have critics, namely unions. james bowland is the first native born irishman to lead an american union. he says the laws are a bad deal for workers. but it is better i think where you have the collective bar gaining relationship
large area of high pressure producing all of this heat and around it, shannon, we could be seeing some strong showers to thunderstorms firing up from montana into areas just south of the great lakes and into the southeast. same areas that were actually hit hard already with some of these storms that produced damaging winds friday night so again looking at that possibility for more severe weather. tough news for those folks along the storm damage line. thank you very much. fox news has live team coverage of the storm and its aftermath. elizabeth is live in west virginia and peter doocy is covering the cleanup live in virginia. shannon, virginia s governor bob mcdonald said we are now in the midst of the worst nonhurricane power outage as someone honks while they re driving by. here in maryland to governor martin o malley just said that the reason things are so bad here is because there was no time to prepare. we don t have the sound from martin o malley. he said normally