Incident at Westfield High School in chantilly in fairfax county. The building was partially evacuated a short while ago. Firefighters are trying to clear out smoke. The smoke came from a students cell phone and that the battery might have been punctured. One person was taken to the hospital. We dont know if its a student or teacher. We do know theyll be just fine. Barbara . Thank you. Developing now on capitol hill, the house votes to pass the spending bill. A huge step in keeping the government running past tuesday. Right now the senate is debating the bill and will cast their vote later today. Looking live at the white house, its a busy last day before vacation in a few hours, president obama will host his final press conference of the year. You can watch a special report on nbc 4 at 1 50. Then later tonight, he will fly out to San Bernardino to privately meet with families affected by the latest mass shooting. He will then be heading to hawaii for their annual vacation. Temperature
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The top of the beltway. You can see were looking good this morning. Lets keep it this way for everybody who still is in town and has to go to work or school right now. Lets keep it nice and light here this morning. A big look at the beltway. You can see we dont have any other issues there. There goes my slow role in here once again this morning. Taking a look at that issue we had earlier. It might be slow for folks looking there. 66 and sudley looking quite good this morning and then remember in fairfax, Camp Washington intersection there, that kind of threeway intersection, the crash on main street at fairfax boulevard, thats where Megan Mcgrath is for us this morning. Well have travel times in ten minutes. Thank you, melissa. We just learned of the name of the man killed in a crash in upper marlboro. Maryland police say a 20yearold died in the headon crash last night. The scene was just cleared by police in the last hour. Were working to find out how badly the other driver was hurt.
Forecast for brent crude saying oversupply is likely to peak in whos doing it best. The Second Quarter of the next and candidly, new york really year. Those prices are looking at a was doing the best work in this near fiveyear low. And the worst case scenario, brent could fall as low as 43 space. Were in a good position from a in the next six months. Thats something to be watching. Budget point. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. On a cash basis. Good morning. We have Corporate News this morning as well. Here are the stocks to watch. Reaching nearrecord levels. The first one out of the box is im comfortable well be able to merck reportedly in talks to buy absorb and pay for the costs. Cubist pharmaceuticals to make and im also confident that the antibiotics and they will pay entrepreneurs coming with roughly 7 billion. Foreignborn citizens and thats more than 34 premium. Immigrants will more than contribute their fair share to also in other drug news, bristol atlantas economy and m
Looks set for a landslide victory in this weekends election. Uber waits to hear if one of its will be babbed as Global Expansion blocks hit a number of roadblocks. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And we have had the iea oil market come out in the last couple of minutes. Some headlines from that, they said the selloff in oil gained pace after the opec meeting on november 27th after they decided to keep its output target unchanged. Of course, we knew that already. They say the outlook for Global Oil Demand pore 2014 has been cut by 50,000 barrels a day. Also saying the strong dollar and the listing of subsidies have so far limited price effects on demand. While in the last month or so, weve been focusing on the opec meeting citing weak demand and the strong u. S. Dollars as reasons for this oil price, overall, they say surge in nonopec supplies to its highest growth ever and a contraction to demand growth there is the reason