Anna relief in hong kong . The hang seng stormed toward the close after reports the chief executive carrie lam with withdraw the controversial extradition bill. Boris, beaten. U. K. Edges toward a snap election as a cross Party Alliance moves to block you know deal brexit. The antieasing brigade. Noc rosengren says he sees need for immediate policy action and the chorus of voices against bond buying grows at the ecb. Good morning. Matt good morning. Less than half hour from the european open and looking at the japanese yen to see what kind of effect the removal of the extradition bill is having on risk sentiment. This is a threeday chart. Maybe a little easier to see what is going on in those terms if i put it in a oneday chart. The yen is weakening. More willing to take risk after the extradition bill has been removed. That reaction should show you how important these hong kong protest have been to Global Markets. Look at what we are expecting in todays trade in the European Equity in
Saturday night im walter perez there is a new name in the race for philadelphia mayor. If any day is a good day to play the lottery this could be a particularly good day to buy your ticket. The power ball jack pos has reached jaw dropping 380 milliondollar. Oh, yeah. Big story on action news is much needed break from the bitter told. Today was first day in a while we could walk outside without being wrapped up in a weather resistant cacoon. Best part tomorrow will be better. Meteorologist Melissa A Magee joins us with our first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. Not a bad way to start out our weekend. Temperatures nice and comfortable at least for the month of february, High Temperatures today in the upper 30s, lower 40s in philadelphia a coming in with a high of 44. Fortytwo the the high in trenton. Fortythree in wildwood. Fortynine today in dover. Thirtynine in allentown, lehigh valley. Poconos at freezing mark for a High Temperature. We are still dealing with the the south
There has one day where we hit the average. Every other one say for the fourth of february and the eighth were all below average. Fit felt ab normally cold to you, there is a reason for it and it will stay that way, unfortunately folks here. We will go out to storm scan three. Nice and clear at this hour. But the wind is only going to be getting more progressively strong as the day progresses here. As that happens, yeah it will in the feel any better than Single Digits in any given location and along with that persistent northwest breeze it will also mean thaw will probably see a couple flurries up in the poconos, a few straight up snow showers. Watch out for. That nothing that should a accumulate but talk about wintry atmosphere. It is still feeling and looks like winter vittoria. Absolutely, just always a good idea and im sure you have done this but doublecheck fluid in your vehicles. We have had tons of disabled vehicles in these past couple weeks as a result of the weather so just
Yes, we had an eyes on the storm system but it is looking like it the will bypass us. It doesnt mean were totally out of the woods. You might want be taking back that high five but next week could be just as stormy for us. Models have been all over the place lately abe we will talk about the possibility of course just because so many people will be traveling into next week now that we are just one week away from christmas. But yes, at least initially, the forecast is on our side. It is looking dry for us. We will have a all of the details. As erika and ukee mentioned it is feeling colder. We have to talk temperatures too. We will go over everything in the next few minutes. Grief counselor will be at Bensalem High School where a student was struck and killed. Sixteen yearold, minute net zeka was struck and killed. Jane carabao is at the high school right now. Reporter ukee and erika, School District officials will be discussing School Bus Safety issues in hopes of seeing something more
Msnbc analyst and former chairman of the Republican National committee Michael Steele and New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt is with us along with willie geist up in new york. Willie is in new york and were in washington this morning because we had an amazing event last night that we were honored to be a part of. It was great. It was the 35th anniversary of the National Democratic institution, the 35th annual event that they have. Of course, the institute was inspied by Ronald Reagans 1982 westminster speech and there were tribute toes john mccain and kofi annen. Madeleine Madeleine Allbright is behind the whole thing and got us to engage. You say susan rice there. My brother mark was there and we were honored to be a part of it. The theme of the nights was reaffirming democracy here and around the world and mdi does so much to try and continue that effort. So important. Really does. Really does. And caddie, the theme of it, again, for 35 years theyve been bringing you know, sort