The vote 11 40 eastern, a final vote around 1 30 this afternoon. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain lord god, in these difficult and challenging times, remind us that the earth belongs to you, and you have not abandoned it unite us with the understanding that you are our father, and we are all members of the human family. We pray for all who have been impacted by the pain of this us to crisis season. Use our senators to make the weak strong, the sick healthy, and the broken whole. Lord, surround those who have been shaken by anguish with your divine presence and peace. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , jun
Ten points. The nasdaq off by 22. Crude oil prices were up sharply overnight, topping 40 a barrel. First time weve seen that in quite a while. That came after the announcement yesterday of a surprise job in u. S. Inventories. However, wti has turned around since then. Looks like we flipped that contract, too. If you were looking at 40 overnight, were now looking at the may contract. Thats a decline of 7 cents to 37. 69. It will be interesting to see how this new contract plays out. We did see a huge gain in crude oil prices yesterday. The other big mover this morning, currency. The dollar hitting a 17 hch month low against the yen. This came after the minutes from the last months fed meeting suggested that the central bank is unlikely to raise Interest Rates before june. There were a lot in these minutes, but most people are looking at the doves comments after what we heard from janet yellen just last week. Brian . Some corporate stories to talk to you about this morning. Just go right
Im not kidding. We have a few sprinkles this morning. No snow reported in massachusetts, but theres a few sprinkles out there. Temperature ins the 30s and 40s out there. 34 in boston, we have warmed up in the last couple of minutes. We will continue the warming trend later today getting into the 50s. The satellite radar picture shows a few showers out there. Light rain along the coast and show showers pushing to the north and east. We have a little bit of a wintery mix out there in the north. This is all part of the system that produced some heavy snow in the midwest. No snow out of that system, but we could see some soaking rain, then a little bit of a wintery mix and then some snow flakes mixing in. Before that, hour by hour, the temperatures jump intoog the 50s and we have a soaking rain all the way through i will have the hour by hour forecast showing you when and where it will be coming in. We could hardly wait. Wove some breaking news this morning, a bomb threat forced a Turkish
Norwood, providence, rhode island, worcester, and this is where i have some flurries on the map this morning and we could actually get a little dusting on the ground because temperatures are certainly cool enough, so lets watch out for a couple slippery spots, very, very limited, most of accumulation happens at cape and islands to near freezing temperatures there and by 9 00 a. M. Bands of storms rolling off the ocean, ocean effects snow showers on and off through the day and bands waiver from the cape to the south sore and 25 in boston and further inland more breaks of sun and keeps getting cooler 20 to 28 this afternoon, risk of snow on the cape and on the coast and break down the extent of accumulation. Coming up Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic. How are drive times doing . Back in the habit seeing the heavy volume in many of the typical spots. Expressway is one of them. Average speeds 18 Miles Per Hour, another spot where we usually see issue 93 south as we head through m