In october of 1835, there was a letter sent to my family asking them to join the revolution. A copy of the letter is actually in my office here in washington, d. C. You can see them saying, the time to revolt is now. Over the generations, what has your family done for a living . Rep. Taylor i have been working in commercial real estate, oil and gas, farming, my family has a long history of texas with a lot of love for our state. I am very honored to represent the people of the Third District of texas. Who are your parents . Rep. Taylor my father is an attorney and a businessman, my mother is a homemaker. I grew up in midland, texas and i was born in dallas. I live about 50 miles from where i was born, not too far from home. I joined the marine corps, took a commission after i graduated from college, served on active duty for several years, continued to serve my country, got my mba from Harvard Business school, then i moved back to dallas where i was born. Went into real estate, and i w
Faces with our oneonone interviews. Next, lawmakers from texas, new jersey, and hawaii. Taylor , the Third District of texas, is first. Congressman, your seventh generation texan. Rep. Taylor my family came to texas in 1826 and became mexican citizens. In 1835, october of 1835, a letter was sent to my family asking them to join the revolution. A copy of the letter is in my office here in washington dc area washington, d. C. The generations, what has your family done for living . Olivia ive been in commercial rep. Taylor ive been in commercial real estate, farming, i lived one mile away from where my greatgrandfather farmed for the great depression. Our family has a great love for the state, and it has been an incredible ride. I am honored to represent the people of the Third District of textures texas in congress. Who are your parents . Rep. Taylor my father was an attorney and businessman. My mother is a homemaker. I grew up in midland texas and i was born in dallas. I lived 50 miles
Towards novato and spilling in to petaluma. Quarter mile visibility there. A half mile in novato. So that is going to be around through the entire morning commute. A beautiful picture from mt. Tamalpais of the friendly skies, if you will. If you will. At noon, 58 to 62. 54 at 7 00. Lets find out if the roads are friendly this morning. Mike, they are pretty friendly. A look at the traffic maps and youll notice its all green out there. There was an Early Morning fatal accident in the sonoma area. Highway 116 at east bonness road. It doesnt look like lanes are blocked at this point but you could see slowing if youre driving in the area. Westbound 580 so you can see youre under 40 miles an hour out of tracy and then very slow as you make your way into the Altamont Pass so that stretch from tracy out to dublin is now 39 minutes, a little bit of slowing there. Southbound 680 and highway 85 in the south bay. Thank you, frances. Back to that story about American Airlines. If you are traveling
13 points. The nikkei was down. Closed down by a half percentage point. You did see that stocks were higher in china. Hang seng up by 1. 5 then this morning in early trading in europe, take a look things are mixed stocks are slightly low ner germager lower in germany and france. Stocks in italy down by 0. 6 then you have crude oil. Crude Oil Yesterday ended up down back below 58. This morning its up, but still below 58, trading at 57. 57 to the story of the morning the closely watched senate race in alabama, Democrat Doug Jones is the apparent winner there, though republican roy moore is not conceding just yet john harwood joins us from birmingham he has that story. Good morning good morning. This was a very big victory for the Democratic Party first time they won a United States senate race in alabama in 25 years a big defeat for President Trump and his party. Look at the numbers. Twopoint lead for doug jones. Roy moore has not yet conceded he said gods in control were still waiting f
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