For Health Care Coverage under president obamas Affordable Health care act before the deadline. Those are some of our top stories on this february 16th president s day. Announcer from abc news this is world news now. Great to be here with you. We begin this half hour with the latest snowstorm to slam the northeast followed by bonechilling cold. Now even more snow is on the way. The dangerous snow and ice is moving in from the south where high winds have already damaged homes in virginia and a state of emergency has been declared in mississippi. Abcs rob marciano is in boston where the snow just keeps coming. Reporter yet another big storm barrelling through new england. Theres a little bit of deja vu all over again in this. This would be our fourth major storm in the past three weeks. Reporter adding even more snow to a record snow pack. Snow drifts up to six feet high on top of this warehouse in seabrook New Hampshire, causing its roof to collapse. Thankfully no one was hurt. The deep
More. East bay mud unveiled the new tiered drought rate designed to get water weighs ter to finally turn it off. Excessive use penalty if approved apply to the highest water using household. The household using 4 and a half times or more the average will see a penalty on the bill beginning the enter. It could be more than 100 dollars per month. Lowest water user those using 98 gallon or less increase 17 percent. About 4 increase 17 percent. About 4. 99 per month. Average users 2 46 gallon per day would receive 24 percent increase. About 11. 65 per month and the highest user consuming nearly 15 husz gallon per day rate jump 45 percent. About 119 dollars per month. An amount that includes excessive use penalty. Im not opposed to the idea that perhaps these people should be penaltyize slightly so that i dont have to try to take a two second shower every morning. Saving our shower water. We are using to it water our mrichbility some already conserve dont think the tiered system goes far en
Breaking news on capitol hi. The Government Shutdown is over. And the debt ceilins been raised. Brian webb tells us signed the bill of no strike tomorrow. First, we want to get to the breaking news of capitol hill of the Government Shutdown is over. President obama signs the bill 90 minutes ago. Brian. And the crisis lasted 16 days. The solution means hundreds of thousands of federal employees go back to work tomorrow and it keeps the u. S. In good financial standing around the world at least for now emotion is adopted and without objection to consider is laid on the table. With that, the Government Shutdown is shut down. The deal was done this morning. The white flag came from House Speaker boehner telling fellow republicans it is time to give up. Here he is at an ohio radio station. We fought the good fight, we just did not win. But, it splits the parties in the process and wasted billions of tax dollars. Shutting down the government was not a smart strategy and i hope we never do th
Breaking news on capitol hi. The Government Shutdown is over. And the debt ceilins been raised. Brian webb tells us signed the bill of no strike tomorrow. First, we want to get to the breaking news of capitol hill of the Government Shutdown is over. President obama signs the bill 90 minutes ago. Brian. And the crisis lasted 16 days. The solution means hundreds of thousands of federal employees go back to work tomorrow and it keeps the u. S. In good financial standing around the world at least for now emotion is adopted and without objection to consider is laid on the table. With that, the Government Shutdown is shut down. The deal was done this morning. The white flag came from House Speaker boehner telling fellow republicans it is time to give up. Here he is at an ohio radio station. We fought the good fight, we just did not win. But, it splits the parties in the process and wasted billions of tax dollars. Shutting down the government was not a smart strategy and i hope we never do th
Reporter were live here in oakland where an all right where an amber alert has been issued. Breaking news. A deadly attack overseas. We just received new information from turkey. Mornings on 2 begins right now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Ive dave clark. Im tori campbell. Its friday, february 1st. New information on the breaking news weve been following since 4 30 this morning. A child reportedly taken from her mother in oakland triggered an amber alert overnight. Brian flores is live in oakland where police new say theyve caught the suspect. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning, tori. A lot of twists and turns in this case if you will on whats been going on since this amber alert was issued. But yes, police say they do have the suspect, if you will, 56yearold kim tolefree at least in for questioning at their point. But they also say that the amber alert still remains in effect. We thought it would be a good idea to go over to go over the information again just in cas