The search for people has shifted to a Recovery Mission now. We will have a live report coming up later on in the show. First, we have things popping up on our radar right now. Our chief meteorologist Denis Phillips is in for shay ryan. What can you tell us, denis. A lot of lightning. Were in the middle of it in tampa. If youre expecting anyone home for the drive home, there could be a delay. The nice thing about the is they are very fastmovers. Just a ton of lightning from downtown to the bay and north of apollo beach. These are headed to largo by 4 24. High point by 4 12. In terms of wind, nothing more than 30, 40 miles pehour. But obviously lightning is the Biggest Issue right now. If you live anywhere in this corridor for the next 20 with this kind of lightning out there. This west side of the heaviest cell moving towards tampa in 10 minutes and ebor in five mites. If you live anywhere from st. Pete to the other side of pinellas, realtime lightning flashes as you see. This is movin
Gerri we begin tonight with an iconic american brand. You just heard about them, burger king, looking to head north for a whopper of a tax deal. Burger king in talks to buy tim horton, doughnut and coffee chain based in canada. The pending deal would create the worlds Third Largest fastfood company, all the while, burger king avoiding uncle sams hefty tax bill. Here to weigh in john fund of national review. Welcome to the show. You heard two previous anchors debating why burger king would do this why do you think burger king wants to move north . I think most important reason, tim horton is incredibly wellmanaged company. They have 4,000 stores. They are perfect compliment. They would be 18 billion giant in fastfood. Gerri theyre being accused doing what is called inversion. Let me read the definition of that. A u. S. Company that rye organizes in a company with a lower tax rate, by merging with a company there and allows money earned transferred to the Parent Company without paying u.
And its latest order has glaring legal flaws that is sure to keep the fcc mired in litigation for a long time. Turning to the designated entity program. The fcc must take immediate action to end its abuse. What once was a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a playpen for corporate giants. The recent aws3 auction is a shocking case in point. Dish, which has annual revenues of 14 billion and a market cap of over 34 billion holds an 85 he can witd stake in two companies that are claiming 3. 3 billion in taxpayer subsidies. That makes a mockery of the Small Business program. The 3. 3 billion at stake is real money. It could be used to underwrite over 585,000 pell grants, fund School Lunches for over 6 million children or incentivizing the service of 100,000. It denied them spectrum licenses they would have used to give Rural Consumers a competitive wireless alternative. In my view, the fcc should quickly adopt a further notice of proposed rulemaking so we c
Opening statements and comments were near and dear to some of the comments that i want to make today. But before i do that, i would like to make an observation. The observation that i have is that it was my opinion that the purpose for the Affordable Care act was to guarantee all americans have the same bad health care. And i believe that this title ii decision made by this commission is to guarantee all americans the same bad internet service. I also believe two things. And i dont believe im wrong. One is, the purpose of this open Internet Order is one, to regulate and restrict content. And number two its to open the door to taxation. What i would like is commissioner oreilly and party to tell me why im wrong. Senator, ill tackle part of the question, with respect to taxation youre right, it opens the door to billions of dollars and fees on broadband. As a result of reclassification were going to expect to get a recommendation from the joint board on april 7th and it might be kicked o
Opening statements and comments were near and dear to some of the comments that i want to make today. But before i do that, i would like to make an observation. The observation that i have is that it was my opinion that the purpose for the Affordable Care act was to guarantee all americans have the same bad health care. And i believe that this title ii decision made by this commission is to guarantee all americans the same bad internet service. I also believe two things. And i dont believe im wrong. One is, the purpose of this open Internet Order is one, to regulate and restrict content. And number two its to open the door to taxation. What i would like is commissioner oreilly and party to tell me why im wrong. Senator, ill tackle part of the question, with respect to taxation youre right, it opens the door to billions of dollars and fees on broadband. As a result of reclassification were going to expect to get a recommendation from the joint board on april 7th and it might be kicked o