Still green for drivers. A 10 minute ride into San Francisco. Back over to you. Well today, house represcribes are expected to pass their plan to overhaul the nations tax code. Then the senate will vote and likely send the bill to the president for his signature. Heres whats included. The Corporate Tax rate will decrease to 21 . The standard deduction will increase to 12,000 for individuals, and 24,000 for couples. But the personal exception is eliminated, which will offset a large chunk of those savings for many people. Homeowners with new mortgages can duct interest on the first 750,000, which is down from the current 1 million. The Child Tax Credit will double to 2,000, and the individual Health Care Mandate is eliminated. Thats projected to increase premiums by 10 and result in 1 million more people without insurance over the next decade. And a new nonpartisan announcement is predicting that the bill will raise taxes for 5 of taxpayers next year. Over half of americans would pay mo
All the new details. Theres a News Conference about to get under way. Im keeping my eye on that. Authorities say at least 100 people were injured on the train and on the highway. Reporter out of 14 train cars, 13 crashed. At least one of them dangling over traffic. Drivers in disbelief. Several of the train cars smashed a semitruck. Anthony escaped by climbing out a window sfwl it seemed going really fast and everything went dark. And tipped over. Reporter everything went black. New tonight. Fire crews say they searched every train car and made dozens of rescues. Using jaws of life. And saws to get into the crashed cars. Reporter the next goal, recover the trains black box to determine speed. And whether the brakes were applied. The curve was restricted to 30. And it looks like he failed to slow for the curve. Reporter officials are examining the tracks condition and whether anything was in the trains way. That track hadnt been upgraded with positive train control. A hightech safety up
Move out to of our nominees that are currently pending before the committee. We obviously have to have the requisite number of members here. So until such time as we have a quorum, we will move to our scheduled full Committee Hearing on infrastructure permitting, if were able to get the quorum of 12 we will take up the businessman at that point in time. I would anticipate that it would be relatively quick. So with that, we have names on the table in front of us, but i would invite you each to come to the table as a provide an opening statement. Mr. Casing, ms. Fleagle, astroturfing, mr. Brown, ms. Caruso and mr. Russell if just want to join us there. We are here today to discuss infrastructure permitting challenges ongoing efforts to streamline federal approvals and opportunities to improve the responsiveness, the transparency and the predictability of our system of permit review. I think we all recognize the need to make investments that will both upgrade and modernize our infrastruct
Were bringing you Live Team Coverage tonight from philadelphia to berks county and Atlantic City. Well begin here in studio where its a little warmer. Glenn, first snow and then more brutal cold . As low as those feels like temperatures went in the core of this cold blast, its going to be worse by new years day. Up here in camelbin back and poconos, its going to be feel like its 20 below zero on new years morning. The first alert covers the entire area as weve been saying. Its a double whammy here. The snow part starts Early Saturday Morning and the worst of the bitter cold ends about 8 00 a. M. On tuesday. Subzero wind chills through much of the area with this cold air mass. The amount of snow, not as big a deal as the slipperiness. Its moving fairly quickly, its a sure bet its coming in. Its a sure bet its not a major storm, but it may only take an inch to cause some roads to be slippery. There it is, 7 00 a. M. Its just getting started. And once it does start, its a steady snow for
I95 in wilmington. Fia isrst alracking the conditis in your neighborhood. Again, steve, were not going to get swamped by this snow. Right. But it really doesnt factor in well with the cold temperatures weve had all week long. Yeah, normally this would be deal. Ettable snow, a coating to but the problem with this one is weve had such cold ground temperatures. So anything that falls will immediately stick if not treated. And even the treated surfaces when you get below 20 degrees, the chemicals dont work as effectively. So really your tires need some kind of traction especially when the snow compacts and turns into ice. This is a live look at i95 in south philadelphia where it is snowing if you look closely in the street lights there. Snow now falling in philadelphia. Here is your first alert. We have the entire viewing area in it. And its through tuesday. You may ask why its not going to snow through tuesday. Round one is the snow for today. Round two is the bitter cold that comes in he