Conditions for firms so that they can compete best. Turning to the budget, one also from abroad has the impression that there has been a turn toward heavier military expenditures, certainly more aggressive stance than one thats perceived here. Is that important in terms of the budget or is it more show than reality in terms of spending . If its important in terms of a reallocation of spending, does that limit their opportunities for fiscal effective fiscal adjustment in the regard we have been discussing in the next few years . Well, i mean, if you look at the russian budget, you really have three key big budget categories, and one is social policy expenditure, social benefits. One is National Defense and security. And the third is spending on the national economy, which is in large part subsidies to the economy. This is not such an unusual structure of the budget, but of course, if your revenue situation dramatically changes, the question is can you just cut one or two of these budget
Breaking now in the live alert center. The initial report on the fire that killed hamilton firefighter Patrick Wolterman is now out. And its clear there are still a lot of questions. The 13 page report does not give a secondbysecond account of what happened in that burning home. It does pinpoint the 1 25 am as the fell through the floor into the basement. That was 14 minutes after a Police Officer reported seeing heavy smoke from the home on pater avenue back in december. The report also says wolterman was handling a charged fire hose. According to our partners at the journal news. The hamilton fire chief says the department will not release more, because its part of an ongoing investigation. Woltermans death has been ruled homicide. To the race for the white house. Bernie sanders locked up New Hampshire for the democrats. And Republican Donald Trump is walking away with a win in the granite state. But Ohio Governor john kasich had a strong showing as well, coming in second in New Hamp
At 8 00 it should be 50. 62 at noontime. 67 this afternoon before the blast comes in of cold air. Were going to talk about that for the weekend coming up, what that means to baseball and your weekend. All that in your accuweather sevenday forecast. Weather then heather every 7 minutes. Happy friday to you. Happy friday to you. Were going right over to our mass transit chart and tell you if you use mass transit you should be happy. Long island railroad, new Jersey Transit on or close. Metro north for the most part no major problems to report. Our subways are doing okay. We do have some construction there. That could slow you down as you try to leave brooklyn and go north on the bqe east, that ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge has been reopened. The inbound side of the brooklyn also reopened earlier. Our street cleaning rules are in effect. Thank you. And the new york mets are the talk of the town this morning. That game took something out of me. They beat the dodgers in a nail biter on the ro
Comeback. Go go go big or go home the mets getting the best revenge. The big homer slamming the dodgers, the most expensive team in baseball fighting in the dugout. Chase utley came into the game late, not enough. The mets and the cubs now set for an epic showdown. Go go go big or go home good morning, america. How about those mets . [ applause ] yay. What a win. Jumping up and down like that. Did you see the slip and it was great. They were partying. Cubs mets. Brings me back. T. J. Holmes will have a complete wrapup coming up. We begin with the powerful storms slamming california. Triggering those mudslides. So thick and deep in some areas. Cars were buried. Somehow they managed to open the doors and it is not over. Abcs aditi roy is in lake hughes, california, for us this morning. Good morning, aditi. Reporter good morning, robin. Its a mess out here. Were standing on one of the roads washed out filled with stranded cars like this suv. Its tilted and its wheel completely buried in t
Chris cimino is with us. His poughkeepsie along the shore and out at islip, 49 degree. Very uniform temperatures. A lot of clouds left over and leftover rain you see spinning north and east of us. Its thinning out and the back edge is getting closer and closer to the light rain and mist. Its going take a few more hours. Once we get to noontime we start to see things dry out. Clouds will hang tough most of the time. A High Temperature of 58 degrees. Changes in the sevenday. Any changes in the commute, heres some changes. Ill start with good news. We had an accident heading on the new england throughway. That is cleared out and so have the delays, but we still have a disabled vehicle. This is heading southbound on the fdr drive. That takes out the right lane. Emergency vehicles got there. Left lane closed for construction. The center lane getting by. Very minor delays. Also with the flooding out there, route 35 is shut down between south street and clinton avenue. Northbound, you have a