The week is halfway over already. Exactly. Winter is almost fully over. Sue, what, 48 hours and counting . Winter not giving up. Well have it happen officially but it wont feel like a change of season at least not initially. So yes as chris said, the American Flag here tells the story of just how gusty those win are. So it is 34 degrees, but it feels like 24 outside. 16mile per hour sustained winds, and gust that is are even higher. Your sunrise time is 7 08. Nothing on ultimate doppler or satellite. The clear skies unable temperatures to really, really plunge overnight. So today we have those windchills in the 20s, to start, we have deceptive sunshine throughout the day. Yesterday was so slight full. We got to 68 degrees, but not today. Fortythree will be the high, brisk, blustery, with this is winds making it feel even colder than 43 degrees. So that is a last blast we hope of winter. We know how it is around here, bob kelly even after the season changes. We can never pack up those s
Hi, don. Hi, suzanne. Thank you very much. Im don lemon. Brooke is off today. The eyes of the world are focusing now on the white house. Within the next hour, congressional leaders will begin to arrive for what is likely to be a very tense meeting with the president. This is perhaps the final effort to avert the tax increase that is expected to cost the average family several thousand dollars a year. Four days remain to reach an agreement, get it passed by the house and the senate and signed into law by the president. Were talking a long shot here. Now, want to show you the players. President , there in the middle, democrats nancy pelosi and harry reid. Republicans Mitch Mcconnell and john boehner. Those four members of congress are expected to make the drive from the capital, which you see on the right, down pennsylvania avenue, to the white house, there on the left. And we expect them to enter through a side door on the west side of the mansion. Thats the entrance right there. And th
Independence. Our third line, 202 5855883, set aside for iraq war veterans. You can contact us via social media, cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan if you want to make a comment and participate that way. You can send an email. Of the financial times. Obama to send 300 troops to iraq as sunni rebellion grows. That is how they headline it. Inside, they have an editorial. Where the blame lies in iraq. The instinctive response of many western is is that the usled invasion of 2003 is the cause of todays turmoil. The invasion is judged to have been a mistake. Host all this was bound to create longlasting turbulence your custom of the editorial in the financial times. Of the newront york times. Obama orders 300 advisors to iraq. A story below that about Prime Minister Nouri Almaliki and potential replacements. Challengers emerge to replace maliki. Three members of the shiite majority have emerged as possible candidates to take over as Prime Minister. It says that the kurds want the Iraq Central Gov
A new record by far. And it is game time, win or lose 14 usa today in the world cup. Four team usa today in the world cup. That is going to be a 4 p. M. Eastern time. First . A lot of news to cover for you this morning. Chrysler just breaking the news on their june auto sales, much better than expected numbers, over nine percent. Alix steel has more on chrysler sales. Lets put that number in perspective. Auto sales for june, for chrysler, over 9. 2 . The estimate was for 5. 9 , almost double what analysts were estimating compared to an expected drop in ford sales as well as in gm sales. Chrysler really outpacing the industry there. Why did this happen . You can attribute it to truck sales over car sales being down 19 . Within the brand it was really the fiat brand and the jeep brand that help to drive sales higher. Interestingly enough, chrysler also sees june u. S. Industry auto sales to be 7 Million Units spaced out for the entire year, much higher than estimates of 16. 3 million. So
Donald trump is not up for the job of being president. As democrats head into the second night, there are more major developments on two stories from trump world. In a damning report on Russian Election interference, the Senate Intelligence committee described a grave counterintelligence threat inside the 2016 Trump Campaign. In other words, there is now even more evidence tieing the Trump Campaign to russian intelligence. Much more on this is coming up. But first, after weeks of protesting efforts to dismantle the Postal Service, democrats can claim a cautious victory. Trumps postmaster general is backing down, saying that he will suspend all changes being made to the agency for now. Louis dejoy said to avoid even the appearance of an impact on the election. I am suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded. He added, the Postal Service is ready today to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall. This reversal comes just days before he is set