Thank you, ken. [laughter] its, its a real pleasure to be here this morning, and thanks to weda for organizing this very, very timely session on nafta 2. 0. As someone who has been involved in the trade, war is too strong, debate is too tame, the vigorous trade discussions weve had in washington over the last 20 years, were certainly at, even in scope of those discussions were at an unprecedented moment right now awaiting to see the unrolling of the administrations new trade strategy. We have been, weve heard a lot from the president when he was a candidate, when he was president elect. Since becoming president weve heard a lot about mexico. We heard a lot about mexicans. Weve heard a lot about nafta. We heard a lot about china. We heard a lot about it. A lot of things are going to be ripped up. A lot things will be done away with. A lot of things will be changed, yet we have little in the way of actual specifics that have come out. The president s trade team, some of them have been na
Institution to have a weekend to process the stuff. And then from there were going to go to Veterans Affairs secretary David Shullkin confirmed monday night easily, very little dissent. And Tuesday Morning will be linda mcman and confirmed as Small Business administration. So its been an historicically slow approach for trumps cabinet but its starting to pick up a little bit and theres a little light at the end of the tunnel the. Politico reporting on democrats objection to the labor secretary. What will we hear . You will hear a lot about an undocumented immigrant who worked for him and he did not pay taxes on for four to five years according to his spokesman. Republicans are sticking pee hind this nomination but i believe that democrats are now the realized that he is probably the only one left that they can perhaps tank or maybe get to withdraw. So theyre concentrating their fire on him. Chuck schumer the democrat leader has called on him to with draw. Youll probably hear more of th
Epidemic. Its sad. Reporter bill and tammy lost their son to a heroine overdose. They now run a sober living house in pleasantville and say the arrests in Atlantic City arent a surprise. This is the proof thats in the pudding that, you know, that the opiate epidemic has no bound ris or no borders. It doesnt matter where you work. Reporter Police Telling me information from a concerned citizen about drug use within the Communications Bureau prompted the investigation. They tell me the probe is ongoing and there could be additional charges. Live in Atlantic City, im ted greenberg, nbc10 news. A day care teacher is under arrest accused of sexually assaulting a 3yearold. According to court documents, 33yearold Michael Barbee confessed to the crime at the Early Learning center in norristown. Deanna durante has been digging into his background. Thats ahead at 5 30. First alert weather. A live look at cape may. We see the wind is picking up, the temperatures, are starting to drop. After a mil
Well. A little fog trying to show up. Still enough of an off shore compone en. That will change, today, some of the higher clouds, thats the only fly in the ointment, beyond that, patchy fog. A northerly breeze or an easterly breeze in place. As long as that is there, fog has little room to maneuver. 50s on the temperatures, low 60s for some. Very mild on the bay. Peninsula, 50s. Stanford, pacificka. There are mild readings with off shore push. Alot of high clouds, close to yesterdays high. Well max it out. If we didnt yesterday, it will be today. Still alot of 70s and a few 60s near the coast. Sal, 4 31. Good morning. You all right there . Im all right. If you can hear me, we can do that. Thank you. Lets do it. T. I will take it, well get the situation figured out with sal. No big problems, right now. Now that donald trump has been elected president , many cities face a harsh possibility that affects all three major bay area cities. Janine joins us from san jose to talk about this. Re
Today, mostly sunny, partly cloudy with some of the higher clouds. Easterly compone intercept, 40s, 50s and 60s. Very cool, northwest napa. 49, 46, 59, san raphael, 58, partly cloudy skies, mostly sunny, high cloud deck coming on snore. All right, 501, things are still quiet or picking up. We do have slow traffic out there already on 580 and 205. Good morning to you, if you are looking for the tracey commute, we have you covered. Traffic will be busy, 205 andal 0 as they come together, slow traffic coming through theth month pass. There have been no major problems here in livermore, but you will see that traffic will be busy as you drivethru the area. Lets move along to the san mat yo bridge. Alot of people cross that bridge. Both of the bridges are looking good, getting to the peninsula. This mornings commute at the bay bridge toll plaza, light, so far. Another 20 minutes, we will start to see a crowd. 5 02. Lets go back to the desk. We are following a enveloping story in oakland, for