For all that heb and walmart, lowes, and soon to be home depot are doing. So there is much to do, and those are just the most immediate steps. Importantly, this is a place that texas and fema will be involved in for a long, long time. We will be here until we can restore this region as back to normas possible. Or as we discussed in our meeting earlier, we need to recognize its going to be a new normal. Will be a new and different normal for this entire region. But we will not stop until we get as far as we can. I want to provide some important details and then pass the mic to senator. And then to the national fema administrator. I want to explain a couple of details that citizens need to know about. As governor, i have made a state disaster decoration for 54 counties across the state of texas. In order for a disaster decoration to become a federal disaster decoration, it requires certain financial thresholds to be met. Those financial thresholds have been met in 18 counties. There are
Bashing biggest problems and lobbying the bills fixes. Less than 24 hours after he said drop, it let it implode, we dont want it on the democrats. President trump said senators should not leave for august recess until a Health Care Bill. Tomorrow was tax reform, now a Health Care Bill on his desk saying he favors repeal and then replace. Hes got his pen in hand and rushing to sign. Blake burman rushing with the latest on Trump Health Care demands and a preview what we might hear from the president in this hour. Yes, were expected to hear more from President Trump. And congressman rodney davis worked with democrats to fix one part of obamacare that would help Small Businesses and military veterans. Can the republicans do it again as the house turns its focus on the budget and taxes . Plus bob hormats former assistant secretary of state, hell tell us the most important thing that must come out of todays slightly tense, slightly awkward but crucial talk between treasury secretary Steve Mn
And im brian sullivan. Crude oil falling again, and that seems to be hurting your investments today. The dow is down, not a lot, you can see 15 points, crude oil though is down 2. 5 . Many in the market not only watching oil but also looking ahead to Janet Yellens big speech later on this week. And of course were going to let you know everything you need to know about that coming up. Michelle. Hey, brian. Im michelle carusocabrera, heres what else is happening at this hour. Shares of Dunkin Brands up more than 2 tracking their best day since july 14. Automobile driving in the United States hitting a record 1. 5 trillion miles logged in the First Six Months of 2016. Thats up more than 3 from a year ago. Ralph lauren now joining speedo in dropping sponsorship of olympic Gold Medalist ryan lochte after he admitted to lying about being held up at gunpoint in rio. Lot to get through this hour. Going to start with the markets though. Market that no one seems to be trying to beat anymore. Ins
Newer compact version go on sale and our man josh is live in palo alto. Josh in. Reporter tyler, im here at the apple store in downtown palo alto, you can see the store just opening now. Not the usual massive crowds for this new iphone se but the line about 20 strong and see them filing in here. The new phone, tyler, its smaller. Its cheaper. Had many of the same components as the 6s and same processor, same 4k video, support of apple pay. Incremental changes and important ones. You know, team at Morgan Stanley does think the se could help apple sell more phones in the emerging markets given 399 price point. In addition, you have that new smaller version of the ipad pro. That goes on sale today, too. Starting at 599. Apple keeps continuing to try to position that ipad pro as pc replacement. When management replaced it in cupertino earlier this month, they noted the store sold 600 million pcs out there. As for apple stock, a 10 jump in past month. On track to break the losing streak. Wh
Issue. I commend the epa for working on this rule. Do you have a conference that this final rule is protective of health and the environment, are there gaps in the protections under this rule that would need to be filled by legislation . I believe the rule is very strong and very protective. And in terms of any gaps we dont believe there are any gaps. We believe all the risks are put in place. All the rigorous technical information. What about beneficial reuse . Will this rule restrict beneficial reuse in anyway to stigmatize coal ash . We dont believe it will. The real clarity is not subject to the rule. But still i expect were going to hear from the second panel that legislation is needed to remove epas authority to regulate cole ash under subtitle c in the future. What factors might lead epa to some day regulate coal ash under subtitle c. To be clear we had proposed an approach under d and c. We made a decision under d the seat proposal is no longer on the table. Like any other rule