To also praise the president for his leadership on this you didnt just hear from mitch mcconnell, paul ryan and the Vice President which you might have expected you heard in senators like oren hatch and lisa merkowski, touting the accomplishments they have to celebrate today with this victory. Other big headlines that are coming out from it that the republicans are pointing to, two banks have already announced they will raise their minimum wage to 15 an hour in light of this bill. At t announced they will be giving 200,000 employees 1,000 bonuses, these are the thing that is republicans are going to highlight, and theyre also going to be able to highlight the fact that this bill comes into effect january 1. So another big talking point today, the idea that you should look at your paycheck come february, and that they believe youll see the effects of this tax overhaul very soon. Democrats vot against the bill. Highlighting the tax cuts and the tax cuts for the very wealthy. Local tax of
Head home for the holidays. Our Anjali Hemphill is live in centreville with the breaking news. Good morning. Reporter good morning, yeah, as you said busiest travel day of the year and were already off to a bad start. Take a look behind me here. This is what were dealing with. Lots of flashing lights here. This is on route 28 southbound just over on the overpass of i66 here. They just recently started letting northbound drivers come through here but southbound you can see is still completely stalled. Again, most of those trucks involved here, the response as well as the trucks and multiple vehicles in this accident still blocking a majority of the roadway here. And thats why traffic is being completely diverted either back onto 66 or in other directions as they try to clear this crash up. We dont know how this crash started. We do know its involving an oveturned big rig as well as several other cars. And we are hearing luckily, the good news is that there are no serious injuries at how
December 201st. Erin como watching the roads, seeing whats going on out there. Got you covered. And mike thomas talking about weather. Good morning. Good morning. The good news for those drivers is that the cold is all you have to worry about today. Other than that were expecting sunny skies and temperatures later on this afternoon in the 40s. Hey, erin. Huge problems in centreville. Downed power lines and an overturned tractortrailer. 28 at 66 all lanes blocked. We have your work arounds. If youre just waking up at 5 00 a. M. A lot of breaking news to talk about and we start with this. A vehicle rammed into a crowd in australia today injuring more than a dozen people. Police say this was not an accident and some suspects are in custody. Our Melanie Alnwick is monitoring the latest developments in our news room. Mel. Reporter good morning. Just a short time ago police told reporters on the ground they believe this was not this was a deliberate act. Two men have been arrested, one were
Coverage. The bulk so far has been focused up to the north, towards eureka and cape mendocino. There is green showing up. You could have mist or drizzle. In San Francisco, they have mist and drizzle, enough to trigger the windshield wipers and the umbrellas as well. In santa rosa, cloverdale, clearlake, approaching napa county as well, there is some coverage showing up on the radar. As the clouds lower, we will add more mist and drizzle to the forecast for this afternoon. And the rainfall expectations with this system, eventually we will add a few neighborhoods with a tenth of an inch to half an inch in the wettest locations in the bay area. Im tracking a stronger system that could impact your weekend plans. More on that in a little bit. We begin with a developing story in pleasanton where a school was locked down due to a nearby burglary. Sky fox flew over the neighborhood a short time ago. The burglary was less than half a mile from the school. Our cameras from the air and on the gro
The European Union has been very, very unfair to the United States. It will turn out to be very bad. The president will address the trade debate assaults the u. S. Economic boom during the trade address tuesday night. That will be of course live and well take it for you. The address comes to the record double began on friday. Fridays performance at 223 points on the dow fell almost 1 . A new record there. S p 500 and chartered territory. The nasdaq as well. Pull back from those numbers are creatures indicating a lower open down 25 points down the date the nasdaq. We are watching the yield on the benchmark treasury. It is rising and broke to. 7 for the First Time Since early 2014 of fridays game after the gdp came out off to. 6 . Yields on the rise, stocks lower. Look at the indices as we watch rates moving higher. Ft 100 up a fraction. The cac in the dax arvo wernick had. Asia overnight stocks mostly lower the exception of korea. Shanghai composite down 1 . Terror strikes a military sc