Right now its a mild start to the month of december. Dont expect this to last. Its already changing. The nbc 10 First Alert Weather Team tracking a dramatic drop in temperatures that could bring a wintry mix to the area. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Sheena Parveen is here to explain when the cold, wet weather returns. The wet weather is moving in now. Its a matter of when those temperatures will be dropping back to near freezing. That will happen overnight and early tomorrow morning. In the meantime, it is,il7 mil enough for just rain. Nothing frozen at this moment. So we have showers moving in, mostly on the lighter side. Heavier ones around the i95 corridor around wilmington and new castle county, moving up through philadelphia, many of the suburbs north and west, Lehigh Valley, poconosdnli deal with the light rain. This will be the case as we go through the rest of the evening. It is 58 degrees right now in philadelphia. Just off to our west, temperatures already at freezing he
Welcome to defense new spiritf the u. S. Army is per duringroops to face huger security challenges. Future security challenges against that are equipped potential foes. The mimilitary monetization commissi reported its findings lalast week. The highly anticicipated reporort was produced by a ninemembeber panel, a sout toresee thall volunteeeer force, make retirement pnning more flexible, and take some mone it suggested replacing the current Retirement Plan wi it or a one k sings plan, and allow those who served to draw attention even they do not stay in uniform 20 years. They support abolishing the tricare insurance pamrogram. Congress was looking for ways to reduce rising pesonnel costs couming largeshar of a flat dod budget. Dod would share less t than 2 billion a year. The investigation now has 60 days to determine whether to embrace Commission Recommendations and advise congress accordingly. Congress submitits a Defense Budget reqst to congress. To discuss the military compensation
Writes about the accountability on the nsa spying issue. Heres peter bakers headline. Post, bye washington scott wilson, controversies show how obamas inattention to detail may hurt his president ial legacy. We want to get your thoughts on this. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Tweet, cspanwj. You can also post your comments on facebook or email us. On both fronts on the nsa and the Health Care Law, president obamas down to this i did not know. No president can be aware of everything going on in a sprawling government that he theoretically manage. Theoretically manages. This constant questions about how much in charge he really is. Days, the president s health and Human Services secretary said that the that despite internal concerns in a mr. Obama wasn, not told about Serious Problems with the new row grahams website until it was rolled out this month. Said theicials president was not aware that the National Security agency was tapping the ph
Lou there is the least three doubles and lawsuits, however, challenging obamacare, including the requirement that Workplace Health plans cover birth control. Pennsylvania, the latest to announce it will not have the obamaCare Insurance exchange, becoming the 22nd state to set up the exchange, leaving it up to t federal government government to implement exchanges. The president S Health Care law was so unpopular when the president signed it ino law and it remains absolutely that two years later. Apparently nancy pelosi was right about the obamacare program, at least when she uttered these now infamous words, calling for passage of e legislation. We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it. Away from the father of the controversy. Lou is getting rid of obamacare so one option for republicans . We will talk with legal analyst Peter Johnson on the way forward. Also, the worsening political crisis in egypt. Splitting egypt between those who want the islamic state, gover
To save money now, it might have seemed like 23491930s in the 1930s we were saving a lot of money on defense. It ended up costing the world a lot more. This is actually a moment where congress by itself cannot do the job. You really need president ial leadership to explain and justify to the country whats at stake. And i have to say theres not really i think franklin roosevelt, that is his finest moment is that he really did work on persuading the American People that they had to bear a burden to make sure the world came out a certain way. And i think thats the responsibility of the current president. I worry that theres a lot of war fatigue, but we are actually going to regret giving into it. Just final, final footnote, actually not so much in this current, i mean, the old today, but there was a similar one that came out in pew a couple months ago. I have a colleague here whos spending some time actually going through the pew data, and there is that headline which is, you know, wed ra