It will continue to march over the bay area. All of us will have rain around 7 00. Not this morning, we have a chance of showers throughout the day. Temperatures in the mainly low to mid 50s. Have a lot of patience. Good morning. Pretty light right now. We will have a little bit of dampness coming across the golden gate bridge. Taking a look at the bay bridge. No moisture here and very light traffic at this hour heading into San Francisco. Road work in the westbound direction on the two right lanes will be picked up. Macarthur maze, no delays here. Eastbound 4 at leverage, freeway closed for half an hour. Westbound still a very nice drive. Kristen breaking news. Hostess the maker of twinkies saying it is closing plants nationwide in the middle of an employee strike. Katie marzullo is live in the newsroom. Hostess has a plant here in the bay area. Yes. In oakland, we know those workers have been on strike. We dont know what this could mean for the bakery but hostess is closing up shop.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not backing down. In the past 24 hours israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. Nbcs Martin Fletcher is live for us in tel aviv with the very latest. Martin, whats the latest . Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat, last night they are stressing they will do anything it takes to stop the palestinians from firing rockets into israel. Overnight or last night rather 30,000 reserves were given a potential order to report for duty. Overnight 16,000 soldiers were told, reserve soldiers were told to report to their units. Theyre going to join army units amassed on the border of gaza. Tank transporters and personnel carriers, thousands of troops going towards the border with gaza ready for a Ground Invasion. As you suggested in your introduction, lynn, is it a show of force or is it the real thing . We dont know at this point. Its definitely partly a show of force but it
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 224. The mays are 183. The previous question is ordered. The nays are 183. The previous question is ordered. The house will come to order. E this vote the yeas are 226. The nays are 178. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from texas, mr. Barton, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 6190 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk Union Calendar number 485, h. R. 6190, a bill to direct the administer of the Environmental Protection agency to allow for the distribution, sell and consumption in the United States of remaining inventories of the overthecounter c. F. C. Epinephrine inhalers. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fi
Your standard of living over the past decade. As it become harder to maintain . Heres how were going to break down the lines. I want to show you a recent pew research poll. That is our question for all of you today. Adding an idea of your standard of living over the past decade. Has it been harder to maintain . Take a look at who the middle class blames for the economic woes. Makes in new orleans, he under 25,000. Joe, what to do and describe your standard of living. Caller i make under 26,000. I think it is just the rich. The people of the United States dont want to pay anymore. They want to drive around in cadillac trucks and porsches and they dont want to see anybody else driving these things. Labor,ing in mexican their fathers or grandfathers fought in wars for this country. They dont want to pay people when im doing labor, i also have to do skill work and im not kidding paid for. Host joe, what of your wages been like . Caller they have been horrible. Im down to 20 until i get pai
Congressional officials . Well, it seems like the stars are aligning for Immigration Reform. Something significant to happen in this session. No legislation yet, of course, but there is a lot of conversations that are happening. I spoke this week with south bay democrat whos on a subcommittee taking up this issue as part of the judiciary committee. I asked her whats happening and how likely is it that were going to get something done on Immigration Reform . Heres what she had to say. Theres got to be some way for the 11 Million People who are here without their papers to somehow get right with the law. Right now, i mean, if you commit an offense other than immigration, you can, you know, pay a penalty and move on with you life. Not so with immigration. Right now, for example, we have 2 million migrant farm workers about in the United States. 70 to 80 of them are here without their papers. We have 5,000 permanent residence visas for people without a college diploma. We have husbands and