Off on tax reform until newly elected alabama senator doug jones is seated. Once that happens, the gop majority in the senate be tighter with a 5149 split. It would be wrong for Senate Republicans to jam through this tax bill without giving the newly elected senator from alabama the opportunity to cast his vote. Reporter republicans are scheduling votes for next week trying to meet the president s deadline by christmas. So even without doug jones in washington, dc, how much confidence is there that this bill will pass because there is still a couple of republicans senators who had some issues. Reporter youre right. A senator on the republican side came up with a question, they have met it negotiated, given them something. The wild card might be marco rubio. He wanted that 21 rate. He thought it should bump up to 20 or 21 for Corporate Taxes. But whats he getting in return . He wanted to help people on the lower income scale with that money. Instead its going to folks who make a Million
4 news. grant another big story were following. A heated meeting tonight over proposed budget cuts within the Oakland School district. The district was initially facing a shortfall of 15pointone Million Dollars. That number has now dropped to nine Million Dollars. Tonight hundreds of parents packed tonights meeting. Pushing Board Members to keep their school open. Labor unions and Community Groups are trying to get school Board Members to reconsider their calculations. They want access to how the budget is being analyzed, so the community can help come up with proposals for the allocation of funds. Those opposing cuts to schools say high paid administrators should feel the brunt of it, but students will no doubt be affected. In a place where they could go into state receivership. Thats where the state would come in and make cuts without asking any questions or hearing public comment. Which is the reason why the board wants to make the cuts themselves. If it passes. Some layoffs will co
Breeze but vacaville to the westsouthwest so things are different today. Still be another day where we get mostly sunny skies and hazy skies and 60s on the temps. Low, mid mainly. Not much change here. 4 01 and the man says, well, things are relatively light out there. We are going to start out with the tracy commute as usual but you will see that there are some things going on. We do have some slow traffic as you drive on the 580 freeway. There have been no major issues. Traffic is moving along relatively well. Traffic is also going to be okay driving through castro valley. 880, northbound 880 near marina boulevard, northbound and southbound, there was construction going on and it started last night. They are trying to pick it up but there may be closures. Im getting some conflicting information here saying 880 is closed or they are going to reopen it anytime now. Traffic seems to be okay. Im looking at the road centers as well and hopefully this will be open anytime. The schedule wil
Coast and santa clara valley. 5 01. And sal tells us the traffic is . Its moderate. We have slowing out there. We are going back to the tracy commute to show you slow traffic, steve. Good morning to you at home. If youre just about to leave and head out to the altamont pass, its about normal, which is to say that traffic is going to be slow in some and some areas are getting santa rosa, speeds are down slower, speeds with down, 22 miles per hour. Some speeds are lower than that. If you make it through the altamont pass, it looks good into livermore and pleasanton, no major problems driving through. If youre driving on interstate 880 in oakland, traffic in both directions is doing very well. No major problems there. At the bay bridge toll plaza you can see traffic is light. At 5 01, lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Topping our news right now, the overnight standoff in the south bay appears to be finally over. Yeah. San jose police spent more than 15 hours searching for a burgla
Tahoe. Dry afternoon. 60s on the high side today. Sal, what do you have . Anything good . We have some slow traffic, steve, definitely. We are going to start off with the bay bridge toll plaza and show you the traffic is going to be busy if youre driving through on westbound bay bridge, which is typical, of course, no major issues here, traffic continues to be okay. If you are driving on interstate 880, the traffic is moving along, also going to be okay here. When you get to the toll plaza, you will see the traffic is going to be backed up. Golden gate bridge whoops. Lets go to the east shore freeway, westbound traffic moving along well. Golden gate bridge camera out of commission so frozen on the picture, in case you were wondering. Westbound 80 traffic here on the east shore freeway is going to be okay if you are driving through with no major issues, although it is getting a little bit more crowded westbound 80 traffic is also going to be slow as you drive through vallejo. At 6 01, g