Received area east of damascus also coming out. A Large Exchange of prisoners between pro russian separatists and the Ukrainian Government is underway in the east of the country why is it happening now. And a very unusual Congress Gets underway in the leipzig germanys digital activists hold their annual get together in a clandestine setting. Welcome to the program my name sarah harman thanks for joining us aid workers in syria have begun evacuating twenty nine critically ill people from of the siege rebel town in eastern guta evacuations were part of an agreement between the Syrian Government and rebels the u. N. Has drawn up a list of some five hundred people to be evacuated from the damascus suburb it faces severe shortages of food fuel and medicine as winter approaches. For this little girl its not just the end of a its a chance to stay alive. She was one of the first of almost thirty critically ill people evacuated from eastern cooter. For weeks International Aid organizations have
Which means that many taxpayers right now are rushing to make sure they take advantage of any deductions they have today but will lose next week. To take us through how it all will work, we welcome now laura davison. Welcome back to the program. On the individual side, there are reports, and i must say, im in new York Resident and im looking at it how you can pay some of your taxes next year because you lose the deduction next year. Laura what the new law does is that it limits the state local taxes that you can do. To 10,000. If you live in an expensive state like new york where you have a property tax bill and your state income tax bill could exceed 20,000 or 30,000, if you prepay those now in states that are allowing you to do that, you can get that full deduction and tax break. Thats why you saw Governor Cuomo say you can prepay that. Take a bigger deduction. This is really democrats that are leading some of these states and kind of sticking it to congressional republicans, saying
Well. Your open after the long Holiday Weekend. Free markets also opening in the green. Asia overnight markets mixed through the shanghai down nearly 1 print the rest of the indices actually higher. Bitcoin bouncing back to the crypto currency was sent cramming for the First Time Since the massive selloff. Investors to question will will be asking this morning. Digging out from the snow is serving in the new year bringing up to four feet of snow. They finally let out the hard. A harrowing journey from lax. Model chrissie tighes life treats her eight hour flight to nowhere. The nonauthorized passenger boards the wrong flight pay with me this morning, democratic strategist and Fox News Contributor jess guitar log. James freeman and chief strategist michael fox. Good morning. Weve all had our coffee, right . I could use the diet coke. I think youre pretty jazzed up about the stories this morning. I love infrastructure. [laughter] cheryl i could feel the excitement about infrastructure. Ch
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