Are wellemperatures above freezing, still pretty early in the year so we are not too concerned, but it is something that theres watching into friday night and saturday. Beautiful evening. Temperatures in the 40s. A good crowd out. How is everybody doing . Good stuff. Everybody is bundled up. That is what we will be watching as we get into friday night and saturday. We will look ahead at the weekend and temperatures beyond this coming up. News, a breaking twoweek spending bill passes through the house and is on its way to the senate. It will keep the government funded until the friday before christmas while longterm negotiations continue. The vote went mostly along party lines. Moments before the vote at the white house, it was kumbaya. We are here is a friendly, unified group. We are here to make progress. Share with you. We are here to reach an agreement and finish out the year. Jonathan sounds great, doesnt it . A lot of negotiating on the table for longterm ending. Funding a Childre
Scheme. And a scandal over schools with no heat. But the money issue is statewide. Lets start by asking this cold question. Was it casino, gambling money supposed to prevent problems like this. You can see your breath. Instead this weeks scandal. Baltimore schools are in such bad shape kids froze in unheated classrooms. Screwed up Construction Financing was exposed. They want to fix schools too. But they came up 90 million short from last years budget request. These are reasons why critics like state comptroller peter frafrjer called it a big lie. But it is not the casinos fault. The casinos have delivered at least 2 billion in additional Education Trust fund funding in 2011. But instead of more money for schools, not much has changed. Thats because marylands Legislature Just switched the share they put in and spent it on other stuff they like. Before casinos, the state spent 21 of its general fund on schools. Now its down to 18 . Critics call it bait and switch. So it may all have bee
Everything wind chills are in the low to mid30s. Overnight tonight, in the Morning Hours of friday, it will feel like the teens in most areas. The weather will stay extremely cold. Right into this upcoming weekend. Just a quick note on the current temperatures, Single Digits and teens in the upper midwest. All the cold air is headed here. We look at the next ten days and what it will bring up in the next ten minutes. Jonathan well check back with doug at 4 15 or sooner the first to get updates when you want and wherever you are, just download the stormwatch7 weather app from google play or from the app store. Alison we have breaking news out of tennessee where charges were filed in the deadly wildfires. At least 14 people were killed. Hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed. Even more damaged. Tennessee attorney general announced two juveniles now face criminal charges. We will have an update on this as soon as more information michelle the ntsb is revealing more about that dea
He says he fought back. He says freeman barged into this chevron on south cocoa boulevard last night around 8 00. They put a gun in his face and demanded cash. Instead, they got a surprise. They pointed a gun at me and i was very scared and i got my gun and shot them. The store owner fired back. He wounded one of the suspects while the others rain but soy was not done. He says the suspect hid by his gun fire trying to steal a car parked at the pump trying to get in the car and hijack the car and i grabbed him from the car. Reporter grabbed him from the car and grabbed the gun out of his hands. Soy held the suspect on the ground at gunpoint until Police Showed up. Next i dont shoot him they will kill me. Reporter this is the 2nd time he shot a wouldbe robber. The first time back in 2009. Another time he says he fired and missed. A shot 2 of them i let go of 2. Reporter the 3 men who police they try to hold up the store last night are all facing robbery charges. They say 2 of them are kn
More effort to figure out how can we list fewer americans on the beaght field. Peace things are coming down the road. On energy, the breakthrough in hydraulic frackerring and horizontal drill, we take a place like north dakota which went from 800 Million Barrels of reserve in 2002 to over 24 billion today. And rising. North dakota has a high employment rate we have gone up 50 in the last eight years. And mcdonalds now pays a bonus if you will sign up to work. That actually should be the conservative answer to income and equality. We would like everybody to rise up. Were not in the business of tearing down. We should be in the business of helping every person rise up. And north dakota is a pretty good case study. If the federal government were actually encouraging it. We would be astonished how many additional jobs you would be creating right now. We are this year the largest gas producer in the world by 2015 well be the Largest Oil Producer in the world. Thats an enormous shift of powe