And new this morning a taxi driver is shot in West Philadelphia. Now police look for the gunman and mostive. Trump ves versus lewis president elect engages in a war of worlds after cog gress man lewis decides not go to the inauguration. He is not not the only one not going. Why the rainingling brothers and barnum and bail emis pulling its tent for good. Good morning, im rahel solomon lets get started on the forecast with meteorologist Justin Drabick it was a little chilly overnight and possibly icy spot. And a warmup. We see a lot of sunshine, comfortable, light breeze mid 40s to january and every day warmer 50s by end of week. Feels good, januaryp that you will happen the next week or two weekends and until then, though, we had nice finish to the Holiday Weekend with mlk day tomorrow. Nice sunrise developing in 15 or 20 or so and clear skies over center city and still wet roads to deal with this morning with temperature below freezing and could be a few slick spots on untreated surfac
Story before 10am. It isa it is a must watch. And, a legal battle over the rights of parents to take their children out of school for holidays during term time reaches the highest court in the land today. Well speak to the father at the centre of the case. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Throughout the morning well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories. And as always, really keen to hear from you. After 10am well be hearing how a Primary School in bournemouth has started allowing pupils to wear their comfy slippers in class, after Research Found it helps them to get better grades and generally improve their performance. If you work from home, you might already know thats the case. Do get in touch with your views. Use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Donald trump has sacked the United States top Legal Advisor after she questioned the legality of his travel ban. Acting
And fight back. The people voted without knowledge of the terms of brexit. As these terms become clear, it is their right to change their mind. Our mission is to persuade them to do so. Jon guy johnson joins us now from london. Its a question i was asked this morning. What is he doing . Guy he thinks nobody is making the opposite case. Toys are in extent, he has a point. Theres very little that represents the people who voted remain. His tony blair the right person to be making this argument . Its very easy for Boris Johnson it because of tony blairs history of thinking about taking the u. K. Into the euro. He is an exceptional politician was anays speech incredibly wellcrafted piece of political speech writing. Is he is damaged goods in many peoples minds in the u. K. Jon he has the background to understand issues. The likes of tony blair will not make a difference in this debate. Who is his audience as he comes about the brexit situation and urge an uprising . Guy i think hes hoping
Scandal that has already brought down the president. This is the second hour of daybreak asia. Im in hong kong and is just after 8 00. Betty it is just after 7 00 in new york. We are jumping to 24 hours from now when President Trump will be addressing congress. The has the congress best the markets excited. We just got retail production numbers out of japan. We are looking to see if any more stimulus is affecting the economy. We did not get those results in january. A stall in terms of industrial output for january. We are expecting three straight months of gains, but we saw it fall. 08 . Take a look at the breakdown. It seems like what weight on the month of january was mining and manufacturing. That fell. 08 . Manufacturing of business machinery falling 0. 2 percent. We do get the weaker number when it comes to exports in the month of january. Not a whole lot of reaction with dollaryen after that news. But lets look with sophie. Sophie as you mentioned, not much reaction in the yen f
This exwoo on q a, wall street Journal Staff reporter and columnist, alexandra wolf, she discusses her book, valley of the gods a Silicon Valley story. Alexandra wolfe, what is the valley of the gods. Is this book about these three focus on three fellows who won the peter tar heel fellship. So they it looks through the eyes of these three kids. And it shows the cultural anthropology of the Silicon Valley. And homefully a few other alternatives to going to college. Why did do you this . Why did do i it to begin with . I guess i have always grown up in new york. I have always lived in new york. I went to Silicon Valley for the first time a couple years ago and i was so amazed by what i saw there. It was so refreshed by the optimism and the in reading the paper, they are changing every single industry. And being there i just found way more than i ever thought i would see on the east coast. It was so different. You lead off with the authors note, first thing you say you first met party, th