Daybreak. Erin good morning. Happy friday to you. Im erin fehlau. Sean good morning. You know it is warm when you are opening up the windows in your house. It is november. Crazy. Sean whats going on here . Explain. Kevin above normal temperatures. I mean you kind of go through this week and you know that eventually we have the cooler air rushing in. The timing of it is right for the weekend before we start warming up again not quite to the levels but back above the averages by early next week. Patchy fog in places this morning. A back and forth between clouds and sunshine before a front arrives around mid afternoon in Western Areas. A quickpassing shower with that. Once it goes by, the cooler air starts to work its way in. Ahead of the front and a few breaks of sun. Temperatures in the 60s to lower 70s for one more afternoon. Much more on your weekend forecast in a bit. Lets look at your friday morning ride here in the Granite State. Were joined live by deb davidson. Good morning, deb.
Meeting. But paula brown said you can throw a chair just as easily in a closed meeting as you can in an open one. The way colwyn solves its problems is wearing down the locals. And the firing of burrow manager by four members of the council last week she says are under investigation for missing money underscores what feels like anarchy. It sends a message of lawlessness. Srrko just moved to colwyn and he said he can see why people dont come here. They are to set examples for young people to follow. This is the payroll. Time sheets of crossing guards. What do you do . You pack up and go home and see if you get a phone call come come back . The fitter thing im going to do is file for unemployment. She said no one else can sign the paychecks for their workers, including 13 crossing guards. Its just terrible. Denises husband is one of them. Theyre acting like children to me. I believe they need to grow up and get their [ bleep ] together. They are the high people in this area of colwyn and
The buyback of greek debt will in fact work. Were seeing just fractions of a percent in terms of changes there. Our road map this morning starts with the latest in the fiscal cliff negotiations. The white house promptly rebuffs the gop counterproposal which calls for 800 billion in new tax revenue but without tax rate increases for the wealthy. Could this tax issue deadlock the talks . Bank of america ceo warns the cliff must get stalled or the economy could be stifled well into 2014. Even more dividends pushed into 2012. Coach, American Eagle moving up and oracle will play out threequarters of dividends this year. More strength in housing this morning. Toll brothers earnings top expectations. Well begin with the fiscal cliff. Governors are set to meet today with the president and congressional leaders. Governors are concerned about the impact of deficit reduction measures on their state budgebu. The latest gop offer would overhaul the tax code, raise 800 billion in new revenue but see
President obama, fema, the rest of the administrations team working hand in glove with their state team. In this case there was really a team. As i like to say there is no i in the word team. I should have the army corps of engineers has been particular in responding to Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, funded by a series of storm protection projects in maryland are polite, robust and strong, healthy systems. These types of projects criticized at the time by some on my opinion because they performed exceptionally well during sandy black hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars in damage. Ashur protection withstand storm surge in better then baked circe wells while also enhancing the environment. Although the project on our coast of their job, they were weakened or in the storm not require repairs so were not for mobility future storms. Unfortunately the northeast midatlantic received more frequent and larger storms like standing in the future. The 70 to find costeffective ways to
Accountability from the department of Veterans Affairs. If the allegations are untrue, its dishonorable, disgraceful and i will not tolerate it. President obamas sometimes angry comments coming after he met with eric shinseki, and others. Afterwards jobs and maybe even eric shinsekis were on the line. I said to rick and to him today i want to see, you know, what the results of the reports are, and theres going be accountability. Reports emerged from the phoenix v. A. Of staffers cooking the books, submitting phoney documents to make it look like veterans were receiving timely care. Some waited months for appointments. The most damning, 40 veterans died waiting for help. Allegations spreading to other v. A. Locations. The president s comments fell short. Tough words are not enough when it comes to the issue. We need action. Its not only rub karnings the American Legion was critical, responding to the president in a statement. The question is this . Now some democrats are as well. The fi