The sky in the lehigh valley. Within row home caught fire and then quickly went in the wind from one to another and in the end, six homes were destroyed, seven families homeless. The lets get out to jenny joyce who is there at the scene, jenny. Reporter Allentown Fire Department is still on the scene here. They are staying here, to hon for the block. Several homes have stickers on the trent doors saying the structures are unsafe, sky fox was over the scene of the three alarm fire last night, and it broke out in the 400 block of north fulton street in allentown around 8 00 oclock, according to fire chiefly wohack, the flames spread to six homes before crews, placed it under control just before 1 00 this morning. A handful of volunteers were on the scene overnight working with seven families who lost everything, this week just weeks before christmas. Fortunately the fire chief is report nothing injuries at this point. We dont know where or how the fire started, once the sun does come up
Wreath for australias unknown soldier as he begins a short secondment to the countrys military. Also in the program, alice is here with all the business. Youre looking at greece first of all . Thats right. Weve heard from Yanis Varoufakis the greece finance minister, saying his government will honor all of their obligations and his own words, reform greece deeply. And of course the head of the International Monetary fund says shes happy to hear it. Hello to you. It is midday in london. 7 00 a. M. In washington. And 2 00 in yemen. For 12 nights the coalition of gulf states led by saudi arabia backed by the u. S. Have been targeting the Houthi Rebels who ousted yemens president. Well, that leaves thousands of people desperately short of food water, and medical splice. The u. N. Estimates, 500 have been killed. And as katarina mow reports, the is situation is getting worse. Reporter its a desperate situation for those who cant escape yemen. In the city of aden people risk their lives jour
Live. Are we going to end up in ohmless shelters homeless shelters . As far as obamacare goes, i understand it was a law passed, and i understand and i stand behind that. However, i do not like the fact that the president can change things at will. Were so worried about what the republicans want to do, its obama who made the first move. Hes the one that started giving all these exemptions. If thats good enough for me, why is it not good enough for them . If we had the british system, we would dissolve congress as they would dissolve parliament or some entity that theyre got getting the dollars. My greatest concern is theres no discussion of ways to increase revenue into the federal government. In all my years of balancing a budget, ive always had to look at increasing work time, working overtime, getting a second job. All my children have worked two and three jobs to be able to get through school. I feel that the, all the congressmen need to consider the opportunities of revenue increa
Having said that, we hit an alltime high on friday and we continue in that direction today. Another alltime high for Standard Poors index. Lets get over to bob pisani and find out what happened on the street today. I want to point out, this is the big week for earnings, 25 of the s p 500 will be reporteding this week. Heres what we had today. S. A. P. In europe, big numbers lifting the European Tech stocks. Alleviating what we heard from ibm. Vf corp, historic high. Lennox, historic high. Phillips electronics, big company in europe, good Earnings Report. Akzo, up. A little disappointing on mcdonalds but hasbro, historic high for hasbro as well, beating on revenue and bottom line as well. Again, an historic high. We did have concerns, some companies missed their sales estimate. Thats what happened with gannett, moving lower. Ratesensitive slid a little bit, to the downside. Home builders dealing with higher rates, to the down side. We just got netflix earnings. What have we got . Just c
Lashed out at outside conservative groups for opposing the deal. We will begin there this morning with your thoughts on that. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. cspanwj. Us a tweet, you can also email us, journal cspan. Org. Conferenceys press with john weiner, he was asked about outside groups like Heritage Foundation. And there opposition to this deal. [video clip] membersare using our and using the American People for their own goals. This is ridiculous. More deficitr reduction, your for this agreement. Is making thehner case for this twoyear budget deal. It is expected to come to the floor today. Paul ryan is telling cnn they have the votes to get it through the bipartisan house and senate will take it up next week. Joining us on the phone is ginger gibson. Give us the latest on the budget deal. What happens today on the floor . See twoe are likely to votes on the floor today. The first will be a vote on the rule and a vote on the budget an