Low clouds and fog along with some higher clouds. But it will stay dry. Today, 60s, 07s around bay and 70s are low. 80s inland. Here he is. 6 01. Anything else going on or is that taken care of . Well, we do have that issue and im going to touch on that. For the most part, you know, i want to sound optimistic. Its o. K. As we go to the to plaza and the traffic is moving along pretty well as you drive to the to play sta. Pretty well for this time of the morning i should say. The traffic is okay. We also talked about internait 880. This also looks pretty good as you drive into the open airport. Steve mentioned the problem we had in west 80. Frptly thats been cleared and as soon as they got it out of the lanes, traffic improved. Thats a pretty good commute. Westbound lane 80 approaching 780. A little bit of a backup there. 6 01. Lets go back to the desk. All right. Thank you. Today, two Oakland Police officers are scheduled to appear in court. Accused of sexual misconduct. Investigators s
what has social media been saying? well, clearly people are not happy with the polar vortex. again, this is something that s tracking about 3:1 negative, and who are the positive people on the polar vortex? i ve seen it from three fronts. a lot of young people are like, hoar ray, i don t have to go to school. understandable. number two, the people who manufacture down coats are having a very good week. you have a filter for down coat manufacturers? no, but we re looking at some of the tweets and things coming out. number three businesses have been hurt, billions of dollars, but actually online retailers have made a small bump because of the weather, and people shopping from home. but overall, thank god for 240 million americans, this is over, the worst of it is over now, and we can get back to the balmy 25 degree weather in new york. in the meantime out in vegas,
follow in order to argue this out. you have got the whole rest of the party down a different track saying hoar ray, the supreme court has declared it a tax. the republican party is going to run on taking away your health care and they are opposed to personal responsibility. you articulate this. here is what i hear from other democrats saying hey, the democrats don t ever fight back on these stories. do you think they should fight back more? the obama campaign is not fighting hard enough? we fought pretty hard. democrats should put republicans on defense on this issue. there is no reason not to. that is like the obama campaign they are like let s punt on health care. let s move on. the focus seems to be
and on the road to 270 as president obama gets ready to roll, a deep dive into whether romney can win the white house without any of those states. they could make or break the whole thing. no holiday week yet. the fireworks starting early. republicans try to make lemon nate out of the lemon that was dealt to them. the court s justification is actually a tax. the democrats are insisting it s a penalty and guess what? a sunday war of words broke out. what is in the laws of penalty? we have said it was a tax all along. this is a penalty on free riders. it s a tax. now republicans may be unhappy with the court s decision that the mandate is constitutional under congress s taxing power but senators are thrilled to be able to argue the obama administration is imposing a new tax. look at the hypocrisy. the president on your show said this was not a tax. if this was brought to the public as a tax, there is no way this law would have passed in the first place. democrat
the tax code for the 1% perhaps of the population who may decide that they are going to be free riders. it s a new tax on the american people? , no, no. it s a penalty for free riders. when it comes to political messaging, it was interesting to see republicans unified on this decision to go after health care again as a tax issue trying to as their way to shift the economic issues. this is not really a clear cut tax increase. it s a slippery slope of how we define taxes versus fees. it seems clear the republican base is itching. given mitt romney s complicated history. tomorrow the national republican congressional committee is rolling out a series of ads. they are using smart phones as an inspiration. they will do other house democrats that they are targeting. it was clear the gop will make health care a defining issue in senate races. every democratic incumbent on the ballot this november was the deciding ovote to pass this bill. democrats have been only too eager