Congressman matt gates joins us. Also tonight, President Trump doubling down on his demands for more Border Security. The president today telling the reporter hes ready to shut down the government if congress dont work quickly to close loopholes that allow m s13 gangs to cross the border. If we dont change the legislation, if we dont get rid of the loopholes where killers are able to come into our country and kill, gang members, there are many gang members that we dont mention, if we dont change it, lets have a shutdown and its worth it for our country. Id love to see a shutdown. We will have a full report from capitol hill and discuss the chances of a shutdown with congressman diane blake. And a major turn around on wall street. The dow surging 400 points a day after posting its biggest drop on record point wides. Well take that up tonight. The top story, President Trump is being briefed on the democratic rebuttal to a bombshell republican intel report released last week exposing corr
Congressman matt gates joins us. Also tonight, President Trump doubling down on his demands for more Border Security. The president today telling the reporter hes ready to shut down the government if congress dont work quickly to close loopholes that allow m s13 gangs to cross the border. If we dont change the legislation, if we dont get rid of the loopholes where killers are able to come into our country and kill, gang members, there are many gang members that we dont mention, if we dont change it, lets have a shutdown and its worth it for our country. Id love to see a shutdown. We will have a full report from capitol hill and discuss the chances of a shutdown with congressman diane blake. And a major turn around on wall street. The dow surging 400 points a day after posting its biggest drop on record point wides. Well take that up tonight. The top story, President Trump is being briefed on the democratic rebuttal to a bombshell republican intel report released last week exposing corr
With the backlog forhose of drawing applyingor benefits. The challenges faces, since i have been chairman we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future social secuty benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or dies. These benefits are animportant part of a familys financial security. And americans rightfully expect that when they apply for benefits, if they areeligible, that they will receive them ickly. But for those applying for disability benefits, that isnt the case. Today over 1Million People are waiting for a heing with Social Security admistrative law judges and on the average these folks will wt around 600 days to get that hearing. Thats nearly two years. And thats after waiting almost four m
A little bit chilly again this morning. We have some high clouds. Take a look at satellite. Youll see some breaks in the clouds and there will be some sun today but a lot more cloud cover around than there was yesterday and those showers down to our south so far you can see how theyre just falling apart as they try to head up into washington. I think we stay dry today and then tomorrow we get some of those irma related showers popping through at times. 61 degrees currently in philadelphia. 53 in allentown and reading. Thats cool but not as bad as yesterday when you were down in the mid 40s so improvement this morning. 62 degrees in cape may. 58 in wilmington, 55 in trenton and not much wind either which is nice when its cool. 59 degrees by 7 oclock. But after that, we warm up. 76 degrees for your lunch hour. And 81 when the kids are coming home from school at 3 oclock. That will be your high this afternoon. 79 by 5 oclock and by 7 oclock, 74. Some showers from irma possible tomorrow. I