I will pass it over to jd foster. Pleasure to have you with us today. Nice to be here with my colleague, randy. Before we begin i want to acknowledge the people in houston and those suffering from hurricane harvey. Wish them on behalf of the chamber the safety and swiftest possible recovery from what theyre dealing with. The economy is in its ninth year of expansion. Which is fairly notable. That makes it the third longest in modern era. By next spring we will have tied for second and curiously, despite the length of the recovery and expansion, we seem to be possibly heading into a period of acceleration. Normally as the expansion goes along, the economy slows a bit. Instead we may have something of an acceleration. The reason for that, is somewhat in this chart. If you look down on the far lefthand side of november, theres the little dip, that corresponds to the period right before the election. And we had the election and surprising many people, the stock market has taken off since t
In our first hour, we will look at the details of this decision by the Trump Administration. Your thoughts on the proposed change, and the larger issue from the federal governments role when it comes to the topic of Greenhouse Gas emissions. It is a call and let us know your thoughts this morning. 202 7488001, republicans. 202 7488000, democrats. Independents, 202 7488002. If you want to reach out to us twitter, you can do that at cspanwj. The Washington Times picks of this decision that started yesterday about the trump theistration, saying longawaited announcement by epa administrator scott pruitt will kickstart repeal proceedings on the rule which limits carbonate Carbon Emissions and was exquisite way designed to reduce the amount of coal burned across the country. This will be challenged in court, with environmental groups and democratic parties quickly vowing to fight any move to repeal the ccp. But the epa chief says he is on solid legal footing, and that the repeal will save as
Even with the fog youre doing okay. In the green at 15. Alexis, thank you. 600 firefighters working to contain a 271acre wildfire that weve been telling you about in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This started monday night on bear canyon road. So far the bear fire has destroyed four structures, 150 more still threatened. That fire is only 5 contained. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller is live at one of the Evacuation Centers. Well check in with him our next half hour. And now some of the biggest fires burning in the north bay. The nuns fire and napa and sonoma counties burned nearly 53,000 acres, 73 contained. Over to the tubbs fire, 432 acres burned, 87 contained for that one. Finally, the atlas fire in napa and solano counties, its burned just over 51,000 acres and, as you can see, at 80 containment. Students resume classes at sonoma state after the campus was closed due to the north bay fires. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is there and, amy, good morning to you. Some special things pl
Grass over there. At this point they have ashmore in custody, next order of business is question him, figure out motive, what made him shoot so many places and injure so many people . Abc7 news. Abc7 news app sent out out t alert. You can john load the app for those alerts as they happen. Trial is under way in San Francisco for a man whose case set off National Immigration debate. Accused of shooting kate kate steinle. Had been deported several times. Prosecutors showed the jury the gun used. Baseline question that the jury is going to answer, whether the defendant intended to fire that gun. We have a charge against him of murder. Thats what we believe the evidence is going to show. Accusing him of something he doesnt even though took place. Hes not interested in admitting that he was there, but eventually he does and talks and tells them what happened, which was an accident. Defense attorneys claim the gun went off accidentally. Both sides say the bullet ricochetted to hit steinle. We
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