Obama Signature Healthcare legislation. Our Team Coverage starts with mola lenghi on capitol hill. Good morning, senators. Hi. Reporter republican senator john mccain was back at work friday morning after casting the deciding ballot overnight. His thumbs down vote doomed the gops latest attempt to repeal obamacare. The ayes are 49, the nays are 51. The motion is not agreed to. Reporter fellow republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski along with every democrat voted against the skinny bill to repeat parts of the Affordable Care act. This is clearly a disappointing moment. I imagine many of our colleagues on the other side are celebrating. We are not celebrating. We are relieved. Reporter Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell now says its time to move on. But did not rule out working with democrats to fix obamacares problems. So now i think its appropriate to ask what are their ideas . At the very beginning we should stabilize the system. We should make permanent keeping premiums dow
Of the low clouds and fog along the coastline stretching down into monterey with some here on the east bayshore with mostly sunny along the coastline and even the coastline to be cloudy for today. It is 14 milesperhour and temperatures will be similar to what we had yesterday continuing to watch those numbers creep up. Today upper 60s in San Francisco with upper 80s around the bay and 87 in redwood city. Inland it is 96 expected for antioch and 90s porky all right if you are going to the garlic festival. We will have a look at your extended forecast in just a bit. Lets check those highways with sal castaneda. Right now traffic on 80 westbound is not a bad commute. It will be moving around from the car chemist bridge and still a little better than it normally is. If you look at 880 north near hackenberg road it is a nice looking can meet. Right now lets go back to the desk. Mitch mcconnell says it is time to move on after the latest Healthcare Plan was shot down in a vote that came earl
Storm. Sky6 live hd taking a a live look at the Commodore Barry bridge. The inland did not see as much rain but flooding at the shore. We have team coverage, bob brooks is live along the jersey shore which saw the most flooding. But first, meteorologist chris sowers has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, chris, hopefully the rain is out of here. Reporter what youre seeing on the camera lens is all she wrote, a couple of leftover showers. The good news the rain is gone, theres flooding at the coast. The flooding is minor even though some areas picked up over 5 inches of rain. Heres the surface low, its out racing the upper level feature which is good news because had the upper level low caught up to the surface low it would have stalled it out and lingered into sunday. Because the two state separate it moves along its way and dives off to the southeast along the coast of the virginias. Delaware river western portions of camden, gloucester, Burlington County, showers in palmyra
Robert bryces latest book entitled smaller faster lighter denser cheaper, and i would add, more colorful. [laughter] look at that. Its jumping off the page. Smaller faster lighter denser cheaper is roberts fifth book, and i think quite possibly, his best. First off, it is a relentlessly optimistic, forwardlooking book. In an era with environmental catsties, sectarian catastrophes, sectarian violence, plagues, various other things, i was happy to read some u as robert explains, the promise of tomorrow rests in the fact that we are continuing to innovate by making things, what do you think . Smaller faster lighter denser and cheaper. And in this way the book is a celebration of these attributes, and as he will explain, a rejoinder to the doomsdayers and the cats fists. These are people who have been promulgating the idea of collapsed anxiety meaning our future will be one of scarcity and shortage, but by every measure out there things have been getting better. People are, of course, livi
Discussions is the fiscal cliff. The annual meeting of the securities trade group is taking place in new york today. And the looming risk the u. S. Economy is sure to be on the agenda of participants. Well be joined by a few of those this morning. Including gary gensler. Chet heick will also be joining us. On the lighter side of thing, well have a rock star among us this morning. Yeah, we mean this literally. Not just the rock stars we usually have. John popper of blues travelers will be joining us on set at 8 40 to talk about the business of music. But first, lets get over to joe. You have some breaking earnings news . I do. At about six numbers for dupont. Ill give you the one that is comparable to expectations. And that is 44 cents which is versus 46 cents for an estimate. But first the company said it posted a lot of a nickel from continuing operations. Then it said it was 32 cents excluding items. And then it said the bottom line was actually a penny, but excludeing everything, it