Upper east shore freeway. Away from the map, slowing for san jose. Anything for hayward. The trivalley looks great. The upper east shore freeway slows toward richmond. A crash blocking the slow lane here as you get toward cutting boulevard. Thats the only real spot for slowing making it 25 minutes as you travel highway 4 to the back up at the bay bridge. Thats the slowest spot. The metering lights are on. Again, as you look at the travel times, the east shore freeway slows from highway 4 to richmond. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 01. New this morning, a Police Officer was hurt after he was attacked by several suspects overnight. Today in the bays bob redell joins us live at the scene to explain what happened and how that officer is doing. Bob . Reporter we expect that officer to be okay. Good morning to you, laura. Whats not clear is what led up to the altercation. Did the officer make contact, then was attacked or did the three suspects jump him . It happened around 12 20. San jose
T 7 00 a. M. Eastern on the washington journal. Meanwhile, they corporations and the wealthy, including provisions that would undermine the tax incentives that the administration relies upon to fund its public, private partnership. In this scenario, the flexibilities of the administration can just become ways to pass the buck for budget cuts to local communities and only low income families. Have seen that time and time again. Programs helping family and seniors i hope that mr. Montgomery and mr. Kurtz prove me wrong. I hope that under their these matters are far too important to too Many Americans. Thank you, senator brown. Thank you, senator brown. Any additional senator who wishes to make in a statement a do so, although we are not encouraging it. You may do so after the vote. Proceed with a rollcall vote on mr. Montgomery and separate voice votes on mr. Kurtz and missed tops. I would like to move forward on the voice votes first. , we wills point proceed to the nomination of Robert
We are seeing once again some interesting divergence within the market. The dow climbed to another record and rise for the six of the past seven sessions gaining more than 1 , the s p is on his heels, almost a quarter of a percent. The lag once again is the nasdaq. Only up one third of 1 . A strategist of bloomberg estimates talk about paying attention to that nasdaq underperformance might mean that some of the rumbles we got last week in the rotation out of Technology Going into year end, that movement might not be over. Something to continue to watch their. Also, we are talking about the big deals this morning that we have been talking about scioscia for several weeks. Now it is official. Cvs agreed to buy aetna. That isading well below analyst are asking questions about antitrust approval. Particularly after the Justice Department sued to block at ts purchase of time warner. Orther instant implication more of what this is a reflection of is working broadly and health care. Take a lo
Will today announce if it plans on raising Interest Rates for the worlds biggest economy. Any rise will be seen as an endorsement of not only the strength of the American Economy, but also the Global Economy, ten years on from the financial crisis. There have been three rises since december 2016 and markets are already factoring in another rise later today. Us Economic Growth has hit an annualised rate of more than 3 in the past two quarters, while the Unemployment Rate is at its lowest since 2000. Us jobs growth was once better than expected in november, with payrolls rising by 228,000 with the Unemployment Rate Holding Steady at 4. 1 . And in october the imf upped its forecast for the Global Economy and now predicts growth of 3. 6 this year and 3. 7 in 2018. Meanwhile, the us stock market has also been surging ahead its regularly broken records throughout the year. But just who should take the credit for it . Turns out theres a difference of opinion as Samira Hussain reports now from
Moment but first katie has a check of the bone chilling forecast and meishas check of the road. Good morning, guys, happy hump day. We have one accident and down tree but i just hope you are heaters are working because my goodness walking outside the door what a shift. Really cold outside. It will stay that way for next couple days. Worries happening right now. We will get to the wind chills in a second. It is quiet in terms of storm scan. We are not seeing anything flying across the radar at all , throughout the day, later tonight, cold in place there is a disturbance that comes through and that will touch off light snow which we will get to we will let you know who has best opportunity to see accumulation but for now lets talk about the cold. This is your temperature change, it is not represented, wind chill not representing air temperature but how far have temperatures dropped since this same time yesterday yesterday, it wasnt terribly harsh but it was cold, now you are as much as 2