Coming in from newingston outgso to the capital beltway. You are at speed northbound out to duke street and up to seminary road. Light Traffic Volume for those eastbound on 66th out of manassas. This happens to be the beltway inner loop. Loop again at speed. No issues to report at the wilson bridge. Br traffic floal between alexandria. 395 looks good out to the 14th street bridge. Dge. Kennelworth avenue the inbound drive is starting tostar shake up a little bit south of Eastern Avenue headed outd to pennsylvania avenue. No accidents, no delays. That is a check of the ontime o traffic. Thank you. Yo a pentagon freeze on military death benefits is sparking outrage. Because of the partial federal shutdown families of Fallen Soldiers are notot getting the benefits. Five soldiers died inied afghanistan last weekend and democrats and republiccr ambassador are still trying to enthe shutdown in dueling press conferences that. Had ad yesterday the househous Speaker Boehner said the president r
Signaling the need for urgent action so that we can combat the s we face inrisk this country. President obama has long recognized the urgency of this challenge. , in a speech at Georgetown University on a sweltering hot day, the president launched his Climate Action land. Cutting Carbon Pollution in, preparing our communities for changes in climate that are already ongoing and leading International Efforts to address the challenge. One year later, a lot has happened in executing on the commitments made in the Climate Action plan. The president has directed the Environmental Protection agency and the department of transportation to develop fuel economy standards for heavyduty vehicles. The department of interior has announced its permitting of the 50th Renewable Energy project on federal lands during this administration, and the department of energy has issued multiple, new Energy Efficiency standards. The department of agriculture has announced seven new hubs to adapt operations to a c
In asia overnight, equities markets were a little bit mixed. The hang seng was up by 1. 5 . Oil prices are down another 1. 34. Thats probably because of what youre seeing happening in the dollar. Look at the ten year note before we get to the dollar. The ten year note is yielding 2 point poip 482 . The yield getting pressed down. Take a look at the dollar. The dollar is down against both the euro, the yen and the pound. Right now the euro is at 1. 3353. Oil would be going up. Oil is going down on syria. On syria is coming even further up to the forefront. If you take a look at gold prices this morning, up slightly. Up by 7. 40 to 1,316 an ounce. Andrew. Thank you. What a weekend. I remember five years ago we had one weekend and now we have another one. Its not the same. With Larry Summers out of the race, will president obama pick janet yellen . Is donald kohn a candidate . Tim geithner says he doesnt want the job. We have three guests joining us. We have ben white back. Ill start with
The biggest sour egest stories the best reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. We are live from washington, though, to hear this from the top government spokeswoman might may you think this is myanmar, sudan, or thailand. If you want to get into a debate with a fourstar marine general, i think that thats something highly inappropriate. Plus, the last republican president takes sharp issue with the current republican president , in substance and in tone. Bigotry or white supremacist in any form is blasphemy against the american creed. And at the ninemonth mark, pick a number. More than 1,900 tweets, 75 days at trump golf properties, zero big legislative wins, though the president s tax cut plan is gaining momentum. The timing is right, i have had people on both sides and i promise not to mention the name of the people on the other sides or names, but a lot of people are liking
With only months to go before the midterms, the Democrats are seemingly on track to lose their slim Congressional majority, as rising prices make life hard on Americans.