speaker kevin mccarthy has yet to issue a budget for the next fiscal year. but did manage to cobble together one frankenstein monster of a debt ceilin proposal this week mccarthy presented a sweeping 320-page bill tha would pair 4.5 trillion dollar in spending cuts with a 1. trillion-dollar increase in th federal dilemma that would kee the bill collectors at bay until march 24th, just in time for the campaign season to hea up the white house says thi spending cuts wish list tied t the debt ceiling is nonstarter meanwhile, golden sach economists are saying that the united states could crash th limit on borrowing for thing already purchase as early as the first week and june. mccarthy has a more immediat problem. the speaker doesn t have the votes just yet to pass his plan that snot good for a perso who only holds a four seat majority but took 15 ballots t win the gavel. still, he insists that congres won t allow the u.s. t default. sure, jan. joining me now, director shalan
into the impact the supreme court s abortion decision could have on the november midterms. congressional democrats grow more optimistic about their chances to hold the majority. next hour, former president barack obama returns to the white house joined by michelle obama, her first trip back to the white house since she left there in 2017. it s the official unveiling of their white house portraits. we begin with justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, paul charlton and tracy wallner. ken, to you out of the gate. this is a significant development. walk us through what new we are learning. pete he , the post is saying there was a document referencing nuclear capabilities. they are aren t saying whether it s classified. no criticism. these are hard details. it s hard to know from this article how significant this document actually is. there are think tank reports that discussion countries nuclear defenses. the story goes into what we knew about the sensitivity
Your side. Lindsey thank you for joining us. I am lindsey mastis. Off. As the night just hours left in 2016 and the parties are getting started. Alexandria familyfriendlys celebration with amy aubert live on king street with a look at what is happening now in old town. Amy . Indsey, organizers tell me this is the biggest familyfriendly new Years Eve Party in the area. They started planning for it last january. Look at this, this is a map showing you everything thats going on. Over 150 performances will be going on tonight. And take a look behind me, just since we have been here, activity has been picking up, crowds coming out. There was a gentleman pulling across the street, a musician playing guitar across the street. Things p. M. Today, but a lot of the events will pick up around 7 p. M. The out here and a lot of offense will be going on, games, fireworks at midnight, face painting. Come on down and join the fun. Live in old town alexandria, amy aubert, abc 7 news. 2017 has already s
Thank you for joining us tonight. Im kimberly suiters. Now it is feeling like february again. We have Team Coverage starting with meteorologist josh knight. After days in the 70s, 75 degrees today, the cold front came through. This starts right around 3 00, line of storms pushing across the radar, ultimately into the atlantic. Behind it is where we have the much colder temperatures. The skies have cleared out for most of us, we are done with the showers, and the clear skies and cool northwesterly breeze really cooling things off. When the storms moved through, really packing a punch. S holes in this roofing, and this is pictures of hail, about a quarter size. This nicer picture from laurel, with rainbow working its way across. Left behind, very strong wind s per hour in d, 25 Miles Per Hour martinsburg. Just a wind that is left behind. The feelslike temperatures are in the 20s and 30s. Tomorrow it will be tough to warm up. Off close to freezing with the windchill, topping off around 43
Your driveway. This just in. Weve expand the Winter Weather advisories to include Southern Maryland until 5 a. M. , the advisories north of town expiring at 3 a. M. Primarily for sleet and freezing rain, but i think there will also be a little snow by daybreak, not a big deal. Heres the radar now over the past couple hours. You can see the activity mainly kicking over to mixed precipitation, although a lot of the ground observations are reporting rain even up in baltimore, rain and 31. Some of this is sleet, some of its wet snow and some of its rain indicated in green especially south and east of i 95. Go up 270, a little bit of mixed precipitation out fairfax. Temperatures are 35 downtown, 34 in manassas, 32 up into frederick. Coming up want to talk about a couple of thing. Coldest day of the year friday through sunday. Prepare, check your car battery and furnace. Prepare for it like a 96 hour stretch below freezing. Temperatures sunday could fall below 0. Well come back, let you know