As we learn more. Good day, everybody, on this wet, wednesday, january, thank you for wacking up early and joylinging us. Hi, bob. You know its a holiday monday and its already wednesday. Right . This was kind of a quick week. Zip ago long. Not soon enough though until friday. You need your jaekt, brum brel a, araptorss at the else about fargo center tonight. Temperatures in upper 30s and 40s out. There visibility not great in many places. Dover, delaware, Atlantic City, new jersey, lancaster, pa, reading, trenton, up in mount pocono, six miles visibility at the airports. So watch out allow extra time. Where we are in the upper0s. Lancaster, reading, pottstown, trenton, pretty closing to freeze in mount pocono and could be sliply. 4 in is they and plenty of rain to show you. Its very spotty. Still around. But not as much as we got yesterday especially last evening when we had so many downpours. Lingering showers first and then lingering clouds. Were hoping for enough sunshine to take u
Day in havana. President Obama Meeting with raul castro today, a first step in trying to work past the decades old bitter divide between the u. S. And the communist nation. President obama sharing his optimism in this abc news exclusive interview. The time is right to read changes going to happen and i think raul castro understands that. Marci the first family welcomed by cheering crowds opal that this marks a turning point. The 11 million residents make an average of just what he dollars a month. While the trade embargo still exists american businesses are starting to take advantage of newly relaxed restrictions. Ringing more tourism dollars to cuba. Cuba has significant potential for travelers around the world. Marci opponents criticize the president s actions. Pointing to the ongoing political dissidents and human rights issues president obama vowing to take a strong stance. Although we still have significant differences around human rights and individual liberties inside of cuba, w
Coming up at 6 01. Our top Story Service restored on amtrak philadelphia a to new york. It will be far from normal, day, delays, expected, so that is throughout the morning rush hour, already that first train out of the gate is delayed. We will go down there live in a second. Trenton Regional Rail Line Services restored regular schedule but already they say to expect 60 minute delays, on the trenton line. I am bound trains to center city will skip the north philly station. Outbound to trenton they will skip north philly, bridesberg and tacony. Reason being that the three stations that are closest to that curve the accident scene. Instead of the four tracks, they are only using three tracks this morning so at least there is Train Service going through far from a regular normal day, three tracks are better than no tracks. So expect delays. Pack your patient this is morning. The west trenton line, they will return to a normal weekday schedule. They boosted Services Last week with that acc
And judicial nominees ending and ongoing dispute over nominations that had tied up most of the chamber this month. The most highprofile nomination was janet yellen for the federal reserve. The hearing will be held in january and the senate will vote confirmation of the deputy secretary of the department of homeland security, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue service, and a u. S. Allrict judge in florida this morning. Earlier on thursday, senators had been preparing for a rare weekend session as democrats and republicans were at loggerheads on when to help hold votes. Senate democrats were informed during their closed Party Meeting that they would be staying in washington through saturday. Republicans had sketched out a plan ensuring one of their members with stay on the floor to keep their eye on democrats. Six other executive branch nominees were pending, mostly deputy ands for state. That batch of nominees will be sent back to the white house because they were not cleared by t
the people. host: what about the question of money supply in the government? guest: that is interesting. take it back a little ways. in 1990- 91 i was invited to a meeting in europe, only time i have been to europe to a meeting. there were a lot of big brains there. going down the danube with five nobel prize winners and i wasn t one of them and it was milton friedman, and headed debate with milton friedman, mr. freemarket about free and competitive money and he was arguing the government should control the money supply. competitive money, reliable economy with fewer panic. religion, what would the founders say? the founders were unanimous the government should not establish a religion nor should it prevent the worship of any sport. every state constitution has the words god and half of them have a word jesus christ in them. and they had jesus christ in their constitution. virtually all of the founders were of a mind that you needed to make sure government did not for