Weekend. The u. S. Is looking for a fair trade relationship with china. And the referee in last nights cowboys raiders game used a folded piece of paper to measure for a down. Dallas went on to quick what was the winning field goal in a victory. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 18th. From abc news, this is world news now. Couple of weird calls in the sunday games yesterday, but uh, it is how it is. A lot on the line right now, too. Exactly. We again this half hour with the Third Largest wildfire in california history. Some multimillion dollar homes in montecito have been leveled. One firefighter recorded flames and smoke surrounding his truck. We get m are your fi. Reporter fire crews waging an allout war. Crews climbing the california hills with chain you saws, axes and shovels, desperately trying to get the upper hand. The inferno now burning for two weeks. The wall of smoke to thick it blocked out the sun. Nearly 800 homes destroyed. Several more lost over
Nights game used a folded piece of paper to measure for a down. Dallas went on to quick what was the winning field goal in a victory. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 18th. From abc news, this is world news now. Couple of weird calls in the sunday games yesterday, but uh, it is how it is. A lot on the line right now, too. Exactly. We again this half hour with the Third Largest wildfire in california history. Some multimillion dollar homes in montecito have been leveled. One firefighter recorded flames and smoke surrounding his truck. We get more from marci gonzalez. Are your fi. Reporter firallout war. Crews climbing the california hills with chain you saws, axes and shovels, desperately trying to get the upper hand. The inferno now burning for two weeks. The wall of smoke to thick it blocked out the sun. Nearly 800 homes destroyed. Several more lost over the weekend as wind gusts topped 60 miles per hour. It brought the flames in so quickly fire crews didnt h
Nights cowboys raiders game used a folded piece of paper to measure for a dallas first down. The raiders coach seen saying no way afterwards. Dallas went on to quick what was the winning field goal in a 2017 victory. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 18th. From abc news, this is world news now. Couple of weird calls in the sunday games yesterday, but uh, it is how it is. A lot on the line right now, too. Exactly. We begin this half hour with the Third Largest wildfire in california history. Some multimillion dollar homes in the Santa Barbara community of montecito have been leveled. One firefighter recorded flames and smoke surrounding his truck. We get more from abcs marci gonzalez. Reporter fire crews waging an allout war against this massive, unrelenting wildfire. Crews climbing the california hills with chain saws, axes and shovels, desperately trying to get the upper hand. The inferno now burning for two weeks. The wall ott smoke at one point so thick it n
On the ground. Is everybody okay . Im still figuring that out. We have cars everywhere. Down on to the highway. Lindsey this is a new train route for this train. Todays voyage was the inaugural run. Part of a 181 million project. The ntsb will no doubt take a close look at the project as well as interviewing and operating the amtrak train. You can see a live picture of what is going on there right now. A team is headed from here in d. C. To that crash site right now. At the live desk, lindsey mastis. Jonathan thank you very much. Look at the map. When you see the green line, that is the old route. The orange line is the new one that opened this morning. This was the inaugural run and meant to reduce sharp curves and enable the train to speed up. The train was going 81 m the Washington State project had the max speeds of 79 miles per hour. We dont know at this point if the speed was a factor in the derailment. This rail project cost more than 180 million. You know there were cars on bot
Holdouts threaten to derail it. House Speaker Paul Ryan saying the vote could come as early as tuesday. Here are some of the key details. Despite a pledge to reduce the number of personal income tax brackets, this bill keeps all seven. Taxes will be lower for many in those brackets. The biggest cut is being saved for corporations where the tax rate drops to 21 from its current 35 . Also in the bill is a 2,000 Child Tax Credit. Thats important because it apparently was key in moving u. S. Senator rubios vote from a no to a yes. Individuals will also be able to deduct up to 10,000 in state and local taxes. And the exemption for the estate tax would be doubled. Republican senators got their way and the obamacare individual mandate will be eliminated. I want to bring in congressional reporter lauren fox, in washington, lauren, good to see you again. It was just six weeks ago that lawmakers got a look at this first draft. There was a lot of horse trading going on to get the votes that they