Art laffer on what this can be done to correct this. The fda is under fire for its handling of food recalls. What the agency is accused of doing. Were fourdays away from new years eve. New york city is bracing for unprecedented security and record low temperatures. What is being done to prepare for the nations largest celebration. Leah . Lea dow making a turn around this afternoon. Inching closer to 25,000. Gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Gerri, what are the traders saying. Lea, were down with the traders and they are optimistic. The dow closed up 27 points. Back and forth all day long, finally ending in the green for the dow. Winners in the dow, visa, mcdonalds, amex, unitedhealth. Variety of industries there, broad improvement across the board. Other news that markets responding to, pending home sales increasing. 2 of a percent, exactly like it sound. Tells you how the Housing Market will be in future weeks. Gaining hovnanian, lennar, pulte group and toll br
Our country and our church and by every social and Human Behavior american youth. We strongly urge congress to act and immediately resume work toward a legislative solution. We pledge our support to work on finding an expeditious means of protecting daca youth. As people of faith, we say to daca youth, regardless of your immigration status, you are children of god and welcomed in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church supports you and ll advocate for you. That was september 5, 2017. That was the day that the president issued his statement. Now, having worked with the bishops for a while, for them to have such a definitive statement so quickly is pretty remarkable because sometimes it takes a bit longer for their deliberative process to work. But this came right away. Ok. This is doctors and dreamers. I mentioned about the need for doctors and the ambition and he vocation that these young people were feeling toward becoming doctors and i read this. The association of american medical
Bloomquist is on assignment in minneapolis, in the news, panara recalls cream cheese because of possible contamination. Were counting down super bowl lii the eagles are in minnesota getting ready for media night. A person is hurt after a row home catches fire in the somerdale section. Big story on action news, developing in south philadelphia. An offduty Police Officer shot a driver who investigators say was trying to hit pedestrians. One person was hit. The driver who fired the shots is hospitalized. Vernon odem is live at the scene at broad and bigler street. Reporter good afternoon, rick at some point, the suspect was pronounced at the scene and somehow revived and rushed into surgery at the hospital where surgeons and doctors are battling to save his life. Police say chaos erupted around 7 30 a. M. At the corner of broad and bigler, the driver of the black honda with maryland plates was trying to run pedestrians down. One person was hit and flipped up on the hood of the car. Police
Is crime like in your community. Also send us a tweet or go to facebook. You can also email us. Phone lines are open. Start dialing in. What is crime like in your community . Take a look at some of the most common avenses in this country from offenders in federal prison. Us a take a look at federal offenders in prison. Federal offenders we want to get an idea of what crime is like in your community. U. S. A. Recently had this headline. So we turn to you this morning. Give us your thoughts. Thomas youre in an urban area. Whats crime like in your area . Caller most of the crime that makes the papers involves poor people getting shot. Poor people getting shot in poor neighborhoods and homeless people. Things like that. Drug crimes, typically dont make the paper. Its the crimes that just make you sick. Not that somebody getting robbed at 711 isnt a terrible thing but its poor people shooting each other essentially. Host is this smk that talk about your neighborhoods. Something that your lo
Standards, those are all in there as part of the budget process. For me, those are significant challenges that certainly the white house has weighed in on but for me the most important thing is, we have reduced our staff level from over 18,000 to 15,000. We did this knowing that epa would need to get leaner but also do its job more effectively. We have done everything we can to get to be a leaner and more effective agency, but you are adding time when state budget is hurting. We do not have the level of protections for clean air, clean water, clean up superfund sites and transforming those brownfield sites into economic opportunities. These are standard things of the agency has done forever. Taking away a core budget does not just impact clean power plans and problems of the future, it definitely impacts our ability, which i think the general public has relied on, to protect the direct Public Health and the environment. We are not talking about worrying just about the problems of the f