40s, 50s and 60s now 43 degrees in ocala, grab a jacket this morning. Just dropped off 2 degrees in orlando down to 53. An onshore breeze making us a little warmer with 60s in Brevard County. Cocoa beach 67, deland 48, 52 in sanford. A bit of a chill, just the next couple of hours. A few scattered clouds it will be a beautiful sunrise and a great day on the way. Apopka today, you see after the chilly start after 10 oclock am already reaching 70 degrees. And by lunch time we will have some of the mid 70s around. It will hold in the 70s through the afternoon so pleasantly warm dropping off to about 70 by 6 p. M. Cooler along the coast, low and the way of low to mid 70s because of the easterly winds. And len close to 80 in c laremont. I will show you how soon before crews have shut down Colonial Drive. Its the latest i4 ultimate project closure, we are live or up. In a thousand drivers will need to find a new route . Reporter that is how many drivers we are finding out take guard garland
The day. Dont worry about it little marco rubio. Dont worry about it. Gentlemen. Gentlemen. Youve got to do better than ttis. Reporter during the debate, trump responded to Harsh Criticism by former republican president ial nominee mitt romney and defended his changing stances on issues. I have never seen a successful person who wasnt flexible, who didnt have a certain degree of flexibility. Reporter on job creation, rubio stuck to the part of llss government intervention. Thats the problem with the democratic party. They can government creates jobs. It doesnt. Reporter positions uncritical concerns facing the country often got pushed to the side. This debate became a war against trump and hillary clinton. Donald trump in 2008 wrote four checks to elec clinton as president. Reporter there was little kasich tried to portray himself to save the republican party. Ive never try to go and get into these kind of scrums on the stage. Reporter whats next . Michael rubio needs to win the florid
Or you can continue with us talking about americas middle class, hearing different stories from people around the country. Ellicott city, maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning. Issue with the definition of middleclass. Different in is different states of the country. Host do you consider yourself middleclass, ahmed . Caller with the current definitions, yes i am. But another essays have, in the past few years and longer than that that of show that when we have economic downturn, many up ourwho lined middleclass. They are prone to Health Problems. When a Health Problem takes place, they became very poor. There are not many assets for these individuals in most cases and they do not have the cushion to absorb any of the crises. He talked to a woman earlier who andd on Social Security rented a place, but she said that was all she had. If she does not have the rental money, she is not able to survive. This. E to look into it. Ust got to revisit the American People are distribution the
Religious decision, with his decision in smith and oregon. That decision came down my term. Smith versus employment decision. What smith did most held whereally is you have a generally applicable criminal law, that is in that case of law prohibiting the peyote as a listing controlled substance without an exception for religious use, there is not a need for the court to create a religious exception. That was essentially the holding of smith. It was perceived as being contrary to at least some precedents where it seemed as though there was an exception that Administrative Agency doling out Unemployment Benefits would have to take into account orther the person was fired otherwise was not performing their duties because of a religious obligation. We grew up thinking that was an exception. The court held otherwise with smith. That was a very controversial decision. I remember the petition for rehearing. You are quite right, you can say, how was that protecting religion . Really smokes that
Is with the middle class laid bare, with a more precarious position than we realized in the early 2000s. Theye lost a lot of what had. Middleclass Home Ownership was down after the recension recession. Business ownership was down. Middleclass incomes fell not just in the recession, but in the recovery. It only stabilized in the last couple of years since then. They maybe going up again, finally. Be going up again, finally. When we think about the frustrations they are feeling now, it is not just because the recovery and recession were bad. Things were pretty bad before that. A pretty terrible economic decade for most americans and we did not realize that as much because they were spending money they did not have and now they have to pay it back and stop borrowing until we see a situation where it debt frustrations are boiling over. Host were talking about american middle class, the numbers are on the bottom of the screen. You can also participate on social media. Mike is in chicago. We