Is here to tell us when his fund will launch and at what price. If you have crypto fever, you dont have to look away from the screen we have our bitcoin watch fired up throughout this hour. First we start with the dow on fire both the dow and the s p 500 closing at a record high, the dow 150 points at the high both indices posting their fourth day of gains, with the help of tax cuts on the horizon. It looks like a deal on the bill is close lets get to ylan mui in d. C reporter melissa, republicans are closing in on the final version of the tax bill two sources tell me the corporate rate will land at 21 . Its unclear whether that will kick in right away or not until 2019 but that is slightly higher than the 20 rate that was in previous versions of the bill. The top individual rate, that would fall to 37 . Thats lower than the senates original proposal for a 38. 5 top rate the detection fduction for morte interest, would only apply to new loans. Existing mortgages would still be grandfat
Cases, its coming down hard for at least a brief period of time this area between cheltenham and cherry hill, new jersey. Its not really moving and thats the issue also in Montgomery County in limerick here. Look at that cell. Its just not moving. Central Montgomery County not moving. Farther to the south near milford, delaware. Fortunately theyre not all that heavy but we have to monitor them as we go through the evening hours because the future cast showing at least some of them becoming fairly heavy even though most people are not getting rained on over the next few hours. 85 degrees in philadelphia right now. Thats the high so far today. We are in the 80s across much of the area and its going to be a humid night tonight. Just some isolated showers across the area. Then temperatures dropping into the 70s. But we have some much hotter weather on the way. Heat wave number three. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Stay ahead of the storms with the nbc 10 news app. You can look at
Group recommended that cdc develop agencywide policies to provide clear and consistent requirements for biosafety for all agency laboratories. In response, cdc developed a specimen transport policy but has not developed other agencywide policies such as requirements for Laboratory Documentation and emergency protocols. As i stated at the outset the incidents you are examining today are part of a long series of safety lapses. Since 2007 gao has reported on these issues and has made multiple recommendations to improve federal oversight of highcontainment laboratories. The federal departments agreed with our recommendations and have conducted some activities to respond but have not implemented our key recommendation, to establish a single federal entity with responsibility for oversight of all highcontainment laboratories. We recommended the establishment of a single federal entity to, one, conduct governmentwide Strategic Planning for requirements for highcontainment lab rotorys, includi
Like . What i dont want people to believe is if we produce all of the oil the countries around the world now benefiting from it will produce less of it. The truth is every day hundreds of thousands of day people join the middle class they buy cars and use airplanes. It has a benefit to the United States. To have Domestic Energy resources at our disposal, it lowers the cost of doing business in america which will strengthen our economy and allow us to have a manufacturing renaissance but there will be oil and some will be siphoned and used by terrorist groups. Isis themselves sell oil in the Global Market because they have seized refinery that assad has refused to destroy because he hopes to seize them and capture them again. Geopolitically it will allow us to help break the strangle hold that putin has on europe. Europe today relies on natural gas that they get from russia and if the russians can threaten to cut that off, it makes them vulnerable to pressure from putin and the russian
This week announced big decisions, the devalued evaluation of its currency and that it would start selling dollars. What are the possibilities for Global Markets impacts. And what are the geopolitical applications of this . Tim in terms of market has been unsettling. We have seen them react in the wake of this announcement. It will have applications for other american businesses that try to access and maintain market share is china. Beyond that, i dont feel it underscores the rig the currencywith mitigation that china has been guilty of for a number of years. This brings to the forefront the willingness of them to the newly manipulate their currency in a way that is advantageous to them. Host lets turn to you. A question about Cyber Security, something that congress is working on at the moment. Policyto ask about the of the issue. There is a bill that is under consideration that relates to cyber information sharing. The information that Companies Share with the government and some prot