spielberg. is there anyone in his camp that can tap him on the shoulder and say this doesn t look enough, stop, okay? it couldn t be biden because he s over in brazil for the world cup. there s a very let s call this simple answer to iraq and as a parent, as a newborn libertarian, former oil driller and trader, the advice for president obama would be this, use drill bits and drones. drone the heck out of them. go ahead. go crazy with that. don t put any more boots on the ground. drill until you are blue in the face. open all the federal lands, and off shore. continue to frack. we re about 60% self sufficient in oil, the rest could come from canada, mexico and we don t ever have to talk to those you know what s anymore and i think that would be your answer. i know, israel is important. continue to back israel, support
how should tax reform change? there is no question. i think it s important to state that this is all legal. it s all within the confines. i think the other thing we should talk about is how u.s. corporations might be disadvantaged in competing in similar sectors where their competition are all off shore. going to the market they have a heavier burden on the tax rate. i can understand why corporations are keeping money offshore either to invest in offshore acquisitions, maybe to invert, move the headquarters and save more tax. so we have got to do something in washington to encourage the repateuation. i think the energy policy will
a wildfire there burned more than 90 homes. what is desperately needed here and across the west is rain. there isn t any in the forecast, but the intense heat should break by the weekend. john and diana. thank you. there s no rain in the forecast for the fire zone. and today s temperatures will not be much help either. accuweather s jim dickey has the details. good morning, jim. good morning, john and diana. holding on to extreme warmth in the west. this as high pressure dominates. aloft and at the surface brings the winds in out of the northeast and the desert, sweeping in across california keeping the cool pacific air held off shore. temperatures soaring. many spots breaking records including fresno. likely to climb to 104 here today. break records l.a. san diego, nearly reaching 90 in san francisco. that would set a new record as well. with this here, gusty santa ana winds racing in out of the
how are you? did you know this of the cleanest barrel of oil produceded in north dakota? is that in north america, is that some good promotional stuff for you? it s another of those myths. we ve heard plenty of myths. you remember we heard the bhith 20,000 jobs myth about 20,000 jobs being kraethed. when the lies cleared up, we saw 2 was 35 permanent jobs that would be established. you could build two starbucks and create more jobs. the next big lie was that the cost of oil was going to drop. and as we see, as we just heard, it s not going to drop at all because this is not oil for america. this is oil that goes off shore, it sids in ships, and then the oil company determines where the highest bidder is and then the oil is shipped there. the other lie is that it s not going to affect the environment. then we saw the studies that said a pinhole leak in a pipe can hospital 700,000 gallons of
snow squall causing this mammoth pile-up. nearly a hundred cars and trucks slamming into one another. terrified drivers saying they couldn t see more than three feet in front of them and they slid off the highway. there were so many damaged cars, police had to tow them to a racetrack to investigate. big part of the country heading into a deep freeze on this final day of february. accu weather meteorologist jim dickey has the latest on this record-breaking cold. good morning, jim. good morning john and marci. challenging record lows across the north and east here. through morning hours, on the left, expected lows this morning on the right. the records. so detroit likely shattering the record here this morning. similarly in chicago down to minus 4. the record would be zero. then challenging records, pittsburgh, philadelphia, all in all keeping things cold here. moving in from off-shore, bringing in torrential rain. too much after good thing will lead to flooding here as we see the