Large fire aboard a navy ship. Theres one injury. Crews responded after reports of an explosion aboard this vessel. Federal firefighters are also on the scene. Its a wasp class Amphibious Assault ship. It carries helicopters and war planes that take off vertically. Its nearly 850 feet long with a crew of more than 2,000 people at sea. Its quite a large ship. Its based at Naval Base San diego. Well continue to update you as we learn more about this. A busy start to what is already a very busy news day. Im joshua johnson. Good to see you today. In addition to that navy fire, were following another breaking story from the white house. The Trump Administration is actively trying to discredit dr. Anthony fauci. Its released Opposition Research to undermine his credibility. Were live on that just ahead. It makes it clearer why dr. Fauci was not on the sunday morning shows today. They put forward officials who painted a rosier picture of the coronavirus crisis. Were not losing the battle but
Semi finals. Two goals in the closing minutes take them past everton including an absolute cracker from cavani. After revealing his battle with loneliness on breakfast, more than 7,000 Christmas Cards have been sent to world war ii veteran john lister. Well bring you his reaction. Numerous Flood Warnings across england and wales after yesterdays heavy rain but the good news is todayit heavy rain but the good news is today it looks drier, brighter but much colder. I will have all of your christmas forecast details coming up on breakfast. Its thursday 24th december. Our top story. After months of talks a brexit trade deal between the uk and the eu is expected to be confirmed over the next few hours. The deal document is thought to be around 2,000 pages long, with both sides having until 31 december when the uk leaves eu trading rules to get it approved. The uk and eu have locked horns over a number of issues during negotiations. But there were three Sticking Points that proved difficult
[inaudible conversations] thank you. The committee will come to order. The committee is meeting to receive testimony of the status of puerto ricos construction and recovery after recent Natural Disasters. Beginning with of the hurricane in 2017, a series of earthquakes that occurred and that just this past september for any Opening Statements and the ranking minority member over their designees this will allow us to better hear from our witnesses sooner and help members keep to their schedules. Therefore i ask unanimous consent all of their members Opening Statements be made a part of the hearing record and submitted by 5 p. M. Today or whichever comes first. Hearing no objection, so ordered. The chair may also declare a recess subject to the call of the chair and without objection, the member from new york is authorized to question the witnesses in todays hearings. After permanent members have had that opportunity. As described in the statements, documents or motions submitted and h n
Director at the heritage foundation. Good morning to you both, thank you for joining us. Guest it is great to be with you. I want to start with the latest jobs report from friday and trying to understand a lot of the numbers in these reports. 350 thousand jobs added in august. A Labor Participation rate that kicked the, Hourly Earnings up. This all coming as we are technically in a recession. Explain what is going on here . Guest we may not be in a recession. The first two quarters of the year had negative gdp. We are not yet finished with the third quarter. This quarter may not show a decline in gdp, we may have gdp growth. The important thing is, whether we have qualities of sustainable growth. That is what we need to be focused on rather than these details of whether we are in the recession or not. Host what do you think the most important number from this report is . Guest i was excited about the large number of jobs created. I was also very happy with the Labor Force Participation
When are we going to [indiscernible] arms to theseand people . Edahave a history of al qa this ideology, we are trying to fight with them, which that is not this one goes, the next one comes. Two people fighting against who is there to prove . War is not a war, actually. It is an ideology. People want to go for it. They believe what they believe. They say, no, your belief is wrong. This is not the way. Do not get involved, just leave them alone. That is the end of it. Host one of the things you can see it in our website is janet yellen meeting yesterday and talking with reporters. Particularly talking about the strategy for the next few months as far as best practices. She says that the fed is still maintaining the size of its current Balance Sheet, which is 4. 4 trillion. There are four times as many assets as before the 2008 financial crisis. They said on wednesday that they are committed to shrinking the Balance Sheet to a more normal size. The plan reversal of laid out three years