Your agency, the department of treasury, as responsibility for fostering our nations Economic Growth and ensuring fiscal stability across our financial system. Our countrys growing debt and underperforming economy should be front and center in these conversations. America is faced with a mammoth nation debt that is over a patrol dollars and an economy thats holding back growth. We had a modest 2 rait over the next 30 years pro protections doubled from 77 in 2017 to 150 in 2047. In order for congress to tackle this enormous fiscal challenge it must reduce spending and ensure outlay growth does not outpace our economy. But wels must focus on the other critical part of the equation, growing our gross domestic product. Ive suggested including longterm debt to gdp targets in the federal budget process which would provide key goals and bench marks for the budgets of both congress and the president. If baseline projections do not comply with these targets, the administration would need to sub
Aus north korea as a brutal regime after a us student that was imprisoned there guys. Stay hydrated, as the uk heatwave continues. Imprisoned there guys. Imprisoned there has died. Good morning. Its tuesday 20th june. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Serious Fraud office has charged barclays and four former executives including former chief Executivejohn Varley with fraud over the banks dealings with qatar at the height of the financial crisis. Barclays raised Emergency Funding from qatar in 2008 to avoid a government bail out. Now barclays has become the first bank to Face Criminal Charges for actions during the financial crisis. With me is ben thompson. The first Senior Executives to face charges over alleged activities in that period of the financial crisis. Tell us more period of the financial crisis. Tell us more about what the charges are. You have two turn the clock back to 2008, the height of the crisis. Three of the biggest banks said they we re three of th
We are going to build it on time, on budget, not for three times what it is supposed to cost. Rebuildilitary, we will our badly depleted military and ensure Service Members have equipment and training, technology and resources, everything they need to get the job done. Now hopefully we will never have to use that great tower that we are going to build. We are going to build the Strongest Military that we have ever had. On immigration, we will build a great wall and put an end to illegal immigration and stop the drugs from pouring into our country. America spends more on education than any country by far, and yet, our results are terrible. Pupil than anyer nation in the world by far, and you look at sweden and denmark and norway and china and japan, and they are all at the top, and you look at us, spending much more per pupil and we are down at the bottom. We are going to change that. Spend 4. 2 billion for an airplane so i can fly around, all right . For air force one, i dont think so.
Radar to show us where the wet weather is. Reporter weve been talking about three storms this week. This third one is coming right on schedule late saturday night into your sunday. Take a look right now from the rainfall totals with us for this third system. San rafael and santa rosa both over two inches. San francisco, napa, oakland all over an inch of rain. Concord. 81. And here is the radar throughout the day. You probably saw a bit of a break in the action this morning, but then things are ramping up this afternoon in terms of the rainfall and also the thunderstorms out there. We had some lightning strikes across portions of the bay area and some scattered thunderstorms. We still have this, a Flash Flood Watch in place for a good portion of the region until monday 6 00 p. M. Then maybe expiring in a few minutes all the way down to watsonville and also tracking this up in the north bay if you can see right now. The increase is really rising over the past 24 hours. So in general Floo
Saturated they are, we could have some damage. And showing green and that is light spotty shower. Oakland and berkeley, right up 24 towards moraga and lafayette creek. And putting it into motion, there is a few cells developing off shore, but the ruhuge rain this morning, that was it. And Building Clouds means scattered showers and also scattered rain bose on the positive side. Temperatures in the mid to upper 50s at 4 00 and 6 00 and not a steady rain and by 8 00 still a chance of rain. My main concern moving forward and it is a moderate chance of hydroplaning so well bring alexis in to show you what is going on right now. As you know, weve had heavy downpours this morning, enough to cause flooding. This is video from sky 7 from about two hours ago. They are over grade highway and lawsuiton street in outer sunset and that road spray kicking up. So we did have areas that were dangerous this morning. Northbound 29 had to fully shut down in napa county this morning due to flooding. That