Attorney general sued epa a dozen times he believes regulations are too burdensome and best left to states. He told senators he disagreed with past statements that Climate Change is a hoax. Environmental grurpz and hundreds of former epa my ease have been fighting the nomination. They fear he will put politics over science and try to gut the agency. Illinois senator Tommy Duckworth iraq war veteran explained while shell vote against him. I seen firsthand the price we pay for dangerous dependent oil imported have adversaryyes i fought a war over oil already. And now, a state judge in oklahoma ordered pruit to release thousands of email changes he had with oil and gas executives. People want exactly the sort of dealings hes had and what promises he made. We dont know. But those emails are supposed to be released on tuesday. However, it appears this confirmation vote will probably go through today. Live on capitol hill im melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Thank you you very much, melanie,
Technology giants where the money has been flowing at all of the big names open today at new highs. Euphoria in the world of money. Politics a different story. President s reagan and bush got there tax cut billed by mid february, the trump bill is late. Republicans on tax form are divided. The media remains as contemptuous as ever especially the Washington Post. Look at this. I didnt think i would ever lead the cia but because of trump i quit. The Trump White House is already cooking the books. Outspoken opposition to the president but the trump stock rally roles on. 55 approval for the president in the resolution poll. Varney and company about to begin. This is now the white house, new plan on immigration expected very soon. We have a couple details. Ashley what we hear from senior admin a station official, quote, we will have a big immigration launch, not a new executive order. Not to do with the travel ban. A renewed version of that, basically getting more aggressive to target crimi
Bao bao needs mama back in china. Four things to know about the weather today. President s day, hail to the warmth. Another day with temperatures more than 15 degrees warmer than average. Our final february freeze might already be in the rearview mirror. We have not been below freezing all weekend. I dont see subfreezing temperatures for the entire remainder of the week. There is finally some needed chances for rain coming. It may impact the weekend. Well detail that coming up. An marching into april. Temperatures will stay way above average. It will feel more like april than march for sure. More about todays forecast. Lets go over to sheena. Good morning. We have some mild temperatures. If you have not walked outside just yet, you dont need the heavy coat. 44 degrees is the temperature right now. Mild start. By 7 00 a. M. , we should be in the upper 40s. A lot of sunshine today and cooperative weather if you have outdoor plans president s day. If youre grilling out, milder by noon. 60
They attacked a sketchyearold man walking by. This happened in the middle of the day and police want these two guys off the streets. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. The guy they wailed on wants them off the street and hes talking only to fox 29. Dave schratwieser is live at the Philadelphia Police headquarte headquarters. Dave, brave guy. Reporter lucy, no doubt about it. Len pell tells us he lived in Port Richmond for over 30 years and never been the victim of a crime before until now. The two suspects playing in a playground in the moments before the attack. They really wailed it in there for about 30 seconds or so. Reporter 67yearold len pell says he was simply walking home from Neighborhood Corner store when out of nowhere he was violently attacked from behind. Bang, you know, snuck me and clocked me something, stunned me and just kept hitting me and hitting me and hitting. He suffered fail injuries and had his wallet stolen he was hospitalized. Hes on the road to recov
Live from center see in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at ten. Burning phone smoking so badly vac waits part of a scho school. The charred and burned mess is all thats left of that iphone that blew up during class at a Philadelphia High School and caused panic. Thanks for joining us im iain page. Im timmeney. Lucy off. The bomb squad and Fire Department rushed to the scene. Dave schratwieser is only reporter who spoke to the boy who owns the phone. You talked to his mom and shes not happy at all. Neither one of them are very happy. 17yearold told me when his iphone six fell off his desk in the middle of class this morning, and started to smoke heavily, he didnt know what to do. So he got up with his other classmates and left the classroom. The entire floor ended up being evacuated. West Philadelphia High School was quite wednesday night after a day that had students and faculty buzzing when a students iphone six started smoking badly after it fell off his desk as he sat in class wedn