Pace that its moving, it should be manassas before 6 00 a. M. , Downtown Washington before 7 00 a. M. This morning. Be ready for it. This could come with very heavy periods of gusty rain and winds. No active watches or warnings in the viewing area at all right now. That is likely to change within the next 30 to 40 minutes. Ill bring you the latest as soon as things start to change, but for now, thunder and lightning coming in very quickly from the west. Lets go over to wtop. We have an early crash on the baltimore washing parkway northbound just beyond the beltway headed up toward greenbelt road. Traffic literally zigzagging through. A couple more tow trucks have been requested. Work zone northbound up near 198, single line to the left. Also paving project between lucketts and leesburg on 15. Traffic causes a minor delay through the overnight hours. Back into you. Right now crews are still pumping water from a massive water main break in alexandria. The 12 inch water main broke and beg
Percent are african american, 20 percent are latino and the remainder are made up of arab american, iranan american owned firms. Starting last year we started tracking lgbe firms and will incorporate those numbers as they become available. Now turning to the contracts awarded during the reporting period, we had 6 new contracts that were awarded. 5 were governed by the lbe ordinance and 4 p awarded to lbes at the prime level. Approximately 3. 4 mill wrupb went to lbes at the prime level and 1. 3 million went to lbes at the subcontractor level. Thats 67 percent of total dollars awarded by the port during the reporting period went to lbe firms. The size and scope of the Construction Contracts that were awarded during this reporting period lend themselves to high lbe numbers. We tend to see the discount playing into contracts under 5 Million Dollars and lbes do really well in Construction Contracts under 5 Million Dollars. In terms of payments, 45 percent of payments made during the report
Congressmen start cracking, breaking with the white house . Change their minds, go against obama care. Sue is down at the nyse. Hi. Hi. We begin with breaking news, but not here at the nyse. At the nasdaq. Seema moody is there with the latest on trading glitches and halts earlier today. Whats the latest . Sue, the nasdaq indexes have resumed trading after an unusual halt where the nasdaq composite, the nasdaq 100 among other nasdaq specific indexes were not updating. Stocks on these indexes were not impacted. The nasdaq says it was an issue with its Global Index Data Service 2. 0. Apparently this feed experienced a brief disruption of service, but since then, has recovered. The nasdaq says it continues to investigate the issue. Again, no Equity Exchange operations have been impacted but this is still something that traders are watching, especially in the options market. Sue thats the latest. Seema, thank you very much. We turn to obama care now because it is taking center stage on capi
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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis how best to defend our border with mexico, Sylvia Longmire a former air force officer and special agent working in the field of National Security has written a new home titled border insecurity, why big money, fences, and drones arent making us safer. Good to have you on the program. How important after all these ,ears of debate, still ongoing to challenge the conventional wisdom about this issue . Becausevery frustrating we have poured so many billions of dollars into securing our borders. There is so much rhetoric on both sides of the political aisle. Here we are almost 11 years after the creation of the department of homeland security. We still have tons and tons of Illegal Drugs coming across the border. We have tons of Illegal Immigrants coming across the border with no real way to manage that at a nonLaw Enforcement level, yet we are still almost in the same place as where restarted. Tavis let me sta