It has damaged or destroyed 100,000 homes, and left more than a Million People displaced. And yet President Trump spent the eve of this visit talking about scrapping a policy that protects young, undocumented immigrants. The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey is plain to see here. Texas is barely beginning to count the cost, and many people here are astonished that the president would choose this moment even to mention immigration. And we have a lot of distilled waterfor the babies. Jessicas home was flooded, and now she is helping others. Brought here illegally at the age of four, she is among 200,000 texans who face being fired and deported if President Trump keeps his campaign promise. Its a complete slap in the face. I mean, you see people who are struggling, your initial reaction is to help them, and his is the complete opposite. He knows what he is doing. He knows what the effects of this would be in the community. The white house says the president will announce his decisio
Around the clock. Whenever they have fuel its is around the clock with 95 reliability. One of plant goes out the next day all around the country the thing that gets tuned up as a fossil fuel power plant. It is a swing fuel. Calculations i have done unfortunately indicate that in order to replace that baseload amount of supply you really have to come up with orders of magnitude more investment in Renewable Energy just to replace it. Renewable wind might have a 40 as opposed to 95 output for every piece you put in the ground. Solar is close to less than 20 . You have to have four times 26 times to eight times investment in those in order to replace something that is going offline. We need to make forward progress so i would like to see us building a transition on these reactors that enables forward progress that we have already seen on cost productions and renewables. Replacing on that scale is hard in terms of backsliding. Thank you so much for the honor. Anthony rogers right. Wright, t
House ways and Means Committee chairman, paul ryan, hosted treasury secretary jack lew in a discussion on the prospects of tax reform. First, we have breaking news a major rally in equities and in oil. Its go to the breaking news desk and our chief markets correspondent, scarlet fu. Lets head into the bloomberg terminal where i can show you what is going on. The Dow Jones Industrial average in the yellow and the s p 500 and white, reach new highs for the day. The nasdaq is in green. The dow jones has added more than 150 point and is now headed for a sixth straight day of closing up or down by at least 190 points. There is that volatility summary people warned we would see in 2015. You can credit the rise in oil for the strength in equities. Youve got rent crude set to close more than 20 above its january 13 close. That would meet the technical definition of a bull market. Brent crude in a bull market if you can believe it. Scarlet, thank you. Back to the u. S. Budget. Treasury secretar
Colleagues should with all papers of a new method to create stem cells to be turned into added time of teaching. International search teams are trying to call whats been described as an unprecedented aviation history. Theyre looking for any trace of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner. The plane take off early saturday with two under thirty nine people on board an advantage the plane left alone for International Airport bound for beijing. It headed out over the South China Sea then about fifteen minutes into the flight. It disappeared from radar cruise of military and coast guard vessels from across South East Asia are helping with the search teams from China Australia and the us have joined them. Visibility was good we could clearly see the four hundred square kilometer area of research but all we could spot where ships and those other nations to scour the walkers. We found no sign of the plan elation transport authorities said investigators are testing what appears to be oil found in waters
Closings are in maryland. In virginia, alexandria city schools are closed. There are many more closings. You can see them all on the top and bottom of your screen. We have live Team Coverage. We will check in on the conditions in your neighborhood and we want to start with jacqui jeras. It will be bitterly cold today. Around forl stick the better part of the week and the cold is the big story now. It stopped snowing and the wind is strong. That is driving the windchill factor down across the region. It is in effect across the entire region until noon today. Take a look at the windchill factor and this is the way your body feels with the combined effects of the cold and the wind. It is 18 degrees below zero in oakland and seven below in annapolis. How much snow did we get . Theave the trifecta and airport had a. 5 inches of snowfall. The record was back in 1982. We came in with 5. 3 overall. For all the kids out of the school, it will be bitterly cold and make sure you bundle them up. T