Island still without power. Well look at how much longer residents will have to wait, and how a College Student from pennsylvania is helping to bring aid to the island. Stop me if youve heard this one before. A horse checks into a hotel, and well no joke that actually happened. Well find out why this horse owner tested the limits of the term petfriendly and whether the hotel bed frames are stable enough. Ah, well played. Lots of jokes on this monday, october 16th. Announcer if from abc news, this is world news now. Is it still monkeying around on the bed if its a horse . Wow. Weve got so many of these awesome jokes for you. I can only hope that our two viewers will survive to watch the actual story. All right. Well move on to the news, shall we . Yeah, well get to that. We do have the breaking news from louisiana, that Oil Rig Explosion near new orleans. The rig burning for hours in lake pontchartrain near new orleans clearly visible for miles across that huge lake. So that explosion h
Derailed after alerting pharmaceutical companies about the unusually large shipments of opioids. Tmobile and sprint are planning to announce a merger as they gear up for what could turn into challenging antitrust negotiations with the government. The merger could create the nations thirdlargest mobile business behind verizon and at t. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, october 16th. Good morning to you. We begin this half hour with firefighters finally turning a corner in the battle against californias deadliest wildfires. Fire officials in Northern California say theyve made tremendous progress. With a little help from a shift in the weather. Right now 15 large fires are still burning and even as thousands of residents are allowed to return home, many others remain missing. The death toll has already climbed to at least 40. Abcs linzie janis has more from santa rosa. Reporter flames in every direction. Incinerating this house. Just two blocks from the nearest fire stati
Of Amazon Studios, roy price, resigns over allegations of sexual harassment. Well find out later how much wages are going up, but with prices now rising at their fastest rate in five years it means were all likely to feel a bit worse off. In sport, the biggest away win for an english club in Champions League history. 7 0 for liverpool. Manchester city win too, while spurs draw with reigning champions real madrid. Andy carroll has the weather. Good morning. Rain today across south Eastern England. For the rest of us, quite a bit of cloud around, but equally there will be sunny spells as well. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The nhs is failing to meet Key Performance targets in hospitals across the uk according to a major analysis of data by the bbc. The research looked at how often Health Organisations achieved targets for Cancer Treatment, accident and emergency, and planned operations. It found that nationally england, wales and Northern Ireland ha
Nondefense spending increases. Both are happening now. I suspect by the time they wrap up, this package will move very quickly because when we are talking about spending increases and tax cuts, the American People are still very concerned about the deficit and debt and they are not really getting an in washington. What you think outlines to the budget are . What dont you like that is been proposed or put out by kevin brady in the allen of the tax plan . Vague it has been very when it comes to provisions that will help pay for some of the marginal rate reductions on the corporate side and also on the personal side. I also dont like the idea of keeping the highest individual rate or potentially adding a new one. I like the previous attempt at simplifying and coming down to three great only. Rates only. The health care exclusion should be capped and is not distributed differently so that individuals have more control over the health plans and not just employers. These are difficult politi
You can also post your thoughts on facebook and twitter. We are cspanwj. We look forward to your postings and tweets. You are not, if registered as a democrat but vote regularly as a democrat, that is the line to use or you. Same for republicans. We will get to your comments in a moment. Part of our conversation reflected in a poll in sundays Washington Post. Just messed up. We told you about the lead on that. Conductedthis poll, nine months into trumps tumultuous presidency reveals a starkly pessimistic view of u. S. Politics, widespread distrust of political leaders, and their ability to compromise and an erosion of pride in the way democracy works. We will focus on your thoughts on your Political Party and whether that represents your views. Wall street journal had an article about the democratic side of things to their headline democrats struggle with their own tea party moment. Janet hope writing that six democrats are challenging an incumbent publican in next years midterm electi