And ray of hope. Former nba and reality star lamar odom answering his familys prayers, opening his eyes and even speaking. Just days after collapsing at a nevada brothel, the message from his family to fans this morning. And good morning, america. Dan is off this saturday, and it is fantastic to have tom llamas by my side once again, and this morning we are seeing images from Southern California that are just incredible. We want you to take a look. From the air you can see some of the thousands of cars and trucks that are stranded on the roads, many still in that thick mud, tom. Yeah, these images are incredible. While down on the ground, the big digout is going on right the slow, hard work of clearing it away, removing the stuck veries and praying no one is trapped underneath. Abcs aditi roy has the latest from hardhit lake hughes just north of los angeles. Aditi. Reporter good morning, tom and paula. This is one of the roads thats now impassable. Take a look at the tall piles of mud
Within five years. Its called operational control is the term theyre using for it and it would penalize political appointees if they dont meet those goals. Its not going to go very far. The house will pass it this week. You know the its contingent on both sides. Jay johnson, the head of the Homeland Security department has said its extreme. Unworkable. These are not goals that we can meet, so the democrats hate it. Interestedly, a lot of conservatives dont like it either. Senator Jeff Sessions saying that the mccall bill is terrible and the question mark is for boehner and the republicans is that conservative opposition going to reach a point they cant get 218 votes on the republican side to pass this thing, so immigration has always been a tough issue for republicans and boehner and its going to be a test for this week to see how well they can manage their conference going into this new congress. They have more seats, but do they have more power is the question. And thats going to be
We still have very substantial infrastructure revenue needs that have to be addressed. We have studied every option. Some have advocated raising the state gas tax. Yes, we do have the third lowest gas tax in america. Gas prices are now down to their lowest level since 2009. NonSouth Carolinans who visit our state would pay a portion of the tax and we would boost the are revenue stream thats dedicated to improving our roads and highways. But there are also major problems with it. We have not gotten to where we are as a state with our strengthening and growing economy by raising taxes. Quite the opposite. If all we do is increase taxes whether its the gas tax or some other tax, we will hurt our citizens, we will discourage job creators and we will dampen our economy. As ive said many times, i will veto any straightup increase in the gas tax. Thats just not going to happen while im governor. Its the wrong thing for South Carolina. So heres the deal. Lets do three things at once that will
Visibility isnt a factor this morning. Developing in cerros the concord right now and heading out to Clear Conditions. And essentially it is and santa rosa. 41 degrees 44 living the house and livermore. Downtown Santa Francisco but we havent even hit the morning rose yet so temperatures will only continue to drop in sunrise and then by 12 00 most locations well into the sixties could even pick up a few 70s livermore morgan hill and gilroy end temperatures will continue to the this afternoon and then as much as 10 degrees above average to a livermore 7268 at your high in fairfield also of kinds of the cisco 50 degrees and 72 redwood city and is ahead sunday are the forecasts we notice that maintain and dry conditions of the sunshine having flings giving itself. We think youll be okay to winning in line for those black friday deals that come friday night. For the back and forecast though by in the north bay early as the afternoon and the series of storms heading in our direction it could