Nascar superstar kurt busch ordered to stay away from his ex, accused of assaulting the woman he claims is a trained assassin. Hes known as the outlaw. Will he be sidelined for the biggest race of the year . And good morning, america. It is another snowy and cold one for so much of the country. Whole east coast, much of the southeast getting hit hard and live look at the Charles River in boston. Just about frozen over. We also have a look at washington. The capital. The federal government shut down this morning. Our gma extreme weather team all over this latest blast of winter and ginger starting us off again this morning. Good morning, ginger. Right here in the snow globe that is times square. We have a couple of light and fluffy inches so 2 to 4 around new york city but it is slick this morning. The commute a wreck. Lets go ahead and look at one of the cameras we have on the road. A road cam in queens and its just going to be a slow go. Weve already heard of several accidents and now
More than that, its encouraging their development of agro ecological practices for the benefit of them and all of us. Of course these practices not only help Climate Change but they produce food and they make themselves more resilient against drought. So its one of these amazing win winwins, but very few of us appreciated. That is what anna is so good at getting across to us. But thanks for that great question. [applause] in this next part of the conference, food activists talk about reducing food waste. Speakers include the former trader joes president can 1. 5 hours. Hi, welcome. Were so glad youre all here today. My name is ona. Im a staff attorney at the food law and policy clinic here at harvard law school. For those of you who dont know clinics provide action based learning opportunitys for law students to get real lawyer experience. Our students are working with nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups to improve the food system in their community. Organizations, advocacy groups
Look what has happened to those lines. When they finally found out what it really means when the government runs our health care, look at this. Of the just the estimate cost of the slop over 10 years. This is what has been happening it. Weed until it goes into effect. I thought this would be useful to you. If anybody wants the slide presentation, im happy to send it. Give me your card afterwards there is apparently a book signing later on. I have copies of our book, why obamacare is wrong for america. So many things we predicted are happening. They estimate, the average cost of a policy in the Obamacare Exchange will be 14,000 a year for a family of four. Make,erage subsidy if you 150 of poverty, you make a its a huge subsidy, 10,000 a year to 12,000 a year. This is new spending. It goes up. The red is how much taxpayer funds for that insurance. The blue is how much the individual pays. Four out ofjority, five of the policies being sold, is subsidized coverage. No surprise. It is terri
Costs is labor and benefits. So we are trying to control those costs. Thats what this show, about. Reporter with the clock still ticking, they are still 89 million apart, a figure the unions dispute. That 89 million gap they talk about is for all the workers at bart including management. That number should be much smaller. Bart cant look at it just on two bargaining units. You have to expect that the other bargaining units are going to expect the same thing that these two get. Reporter bart is already spending big to hire a fleet of buses to prepare for a strike. Usually well have 150 and if we need to well get up to 200. Its 900,000. We have already secured buses for a week so were working on a second week. That money has already been deposited. Reporter so we have spent 900,000 just getting ready for this . Thats correct. Reporter and that money is gob. Meanwhile, they are talking and everybody has their financial crossed. No strike notice but no contract deal, either. Stay with kpix
Cover. I am matt miller. And i am alix steel. Existing home sales, why can you . Ell us to g they are down five point one percent. The expectation was 4. 1 , so it did take a big toll. It is very obvious what happened during the month when you look the regional background breakdown. 7 almost in the midwest, down 5 in the south, 8. 3 in the west, everywhere affected, 80 of the country was affected in january by the bad weather. Singlefamily down 5. 8 . Condos and coops were flat, may be eager to get around in the with condos cities and coops. Overall, a bad month. Everybody will look through it and we will wait and see what happens when the weather starts to move up. We will keep you with us, mike. We will bring with us drew matus, deputy economist at ubs, given stamford, connecticut this morning. Drew, this is the lowest annual 2008. Ince obviously the weather is rough. I dont think it should be a concern. What would give me concerned and aart thinking is that we saw pickup in layoffs.