Priorities for the 2018 farm bill. The needs are certainly great. Every day our producers encounter extreme and unpredictable weather and pests to name a few. Researches and institutions tasked with these challenges are directed to do so with minimal federal resources and an aging infrastructure. Crafting the agriculture improvement act of and i along with members of this committee recognized that we had to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. With the enactment of the bill, the primary department of Agriculture Research education authorities were reauthorize z including the Agriculture Research and the National Institute of food and agriculture. Funds including the hatch act and the smith lever mccann tis sten nis and evans allen were extended and competitive Grant Programs were included to support Research Facilities and equipment improvements. Provisions were included to bring incompetent to 1890 and 1994 institutions. The farm and Ra
Far, up 8 . Check out whats happening this morning. Things have barely changed. The dow futures are up about 12 pokt. The nasdaq just under one point. If you havent woken up there is a full moon out right now. On todays squawk planner economic data. At 8 30 eastern, the earnings. The news in earnings big oil will be in focus. Among the names posting quarterly rults, exxonmobil and chevron. The weekly bag lyly Baker Hughes Rig count is a number of the rigs actively developing oil or natural gas in the United States and canada. We went up to 70 60 for a little while. Everybody came back in. People predicted that. They didnt need to get to 100. Isnt crude down . It is. 48. 52. They think we could be looking at a threehandle on wti because the fraccers have gotten so good. These what . Fraccers. Thats werdird. Theyve cut costs. They dont need oil prices to stay high. You say it it seems like just coming out of your youre normally so proper. These fraccers. You know what else is hard to say
Good morning for twain. Heres the good news. The storms the whistle yesterday our history. But the damage is done. We saw a few inches of rain yesterday today we have showers tapering off. 67 degrees right now. 65 in waukegan. 63 in the cal. Satellite repair composite shows showers across the extreme southern and eastern communities. As the front moves through the rain will taper off quickly. The heaviest of the rain is behind it. 75 degrees by noon today. By 9 00 p. M. Were down to 68. The official high will be 79. Tonight were back down to 62. Partly sunny skies wednesday hightemperature 77. 77 thursday with scattered showers and storms. Heres a traffic. You will want to listen to me this morning. Theres a lot going on. If you use the eisenhower into the city everything is shut down at first avenue. All traffic being diverted off because of that high standing water from overnight. The west bound side was blocked by a few minutes ago there were able to open that again. There is some f
Were just having a little bit of fog weve been talking about the last 90 minutes or so, especially down toward happen tan knock and warrenton. Halfmile in frederick. At times been zero. Other times two miles. A little fog trying to form across parts of prince georges and howard counties, mainly when you get to those rural areas. Temperatures in the 60s in most spots. 50s in westminster. Luray has dipped to 59 degrees with 68 on the bay in annapolis. The light winds this morning will be with us for the day. The sunshine, the heat, all of them come together to produce some extra ozone at ground level. Nitrous oxides. That means the air quality goes a little south. Unhealthy for sensitive today. The young, the old, anybody with Health Issues probably want to keep it indoors in the air conditioning this afternoon. Lets turn it over to monika now with a look at timesaver traffic. A couple of issues i need to tell you about. First of all looks pretty good here on the beltway but if youre com
Madden nfl 15. And nike says it is severing business ties with the former ravens runningback. Despite what Roger Goodell told cbs news today, the controversy over this whole thing continues. Just when did the nfl officials actually first see this new assault video . What do they know . When did they know it . Ken bastida, kpix 5. In the meantime, 49ers ceo jed york is speaking out in response to the rice case and the Domestic Violence allegations against 9ers player ray mcdonald. York said, quote, each case is separate. Ray mcdonald is not ray rice. The District Attorney has not yet made a decision on charges. Its the big reveal we have all been waiting for. Its been four years since we have seen something new from apple and today ceo tim cook showed off the newest products. Kpix 5s betty yu joins us live from cupertino with a look at apples next chapter. Betty. Reporter today responded to speculation about what new products and technology it might release. Today it entered New Territo