Of the council on foreign relations. Her fourth book is a revelation. Who acts next in this backandforth . Jonathan the administration has been dancing around the issue of the trade deal announced back in january. The president has stopped dancing around the issue. It means much less to me. He repeated that about three times in a News Conference yesterday, and i wonder how that message evolves in the coming weeks and months. Tom i thought it would be a lazy friday, and i was wrong. Let me give you two quick ideas. Of thew the donnybrook republicans in washington. That will be china as well. And we have statistics which speak to the summer of 2020. Honeywell is without question one of the best run companies in the world. They organic Revenue Growth was 18 . You dont need to know anything else. Jonathan we will get the earnings a little bit later in the program. Equity futures slightly negative. Gold very much in focus, approaching a record seemingly at one point this morning. Lisa it ha
Summer friday. Really extraordinary, like the thunder south of manhattan overnight. The thunder out of washington. I know we are talking china, but the republicans simply went down in flames yesterday. No other way to put it. Jonathan it doesnt look good not having a deal before the weekend. You need some kind of agreement within republicans for the weekend. We might not see it until monday. Not just the size difference between republicans and democrats. If it is just size, we can work some thing out. But if its concepts, we got a struggle. I think weve got a struggle on enhanced on it limit benefits. If this economy and the recovery is still constrained and people cant go back to work because these industries cant normalize, then you have got to have a tradeoff. If you want to remove those benefits, here is the tradeoff. You are going to have softer consumption through summer. Tom and big business this week, you see it in diminished revenues. It is a number you could never imagine. Th
Reporter more than 24 hours after the collapse, the massive crane is in the middle of the building, along with questions as to why it fell. Absolute chaos. Reporter from a nearby parking garage, witnesses capture the moment. Oh, my god, the crane is falling over. Reporter it crashes between two buildings in seconds. 29yearold Kirsten Simone smith was killed and dozens others injured. David tried to help. It was facing straight down. Reporter the weather may have been a factor with winds of at least 80 miles per hour. Construction cranes are supposed to withstand hurricaneforce winds. You have five other cranes up right now and they didnt blow over. Reporter attorney wayne dent has worked several crane collapse cases. Something went wrong here. There was human error. 90 of the cases are human factor errors. Reporter since 2012, nine k deaths have taken place in texas. More than threetimes the deaths in the next leading state. The search for answers could take months. The operator was in
Do what you can to stay safe and he. Stay hydrated and limit your outdoor exposure. The coast, will start to cool things off with light onshore flow. Temperatures will be in the mid 70s along the coast. But for the bay, 80s and triple digit heat upper 90s to triple digits for inland locations. We will talk about what we will see the cooling for all of us in just a few minutes. Were tracking not too many travel delays at this hour. Just the usual suspects. Things are starting to slow down. Lets get a look at your main travel times. Usual suspect. Outsmart pass, 31 minute ride to get from 205 to two 680. That is not terrible. That will start yo drive times are in the green. Especially on the east shore freeway. Quick 40 minute drive. Highway 4, 26 minutes. 36 minutes, easy breezy out of the south bay on 101. A live look at the bay bridge topaz a. Lanes are starting to stack bay bridge toll plaza. The ngght t on yet and you can see that is looking the. No construction here this morning. E
enforcement says saved lives bravely confronting and disarming the monterey park gunman. we ll have more on that interview and the latest in that investigation in just a moment. meanwhile, in northern california, a beach side community is the scene of the state s second deadly mass shooting in three days. this time the gunman appears to have targeted his coworkers. also ahead, more convictions for members of an extremist group, heavily involved in the january 6th attack on the capitol. and it appears kevin mccarthy made a bff during his day s long struggle to become speaker of the house. we ll have the new reporting on his alliance with one of the most extreme members of the gop. plus, mike pompeo is making headlines for his criticism of an american journalist who was murdered by the saudi regime. we ll show you those excerpts from the former secretary of state s new book. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 24th. with us, we have the host of