Approval on stopgap spending bill after lawmakers avoided a Government Shutdown reaching an agreement to keep the Government Funding till january 19th, republicans continue to celebrate the largest tax cuts in our history according to some. Vice president mike pence making surprise visit in afghanistan. I know its hard to be away from home especially, but in this season, i want you to know that you are in the hearts to have american people. Dagen details as he thanks heros this Holiday Season. The dow manage to go eke out 55point gain. We have gains across the board. In england overnight, england, france and germany, the end of the trading day. France and germany both lower at the moment. Shanghai reporting slight loss. Changing alphabet. Eric schimt plans to step down as companys chairman next month. We break down the decision thats sending shock wave through Silicon Valley. Crypto crash, bitcoin tumbling 25 in just 24 hours. Think about that. Losing a quarter of its value in a day. S
Next, navy and marine corps leaders will discuss the state of the Naval Aviation fleet and National Maritime policy at a forum cohosted by the center for strategic and International Studies and the u. S. Naval institute. Live coverage starting shortly here on cspan3. While we wait for this discussion at the center for strategic and International Studies to start, a look at other happening on the cspan networks today. The National Business group on health discusses how the Largest Companies are handling health care. That will be live, 10 a. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan2. Then at 10 30 eastern on cspan, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosts a discussion on immigration ant 2016 campaign. Good morning, everyone and welcome csis. I have a brief security announcement before we kick off todays convenient. I want to share with you one of our Building Security precautions. Overall, we want you to know that we feel very secure in our building but as a convener of such meetings, we hav
Putin expel 35 american diplomats russia denied any interference. Short time ago donald trump tweeted this, great move on delay by v putin. I always knew he was very smart. Joining to discuss this is Katie National security reporter from the hill. We appreciate it. What are we to make of this tweet from donald trump where he seems to be embracing putin more and more despite everything thats going on you certainly have not seen the president elect back away from his praise of Vladimir Putin as a strong leader that has so Many Democrats concerned that when he takes office he hes not going to do anything to hold russia accountable for this widespad election that the intelligence believe theyve undertaken, youve seen the president elect align himself with the president of russia over the sitting president of the United States of america how often have we seen that . I dont know that we ever have. Because of, you know, all the tension, you know, people have been comparing this to the fact t
Dereceivingly busy to be honest with you. You see the system spilling into mountains the one location dealing with showers and snowflakes as we head to evening hours toward the midnight hour. Its mountain tops to the west. The mountains act like a shield and keep it safe. Stormtracker radar you can see not much of what you saw hitting the ground. Maybe area light drizzle or two north of baltimore and in d. C. Cloudy. We should keep it dry and as we roll through the evening hours theres clouds break up and clearing and cooler temperatures out. There Reagan National 49 this hour or that was the high today. Last day of 016, 47 dulles, 48 bwi and temperatures on the chilly side. 48 washington and 45 gaithersburg and 45 baltimore as the sunsets and we get cooling out there. Some will drop to the 30s in d. C. We keep it mid to low 40s by the time the ball drops in new york city midnight tonight. Again skies clearing and happy new years everybody. Heres holiday forecast. Low overnight 39 just
Tonight. Over the next hour were getting geared up to welcome in the new year before pit bull comes to us from miami. And i was just outside. Probably better to celebrate indoors, right. Indoors, jim, yes, its winter time chill out. There good news its not as cold as last night if are you getting out and b whipped is blowing in places out there. Jackets needed if you head outside and bang the pots and pans and whatever do you to bring in the new year 017 almost here. Lets get to satellite and radar. Lets show you what is going on. Clearing skies. We saw a brief period of kind of light rain and drizzle right around 7 00 tonight and that moved off east rather quickly and just offer to the west you can see where clouds break up on the eastern edge of the mountains there. Some clearing headed our way over the course of the next few hours. Stormtracker radar not picking up anything hitting the ground and were in the clear. Rainwise. For the next few hours. 47 in washingt off, 48 when the sh