45 minutes. Car facing wrong way after american canyon. We will look at the bay bridge just ahead. We are following break news from southeast texas. Flash flooding is crippling the area. Wadespread roading in houston. We got word there is a full ground stop at houston airport, asking for people to check with the carrier if you my from sfo to san jose or oakland check your flight before you head to texas. They received 16 of rain and more is open way. Dozens have been rescued from homes and vehicles. Schools are closed. Public transportation has been shut down. What a mess. In ecuador the president said the death toll will likely rise after the countrys 7. 8, on saturday. 272 people died. 2,000 are hurt. The state Department Said that have been no reports of americans citizens dead. 1,200 value steps have been working in rescue. Evacuation and first aid operations, as well. 10,000 arm forts are deployed to help people on the coastal area. Students and two teachers from larkspur will in
In ohio by john kasich. Across the aisle clinton defeated sanders in 4 out of 5 states. Missouri is still too close to call. 10news reporter Sarah Hollenbeck is live in tampa at pop n sons restaurant. Sarah, these results are definitely going to have people talking over breakfast this morning. Yes, they definitely will be. This diner is still waiting on the morning crowds to come in. But the talk will definitely be on the primary especially because here in florida marco rubio is no longer in the running, he ended his campaign. And now the path is becoming clearer for trump and clinton. Trump knocked marco rubio out of the race, but he failed to win ohio, reduced the race to a twoway contest with ted cruz. Clinton carried the allimportant swing states of ohio and florida, dealing Bernie Sanders a major defeat after his major win in michigan last week. The primary process isnt over yet, but this mornings results will help define the race on both sides. Heres what im looking into next whe
Nice to see you. Melissa attias is making her first visit to newsmakers. Dr. Wall, we can we start our program about the expected consideration of what is called a doc fix. I know your organization does not prefer that term but i am sure many cspan viewers have heard that in washington parlance. Tell us what this issue is. Dr. Wah we are talking about Sustainable Growth rate which has been in place for a long time. It was originally passed in 1997. It was thought to be an effort to control the costs of the Medicare Program. It resulted in about 17 patches over the last 10 or 12 years. Each one of those paid for the one year period, not the committed interest, like a credit card, on past things. By kicking the can down the road each year, congress accumulated interest. Now april 15, if the senate does not act, there will be a 21 cut in physician payments, which is the acute related interest of all these years of kicking the can down the road. I want to talk about the term doc fix. As a
Here again, i think a false choices being offered. Sending soldiers into syria at this point would be counterproductive. At this point, we have a whole lot of allies in that region that are asking us to do that. We are not working effectively with the turkish kurdish rebels jordanians, saudis, kurds. We are not working effectively with any of our allies. To say the only thing that we can do is go off to war is not true. There is a whole set of things that we have been asked to do by people who share our interest and we are not doing them. Announcer Senior Editor for the Weekly Standard on his writing career, the gop president ial candidates, and what voters are looking for in a candidate. They want somebody who looks like hes stood up for them. I am amazed by the degree to which primary voters on both sides are motivated by resentment. The sense of being put upon. Those people really do not understand us. Here is a guy who does not understand us and will stick it to them. That happens
Unexpected contentment that is settled upon me like an ancient ceremonial robe, warm and splendid, mislead but valued all the more for its belated retrieval. Randall robinson, thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. On this weeks newsmakers, dana rohrabacher. Hes chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on europe, eurasia, and emerging threats. We discussed a variety of Foreign Policy topics, including israeli and Israeli Palestinian peace talks. These makers is sunday on cspan at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. We wrote this about a year and a half ago, its called 10 letters. Its letters that president obama reads and i went back and found 10 of them who had written to the president. It has been a pretty good read. When that is done, then we go on to act of congress and another guy at the Washington Post and back in the 1970s there was a big difference between then and now it is just that these guys have written. Collision 2012 is written and there was a similar wri