Sacrifice their forefathers made. Not me. Im no hero, but they, like they were the raf boys who died and people like that. They dont realise that they dont know much about it. They dont even know who hitler was. Half of them. And in this sport this morning, ive got to tell you, arsenal didnt look like chokers or bottlers last night as they go back to the top by spanking chelsea. Five nil Leicester City on the verge of heading back to the premier league by also winning five nil against southampton and Ronnie Osullivan says hes not the greatest snooker player ever , greatest snooker player ever, but he goes for a record breaking eighth world title from today. Hello, its a bit chilly out today but at least for many of us it is going to be largely dry and there will be some decent spnng and there will be some decent spring sunshine too. Ill have the details in the full forecast i the biggest defence boost in ten years. The Prime Minister has vowed to increase defence spending to 2. 5 of th
But our Political Editor nick watt has been around westminster finding out how this is all going down, and hes with me now. Can we put a figure on it . We can confirm that the uk has agreed to the eu framework for settling that financial divorce bill with eu when we leave. Stage one came in the Prime Ministers speech in florence when she said that the uk would agree to cover it share of the eu budget up to the end of 2020. The final stage has come just now, which is that the uk has agreed that it will meet its liabilities racked up as a member of the european union. Where you go from there is a matter of dispute. The sources i have been talking to say that they are not putting a number on the table. The Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph which broke this story, the Daily Telegraph is talking about a figure of up to 55 billion euros and the Financial Times is talking about 100 Million Euros but think it could be mass such down to half of that. The uk government do not want the figu
Cutting the number of rate hikes it expects this year in half. What that means for the markets. Shares of fedex are up on earnings and company taking a shot at amazon on its call yesterday. Plus jim cramer spoke to target ceo about competing with amazon. How hes positioning his company against jeff bezos. First up something that would have been nun thinkable. Dow and s p down 1 for the year after the fed reduced the number of rate hikes it expect this year from four to two. Futures moving lower. Caterpillar issues First Quarter estimates in the wake of lower Commodity Prices even though they stayed firm on their guidance for the year, jim. Yeah. I found that two surprising things was one how deep the cut was First Quarter. And two, how they believe that somehow things are going to get better quickly. I think that caterpillar is in a nutshell what fed did. Look these are Great American companies. Not doing well at all. That has to do a lot with oil and gas and mining. Not just all inter
And who foots the bill . We sent cydney long to question lawmakers in trenton today. Shes live in Evesham Burlington county. What did you find out . Reporter i need to be clear that this is not about the cleanliness of the water source in your immediate town or municipality but about that water supply flowing through potentially old or lead contaminated pipes at your Childs School and to their mouth at the fountain. I want the best for her. Its scary sending her there. Reporter erica doesnt want her daughter to be at risk for drinking lead poisoned water at her school. She suffered poisoning as a child ingesting paint chips so applauds new legislation. It requires the district to test water immediately, it has a process in place to notify parents to move over to bottled water. Senate democrats are calling for the 21 counties and says it should have been done yesterday. Of course its a reaction. With the National Spotlight on flint, michigans lead contaminated water and Dangerous Levels
Commissioner johns move to approve. Move to continue. Sorry. On that motion to continue. Commissioner antonini. Commissioner hillis. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner sugaya. Commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and places you under your consent calendar calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Item 2 case at 19 through 28 clyde street request for condominium conversion and next at 39 alamed billboard and case four at 499 laguna street request for kwufrgs third reading any Public Comment on the consent calendar seeing none. Commissioner antonini move to approve items 2, 3, 4. Second. On t