And the warning tonight about the superbug here in the u. S. Authorities say it can live for weeks on hospital beds and for months on your skin. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on thursday night and we begin with President Trump and the promise of the biggest tax cut in american history. Our reporter asking the president how he would pay for it. It comes 24 hours after the plan was released. Some on capitol hill asking, what about the deficit. Abcs senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega leading us off. Reporter in the rose garden today, President Trump, making a surprise appearance for take your child to work day. And as he signed autographs, abc news asking the president how he will turn his tax plan into reality, amid estimates its massive tax cuts could balloon the deficit by trillions of dollars. Anything about paying for the tax plan . Growth, wait till you see the growth. The growth is going to pay for it. And how soon is at that growth going to happen
Pulling out of the north American Free trade agreement. Hours after the administration said he was considering executive order to do just that. In a surprise announcement the white house said the president quote agreed not to terminate nafta at this time and the leaders agree to proceed swiftly. To enable their renegotiation of the nafta deal to the benefit of all three countries. The reactiontion from mexico came with the peso surging. The news comes as the white house unveil thard massive tax cut proposal, the white house calling it the largest tax cut in history. Claiming it could offer many relief. What does the plan do . It reduces the number of individual income tax brackets from seven to three. 10 , 25 and 35 . The plan doubles the standard deduction for individuals and married couples and make filing easier. But it would slash the corporate rate down to 15 . Personal real estate empires like president trumps. The goal is to stimulate the economy but the details are still a myst
Started to form a little touch of fog outside this morning. No advisories here. There is a dense fog advisory lower parts of the eastern shore, but just know that there could be pockets of lower visibility. Frederick, maryland, now only half mile visibility. 6 miles of visibility there at dulles. If youre planning to be outside, nice and cool, dry, little fog around. Nothing to worry about. All your Daylight Hours will be dry. Could have a stray shower after 8 00 or 9 00 after we get back to the summer weather. We like the summer like weather especially since we have not seen that sun in quite a few days. Nice changes today. Currently were seeing a few clouds around. Like chuck mentioned, pretty good visibility. 59 degrees in the district right now. You might get a little sun glare this morning for your commute. That will be a change as weve seen so much cloud cover and rain over the last several days. 7 00 a. M. , 60 degrees. Finally dry. By noon were looking at t 73, 5 00 p. M. , mid
Morning. Live look 270 at falls road, no issues northbound or southbound. Brand new crash in my ear 270 southbound well talk about that in a second. Right now lets talk about something nice like the weather. Great looking day to be outside today. Got a little fog here this morning. Suns up in 14 minutes. Have some fog around here early this morning. Not too thick in and around the metro area. Pockets of thicker fog. Advice biltd under a mile there. Visibility under a mile in la ray. Four things in four days. Tomorrow it will be warm and dry. Saturday, hot little hint of early summer humidity around. Maybe a stray shower or two on saturday afternoon or sunday, but no weekend washout is coming. For more on the good news about today, lets go to sheena. Good morning, chuck. We like todays finally the sun has returned and its going to be with us all day long. Once the fog clears up later on this morning, youll notice all the sun around. A little bit of a glare while youre driving. 7 00 a. M
Serving his community and his country ever since he was a teenager. He joined the Civil Air Patrol, which is a nonprofit organization, chartered by congress, which offers young people a chance to work with the air force. His mentor of more than 15 years says ballard stood out from the beginning. He was a big loveable teddy bear, i guess you could say. Everyone enjoyed being around him. He was always the one that everyone liked to talk to. Reporter at just 18 years old, Stephen Ballard was a leader. His mentor says this is a picture of stephen when he was prom poeted to cadet commander in the Civil Air Patrol in 2005. He was tasked with overseeing more than a hundred cadets in his squadron. Then he went to college at delaware state university. After graduating he became a delaware state trooper. He always had a passion to do something in that realm, s i think thats how he saw being a state trooper. Reporter paul is still coming to terms with the fact that ballard is gone. But he finds c