The nations highways and bridges and transportation projects. Republicans are angry about the tax increases, up to 2 trillion including 320 billion in new taxes on corporations and the wealthiest americans. The Obama Administration wants to put that money toward expanded tax cuts for the middle class. The president s budget will end the sequester cuts put in place back in 2011. I want to work with congress to replace mindless austerity with Smart Investments that strengthen america. Reporter presidedget is really an opening gesture. Now congress will go through a lengthy negotiation process for sending Something Back to the president s desk. T. J. Reena . Thank you very much. Buried deep in the president s budget is language that could clear the way for Legal Marijuana sales in the district of columbia. The budget specifically bans federal spending thats key word federal spending on legalizing pot an reducing penalties in d. C. But does not spending on sales or local money. D. C. Voter
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In fact, parts of the bay area are under a red flag warning. The recordsetting heat fueling the fire danger. Paul . I just made a list of what happened weatherwise today. January 1st. Highs in the 70s and 80s. Hit 82 degrees. San jose hit 76. We havent had a widespread rainfall in six weeks. We have an offshore or east wind event which jacked up the fire danger because its dry air. Low hell tiff humidity. That is something we would typically recite in october or september in the peak of fire season. Instead, this is all happening in the middle of january, but the calendar really doesnt matter. Its whats going on in the atmosphere. The ground is super dry. We were super warm today with very low relative humidity and the conditions that caused this particular fire. Youre still looking live on kimble island, sacramento county. The fire conditions will persist for at least the next two days because we will stay warm. We will stay dry when it comes to relative humidity. And there is no rain
Deputies say around 7 30 last night, 61yearold puckett was on a hike with her husband on the smith creek trail in grant ranch park when she got separated from him. Her husband searched for hours, but after 2 00 a. M. , he decided to call for help. Santa clara county search and rescue along with cal fire and park rangers launched a search and found puckett at about 7 00 this morning. They say she did something very important to help in the search. Luckily, this person did exactly what youre supposed to do when youre lost. Youre supposed to stay put. So she had just basically stayed put all last night and she was located on the trail by the search and rescue personnel. Reporter puckett did not have a cell phone on her, but service in the area is very spotty. Deputies say she is in good health and is an experienced hiker. Temperatures only dropped into the 60s, which helped quite a bit. In the newsroom, derek shore, nbc bay area news. It sure is a tough place for cell service. Thanks, der
Megyn a lot of nice feedback on twitter on our segment about george h. W. Bush and updated book. Follow me on twitter at megyn kelly. Meantime here is shepard. Shepard news begins anew on studio b. Both grilled jody areas about how she stabbed her exboyfriend dozens of times, shot him and slit his throat from ear to ear. Now the jury goats ask questions. Only three states have this happen most all the time. The details on that as court is about to come back from a lunch break and we will take you live there. Plus, a winter storm knocking out power to nearly 200,000 homes and businesses. Seems virginia is getting the worse of it. While the snow quester seems to be a bust in the d. C. The city basically shut down anyway. Thats coming up. And doctors tell us that the former mary tyler show star valerie harp has only a few months to live. Thats all ahead unless breaking news changes everything on studio b. But first from fox at 3 00 in new york city, the woman accused of stabbing her exboy