the executive order, the new travel ban if you will, that s being written, they are taking a lot more care, a lot more eyes on it. the white house counsel s office is writing it. do we have any sense of what the key change is going to be to try to get this one to stand up to any court challenges? one of the things we know from what was previewed over the weekend by homeland security is green card holders will now be exempted under the new executive order. so they will not face the travel ban. what happens to visa holders like a student visa holder? we don t yet know. green card holders are safe. we expect to see a phase-in period. whereas before under the old order there was that automatic switchover which caused all the chaos in the airports. so this time we re hearing from homeland security. it will be more of a stepped, you know, phased in process. laura jarrett, great reporting from washington. thank you so much. coming up next for us, the
snow. right now, it is a rain story. right behind me, you can see traffic is pouring up and down parts of 95. you have the wells fargo center there, lincoln financial to the right of i-95. one of the issues we have is the rain, how the rain have been the first installment. get this, bill, they are going to try to pre-treat the roadways. they have been unable because of the ponding. any treatment, anything you have, a desiser, sand or salt. the reason they didn t put it on because the rain would wash it away. now, with the switchover, the snowfall we expect to occur anytime, they will have the traffic on the roadways and the people with the salt spreaders and try to move away the building snow, you are going to have a glut of people on the roadways. that said, bill, you know the idea. people are advised to stay off the roadways if possible, to try to limit the issues around the
there have been reports about the jockeying for poging that s happening. when you see what s going on inside trump to you are, does that strike you as unusual or that s the way things are when you have a switchover? business as usual. really? absolutely. prior to tuesday, november 8th, they were focused completely on winning and now they re focused completely on governing. a wide net is being cast, which includes, vetting, interviewing. slow and go is the way to get the best possible people to serve. we re just learning newt gingrich telling mcclatchy he s taking himself or not being considered for a cabinet position. when you see names being mentioned, people like rudy giuliani, people like south carolina governor nikki haley who is meeting with president-elect trump at trump tower today, do any of those stand out as real possibilities, names that may be being floated for the sake of being floated? what s your take?
cars. so they made other arrangements to get water from other places. turns out that same tap water that gm decided it needed to keep away from its metal engine parts, that same corrosive, bad water, was also bothering the people who lived in that town who were trying to drink it. this is from june 2014. check it out. they re now getting its water from the flint river, the switchover a little more than a month ago is not sitting well with some residents and businesses who say the water smells, and they don t want to drink or even shower with it. i don t know how it s clean it smells and tastes bad. reporter: he can t even remember the city s water tasting this bad. now he s turning to bottled water and avoiding the tap. it s not proper for people to be drinking that. if i can smell it, this is not a big debate. this is nothing that no one can figure out. when i m showering and bathing, my skin just feels just a little bit different. so the smell from the water, and the shower
john with united. a producer was telling me earlier that there have been united employees warning about sort of an issue here with their computer system. that it has been sort of a little out of date. reporter: yeah, i have to tell you i m a frequent traveler on united. i come through this very lobby quite a bit. and i have had united agents talking about ever since they made the switchover the united/continental merger there were a lot of problems with merging that computer system and they have been saying that they sort of update this they try to update it as it goes along and they have had problems. this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened. i can remember within the last month or so being delayed because there was a problem with the customer service computers connecting to the reservation system, sort of delaying being