Holiday season, millions of just back from reunions with families we know so well. Or do we . Thank you so modern science, some of russ discovering surprising addition or deletions to our family tree. As reat a brave will explain. Welcome. Come in out of the rain. Dna test kids are, test kits are revealing unexpected family members to many americans. I was in kind of shock at that time, realizing that, in fact, i did have a different mother and father. Reporter ahead on sunday morning he is like, oh, congratulations there is your brother. Reporter when dna test asking shake up your family tree. Pauley shes one of the legends of Country Music. Her name is tanya tucker. And this morning she is looking back and forward with our legendary bob schieffer. Delta dawn. She was once Country Musics wild child. A breakout star at the ripe old age of 13, tanya tucker has been riding high for five decades. Singing with a new album that is getting the best reviews of her career. If that 13yearold ta
upset at the australian open an upset at the australian open. shocks at the aussie open as 15 year old coco gough put the defending champion out. plus serena williams will not equal that an slam record after losing to a 27 seed. thanks jane and ben has all the weather changeable over weekend. things are set to change. that might come as good news for those who have had enough of the mist and back and brain. we will be looking forward to the forecast but we will also be looking back 30 years to the storm of 1990. just before 2:30pm. thanks, ben. also coming up. every little helps tesco scraps the plastic packaging on its multipacks of tins. this hello everyone this is afternoon live this i m martine croxall. the government s cobra emergency committee has met this lunchtime to discuss the outbreak of the coronavirus. 1a people have been tested for the disease in the uk though there are no confirmed cases here at the moment. the virus originates in china, china where 26
Infrastructure investments, trade, and the economy. But we begin this morning on the topic of immigration. After President Trump laid out his fourpoint plan on Immigration Reform, we want to hear from you about what you took from the state of the union when it comes to the immigration debate . The phone lines this morning. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. 002. Pendents, 202 748892 forave a special line Illegal Immigrants as well, 202 7488003. You can start calling in it now. We want to get your thoughts on the president s statements on immigration last night, but first, a few stats from the state of the union yesterday. 4. 5 million tweets, this was the most tweeted state of the union or joint session address, surpassing the three bs record previous record of 3 million tweets in 2017. As we pointed out earlier, it was a little over 80 minutes long, 80 minutes and 32 seconds. It was not the longest state of the Union Address ever, but it was close, and definitely the lo
Ago, we enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in american history. Host we will talk more about trade and the economy and the president s comments in our last hour of washington journal. I did want to show you a few of the tweets from members of the president s. Of the president s cabinet. Sayingasury secretary the progrowth agenda is working for the american people. Callingerce secretary the state of the Union Address the best in recent memory and one more tweet from the Agriculture Sector secretary who was the socalled designated of thef the member cabinet member who is not in the chamber. Time for one more call. The topic we have been talking about for our first hour of the program. George from tennessee, line for democrats. Caller thank you. I would like to know how do somebody who was forced to come here or made to come here through no fault of their own get a name like a dreamer . A dreamer is something somebody urines for, but if you come here like everyone says through no fa
Im nejra cehic. Still seeing a little reaction from the fomc meeting. Ive got the stoxx 600. We were seeing stronger gains. It softened a little bit. We are still up 0. 2 . Stronger dollar against most major peers. Bloomberg dollar index up 0. 1 . It did gain more than that in yesterdays session. The 10year yield rising two basis points. We are at 2. 27 . Pretty steady right now. Also keeping an eye on crude oil. We are a little lower in todays session. 50. 52 dollars a barrel. Weve also got breaking news for you. Leaving its key rate unchanged at 0. 5 . Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian the bank of japan kept its monetary stimulus unchanged, but a dovish board member opposes the decision. He argued there was little chance of reaching the banks inflation target and the effects of the current yield curve program werent strong enough. That was an unexpected dissension on a board chosen by Prime Minister shinzo abe. The u. S. Secretary of state has told european allies the