Reopen after a weekend shutdown that moved into a third day. Welcome to washington today on cspan radio. It is monday january 22. Thanks for being with us. We have a new countdown clock. 17 days until the government funding runs out. The c. R. Expires on february 8. In exchange for ending the stalemate, republicans have promised to take up the daca immigration issue. Here are some of your other headlines. Steve scalise returned to the capitol after surgery that was part of his recovery from a gunshot suffered at a congressional baseball game ractice. The Court Ordered pennsylvania lawmakers to redraw their congressional map ahead of the 2018 Midterm Elections. In israel, Vice President pence announced the u. S. Embassy will open in jerusalem before the end of the next year and he said the door is open for palestinians to enter negotiations. We begin with this headline. Heres how this transpired earlier today. Senator schumer i expect the majority leader to abide by this agreement. If h
Im bring golf its good to have you with those it is prime time on the east coast of the United States time for u. S. President dont try to deliver his first ever state of the Union Address the eyes and ears of the nation and much of the world are focused on capitol hill in washington d. C. That is where trump wall for his own report card to the country after a year of america for sed were looking at live pictures right now inside the u. S. Capitol. And we are expecting the u. S. President to enter any moment now we just saw some members of his cabinet enter the chamber including the secretary of state mr tillerson it looks like there you can see that theyre preparing for the announcement that the president is about to enter the room and we would sort of remind you what is going to take place tonight were expecting the u. S. President to tell the successes of his first year in office including tax reform he is also expected to highlights the ninety nine new record highs that have been s
From out of the country. From other countries . [ cheers and applause ] according to the National Travel and tourism office, tourism is down in america since we elected President Trump. The u. S. Tourism industry lost 40,000 jobs and 46 billion in revenue since the inauguration. Dont know why people wouldnt want to come here. Were so welcoming to foreigners. Interesting. We dont need a wall, trump is his own wall in a way. Not only it is tourism down the price of rooms at trump hotels are also down. Significantly over last year, because a lot of people dont want to stay in a place with his name on it. But they have a new marketing push thats aggressive, which i guess is what they need to fill their empty rooms again. Trump hotels are the best hotels ever, anywhere. Our hotels are winning. And now our deals are better than ever. During mexico pays days. Give us your credit card, well charge the full amount of your room and mexico will pay you back. Who mexico go ahead and order room ser
To have a weak dollar. Well talk about all of this coming up. Big interview in davos historically just something that is usually not said by administrations or treasury secretaries. In reality, in the shortterm, currencies will fluctuate. Thats kind of what mnuchin was saying bob rubin thought all of these things, they would just never say the it publicly. This might not be the first time that this administration voiced things that other administrations didnt voice mike allen is with us, too. Its not something where you want to add thoughts to it i dont want to revisit the last administration, but we her defense of israel and we saw the way the administration actually stuck to their card, too. Exactly so they say what would you rather have, someone that smiles at you and says we love israel, then behind their back, netanyahu is ready to pull his hair out he doesnt have hair i had the opportunity to sit down with President Trump. We talked about trade, the dollar and his message to this
Temperatures. We did have ten days in a row of records set. Yesterday a record was set even though it was cooler. Oak land, you set a record yesterday. Temperatures down today to near normal. We are finally getting to where we should be. Rain is heading to california. We will track your futurecast and let you know if it will reach the bay area. Here is a look at your current temperatures. 40s for concord and oakland, 41 santa rosa you are at the freezing mark. You will see clouds off the coastline. There will be more cloud Coverage Later today. I will track the chance of rain coming up. A new bill making its way through state legislature would require Utility Companies to come up with specific policies and protocols for cutting off power during wind storms. Earlier this week fire investigators announced a combination of strong winds, dry brush, arching power lines sparked at least two fires on the night of the wine country fire storm in october. Had we had Something Like this in place,