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Jolene cent kent is joining us more. clearly that is secondary to the impact. but as we look ahead in the week and later next week, there could be some play out. absolutely, hallie. we are seeing triple a in michigan gas prices are up 6% and that s why we see half of the refining capacity for the united states is actually coming out of the gulf coast. so, when you have all of that flooding, refineries shut down, the platform shut down. they re evacuated for safety. a lot of that is, obviously, limited. it s contracting. you re going taso see the spiken gas prices. account for 28% of u.s. crude. that is also providing a squeeze on people who are buying gas. plus, you ve got folks buying more gas right now. that purchasing has gone up. that s also driving prices up. we also know that there is a pretty big financial fallout across the board. we saw hurricane katrina, $108 ....
Reconstruction costs with more than 200,000 homes at risk of storm surge damage in texas and the figure doesn t account for storm surges as far north as morgan city, louisiana and that s some 400 miles away from harvey s landfall, however according to fema hurricane katrina is still the most costly hurricane in u.s. history destroying some 300,000 homes and causing $108 billion in damage. now that s roughly four times the amount of damage caused by hurricane andrew in 1992 and coincidentally thursday marked the 25 year anniversary since andrew slammed into south florida. it was the last category 5 storm to hit the u.s. and its impact is still felt today by those who survived it and andrew caused nearly $25 billion in damage destroying more than 25,000 homes and damaging 100,000 others, but texas also has its own history of deadly storms that caused billions of dollars in damage. harvey is the first significant hurricane to hit texas since ike in september 2008. ike was one of the most ....
Than a dozen nuclear substantive fleet of b-52 and b-2 bombers is aging, a problem the pentagon planted to shore up with a $108 billion investment. if fixed announced by the obama administration last september. significant modernization plan for the next decade to upgrade the american nuclear arsenal. frankly, we ve seen him make extremist statements and false statements about all manner of things. it s more concerning when you re talking about nuclear weapons. do you want to do in five years? do you want to do something now? mr. trump of austria s 1999 interview with tim russert seems to mirror the urgency with which the curtain administration views the north korean threat. today defense secretary james mattis magnified the prevailing mood writing dd prk regime s actions will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours. ....
Research group found that obama s projections were closer to realized experience than were those of many other prominent forecasters. going back a little bit farther, in 2009, the cbo estimated that obama s recovery act would cost 1$106 billion, the actual price? $108 billion. and the cbo projected that the increase in deficit would be $4.7 billion, the actual deficit, $5 billion. more often than not the cbo s estimates are better than anybody else out there. keep that in mind today, that cbo score is going to come out later today, some we ll will tell you that it s always wrong. ....
Experience than many of the prominent forecasters. going back farther to 2009, the cbo estimated that obama s recovery act would cost $106 billion. the actual cost? $108 billion. and cbo projected that the stimulus spending would increase the federal deficit by $4.7 billion in 2015. the actual increase? $5 billion. no doubt, the cbo missed on some of the obamacare projections, but more often than not, the estimates are better than everything else out there. and anyone who says different isn t telling you the whole story. so it does feel a bit of blaming the referee. ali, if you don t like the ruler, have a new pressure. but they don t have one. and we re using the same measure, by the way, cbo is nonpartisan. tom price appointed the current head of the cbo. who is a republican, by the way. and we did know that when the cbo scored the house bill, 23 ....