Good morning at the top of the hour, this day is starting off nicely unless youre a federal worker on furlough i guess. Sharon is watching traffic. Its meteorologist tim williams in for marty bass over at first warning weather. Were starting off with temperatures around 60 degrees en route to a high of 84. Warm with sun and some clouds. The over night lows staying around 60 degrees. Well go into your first friday of october at 87. Our first chance of any rain or thunderstorms that weve had in a while. That will be tomorrow. 87 degrees though. Some parts of the area south of the metro could see temperatures close to 90. Your complete first warning Weather Forecast coming up. How about the roadways this thursday morning . Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Were mostly seeing 50s and 60s on the roads this morning. Theres a look at your Speed Sensors around the area. Lots of mid 50s. A couple of lower 60s out there. The average speed on the beltway still 55 as it should be. Same
Exactly what Public Health experts say should not happen during a worsening pandemic. The president courted a large crowd at Mount Rushmore that pointedly ignored all of the Health Precautions about social distancing and face masks. This after the u. S. Confirmed more than 150,000 covid19 cases in just the past three days. Yet, the president barely mentioned the pandemic. Instead, he railed against what he views as a vast and insidious plot to destroy america. In our schools, our newsrooms, even our Corporate Board rooms, there is a new far left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, performance rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished. Its not going to happen to us. President trump also said he will sign an executive order to establish quote a new monument to the giants of our past. We get more on this from cnns joe johns at Mount Rushmore. Reporter this visit
Michigan, early on after the Supreme Court decision said something to me that i just thought was crazy. He said, you know, this the court taking away the expansion from being mandatory and making it a state choice is going to end up being positive, because states that do the expansion are going to go through a process and embrace it as opposed to just doing it because they have to. And i thought that was kind of crazy. But over time im starting to see the wisdom of his reflection. Which is that every state that moves forward now has a deeper understanding of the program, its harder to fall back on the rhetoric of its welfare or its people who arent working or its a big Public Program when the reality is its serving working families that the Business Community is supportive, that its already largely delivered through private plans. And so dont get me wrong, i have a lot of concern about the pace of discussion, but the fact is we are having statespecific discussions about what fits subst
Have a Authority Issue the rules. I think 706 has been abused. And it should be returned to the original intent we help frame years ago. So i have difficulty with that part of the equation. It makes it harder to get to the second. The fcc rules werent thrown out. I learned long ago not to try to guess what other people do in d. C. In the environment we live in. I dont have an insight what the chairman may or may not do. He articulated the authority he believes he has. The commission has and what they would like to do. So i have taken the word and see what comes from that. But i hate to guess more than that. House energy and Commerce Committee is beginning to hold hearings about a possible rewrite of the Communications Act. Im sure youve been following this closely. What advice would you give to the house energy and Commerce Committee as they look at rewriting the Communications Act. I would say first and foremost, i defer to my friend and former colleagues on the house and the senate o
Through statewide leadership positions. And the state director and north carolina. Come downstairdownstair s to the table on the second floor and talk to us. There are 124 legislative districts in South Carolina. Im trying to put what we call a district captain. Many of my district captains, some of them are here with me. We are going to put one in every district and drivers will. We were the first day state to introduce its application on december 3. Virginia follow this, florida followed us and we have 14 cosponsors. Represented l. Taylor was the lead spencer and larry grooms followed in the senate. We have a bill that we are going to push through. Come downstairs and please do want to answer your questions. We know there are old that are afraid of a runaway convention. What i want to explain to you is if youre honest with yourselves you know when you look at our federal government we are staring down romans xiii tells us the government they are so soared. We are staring down the gov