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They will vote later. Investors are looking beyond obamacare, theyre looking to tax cut. Whichever way obamacare goes, they want to hear the tax cuts and the schedule stays in place. Thats the president s priority. Hes saying get on with it. Look at this. Investors like it, it was shaping up to be the worst week for stocks since the election, but we will open up this morning. This is it. No more negotiating. The vote is today. Varney company is about to begin. If you cant get phase one through, do you think phase two is going to happen or phase three is going to happen . Stuart. Stuart its you that thinks its bad policy. No, its not. Looking at things that Members Congress are looking at. I respectfully and strongly disagree with you. Stuart come to the point now ladies and gentlemen, and vote on it. It might not happen on stuart varneys timeline. Im becoming the most unpopular guy on the program. Everybody was ganging up with me because i said vote on it and get on with it. Now, Presi
Traffic. It will affect the a. M. Commuters and p. M. Commuters and everyone in between we have check point and closures and different roads all over the place. Well get to all this all morning long. Busy. And certainly thankfully the storms are outer out of here. Thankfully the humidity is dropping off as well. It will be a hot day. But at least it should not feel as uncomfortable. Yesterday was oppressive right. You walked out the door and it was there you go, brook, proverbial pea soup. Yesterday it hit 97. That did break the record. We were on point with what we forecasted and sure enough a new number for the record books. Now, at this point its still very muggy outside. Now we can see even the clouds and leftover showers starting to retreat off to the south and as a result of that were clearing out the atmosphere a little here and in wake of a cold front well see dew points drop off. So its still muggy and definitely still warm. Further north you go the more comfortable it will be
Cover. They checked in at 38 yesterday. 43palo alto. Same for sonoma. Thats a popular number here on the low temperatures. Everything set for a sunny and nice day unless you are farther north. Chilly morning. A few 30s. More 70s. Low 70s. Slightly above average. Everything is okay. Correct. I think we are off to a good start. It could have been a lot worse. Lets go out and take a look at what we have. I will show you the traffic here is not bad if you are driving on 880 north and southbound. It is a nice looking drive. No problems heading south toward san lorenzo with the earlier pallets. Just looking at chp reports and listening to the radios you dont see a lot going on. Go to the bay bridge toll plaza will be okay. Okay 580 westbound. Not a bad commute but its slow over the pass. Gets better in livermore and dublin. Lets go back to the deck. Thank you. New this morning in the investigation into the brussels attack police are now hunting for the another person in the subway bombing in
Record rains fell in western japan early wednesday, softening the ground. Several hillsides gave way. 39 people were killed, 7 others are missing. Firefighters, police, and ground selfdefense force personnel worked through the night in the debris. The landslides destroyed several homes and they knocked out power and water to others. So many people have been forced to move into emergency shelters. Translator there was a tremendous sound. Then all of a sudden, the landslide caved in the entrance, bathroom, and kitchen of my home. Translator the neighbors house crashed into my front door with a jolt. I thought i was dead. More than 200 millimeters of rain fell in three hours. Thats more than the average for the entire month. Three boys, aged 2, 3, and 11 are among the dead. A firefighter died trying to save one of them. Some people are questioning the emergency response. Residents began reporting mudslides around 3 20 a. M. Municipal officials issued the first evacuation advisories almost