Headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Early this morning the Senate Passed the first major rewrite of u. S. Tax laws in over 30 years. The senate vote came hours after the bill was passed by the house. The house has to vote again this morning because of some procedure all violations. President trump is expected to sign the measure later today. For mr. Trump and gop lawmakers it is a long awaited victory. Hena doba is here in new york. Good morning, hena. Good morning. The 1. 5 trillion bill will provide deep cuts for the wealthy and modest cuts for middle and low income families, pushing the National Debt even higher. The tax cuts and job act is passed. The senate gave the nod overnight in a v lines. Moments later President Trump tweeted in part, the United States Senate Just Passed the biggest in history tax cut and reform bill. We now add comprehensive tax reform, major middle class tax relief, and making our businesses both large and small more comp
Enjoyed a White Christmas yesterday, heavy snow and strong winds have made the trip home hard for many. In areas from portland, oregon, to portland, maine there was snow. Bone chilling cold enveloped much of the midwest with windchills dipping below 40 in some places. And a blizzard warning was issued for maine and new hampshire. The snow and wind created hazardous driving conditions with near zero visibility in massachusetts as well. Yeah, the windows get icy and the windshield wipers dont really arent very effective with the ice. The visibility is quite poor, so its been a rough ride already. At bostons Logan Airport blizzard like conditions caused runways to temporary shut down. That delayed more than 240 flights. And the cold weather is going to stick around for a few taking a look at whats happening across the country on tuesday, we do have much drier conditions as we head toward the west coast. Some snow expected down in the midwest and we could see some snow showers as we head t
And good morning from the cbs studio headquarters in new york. Im brook silvabraga in for annemarie green. The recordbreaking snow continues to fall around the great lakes. Windchill advisories are in effect for dozens of states. Temperatures today could hit up to my muss 17. Pittsburgh and chicago are expected to be in the single digits. The hardest hit area is eerie, pennsylvania. Thats an alltime record and more is expected today. Roxana saberi has the latest. Reporter residents in erie, pennsylvania, spent the day after christmas digging out from record snowfall even as more piled on from the great lakes. Its a little ridiculous. I keep pecking away at it. You cant tell how bad it is, i dont think. Reporter even by lakeeffect standard, the scene was jawdropping. 30 inches of snow fell in 36 hours. A lot of snow keeps coming, wont stop. Reporter in ohio it backed up traffic on a portion of interstate 90. Snow and ice led to this deadly accident on a highway in kansas city, missouri.
Option for telework or unscheduled leave. But there is a full list of closings on your screen and updating information on our wusa mobile app. Lets head over to the woman of the hour tracking the forecast and snow. We are in for the long haul at least until between 8 am and 10 pm looking at snow across the area. Some of the heaviest snow band outside of the ocean city area. We will show you what is happening. We have snow around the leonardtown area. Baltimore and all of the viewing area involved with this system. If we zoom into the dc area we can see around pentagon and parts of National Park and highway university, all of those areas getting a light snow. We go around Prince Georges County where billy and fedex field are seeing light snow showers along 50 and 495. Around rockville and gaithersburg, potomac, and germantown, these areas with light snow at this time. I know it is just starting around the northern tip of montgomery county. Quantico, stafford. Frac fredericksburg light s
Are still spotting light flurries outside right now and going to have really, really cold temperatures moving in. First alert live doppler is telling the story. This is a monster of a storm intensifying so rapidly within the last few hours. It intensified the type of storm we see takes 24 hours to happen. This storm did it in seven hours and now battering new york and boston with heavier snow bands and really, really strong winds. We saw strong winds around here as well. Ocean city maryland had wind gusts of 50 Miles Per Hour. Now we are getting flurries around the d. C. Area. Light snow around buoy and flurries in the College Park Area with cloudy skies. D. C. Right now mostly flurries but around florida avenue northeast a break for you also around howard university. They are getting a break from the snow and still light snow around the only area along 97. Rockville gets a break for now. This the shift over to the east. Flurries are about what we are expecting until 3 00 or so and by