hundred, many hundreds of businesses, those cumulatively employing well over two million workers have announced bonus, wage increases, expanded benefits, increased contributions to pension accounts. and they have cited the tax reform as the mechanism that has enabled them to do this for their workers. what s so exciting about this, mr. president, is this is happening before the wave of new investment has even been able to begin. this is happening because companies know that with lower tax rates, they re going to have more free cash flow, and they re going to use some of that to invest in growing their business, but they have already announced that they re using some of that to enhance the compensation for their employees. let me just give you a few examples. these are just pennsylvania-related companies, just a handful of the ones that i m aware of, and it s really typical of companies across the country. comcast, big employer based in philadelphia. they announced specificall
parts of lancaster county. we go to double scan live radar there. this storm is weakening but still packing quite a punch 44 to 43 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes. winds in excess of 50, 60 miles an hour near quarryville, kirkwood heading into wester chester county. so tonight flash flooding up top 2-inches an hour. turn around do not drive into any flooded roads and that lightning it can strike up to 15 miles away brian so if you hear thunder or if you see that lightning head indoors and stay there until the storm passes. much more on live double scan forecast. as we mentioned one of the big problems that could lead to flooding is clogged storm drains. we ve seen crews working throughout the day to try to clear them out before the next round of rain starts coming down. chad pradelli continues our team coverage live along the schuylkill expressway. chad. reporter: brian, that flash flooding really happened at an inon that tune tie the morning commute. when you wa