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all right. it seems kirsten cannot hear us. for now, they ll send it to troy bridges for the latest on the weather. it is all about that warm weather. a little bit of a haze with a little bit of moisture in the atmosphere. no real fog to deal with. the winds kicking up just enough to keep that at bay. winds out of the east-southeast bringing in plenty of warm air. starting off much milder this morning at 64 degrees from that vantage point. 58 in sanford. 61 in ocala right now. 58 in daytona beach. and almost 70 in brevard county. here s the warmup, it will be breezy like yesterday. expect a lot of sunshine mixed in with a couple of clouds. we are up to 80 as early as lunchtime. coming up, we ll talk about 80 s for the rest of the week and then rain chances increasing considerably for the weekend, if you are making plans. first, let s check on the roads and head over to amy in the napleton traffic center. amy? thank you very much. here s what is going on right now. ....
with south wind bringing in plenty of warm air. we are at 68 in orlando. 81 at noon. 84 for the afternoon high at 4:00, just like yesterday. we made it up to 84 yesterday with a 20% chance for rain. we ll talk about the increased chance for storms, even the risk for severe weather for tomorrow. let s check on the roads and head back over to amy who is in the napleton traffic center. here we are. things look good. a couple of minutes ago, this was still active construction on the beachline. that s not going to be a factor. i should say on 417. cars coming northbound, all travel lanes are open. things looking fantastic at this point in the morning. drive times exactly where they should be. if you ll be northbound at taylor road at i-4, only four minutes. southbound along 95, from 40 to i-95. only six minutes looking good. nothing coming up on the map. that s your check on traffic. back over to you. breaking news overnight. breaking news in orlando two people had to be ....
this week. and we haven t even seen that post-thanksgiving peak. a new model projects almost 539,000 u.s. deaths, by april. this country is in a pandemic free-fall, right now, no other way to describe it. and while the current president doesn t care about anything but his bogus conspiracies and his endless grudge matches, joe biden, who says that he ll ask americans to wear masks for the first 100 days after he takes the oath of office. saying, tonight, he doesn t think that will have to be mandatory. i don t think masks have to be made mandatory, nationwide. i ll do everything in my power, as president of the united states, to encourage people to do the right thing. and when they do it, demonstrate that it matters. i want you to listen to what he says about the current president s campaign of deadly disinformation about the virus. one of the things that bothers me the most is, by the wild assertions the administration is making about how this is going to go away, ....
that they might be okay with nothing happening and sequester being triggered. half is defense and half non-domestic discretionary spending. can you explain to people what would be cut if the sequester goes into effect. it s a pleasure to be here. it s an important set of questions for americans. what we are talking about is whether half of these cuts are going to prevent our children from getting the supports they need to get educated in school including children with disabilities. whether we are going to be supporting the elderly to help with their heating bill or in the summertime, their air conditioning. whether we provide homeless assistance for people who are homeless to get them back into permanent housing. we are talking about a series of programs that not only help our citizens get back to work. they are fundamental to ensuring families will just survive to the end of the paycheck. practically speak the alternative if you look at what president obama laid ou ....
structure structures in our political system, as envisioned by the founders, that sometimes they re going to disadvantage democrats, but the truth of the matter is, is that if we have a strong message, if we re speaking to what the american people care about, typically you know, the popular vote and the electoral college vote will align, and i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we looked for one explanation or one silver bullet, or one easy fix for our politics, then we re probably initiative and school nutrition program is a greater threat to democracy than our government going after the press if they re issuing a story we don t like. i mean that s an issue that i think we ve got to wrestle with. and we will. people asked me how do you feel after the election? i say well, look, this is a clarifying moment. it s a useful reminder that voting counts, politics counts, what the president-elect is going to be doing is going to be very diff ....