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republicans expected to vote yes slicing the rate from 35% to 21%. i think the american people will begin to feel that the country is moving again after eight years of relative stagnation. republicans will rue the day that they passed this tax bill. rue the day. because it s so unfair to the middle class. the senator is expected to vote and pass this tax bill late tonight, so it can be on the president s desk by tomorrow. kenneth moton, channel 6 action news. all right thank you. of course our coverage of the tax reform vote continues on 6abc.com. threw find arguments on both sides of this contentious debate and an explanation of how the plan can benefit families. and a hit and run victim in his 80s was rushed to the hospital. the driver ran from the scene leaving the suv sitting in someone s front yard and action news learns that another vehicle may have been involved. we have the full story this afternoon. chad pradelli is live. detectives arrived in t ....
that was stopped by president obama. and also streamlining manufacturing regulation and president trump met with top auto executives and the president met with democrat and republican leadership to move through congress. i m elizabeth macdonald filling in for deirdre bolten. the president is meeting with senior leadership in congress. we will bring you anything important. this, as earlier today, the president invited top executives from ford, gm and fiat chrysler. this is a long-term job that we re looking for. we re bringing manufacturing back to the united states bigly and reducing unnecessary regulations, we want unnecessary regulations, a regulations that mean something. mark and i were here yesterday and we understand that. we ll make things much more simple for the auto companies and everybody else who wants to do business in the united states. the auto executives praising the president right after the meeting. as an industry, as an automotive industry we em ....
anti-government protesters are back on the streets a in ukraine, defying new laws aimed at stamping out protesters. they clashed. you are looking at live pictures. earlier, they were hitting them with sticks as they tried to overturn a bus. that s where jennifer glass is joining us, live from kiev. what are the protesters calling for right now, jennifer? reporter: right now, those live pictures that you are seeing are about 400 meters that way. i can hear the blast. the police have been throwing stun grenades, firing pepper spray at thousands of protest who left here, a very peaceful protest early in the day on kiev independence square, tens of thousands. a few thousand broke away and tried to head toward parliament. the police are blocking that road. the police have very much stood their line and been very restrained in contrast to proceed tests and clark that happened in early december when police attacked protesters. the protesters have been very aggressive h ....
after ten days without water, west virginia residents can finally drink their tap water again. but even though the ban was lifted a day ago, many are still complaining about the bad smell. our robert ray is on the scene in charleston. robert if residents don t trust what s coming out of their taps what exactly are they doing as an alternative? reporter: using a lot of bottled water. as a matter of fact, the restaurant that i m in right now you can see a lot of people having brunch here on this sunday morning, early afternoon. this restaurant is not using the tap water to give to its customers they re using bottled water. that s sort of the mantra here as most of the people in charleston west virginia are going about here. the smell in some parts of the city are is like a licorice or a cough drop. the government here is sending out messages to the media, saying they re doing testing on the plant and the elk river and that the water is safe. yet if that is the case, w ....
west virginia residents have finally been told they can now drink from their taps again and the ban was lifted a day ago many are complaining about a very peculiar spell and robert ray is live on the scene in charleston and say the water is safe now so what exactly are residents still concerned about? well, the residents here in charleston, west virginia are concerned about the fact that you know it s been a few days since the water bans are lifted and people have been flushing their pipes out but a lingering odor is rounds like an licorace or candy and after the water is flushed out describing the smell inside their homes and others described discoloration and we are in a restaurant here this morning where folks have been having brunch throughout today and this particular restaurant is serving only bottled water to its customers and they are using the water just to clean the dishes. they own three restaurants here and they have been impacted pretty heavily by what ha ....