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this is what you came for and $450 million for the last da vinci. the incredible work of art bringing people to tears and breaking records. now the world s most expensive painting. the big question this morning, who bought it? you who bought it? i would like to be that person s friend. no kidding. $450 million and get this, they re not even sure that s a real da vinci. and experts say it s kind of a fixer-upper. has some problems wit, as well. still, $450 million. when they say who bought it, george, when can i come see it? but, you know, we re going to begin, everybody, with that storm that s moving across the country bringing heavy rain and snow from the west to the northeast and this comes just as people are getting ready to travel for the holidays. let s go right to ginger zee who is tracking the system for us. good morning, ginger. good morning to you. thanksgiving just a week away so a lot of people have that travel on their mind and starting this we ....
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local income tax deductions and we heard some of those questions during the white house briefing and doubling the standard deduction for $12,000 for single families. it is limited to $1.5 trillion over 10 years in order to qualify rules for the senate to pass the bill. we ll look at the final hour of debate on the house floor, but we join now the senate finance committee s review of the plan live now on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] ick nick that is a tool to lower the cost of purchasing that equipment. on the margin, more equipment is going to be purchased. that s what happens when you change the incentives. and guess what, somebody gets to make that equipment and middle-income workers at a factory and someone else gets to use that equipment when it is put to work and that expands the productive capacity of the economy. that is the dynamic we want that is also in the bill. that s why we are doing this together and why we should stic ....
king solomon asked only for wisdom not fame, fortune, for influence. instead he longed for godly wisdom. parent, teacher, minister, elected official, or in any other official of leadership, help us to lead with godly wisdom. proclaim od, as i your threefold unity, father, son, and proclaim your threefold unity, father, son, and holy spirit, individual yet eternally united as one god, i pray that this nation, the united states, be also unified, respecting and valuing the individual yet united as one nation, under god, indivisible. it is in your name i pray. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s proceedings and announces to the house his pproval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from maryland, mr. brown. mr. brown: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisibl ....
led attempt to extend an international inquiry into the use of chemical weapons in syria it means the united nations team investigating the use of deadly sarin gas and syria will now be disbanded our diplomatic editor james bays reports the ten veto by russia in the u.n. security council on syria and one that ends the council s efforts to hold to account those who use chemical weapons in the country. it was a vote that sparked outrage from the u.s. ambassador and she gave this warning that the u.s. may now work outside the u.n. russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism which has overwhelming support of this council the assad regime should be on clear notice the united states does not accept syria s use of chemical weapons as we did in april we will do it again if we must we will defend the international standard against chemical weapons use there was drama even before the meeting began with ambassador hayley accusing her russian colleague of bad faith by refus ....