monetary fund. yesterday the meeting opened with good news. the world economy system expected to grow at 3.5 percent this year. better than the 3.1 percent originally forecast t meanwhile at the white house president trump signed new memorandum aimed at limiting chinese imports and encouraging domestic production in the u.s. for decades america as lost our jobs and our factories to unfair foreign trade. the u.s. is also looking at twice reduce its huge 500 billion-dollar trade deficit and limit new import taxes. we re following a developing story from prince george s county this morning where a teacher and could etch is facing child porn charges. police say 34-year-old christopher speights has been employed at bradbury heights elementary school and south county sports academy. authorities say images and video of children eng engaging n sexual conduct with each other and adults was found on speights phone. this morning cleanup efforts under way at the portion of its ga
most of you can enjoy the weekend. we are live outside. you should prepare for a warm day with some scattered storms however. good morning to you. thank you for joining us. i m maureen umeh. and i m holly morris. today is friday april 21st. yes, it is. mike thomas with your weather headline, erin como with your traffic. 82 yesterday in d.c., today closer to the mid 80 s but maybe some storms as well. erin. well, speaking of storms, the rain that moved through yesterday problems in adelphi and we have some utility work i m going to help steer you around. sounds good both of you. thank you very much. let s get right to the news at 5 o clock. fast moving storms swept across the region and they caused serious damage to buildings and sneaks adelphi maryland. fox5 s melanie alnwick is live with the latest. good morning, mel. reporter: good morning, guys and take a look here at this large tree that came down on several cars here and this that s down in this parking lot
and i would suggest that a year from now, the notion that we would reverse this policy that is allowed more americans to travel to cuba and to help cuban people have access to more technology more capital more values and more contact with americans will seem as absurd as reversing the changes that were made with cuban american travel a couple of years ago. so again, i applaud you for what you re doing and look forward to working with the administration as this policy unfolds. thank you, senator menendez. thank you, mr. chairman. let me ask you when a cuban-american sends or visits their relatives in cuba and give them a lit money, the only place really to buy something is the dollar store isn t is that true? if you want to get something? i believe certainly there s there s more in those stores to buy. by the way, who owns the dollar stores? they are state run. okay. the government. and so if i want to send a remittance to my relative in cuba, the cuban governm
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