Thats all to come in the Business Briefing. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. It was only commissioned twelve days ago, and it cost 3. 1 billion pounds to build, but already the uks biggest and most powerful Aircraft Carrier has sprung a leak. Today we want to know what have you spent a small fortune on over christmas that failed to live up to expectations . Get in touch with us just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. President trump has outlined a new National Security strategy focusing on economic stability and identifying russia and china as competitors, challenging americas influence and wealth. The president also said washington had no choice but to deal with the challenge posed by north koreas weapons programme. He broke with several of his advisers and previous american policy under president obama by not mentioning the threat posed by climate change. Our north america editor jon sopel reports. The us National
Weeks ago by an accident at the toll plaza that is still out of commission. That lane is still closed. So far we havent seen a lot of damage done by that as far as a backup. A little bit of slow traffic out of the Central Valley. Your ace train number 1 did leave on time this morning im watching a developing story this morning, investigators have now revealed the amtrak train that derailed in Washington State was speeding, going 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 mile per hour zone. Three people were killed and Dozens Injured on a track that was just recently upgraded. This morning we are hearing the who a heroic stories of those who rushed in to help as the train dangled over a busy freeway. Maggie rulli is live with more on this story. Reporter jessica, good morning. Just behind me you can see that bridge where the train derailed, crashing on to cars below on this highway during a busy morning commute. Now investigators are trying to figure out exactly what caused this horrific incident to ha
Will be cloudy and dry at 4 00, 54 to 58. By 7 00 we will have light rain developing in the north bay, temperatures in the low 50s. Sue says its been pretty quiet so far this morning. We have a couple of accidents but none of them are blocking at least at this point. We will knock on wood for that. Back to the san matteo bridge, were getting a little busier with the taillights headed westbound across the causeway and up on the highrise over towards foster city for about a 16 minute drive from the tolls over towards the peninsula. Here we go with the east shore freeway, also a nice solid ribbon of head lights between University Avenue and the macarthur maze, no metering lights yet. We will check back with the bay bridge toll plaza in a couple minutes. We have been watching a situation in okay. If we come here to live desk, we have been watching a situation all morning long in washington tate. This was the scene overnight, you can see the train still the way it was left there, the train
We have an accident blocking one lane in the north bound direction on 101, excuse me, the south bound direction, its not causing huge delays, a new accident in the Castro Valley on 580, just coming off the 238 connector. We are also tracking slow downs on the south bound 880, is just cleared but expect delays heading into hayward. Its a clear beautiful start to the day although its certainly chilly, taking a live look twowrdz downtown, there is not a cloud in the sky, thats what responsible for making things so much cooler than yesterday. Fairfield was at 31, they are now at 33 degrees, santa rosa, 34, pacifica, 47, the south baw, just barely in the 40s, your headlines, clear start, chilly temperatures, sun and clouds turning to more clouds in the afternoon with light rain on the way. Thank you, republicans in the house are expected to pass the gop plan to overhaul the nations taxes today. It would be the president s first major legislative victory, senator collins of maine announced h
Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Early this morning the Senate Passed the first major rewrite of u. S. Tax laws in over 30 years. The senate vote came hours after the bill was passed by the house. The house has to vote again this morning because of some procedure all violations. President trump is expected to sign the measure later today. For mr. Trump and gop lawmakers it is a long awaited victory. Hena doba is here in new york. Good morning, hena. Good morning. The 1. 5 trillion bill will provide deep cuts for the wealthy and modest cuts for middle and low income families, pushing the National Debt even higher. The tax cuts and job act is passed. The senate gave the nod overnight in a vote along party lines. Moments later President Trump tweeted in part, the United States Senate Just Passed the biggest in history tax cut and reform bill. We now add comprehensive tax reform, major middle class tax relief, and making our businesses both large and small more competitive around t