Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where donald trump can celebrate perhaps the biggest victory of his presidency so far. Well, sort of. The house of representatives has passed a Major Overhaul of the nations tax laws. It includes steep cuts for the wealthy. The senate is expected to vote shortly. A last minute glitch could mean lawmakers having to vote again though its not expected to change the outcome. Republicans are celebrating. 227 and the no, 203, it is adopted. It is laid upon the table today we raise taxes on 86 million middle class families. 86 million middle class families. 86 million middle class families. 86 million middle class families. 83 of the tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 . Well donald trump has welcomed the house vote on social media. He tweeted his congratulations to what he said were the great republicans who had voted to cut taxes for americans. I asked our correspondent in washington, david willis, to run through what the president s
Which is a country that is working currently. And so, one of the major issues for about the process has been the cndfde ruling party created the wing for its Political Party to sort of act as sort of its a very militarized wing of the Political Party and they act as goons essentially. Based on they strongarmed people into behaving in a way that the party wants them to behave. They dressed as policemen and basically initiate violent confrontation with the protesters in an effort to have everything spiral out of control. So that is somewhat of an extreme example although with a lot of the rebel movements that are very active in eastern congo and in the Great Lakes Region there are other forms that are equally extreme. Where i think that becomes attractive to the youth to join is again we are talking about those that dont have much in the way of opportunities otherwise and we are also talking about political systems in which resources are very concentrated in the political system thats no
How did you like the weather today . Im not complaining. Hey, why not. It depends on where you work. That this is probably way too hot. But along the coast its absolutely beautiful. Were going to shave off a few degrees today. Im sure folks inland will be grateful for that. But you can see why, we have turned on their natural air conditioner here as we would like to call it fog and the marine layer and the marine influence. It has moved into the bay as you can see it with a live look over San Francisco. Temperatures starting out hovering around the 60degree mark. Similar to where we were this time yesterday. But after the patchy clouds that will start their modest cooling today, not significant. Still going to be hot inland. We will shave off a few degrees as we start to feel a bit more of that marine influence. Temperatures topping out in the upper 90s, maybe ant jobbing, antioch. Your full forecast in a bit. Thank you, julie. Here are your top stories, this morning a man hunt is unde
Upper 60s for the suburbs. Lehigh valley now 70 degrees a few clouds in philadelphia. 76 degrees by 9 00 this morning and its going to be a quick warm up across the entire area back into the upper 80s and low 90s for our area and theres a chance well see scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. 88 degrees in new jersey at the shore 78 today but keep an eye on the sky. We have seen a few downpours pushing into north jersey and drying out. This afternoon well likely see some more popup showers. Got the future cast. Walking through it hour by hour when im back in ten minutes and well see how traffic is moving. Katie has your first alert traffic. You talked about the showers moving out of the lee hay valley. I have a live look at 78 where you can see little reminisces of the sprinkles that moved through but no issues on the roadways to report and if youre heading southbound good news. If youre headed southbound from the Lehigh Valley. A live look outside near the airport. North and s
Line or they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar with some of these other issues that getting prevent sanctions now rather than waiting for the fifth year with the eighth or the 10th you. So thats the mindset we are dealing with. That to our reformists and i ago, do you know who these people really are . These reformist dont have any real power. They are in positions but they dont really wield it. Take a look at the council of guardians, the council of experts. Take a look at who controls the military structure and economic levers. When you start to see real changes there, maybe he will see a crack. Its going to take time, derek, going to take time. We are risking a lot so we have to be vigilant. And out of anything thats articulated about what we are prepared to do between now and then when we get to this point about checking the behavior, about having a deterrent, having a course of option. Because i think all of our economic cards are not viable. That are not good the inef