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Corridor. am a track certify -- amtrak service suspended until 10:00 a.m. snowshowers and gusty winds could affect air travel today. lets get the latest from meteorologist derek van dam. >> impressive snowfall totals west of i-95. some locations, dave and christine, receiving over 2 feet of fresh snow. look at the difference for the larger city locations like central park. 3.2 inches of snow from the latest noreaster. the storm is quickly pulling off to the north and east. we still have snowfall...

Now, we are hitting threes repeatedly, 3.2, and now we could see them jump quite a bit. well find out shortly, but i can tell you over the course of the next couple years, were going to be exceeding them. i just wanted to congratulate you. youre very, very special teem. the job you do is really incredible, and its not easy, but we are proud of you and proud to have you here, and with that, id like to ask brian of nevada, governor who has done an excellent job. youre not there much longer. im not...

Appreciate it. this is a time of great opportunity for our country. weve created nearly 3 million jobs since the election, a number that nobody would have thought possible. if you go back and take a look at what they were saying just prior to the election, nobody thought it was even possible. and weve done many other things, as you know, and i wont go over them because i want to be hearing from you today. but many other things that frankly nobody thought possible. gdp, 3.2, 3, 3. i think were go...

President for that really lovely introduction. that was very nice, mike, and i appreciate it. this is a time of great opportunity for our country. weve created nearly 3 million jobs since the election, a number that nobody would have thought possible. you go back and take a look at what they were saying just prior to the election. nobody thought it was even possible. and weve done many other things, as you know, and i wont go over them because i want to be hearing from you today. but many other ...

Literature and then we had a chapter on each of the presidents policy objectives that you might expect is. that gets up to 3% average over ten years and thats based on very hard science. we have more than 50 pages of economic references in the back where those numbers come from. if those numbers had led us to 5%, we would have been at 5%. let me close, though, by putting that perspective. the median forecast for economic reports of the president going back to this one is that economic growth wil...

Objectives. that gets us up to 3.2%, 3% on average over ten years. thats all based on hard science much we have more than 50 pages of economic references in the back where the numbers come from. if those numbers led us to 5%, we would have been at 5%. let me close by putting that in perspective. the median forecast for economic reports of the president going back to this one is that economic growth would be 3.2%. so were a little bit below the median. the economic growth forecast for the obama a...

Capture. you had businesses couldnt invest in their people because they had to worry about alphabet soup of agencies from the fcc to the doj. if you think about it dodd frank over 22,000 pages of rules and regulations came from that that really hampered banks from growing and lending money out to the economy. steve: they said they were looking out for the little guy. >> yeah, of course they were especially because the little guy got all these bonuses oh, no, wait, thats happening under the trump...

Its the slowest pace of job growth in the last seven years. he talked about economic growth as if it is turbocharged, as if were having a great new period of renewal in terms of economic growth. chicago growth this past year is 3.2%, which is a little lower than what economists expected it to be. its lower than what he promised as a candidate and even as president. is there risk for the republicans broadly, not just the president, trying to sell the country on an economic miracle when were kind ...

>> i think thats right. i think well figure out how the tax cuts or fax reform what kind of impact tax reform or the tax cuts is having on regular workers out there in america. are they getting a boost in their take home pay? are they getting an immediate positive reaction? that will mean a lot to people, but, yeah. people dont run around saying hey is unemployment did this or that. is growth at 2.6 or 3.2, but they do notice when people are hiring. they notice when companies are in good trouble...

Even though its lower, it still was much better than in 2016. when i think it was around 1.5%. about the same it was in 2015. you have a lot of economic assumptions in the white house. based on 3% growth, 3.5% growth. maybe even 4% growth. i just dont think thats going to happen. i do think, peggy. and you would probably know this far better than me, americas arent going to really be hung up on whether its growth is at 2.6% or 2.9% or 3.2%. i think theyre going be more focused on their own confi...