Plus, the Major Airline offering free beer and wine. The new push for a Hollywood Sign. And would you make your 5yearold pay rent . This mom did, and the internet is weighing in. And we do say good morning on this friday, everyone. Were within hours of the u. S. Government coming to a halt and it all comes down to this. If lawmakers cant come to an agreement on a spending bill before midnight, the federal government is expected to shut down. Democrats and republicans have staked out positions and right now hopes that a deal can be done are fading. Abcs Gloria Riviera has been following the overnight developments for us. Gloria, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane. Good morning, kendis. Fading is right. In the 11th hour the house passing that bill that now sits in the senates hands. Senators say they do expect to vote today, but they dont know what it will look like because leaders from both parties indicating they will not budge on the issues that divide them, and the current sp
Free beer and wine. The new push for a Hollywood Sign. And would you make your 5yearold pay rent . This mom did and the internet is weighing in. And we do say good morning on this friday. Were within hours of the u. S. Government coming to a haul and all comes down to this. If lawmakers cant come to an agreement on a spending bill before midnight, the federal government is expected to shut down. Democrats and republicans have staked out positions and right now hopes that a deal can be done are fading. Gloria riviera has been following the overnight developments for us. Gloria, good morning. Reporter good morning, diane, good morning, kendis. Fading is right. In the 11th hour the house passing that bill. They do expect to vote today but they dont know what it will look like because leaders from both parties indicating they will not budge on the issues that divide them and the current spending deal expires at midnight. The yeas are 230. Reporter they managed to pass another shortterm fix
Other areas are dealing with fog. What is interesting is on the bay bridge toll plaza, at last look, it was clear. You get over to Treasure Island and youre dealing with thick fog. Some of that fog will linger, especially to the east. Other locations youre like, i dont have any fog. It is mostly clear. It will be like that today. Partly sunny to mostly sunny. One more system in the current pattern. That will be here tomorrow, late morning, early afternoon. There is enough of an easterly component to the breeze to bring that fog back in. Sunnyvale is down to 41. Los altos is in there too. Foster city, 42. Fremont, 41. Cooler towards montero at 43 degrees. The system will get here in 24 hours. By tomorrow it will be a good system. Again, north of the golden gate. South, we will see if it holds. Near 60 today. 7 01. And sal tells us we are seeing some improvement but still slow on 880, steve. Were going to start in the east bay this time. Most of the traffic is busy. 880 is slow out of do
Plan. He is optimistic over the new year. The working strategy of working out a fix. Whats going on here . Hey, don, while yeah the president this morning tweeting about health care and going back to a little bit of an old plan which is, would go with democrats, something that republicans has not been able to do successfully. He had this tweet this morning talking about the obamacare he says based on the individual mandate has been terminated as part of our tax cut bill which essentially repeals obamacare, the democrats and republicans will eventually come together and develop a great new health care plan. Now, it does not seem right at this moment that democrats and republicans are actually working on a new health care plan. However, in january, there is going to it be a bipartisan effort to shore up those health care marketplaces, thats one of the things that the Trump Administration promised some moderate republican senators in an effort to get this tax bill passed. Thats one of the
President is known to send for a long time. Hes spent the Holiday Season golfing in his golf club nearby, and tweeting about the fbi. In the last two days he sent four tweets about the fbi, particularly about Andrew Mccabe, the Deputy Director there, criticizing him for the way he handled Hillary Clintons email investigation and the fact that mccabes wife ran for state senate in virginia and took money from that states democratic governor. Now, we have learned, cnn has learned mccabe plans to retire in the coming months. But the tweets that the president has sent have led some democrats to speculate that trump is possibly trying to push mccabe out early. I want to read what you ted lieu has said, mccabe could be called as a witness in an obstruction of justice case. Robert mueller is investigating collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia during the 2016 election. Really it has been a conflict between the traditional things president s do around christmas, calling the troops, tel