Philadelphia, northeast philadelphia in the lower 70s to start with. Well warm into the 80s this afternoon. Not quite as hot as yesterday. Flag is at rest. Virtually no wind around. Most areas calm and most areas see sunshine too. 72 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00 77 and 84 degrees at lunch time with the winds staying light during the day. Just a 5 mileanhour breeze blowing around lunch time today. Ill show you how warm it gets in your neighborhood. Ill go neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Thats true bill. We are doing okay especially on most of the majors, right around cottman avenue. First, for most of our rush hour morning, we can see about a 12minute trip headed southbound from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. Average speeds of 70 miles an hour. Thats a little bit fast. Out in West Norriton the road is blocked, Whitehall Road and williams way. Police activity on the scene as well as an accident o
Vote on its third Bailout Program with a number of members expected to reject the package. This as Alexis Tsipras concedes European Partners got the better of him. Sales in hong kong slump but the Fashion Group says its still pursuing growth opportunities. Coming up on todays show mickey goes to shanghai. The exclusive from the companys ceo. Twitter spares spike on a fake report of a takeover bid but has this happened one time too many . And donald comes up trump. The extravagant real estate mogul leading the gop field despite weeks of controversy. All the details later in todays show. Lets kick off with china. Retail sales, industrial output and fixed Asset Investment all beating forecast. Data came in at 7 . Thats higher than analysts were expecting. The worlds second largest economy is now on track to hit the 2015 growth target. Fancy that. Interestingly they were quick to jump to the defense of the data saying the figures were not inflated and the improvement was hard one. Its real
Bailout bill has gotten underway in the last hour. A vote on that bill is due within the hour. Michelle carusocabrera standing by there where its 10 00 p. M. Local time in athens. And youve got a busy night ahead of you, michelle. Reporter yes, we sure do, bill. So yes, lets get everybody up to speed. There are crowds back in front of the parliament. Things are much calmer than they were about 15 minutes ago. The last ten minutes of president obamas discussion with reporters is when we started to hear explosions outside. Thats when we saw molotov cocktails being thrown. We werent surprised because we had seen some of the protesters show up dressed in black, wearing hoods, some of them carrying gas masks. Seemed to be a very, very small group. And we havent seen any violence up until now. We thought maybe tonight it could has been. And, indeed it did. You can see from the video were showing you, a round of fires lasted about 10 or 15 minutes. Right away. The tear gas came out right away
House Foreign Affairs on cspan tonight or any time on cspan. Org. As Foreign Affairs subcommittee on europe held a hearing today on the European Union, its future and the u. S. Relationship with eu members the greek financial crisis, and britains referendum vote on the european membership in 2017 led to increased speculation on the future of the eu and how its troubles can impact the u. S. Economy. This is about an hour and a half. Im sure he will be joining us momentarily. Im sure he wont mind if we get some of the formalities out of order. I call to thrd this afternoons hearing on the future of the European Union from a relatively modest idea in the early 1950s for six countries to form a Common Market for steel and coal production. The Super National organization that we now know as the European Union was created. Five and a half decades on it has expanded to including 28 National Governments is and represents over 500 Million People. Taken together, the gdp of the eu is over 18 tri
Welcome to the countdown. Im anna edwards. Were a lot of news around greece. We get to that in just a moment. We heard the ecb yesterday that they were increasing liquidity. A lots about the me speak to the eu commissioner. That is an exclusive conversation and it takes place on this program. Used to be in charge of latvia. Then later we theres thinking that his vision for londons infrastructure later, we will be joined by a host of ceos. Those Companies Release their numbers for the most recent quarter. The president of the Swedish Telecom giant joins us in just under an hours time for his first conversation. Those numbers are just breaking now. Theyre keeping their outlook unchanged. Coming in just under estimates. Lets get back to greece. Finance ministers authorized a bridge loan to greece. That is according to the irish Prime Minister. It paves the way for a third of bailout that could keep greece in the common currency. Lets get more with Caroline Hyde and hans nichols. Yesterday