And new york at least 1 inch. The storm system is wreaking havoc on the roads and in new jersey a car slid off interstate 78 and two people were killed. Overall, 11 deaths across the country have been blamed on the storm in th snow ad icy conditions is causing an exceptional number of pilots. The Chain Reaction crash on the pennsylvania turnpike that involves 50 cars. Just north of new york city, icy roads triggered a 24 car pileup. Aaa estimating it at the annual cost of traffic collisions can be an amazing 166 billion per year. Air travel disruptions rippling across the country. 1600 flights were canceled, mostly out of dallas and fort worth. Fox news senior meteorologist janice dean is live from the Fox Extreme Weather Center to tell us what to expect. Good evening. Im going to work on meteorology. Reporter into mouthful, thats for sure. Look at some of the snowfall totals that we have received from the last roud, new jersey, pennsylvania, it an inch to 2 inches an hour, and we coul
To many people owning a home is the American Dream. But for 28 of americans who are in the market to buy a home, that dream may be unattainable, because they are not likely to qualify for a mortgage. According to a new study, 28. 4 of people who have applied or looked for a loan have a credit score of 620 or lower. 620 is the cutoff point. Tightening lending standards combined with short sales and foreclosure has brought Home Ownership down to 65 . Thats the lowest rate of homeownership since 1995. But the last few years of turmoil should have taught us something. That owning a home is for most people hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. For Many Americans its their primary tool for building wealth. But tell that to those who are still under water on their home loans. Owning a home has turned into an american nightmare for them. Sure the housing crisis was fuelled by aggressive Real Estate Agents and greedy lenders, and home buyers eager to borrow more than they can chew. Renting
To many people owning a home is the American Dream. But for 28 of americans who are in the market to buy a home, that dream may be unattainable, because they are not likely to qualify for a mortgage. According to a new study, 28. 4 of people who have applied or looked for a loan have a credit score of 620 or lower. 620 is the cutoff point. Tightening lending standards combined with short sales and foreclosure has brought Home Ownership down to 65 . Thats the lowest rate of homeownership since 1995. But the last few years of turmoil should have taught us something. That owning a home is for most people hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. For Many Americans its their primary tool for building wealth. But tell that to those who are still under water on their home loans. Owning a home has turned into an american nightmare for them. Sure the housing crisis was fuelled by aggressive Real Estate Agents and greedy lenders, and home buyers eager to borrow more than they can chew. Renting
Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear Legal Authority what actions would you take . On your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop
another 10,000 this year. What is happening now is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And th
There have been a lot of concern that the Iraqi Air Force is not up to it. This could be a trigger that draws us back deeply into a conflict in the middle east that we have largely extracted ourselves from. Military action would not include combat boots on the ground. To go in and think well provide a tilting point opportunity is exactly how a slippery slope works. Right now in the northern iraqi town of sinjar there are tens of thousands refugees as much as 40,000 known as yaziti trapped on a mountaintop, they are without food and without water. 40 children have already died. The the reason they are stranded on this mountain, because waiting at the bottom of it are fighters from the Islamic State of iraq and syria, isis who have vowed to kill them or force them to denounce their religion. These tens of thousands of men, women and children have been trapped for several days. Just hours ago, officials said president obama is, quote, seriously considering air strikes or air drops of food