Gets back to its version of tax overhaul with republicans pushing hard to get to a full senate vote as early as this thursday. We welcome our chief content officer, marty shanker, and from washington, sahil kapur. What does it look like in terms of whether or not they will get a vote by thursday . Is a scurry to get all the votes they possibly can between today and thursday to cobble together the votes the frontpass it on end. The vote is likely to come in on thursday around whats called a ama. Earo a theres a small faction of deficit hawks in the senate, two of them retiring, immune to political pressure. They need to be placated. They need to believe that this wont simply explode the deficit and put the nation in a more precarious place in terms of red ink. Raisedollins has concerns about repealing the obamacare individual mandate. She is concerned that it will raise a means for other people. Otheren there are some wildcards. One of the big possible no votes, rand paul, came on in fa
Well still have to deal with the windchill factor this afternoon. Temperatures will warm above freezing in neighborhoods, the exception in the lehigh valley, 31 this afternoon. Even at 31 with bright sunshine, a lot of snow will be melting during the day today. Ill break it down hour by hour, show you whats ahead for your neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. First Jessica Boyington with first alert traffic. Thanks. Were watching one of the first accidents of the morning here. Route 309s northbound side. A crash around highland avenue. A second ago, it was off to the lefthand lane. They just moved it off to the shoulder. Now traffic is squeezing by to the lefthand side. The northbound side around ft. Washington, slow. Also watching the schuylkill expressway following construction. Back to normal now. Not seeing any big increase in drive times yet. Theyre the same. 13 minutes eastbound from the blue route to the vine. Speeds into the high 50s. Ill end with bridges, just checking the
But it is exactly what our whaling boat crew is trying to do. So hooray for them, they have harpooned the whale. Now heres the thing. The harpoon has a rope attached to it and they tie the rope up to the boat. By virtue of that rope and that harpoon, that little whaling boat is now essentially tied to a very angry whale. Which weighs what, like 40, 50, 60 tons and the whale because it has been stuck with a harpoon, inevitably takes off swimming. And because the boat is tied to it, the whale is towing it dragging our little 19th century crew in our little boat, across the waves, going more than 20 miles an hour. Our whaling boat is essentially water skiing behind a wounded, furious, huge creature, a creature that is way bigger than them. When that creature ties out and theyre able to complete the kill. Our little crew is going to be the richer crew on the ocean tonight, they got their whale. But if something goes wrong, like the whale doesnt get tired and it runs away with them on this
So hooray for them, they have harpooned the whale. Now heres the thing. The harpoon has a rope attached to it and they tie the rope up to the boat. By virtue of that rope and that harpoon, that little whaling boat is now essentially tied to a very angry whale. Which weighs what, like 40, 50, 60 tons and the whale because it has been stuck with a harpoon, inevitably takes off swimming. And because the boat is tied to it, the whale is towing it dragging our little 19th century crew in our little boat, across the waves, going more than 20 miles an hour. Our whaling boat is essentially water skiing behind a wounded, furious, huge creature, a creature that is way bigger than them. When that creature ties out and theyre able to complete the kill. Our little crew is going to be the richer crew on the ocean tonight, they got their whale. But if something goes wrong, like the whale doesnt get tired and it runs away with them on this nantucket slay ride on waves as high as houses how long can th
Harpooned the whale. Now heres the thing. The harpoon has a rope attached to it and they tie the rope up to the boat. By virtue of that rope and that harpoon, that little whaling boat is now essentially tied to a very angry whale. Which weighs what, like 40, 50, 60 tons and the whale because it has been stuck with a harpoon, inevitably takes off swimming. And because the boat is tied to it, the whale is towing it, dragging our little 19th century crew in our little boat, across the waves, going more than 20 miles an hour. Our whaling boat is essentially water skiing behind a wounded, furious, huge creature, a creature that is way bigger than them. When that creature tires out and theyre able to complete the kill. Our little crew is going to be the richest crew on the ocean tonight, they got their whale. But if something goes wrong, like the whale doesnt get tired and it runs away with them on this nantucket slay ride on waves as high as houses, how long can that little crew survive tha