And this week on the communicators we talk to members of congress about the legislation they are proposing. First up senator al franken. Senator senator al franken, you hailed a failure of the comcasttime warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest because i firmly believe if comcast were allowed to buy time warner they would have been to go big anticompetitive, led to higher prices for consumers, less choice and if it is even possible they would surface. Host is it because of the size . Guest the size and parts of different markets. They have 30 of cable between them and 57 of internet broadband, highspeed internet broadband, that is just too big. I had a lot of content providers, networks come to me and say they were opposed to this deal but this gives you some idea of what happens when you get this big, they were afraid to say so to be public because they feared retrobution. Host did comcast come to you and try to influence your opinion guest they did not. I have been against
More on the forecast, of course big holiday weekends, carol. It is now the first part of this morning windy couple of showers but the rest of it looks terrific. Temperatures starting to come down, though they were in the middle 50s, through center city even higher than that, now 52 degrees through center city. Thats the trends for the day. We wont drop all that low today into the middle 50s, we stop there. It is these winds that are so high this morning. Lets look outside. Shall we . We find that it is not raining right now through philadelphia, and it probably will not be raining here again, it looks like weve got most of these showers out of here. And unless something decides to chase along after warned afterward, few showers through state could the edge, not guaranteed they will be lasting all the way over here. So i think generally the trend is for clearing skies. Down on the board walk plaza in Rehoboth Beach very quiet out there this morning, it is windy, and every single locatio
More than 333,000 americans have died. 63,000 of americans died this month alone, making december the deadliest month yet. And more than 118,000 americans are spending their holidays in hospital beds suffering from covid19. Thats according to the covid tracking project. And now states are preparing for what could be the worst surge in new case this is country has ever seen. And that is thanks to the millions of americans who decided to travel for christmas. Lets start with the latest on President Trump signing into law that muchneeded 2 million Coronavirus Relief package. Leann is on the hill for us. Monica alba is in florida where the president is staying. Well start with leann. Bottom line, that big question, when can folks expect that check in the mail or a deposit in their account . That is the big question. Lets back up a little bit. At the beginning of last week, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said checks would be in peoples Bank Accounts this week. That was before the presiden