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Now is his chance. So, donna, will democratic control in the garden state be the biggest thing to kind of jumpstart his agenda . I think it will be pretty meaningful. Hes got a big, big lift in jersey after Chris Christie and a lot of the disasters that he left behind. Theres a big lift that still has to be done in atlantic city, notwithstanding the things that have already happened. But i think, importantly, because of the change in federal taxation and because of the tax structure in new jersey, he is gonna have more limited bandwidth in terms of what he can do, so its gonna require a lot of creativity. Its a good thing hes got a deep, financial background because hes gonna need it, but im optimistic because hes an optimist. Tax issue he wants to raise taxes on wealthier people, brian, to pay for education and other things. Could that be something that can bite him in the long run or. Well, new jerseys taxes are way too low. [ l ....
District, which is out in western pennsylvania. So gerrymandering, thats what were talking about right here. The Pennsylvania StateSupreme Court ruled this week that all 18 of the states congressional districts need to be redrawn because they were gerrymandered to favor republicans. The Gopled Legislature has until february 9th to submit a new map. There is the current map there right now. A new map and Governor Wolf has until the 15th to send it back to the court. Well get Governor Wolfs response in a moment, but, dom, is there enough time to do this and do it right and do it so that all parties that need to approve it will approve it . I dont think so, and i object to it, to the broader point of what th ....
To accidents. Always construction it seems, right. Yes, at least like you mentioned roads are dry, it is a quiet day. Blustery, seasonable, it is early february after all so we are he can go, you know, chill to be this is air this time have the year. We are looking at storm scan. The not too much going on out there. It looks like we have a system moving in. Dont worry about that, mostly not hitting the ground. More than anything we will see sunshine here to take. A to cloud remaining overhead across especially delaware and southern new jersey. But as the day goes on we are basically looking at a sunny day, 38 degrees right now in philadelphia. Thirtyfive in trenton. Pretty chilly up toward allentown and mount poke though. The just looked at wind speed they are very calm, for right now but they will once again, begin to pick up once the sun comes up here. Looking at our thursday forecast, you know, we will call it blustery day, with sunshine regional wide but more typical of what averag ....
Here today we did get a good look at the timeline and what has led us to this point. The head of delawares Correctional Officers unions said Sergeant Floyd may have saved his fellow officers lives. He was in a closet when the lieutenants came in the door. He told the lieutenants to leave the building, after what happened then, we have no idea. Reporter after the inmates took over the hostage standoff dragged on for hours, over time two officers were released. Were told negotiators became increasingly concerned about Sergeant Floyds well being. Hey, hows floyd doing . Reporter a large portion of the back and forth was broadcasted online. They demanded more Educational Opportunities and insisting they get to talk to the governor. Let us talk to floyd ....
Were turned away and sent back to syria in the philadelphia area. So, a lot of these folks just say theyre so furious about this in particular, that its unconstitutional and unlawful, that theyre getting these big protests together and going to meetings. In king of prussia, they had 3,000 people meet to figure out how do we protest effectively against this new president. What do you think of, number one, was it unconstitutional, jim, the executive order, and, number two, to the panel, are these protesters gonna be able to get some steam behind themselves and make a difference . Does it matter . The man won the election. Well, you know, monica, i dont know if its unconstitutional, but i can tell you, when i worked for bill clinton, i worked on executive orders. These things are vetted interagency. Lawyers from, you know, many different departments are gonna touch these things, look at them. All the possible contingencies are, you know, vetted and looked at. Unless its some absolutely em ....