ACTOR SAYS TESLA CAR SHOT FLAMES IN TRAFFIC
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Mccormack has shared video of her husband’s Tesla car shooting flames while in Southern California traffic.
Mccormack said in an accompanying tweet Friday that there was “no accident” and the incident was “out of the blue.”
Sheriff’s Lt. William Nash in West Hollywood said Saturday that deputies saw smoke coming from the electric vehicle and then fire.
Deputies requested help from firefighters, who quickly extinguished the flames.
Tesla called the incident “an extraordinarily unusual occurrence” and said it is investigating.
Nash said there were no injuries. Nash said the log entry cited the possibility of a faulty battery.
Mccormack is married to director Michael Morris.
Trump will meet with House GOP on Tuesday to discuss immigration. WASHGINGTON» President Donald Trump will meet with House Republicans this week to discuss immigration.
The meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and was confirmed by two House Republican aides.
Confronted by moderate Republicans demanding they take up immigration bills, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-wis., and his leadership team had teed up votes on two measures next week: a hard-line draft written by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-VA., and legislation billed as a compromise between the moderate and conservative factions of the House Republican conference.
Trump is said to favor little-known official as next consumer bureau director. little-known Office of Management and Budget official is President Donald Trump’s leading candidate to become permanent director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.
If approved by the Senate, Kathy Kraninger would succeed her boss, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, who has been leading the bureau part time since November. The confirmation process could take months, and Mulvaney has said he expects to be at the bureau until the end of the year.
Kraninger, an associate director at OMB, previously worked for the Department of Homeland Security and the Senate Appropriations Committee. She would inherit an agency that has been roiled by a shift to Republican leadership under Mulvaney from its roots as a scourge of financial firms under Obama administration appointee Richard Cordray, a Democrat who is running for governor of Ohio.
Mattis stresses integrity to Merchant Marine graduates.
KINGS POINT, Defense Secretary James Mattis is urging U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduates to always maintain integrity and “run the ethical midfield.”
Mattis also stressed preparedness and taking responsibility in Saturday’s commencement address, saying the 191 graduates should “always know where your boots are” so they’re ready when trouble looms.
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