Let us pray. Dear chaplain conroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks for giving us another day. At the beginning of a new workweek, we use this moment to be reminded of your presence and to tap the resources needed by the members of this peoples house to do their work as well as it can be done. May they be led by your spirit in the decisions they make. May they possess your power as they steady themselves amid the pressures of persistent problems. May their faith in you deliver from them wear them down. All this week and through the week may they do their best to find solutions to pressing issues facing our nation. Please, hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nations of earth. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rul
Telescope celebrates its 25th birthday. The u. N. Refugee agency says the eu plan to tackle the migrant crisis in the mediterranean is an important step to collective european action eu agreed to triple funding for navel mission and lay the ground work for military action against trafficics and comes after hundreds are rescued from the Italian Coast Guard on thursday and we are joined just outside a Migrant Detention Center so eu is talking about the possibility of using a military force to stop the boats leaving libya, how feasible is that and is that going to work . Well i have to say standing on this side of the mediterranean and looking at the situation, it seems quite difficult. The eu will probably have to come up with some sort of plan but the way things work here is that there is no fix Meeting Point for smugglers. I was speaking to the coast guards yesterday and said we have hundreds of kilometers of coast and along the coast in the middle of the night there is a meeting. And
I dont speak on behalf of the german government. I dont want to be misunderstood. I speak as a private citizen. I believe we did not pay enough attention to financially and economically to the challenges of our eastern neighbors. We should have acted long before russia started to think about crimea or long before they began to explode about how to help stabilize the country that has had a history for two decades of not really making its way forward as we were hoping to. What was the other part of your question . [inaudible] i think that does it. The gentleman in the blue sweater. The question is on the 25of may, the european election. On the second day ukraine with the referendum, how do you think we could help them just to add free e elections with the situation. If i may say. Could do very middle in the ukraine. The security station, the civilian with the kinds of elections there or not. And the targets of hidden intervention. The results in general but in the rest of ukraine, decide
Your realtime captioner is mrs. Linda Marie Macdonald. Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, january 15. Good to have you with us. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now 6 01. A San Francisco community rocked by an explosion last night. Police detonated a bomb found in the sunset district after getting reports about a suspicious device. Reporter im cate caugiran live in the newsroom. Only on kpix 5 exclusive never beforeseen video of the aftermath of the asiana plane crash at San Francisco airport. Taking a look now at this video, it shows how a teenaged survivor got run over by a fire truck. Reporter im anne makovec live in antioch near the delta where there was a very big fire burning on a tiny island. Coming up, we will show you the devastation and the some of the challenges for firefighters. Reporter fire danger running high around the bay area again today. We are seeing a very strong ridge of High Pressure and some offshore winds. The winds particularly gusty over the m
Changed ourb thinking. Welcome to all of you watching in the United States, canada, and around the world. This is cnn newsroom. The u. S. Marks a Christmas Holiday unlike any in recent memory, in the shadow of a pandemic that keeps getting worse. Just a few hours ago the cdc announced starting monday air passengers arriving from the u. K. Must test negative for covid19, as a response to the emergency of a new, possibly more transmiscible variable of the virus blamed for a surge of cases in england. And on Christmas Eve, a new record of hospitalizations. More than 1 million vaccinations have been administered. But the countrys top doctor says many more have to be given to achieve herd immunity. Meanwhile, several states reported record numbers of new infections thursday, including arkansas and georgia and an alltime high in mississippi and arizona. Christmas is traditionally celebrated communally. But they fear those will lead to more cases, followed by hospitalizations and more deaths.