Millions of American Youth is upon us. May our appreciation as a nation of the value of education among those who are our future be incentive enough to guarantee its importance in our Public Policy consideration. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The gentleman from connecticut. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The gentleman from connecticut. Mr. Courtney thank you, mr. Speaker, i request the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested the speaker the yeas and nays are
Deals with Sexual Assault. A comes after a day of tense debate that is dividing even strong allies. Rebecca cooper is in the newsroom with the latest. President obama has not weighed in but other Top Democrats have and they are sharply divided. Harry reid supports the bill. The Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman carl levin strongly opposes it. Today as the debate laid out on the senate for, we talked to a victim who fought back and is teaming up with senate advocates to try to change the system. The initiald was whistleblower in the tailhook scandal. I was attacked in a Hotel Hallway by probably several hundred naval aviators. She was a navy the tenant and was the first courageous enough to speak out. What happened to me in that assault was shocking and i was completely unprepared for that kind of behavior. Criminal behavior. Even worse is what happened when i described the attack and the event to my boss and he said that is what you get. He blamed her for choosing to be a woman
Predicted it would not have been this strong. I hoped and thought we would have been in a better place in terms of having weakened the taliban. The good news is they are still fighting. They have taken those casualties and held together. They have continued to be able to recruit and take the fight to the enemy. Last point, they have been able to continue to recruit. You had not imagined five years ago that the taliban would be strong, none of us could imagine could be this strong and able to conduct core level operations. This is a reason that the Afghan People are so proud of the army. , you know all the candidates. I was honored to meet with several of them with you a couple weeks ago. Could you please help us understand the choice that is now before the afghan better on voter on the afghan saturday. And what the choice might signify in terms of who the afghans would like to see replace president karzai after his 12 years in leadership. Thank you. That is quite a big task. I suppose
Quiet early on but now its ripping outside. You can see yellows, oranges and reds now sliding into parts of the east bay. You can see that into oakland near richmond. Some strong storms there. Along san ramon along the 680 some very heavy rainfall and we have had reports of flooding on some of the local roadways so be very careful. On the peninsula strong shores moving onshore. Along the 101 very heavy rainfall but maybe even more importantly, looks like we are going to see some stronger storms developing over the next few minutes here. You can see this next wave just off the coastline. That is going to be pushing onshore. It may be moving a little further to the south in along the peninsula and headed toward the south bay so you can see san jose is dry right now. But were expecting some very heavy rainfall headed in that direction toward the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is going to be a wild after afternoon and theres a possibility of thunderstorms. Its coming down quick right now. Thats
Getting a little soaker going outside right now. You can see on our hidef doppler radar, we have some showers continuing to move on through started out north bay early on. Now its sagging south. You see the yellows and the oranges, thats a moderate amount of rainfall now falling into walnut creek and into orinda. Also seeing that making its way across the bridge. You can see it back into San Francisco. Some lighter showers falling there. And then you move it along the peninsula, not a lot of rain just yet but just off the coastline we have some more rain coming our way and it looks like, well, a pretty good soaker into the afternoon. In fact, right now, lets check out some of that outside right now. You can see a couple of raindrops on the lens. Not a whole lot of rainfall so far in San Francisco. As a matter of fact, nothing measure an just yet but a third of an inch already in venado. Mark kelly is braving the weather. Reporter we have a steady light rain in san rafael to wet the gro