Regarding a democratic motion to begin work on a bill dropping the Justice Department from supporting lawsuits to strike the Affordable Care act. Live now to the floor of the u. S. Senate on cspan 2. Eternal god, our heavenly father, we cry to you, but sometimes you seem so far away. In our despair you sometimes seem distant, and we are tempted to surmise that we are all alone. When we shout, we seem to hear the echoes of our anguish. Nonetheless, we know that you are holy, mighty, and good. We have trusted you too long to let go. Empower our senators for these challenging times. Remove from their minds all bitterness and contempt for one another. Keep their hearts clean, their spirits courageous, and their minds clear, as they face these daunting times. We pray in your omnipotent name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation unde
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening, im john mccain. There was another shakeup at the white house today. Chief strategist steve bannon is out. He joins chief of staff reince priebus, National Security adviser michael flynn, and press Secretary Sean Spicer as original team trump members shown the door. Bannons departure came as President Trump was sequestered at camp david for National Security meetings. Margaret brennan now on how it all went wrong for a darling of the right. Reporter White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders said that chief of staff john kelly and strategist steve bannon mutually agreed on his exit. But sources tell us that the president had grown frustrated by bannons rising profile and recent publications describing him as the mastermind behind mr. Trumps campaign. The president s irritation was clear during tuesdays explosive press conference. But mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. I went through 17 senators, gover
After a man reportedly pulled a gun on police. What investigators are saying about the shooting, this morning. Plus, someones got a hot ticket from last nights power ball drawing but is it the big jackpot . Get out your ticket and check the numbers. And one day before the big show in the sky, a local University Shows us how it is getting ready for the first total Solar Eclipse in this country in decade. It is sunday august 20th, good morning, im jan carabao. How is weather looking for that long awaited eclipse plus todays forecast. Heres Matt Peterson with eyewitness weather. Nice way to start the week today. Wonderful sunday. Little bit humid outside yesterday. It was. Did you notice how comfortable it thinks morning. Glorious, fantastic. It is, it is a great start to sunday and wonderful afternoon as well. Sunshine will be abundant. We will see temperatures that are not that different from saturday afternoon but big difference is that lower humidity. Already here this morning it is a
Matt peterson with the eyewitness weather forecast. Good sunday morning. Just a glorious day. Fantastic, already. Usually out on the sky deck, it is a little hit or miss. Hot, humid, raining. I will goat out right now. See ya. They are talking about how nice it is. Just a fantastic way to start off our sunday. We have sunshine bound ant across entire delaware valley. Temperatures are comfortable as well. We were at 69. We were just below that 70 range in philadelphia for last couple of hours but with our new observation just coming in we have hit 71 here in center city. Overall lots of 60s north of the city, trenton coming in at 67. Sixtysix in allentown. Still 58 in the poconos and then the 70s from philadelphia back down toward the shore but with a northwesterly breeze we are seeing all day long our dew points are low. Even though our temperatures here this morning are warmer then we might like the humidity is not a factor for us, here. Sixtys for the most part for those dew points a
Just a moment. Deadly attack in charlottesville, virginia, 20yearold spectacular james alex fields just and in court within the last hour. Hes accused of ramming his car into a crowd killing one woman and injuring 19 others. Plus President Trump will meet with attorney general Jeff Sessions and fbi director christopher wray. The president facing criticism for not explicitly condemning the role of White Supremacists in the deadly protest. We condemn in the strongest possible terms they egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides. President trump yesterday stated clearly that he condemns hate and violence in all of its forms. They made a very strong statements that directly contradicted the ideology of hatred, violence, bigotry, racism, White Supremacy. Though things must be condemned in this country. They are totally unacceptable. That was a strong statement. That actually was. A strong statement. What he was referring to that the president made wasnt