Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does
Year, its been a great season well get them next year. This year that is not the feeling at all. Everybody here says, hey, well get it back do 22 then it will be a series. Game three, the toughest one to win and well find out just that coming up. Reporting live in cleveland at the q, im mike shumann, abc7 news. All right, thank you, shu. Well see how healthy steph curry and kevin durant have to say about that. Dubson7 pregame show brought to you by jeep, that starts at 5 00. Then abc coverage of game three of the nba final starts at 5 30 with michelle bead l and nba count down and they take to tip off. Lots more coming, is it doom and gloom in cleveland or as shu led us to believe, they are expecting an amazing come back like last year. Dan and alma . Thanks, larry. Well check back with you in a bit. People plan to wake up early tornl to watch james comey testify before the senate committee. Yes, the second of two highly anticipated hearings with the Senate Officials about the russian
Wow big change. Weather yes, definitely big change. Bad news is we will trend cooler for a couple of days. Good news is, today is not one of the cooler days. Today we are finally going to warm up. So take a look. Right now. 49 degrees. Some areas up toward low 50s. What is interesting is lake front right now. Burke lake front, 51 degrees. Which was the high yesterday. So as tabu ala50. Hopkins reporting 49. Cu north emsted. 49. And shaker heights. Brecksville 48. And i am also going to let you know that there is still a windchill in there. I know your feels like temperature in some areas, in mansfield where it is, upper 40s, you are five or 6 degrees off. You feel like 42. Today, it is an interesting weather day n glad if you live toward the west. Over the central. You will see more sunshine. To the east you will take time here. But we will be warmer today. By the of afternoon. Majority of the day in the 60s. We tapped out at 51 yesterday. We should be at 60. Technically you can see we
For critters. It was bad. They just kept coming. In my 22 years doing law enforcement, id never seen anything like it. Michelle porter was the first one to go inside jeanines house, after her neighbor called the health department. She was the first to see what the animals had gone. For the last two years, its been a playground. Everything was destroyed. They had brought trash in from the outside. What michelle could see was the aftermath of what jeanine could hear and smell for years. Animal as was the scent of animal droppings. I figured. Somehow or other, i was going to have to have some kind of help. Jeanine got that help. Animal control workers took out 25 live raccoons. Seven dead ones. Eight possums and a feral cat. Michelles team and a group of volunteers cleaned up her entire home that she and her late husband had built, back in 1969. Well, they cleaned out of what the animals messed up. It looks lots better, dont it . Now, jeanine had to move out of her akron home for five mon
Akron, national on, canton, printed sandusky. To france toi deal with here. First and the came to read at the end of the game, the second one which is the best good star drop temperatures is moving through the great lakes. So there is the 1 atto punch a the first one is bring peterson system thete second one is a little coolest down. Still anticipating anyo sort of showers to be hit and miss. Looking at coverage on any of the showers on the cloud cover six. Will not see sunshine until lat this afternoon so we are highlightingng showers as afternoon and dry air in place. Turning colors temperatures in will start to fall back through the upper 50s. You cant brought me to shower off the light. Thatss t a team with us we de later d today will be small in coverage. Traffic time with patty. Were off to a wet start in watch out for. They have a little bit of high water over there and the accidentnt is on the other side the guard rail. I have a feeling he doesnt kno how he got their either. N