The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As the members of the peoples house begin the day, grant them an abundance of your grace. May they be filled with the spirit of wisdom, patience, and good will toward one another and the issues to be addressed this day. Bless them, o god, and be with them and with us all this day and every day to come. An may all that is done be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker thank you. The chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to he house her approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. Kelly. Ms. Kelly i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty an
Authenticate the grandeur and glory of the ideals and principles of our republic. Rupp with the work they do. Grant that the men and women of the peoples house find the courage and wisdom to Work Together to forge solutions to the many needs of our nation and ease the anxieties of so many. May all that is done 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 pproval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from washington, mr. Heck. Mr. Heck i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker the chair will entertain up to five requests for one minute speeches on each side of the aisle. For what purpose does the gentleman from Washington State seek recognition . I
People asking, will this last throughout the morning commute . Samantha yeah. Morning commute, midday commute, even as you get the kids in the car line later today, youre going to see some showers out there and tonight. Tomorrow we get snow. So its a little bit of everything. Ill take you through it all. We start off with the big picture. Look at this storm system. Back to the midsouth we have snow, rain, and freezing rain. That extends up into the great lakes. Rainshowers. To the south the threat for Severe Weather, just a mess. This is a very dynamic, almost springlike system because its producing the Severe Weather in the south and the wintery weather to the north. Here a little bit closer to home what you wake up to is mainly rain, especially out to the east and to the south. I dont have any reports of freezing rain yet with the exception of out towards the toledo area. Right outside of our forecast region. Rain is very steady out here to the west of things, and that is where we ha
Heavy downpour, slow movers and lightning and thunder. There are many more to the west. I will diminish later this evening and tonight. It will be hot and humid with shower and thunder and heavy downpours. We will taper it off after sunset this evening and quiet it down later tonight. We look ahead to rest of the weekend and the Holiday Weekend as well in a few minutes. Alison we will see you then. New information tonight as police are searching for the man who attacked a 12yearold girl. After canvassing her neighborhood for days, it turns out the new information in this case may have come from a chance encounter by the girls mother. Maryland bureau chief brad bell spoke with the mother in the last half hour and has this story you will see only on seven. Brad . Brad alison, can you imagine as a parent that you have to deal with this terrible drama being inflicted on your own child. Suffering through a sexual assault. Then being with the child and spotting the suspect. Well, the mother
4 00 and 64 and clouds in the evening. We have fog inland the next telephone hours and we will see a transition to high clouds and 64 and thicker in the afternoon and 66 by 7 00 not so cool as last night at 58. At the coast, well hand out in the 50s for the better part of the afternoon after starting out with clouds this morning and clouds through 7 00 but, still, in the mid50s. Leyla gulen . We have two sigalerts in effect, one in San Francisco now with three lanes blocked. As we take you to fairfield, this sigalert is still in effect but it sounds like an extra lane is open and possibly all lanes have reopened after the multiple vehicle crash. Before you get to highway 12 westbound 80 we are down to six Miles Per Hour with heavy backup from before cherry glenn. We also have another report of a fender bender in the westbound direction. As we led into San Francisco southbound 101 there is another multivehicle accident causing heavy delays away from westbound 80. From the bay bridge tol