And in the senate today, started debate on the nominee to head the u. S. Citizenship and immigration services. Part of the Homeland Security department, President Trump is visiting puerto rico today to see the damage from the hurricane spared and visit las vegas to mark todays after the mass shooting. We may your senators talk about both of those events. We take you live now to the senate floor. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain will deliver the opening prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Hear our prayers, eternal god, as you bend your ears toward us. Provide for the needs of the high and low, for the rich and poor, the just and the unjust. Empower our senators to love even their enemies, to bless those who curse them, and to pray for those who seek to misuse them. Lord, give our lawmakers lips that speak wisdom, hearts that love purity, and minds that embrace understanding. Deliver them from fear even in calamitous times. May they not trust in wealth or m
2016. Sue serio; this weather going ruin good day plans doing stuff outside later this morning . The question really is about tomorrow. Because we have our northeast good day drivethru tomorrow. I think the chances are better for no rain than they are for this morning. Youre either getting nothing or youre getting some heavy downpours out in lancaster, berks county, chester county, as women. Definitely have the umbrella with you this morning. We look back at the bigger picture, we see more thunderstorms in the western part of the state headed our way as they hold together. But the bottom line, couple of rounds of this rain coming through, well have rainy morning on and off. Just not constantly. So, there you see, montgomery county, as we mentioned, berks, lancaster, chester counties getting some of the heavy rain, thunderstorms rolled through the jersey shore little while ago getting a break at the moment. So, here in philadelphia, it is dry right now. 65 degrees. Easterly wind at 6 mi
Gathered together tonight to come together to pray and real toll make sense of a senseless tragedy that claimed the life of a stand out student athlete. It was less than two weeks ago akyra murray was here graduating third in her class from west cathedral rick prep high school. Tonight, former classmates, teachers and alumni pour into the very same building to honor her memory. As the flags fly at half staff. Everybody wanted to be like her. Reporter monique barracks was murrays teammate on the lady birds basketball team. She would keep our hearts and heads into every game win organize losing, and she just knew the right words to say and how to build us up to as team. Reporter hundreds fill the auditorium in a private vigil led by School President brother Richard Kessler who himself struggled to find the words of comfort for the west catholic family. One of the characteristics of the school is that we are a family when this type of situation happens in any family, family gathers togeth
Right now the city of philadelphia lit up to honor the victims and survivors of sundays orlando massacre. You can see from skyfox rainbow lights shining from the ben franklin bridge tonight, and in center city both the Sirius Center and comcast building are lit up in rainbow colors. Philadelphia Community Coming together tonight to youngest victim who host her life when that gunman end fire. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Cun eightyearold akyra murray had draft from there west catholic prep and was in orlando celebrating with friends. Chris oconnell has been talking with those who knew akyra. Hes live in west philadelphia. Chris . Reporter thats right, lucy. The west catholic family gathered together tonight to come together to pray and real toll make sense of a senseless tragedy that claimed the life of a stand out student athlete. It was less than two weeks ago akyra murray was here graduating third in her class from west cathedral rick prep high school. Tonight, former
Chambers works a mile and a half up the road from where police say they were called to a car fire around 3 30 this afternoon. But when firefighters arrived and put out the flames, they made a gruesome discovery. In the front drivers side of the vehicle they found a mail who was charred to the bone. Reporter crime scene investigators and homicide detectives immediately blocked off the road and began their work. Considering this a suspicious death. It happened on the 4700 block of fort mifflin road near enterprise avenue in southwest philly. Road winds around past ups and other commercial businesses near the airport. Chambers was stunned to learn there was a dead body inside that car. I was very unnerved and very unsettled with it. Again, with high traffic here and with the Police Presence that patrols this area, it doesnt make me feel safe especially even by it being so close to the airport. Reporter investigators say the victim was in the drivers side of a honda accord coupe. The fire