This weekend watch cspan cities tour to michigan on cspan twos book tv and American History tv on cspan 3. Good morning and welcome to bbc parliaments live coverage of the state opening at parliament. In her ninetyfirst, its the 56th parliament of the united kingdom. And this morning, we welcome viewers to cspan, our sister channel in the united states. I recen its about 5 30 in the morning on the eastern seaboard. It is of course a conservative government beginning its second year in aufloffice, a government without its problems as it faces support coming European Union referendum campaign. However, were focusing on a british tradition. The next hour 1 2 well spend looking that saur moceremony an governments plans to be unveiled in the queens speech. Im joined by the conservative pire and more importantly for the thriller writer, lord daubs. The historian, Kate Williams of redding university. And the former sergeant of arms lawrence ward. You retired from your post last autumn . I wis
Watch list. Right now representative lewis to bring common sense to legislation when it comes to guo chrome take a look at some of what he posted. Those who, are beaten down, reason is criticizessed, is praised, charleston, orlando, ol what is the tipping. , now is the time for us to find a way ty make it real. We have to occupy the floor of the house until that is action. U women out here again live ande you can see demonstrators behind me, they are not formally organized people just started to should up they heard what is going on onig the house floor. E president obama actually responded representative lewis w on twitter saying thank you for leading on gun violence where we need it most. A lot of stuff going on on social media. Ia were continuing to follow all that. I can tell you from herer as to where this will go, it iss up to House Speaker paul ryan to decide whether to clear ther floor and sanction the members or keep the house in recess. Well follow this for you and a have a u
Shepherd street. Tos affecting a small number of residents at this point. Oen a small number of residents have beenecuated. The apartment complex to our left here has not been affected by this but there is a gas leak that crews are trying to contain. They done know when they will bh able to contain it but nc state says this has not affected the in anyway. Their wiggest impact that were seeing right now is Traffic Building up because this is a very busy street at this time of the day. So at this point , again, crews are still trying to fix this gas leak. If you have do have to travel, be advised that the traffic will be heavy for the next 30 minutes to an hour or however long it takes for this crew to fix this back leek. All right. Well keep following that. Player at the center of a Sexual Assault allegations turned himself in this morning in orange county. Cbs North Carolina investigates jon than rodriguez is live students mug shot. Jonathan if good afternoon. He turned himself in toda
Up here. Sunrise at 5 17 here and were feeling all right here in the 60s. Theres a few pockets of mist and drizzle here, although its not showing up here on the radar. We have cloud cover from noon to 3 00 p. M. And then the thinning of the clouds here and then well call it partly sunny today. 73 degrees and cooler from the upper 80s yesterday. We have even cooler falllike weather here and more on that straight ahead. Thank you. Were following developing news this morning, a man throws a Security Officer through a window at the paninis down reporter well they just boarded this up this morning. The man that did this ran across the street. Our cameras were rolling as he was arrested. Get on the ground stop resisting put your hands behind you. It happened shortly before midnight and said that a man and woman the woman punched the man in the face and then he through a Security Guard through the window. They ended up closing early so they could deal with everything that was happening here.
Views. A capital brought to a standstill in a protest against uber myanmars political transition has taken another step forward. The new government is being named and it looks like Aung San Suu Kyi, who led the country struggle for democracy, will be the most powerful minister in the reports. She will lead four ministries, including the president s Office Around foreign affairs. Her personal struggle captured the attention of the world. She spent years under house arrest between 1999 and 2010. Her commitment to peace won Global Recognition with a noble peez prize in 1991. That was a year after the military refused to recognised her victory in elections. They final began opening up. Her National League for democracy was confirmed the choice last november. She has been banned from becoming president but it seems clear she will be the governments guiding force. There has already been reaction to her nomination. Translation i think Aung San Suu Kyi taking a position in the government means