Agenda this afternoon. House rules meeting this afternoon on the federal Government Spending measure. Wil in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain reverend aron mcenrees, Unitarian Universalist church of arlington, arlington, virginia. The chaplain creator god, spirit of light, we come here today with our spirits open to the sun of your loving gaze. We come, humbled by the work entrusted to us, to tend to your children, for we know that we are, all of us, your children, bearers of your divine spark. May we remember this, no matter how thick the stacks of paper on our desks. When we are weary, may we be filled with your generosity of spirit. We will pass it on with interest. When we dont know which way to turn, may we find stillness and listen for the soft voice of wisdom. Help us today to do justice, to serve mercy, and to walk humbly with you and the better angels of our nature. And most of all, beloved god, may we practice the arts of kindness in all that we do and
Puc says the plan is to release a gush of water throughout the day. They today release the water in spurts but other than that everything went as planned today. Michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. Thank you, michelle. Now lets bring in chief meteorologist, jeff panranieri. We look at this map behind us. We fixed it on june 1st, thats when the drought was id widespread as most of the state was under extreme drought. We saw any time from september through december we saw improvements. A lot of Northern California is out of exceptional drought and now in that extreme category. We have also seen here in marin county, improvements to the moderate level, that includes north enSan Francisco county and also for San Mateo County as well. Most of it can be attributed to the rain fall in december with nearly 21 days in a row of wet weather. We know january has been bone dry, again contributing to our problem here across the bay area. But we could break this dry spell weve had here throughout jan
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Im excited to be here on the 150th anniversary of the date godfrey weitzal occupy the house. People are surprised, they have not heard of him before. Over the next hour i will tell you why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when he walked out of here when you walk out of here. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive ben morris and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. His parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. Im a blood wetiitzel. We have weitzels in the Confederate White House. We have some weitzels here today. Probab