The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell in just a few minutes, democrats will have another opportunity to end the weekslong filibuster of Homeland Security. It will be the first opportunity our friends on the other side have to show where they stand after a federal judge preliminarily enjoined the administration from moving ahead with actions president obama himself referred to as quote ignoring the law. Ignoring the law quote unquote president obama said that just over a year ago. The point is its time to allow this Homeland Security funding measure to come to the floor. Democrats say they want the ability to amend d. H. S. Funding legislation but then they keep voting to block their own ability to offer amendments. It just doesnt make any sense madam president. So in a few moments well give our democratic friends another opportunity to reconsider. They can vote to allow the senate to debate the Homeland Security funding bill. They can vote to allow the senate to cons
Historic winters last gasp . And new questions. Federal officials possibly reopening the investigation into the notorious plane crash that killedly agendaary singer buddy holly and richie valley. Why its reconsidered 56 years later today wednesday, march 4, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. All winter long weve been talking about the city of boston because they have been dealing with this horrible weather. That city is in the headlines. Boston waiting for this day, Opening Statements starting today in the trial of boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Peter alexander is at the courthouse for us. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. This was the worst act of domestic terrorism since 9 11, and the longawaited trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is under way at the Federal Court House behind us here. Just two miles from where the bost
1,000 feet apart from ground groundsville to san diego 24 hours a day, and then there are the drones that will track th tm until theyre caught or released. If you try to overstay your visa, your name will be placed 0en a list, given to Immigration Enforcement officials to find you, detain you and deport you. If you try work here i wil ille, youll never be able to get a job because you wont have a haa name and a matching picture. Future waves of ilLegal Immigration will be prevent fundamental this bill is passed. For all the railing from the hard right about stopping ilLegal Immigration, no one no one can deny that our bill is a huge improvement over current law. So lets take an inventory of what this bill does. Stimulate the economy, check. Create jobs, check. Help small businesses, check reduce the debt, check. Secure the border, check. End visa overstays, check. End illegal employment, check. These are all of the things republicans claim they want to do, all in one bill. So why is it
It into the real world, is enough money to pay the real sallys salaries of more than 425,000 Public School teachers today, corporate profits are at an alltime high. Corporationse arent up to 300 times of what their employees make. Each year am a wealthy and large corporations avoid haying their fair share of taxes. In out of four corporations this country pays nothing in taxes. The wealthy and large corporations avoid paying about 100 billion a year because they stash their money in the Cayman Islands and bermuda and other tax havens. Empties like general electric, boeing, verizon and others, who make billions in profits manage at the end of the year to pay nothing. Oft is the economic reality america today. The rich doing unbelievably well. They have a Rating System with tax breaks for them sending american jobs all over the world, yet in golden parachutes of tens of millions of dollars when they retire. Families in this country, this is a difficult moment. I talked about some of the
Going to get pushed off. A westerly breeze, a cool down from yesterday. Temperatures 0s, and some 80s, temperatures will warm up. Well get to that in ten minutes. Traffic is off to a good start. It is thursday Early Morning and if you want to get a nice commute on that new bay bridge, right now will be a good time. As you drive through theres no major problems also looking at the commute on the bay bridge toll plaza approach. Weve had some bad days the last few, so give yourself a little extra time today if you plan to travel that bridge. No major problems in San Francisco. Over to the east bay were looking at 580 and 880. Theyre off to good starts. You can see the road centers are not showing anything there. Looking at the south bay, theyre off to a good start. However, northbound 17 as you come into hamilton, there is the crash on the shoulder. 501, lets go back to the desk. Police in san mate tow are investigating a late night shooting in an usually quiet neighborhood. We have the m