Court of appeals judge for the ninth circuit. Confirmation vote is expected later today. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, how great you are today, lead our lawmakers in their work. May they be messengers of unity and hope. Make them productive servants who strive to honor you. Remind them to act with justice, love, mercy, and humility. May they speak words that bring life, as they seek to live with integrity. Sovereign lord, strengthen our senators to seize opportunities that bring peace, hope, and freedom. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. 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. Mr. Mcconnell madam president. The presiding offic
There is no need to panic but is he really right . Billionaire tom steyer making it official, he is in the 2020 race after all, but could his billions lead to a backlash from democrats . After all remember what happened to the guy who founded starbucks . Stocks sliding as investors fear that maybe rate cuts are not a gimme or certainly as generous those rate cuts were thought to be a little more than a few days ago. Gerri willis at the New York Stock Exchange on what has investors spooked. Gerri . Reporter really, neil, a ralph of investor worries pushed down stocks this morning. The biggest concern the fed cuts rates at its july meeting. Jerome powell may give hints when he speaks to congress tom. Strong economic numbers created worry that the fed will back off a rate cut. Fed funds futures pricing in one rate cut later this month. Chances after quarter point rate cut . 93 . Tensions with iran taking a toll as iran threatens to extend the breaches of enriching uranium set out in that
Police tell us a 33 year old man is in custody. And the victims family was told by a detective. He turned himself in for the crime. Jennifer rivas says when she found this out. She was overwhelmed with joy. Surveillance cameras at cesar chavez and greenfield show rivas sister. 27 year old amy mayek mayehk the morning on october 5th. When a car strikes her head on. The driver fled the scene. Police were able to locate the car. But not the driver. Until wednesday. Mayek suffered brain trauma and several broken bones. Rivas says the road to recovery for mayek will be a long one. She had woken up from a medically induced coma. But suffered a set back this week. Mayek is back in the intensive care unit with pneumonia. And using a ventilator to breathe. Now that the breathing tubes are back she is being mildly sedated and not doing very well at this point in time. Im sure after the pneumonia clears we can start moving forward. Every day information, sometimes its terrible, sometimes its good
Him the soldier of the caliphate in america. The Muslim Community is quickly to denounce him. Saying the killings do not reflect what was preached at mosque. 24 hours after the worst mass shooting the u. S. Has ever known, the world is beginning to learn the names, faces, and stories of those killed. Authorities are working to formally identified all 50 victims and notify their families. For 21 names have been made public. The victims were young, many of them latino, who never came back from their night out. In orlando, our team attended several vigils overnight. Here are their reports. Tears. W roses and many mike and carlos have come here a few meters of where the carnage unfolded to pay tribute to the victims. We were supposed to come here yesterday, but we did not. We stayed home. We heard of it. We are not even from here, we are from new york. We had to come here. These are our brothers and sisters who died. Many local say they feel overwhelmed with pain. These two did not know ea
Office building. She says they have been here for three years and she has seen this happen three times. The lady in the pitcher who is it today only had some scratches on her arm and told fire rescue she wanted to go home. On the attack hes playing members of the American Public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the white house at all we get is a lousy had the former president ial nominee takes on this years front runner. He probably had a red because no one could have been nastier than the in getting him not to run. Mitt romney and the Republican Party take on donald trump. Mitt romney could not win the white house for years ago and now he wants to make sure someone else does not either. Romney walked back into the National Spotlight to call donald trump a phony and fraud will voters listen . Eliott rodriguez is in the words reporter its being called a thermonuclear war between the republican establishment and donald trump mitt romney who is the republican nominee in 2012 says donal