Lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the author of unity, remind our lawmakers that people accomplish laudable goals more through unity than division. May our senators remember that all of us are more effective than any one of us. As our legislators pursue effectiveness in their work, give them the wisdom to forge alliances that make the difficult become easy and the impossible become probable. In their search for common purposes, inspire them with the conviction that nothing is impossible for those who believe. We pray in your omnipotent name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance 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. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak in morning business for one minute. The pres
Nor dean h and his brother hamza were taken in for questioning yesterday. It will be up to a judge whether they remain in custody. Prosecutors say they found preliminary evidence the pair did have plans for an attack in belgium. No weapons or explosives were found. In brook police are searching for a shooter who n. J. Burkett has more. Reporter neighbors are waking up to a murder on their doorstep this morning. Yes. A 26yearold man found shot to death. Shot multiple times, unconscious, and bleeding in the street outside this housing complex. Yes, it is still a developing story at this hour. There are very few details. The shooting and around 1 30 this morning at 340 bainbridge street. The motive not clear and no but the murder comes in spite of a sweeping citywide crackdown on violent gangs. Gangs responsible for a huge percentage of shootings and homicides here in new york city like the one in that chilling Surveillance Video from february of this year. Its the kind of Violent Crime t
wild shrieking, growling shrieking, electrical crackling continues captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org parts of new jersey under water tonight after a half foot of rain pounded the region. Plus, a month after being shot in the line of duty, a local business is thank ago officer in a big way. Your news is next, keep it here. L those pokers, prodders, shuckers and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Hang right now it, will take some time to dry out in part of new jersey but first, it has to stop raining. Parts of Mercer County, new jersey, are inundated with water tonight, after more than 4 inches every rain fell over the last several hours. Dollars rain just fell too hard, way too fast, for the drains in the places like princeton to keep up with it. And there is more rain on the way. Good evening, everybody. Im joyce evans. Now, here in philadelphia, weve bee
Cochair of the congressional progressive caucus who has led the fight with low wage workers to raise the standard of living for good paying jobs. Congressman keith ellison. I had a constituent call me the other day and he said you know, keith, ive heard some things about this Transpacific Partnership and im concerned about it, you need to send me a copy of that bill. Of course i cannot do that. Because ive never seen it. If they show you the bill at all they show you one little title of it and then you cant have stats, you cant take notes you cant do anything. This is an invisible process. Each one of us represents somewhere in the neighborhood of 700,000 people. So when were standing in front of you whole communities, several cities. I represent 15 cities, minneapolis being the biggest one. And these people who sent me to congress expect that i will make decisions that are going to help them and theyre going to stop bills that are going to hurt them. And there is no quay in the world
Announcer chatting with you live at current. Com billpress this is the bill press show. Live on your radio and current tv. David schuster in for bill press. I have more on current. Com about john kerry and why president obama should give him the job of secretary of state and not ambassador susan rice. Nothing against ambassador susan rice. It is just that john kerry deserves it. Hes the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and oh, by the way again without john kerry saying oh yeah, president obama, barack obama you can do the keynote speech in 2004 when youre only a state senator whos running for Senate Without that opportunity, there is no Obama Campaign in 2008. John kerry wants the job. Give it to him. Got some guy Malcolm Johnson would calls that 100 idiotic statement. Too bad, malcolm. Thats how it is. Special shout out to the folks on twitter. Dab ra and alan debra and alan and a couple of others. Honesty following us on twitter. Tweeting at bp show, on this topic,