This is al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha back to pull also ahead. Thank you very much you are the. President donald trump of voice questions about americas gun laws while visiting victims of the Florida School shooting. Turning to the military to send gun violence first zealots president gives the army full control of security in Rio De Janeiro and countries stage a conference in germany but as we find out all is not as it sees. Thank you for joining us thirteen russians and three Russian Companies have been indicted over alleged tampering in the twenty six thousand us president ial election its a major escalation on the on the Ongoing Investigation as mike hanna reports from washington. An anti trump protest march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies a special council alleges were organized by the group of russians sometimes at the same time on the same day. Part of a Massive Campaign the indictments say were aimed at promoting
Well see you then, melissa. Thank you. 6 01 now. New this morning the governor of South Carolina expected to sign a bill today that will remove the Confederate Flag from the state capital grounds there. The South Carolina house of representatives passed a bill, that was after hours of emotional, sometimes tearful debate. Once Governor Haley signs the bill, the flag should come down within 24 hours. Haley and a lot of her fellow lawmakers are responding to calls from across the country to remove that flag after the racially motivated killing of black worshipers in charleston. At 1 30 this morning after a vote there, haley tweeted its a new day in South Carolina. Now a lot of folks seem to agree with her, there was a cartoon posted showing the flag and it said, going, going gone on that cartoon. Another person tweeted finally. One state, one flag. Efforts here on capitol hill to ban the Confederate Flag in federal cemeteries is proving controversial as well. The measure was added as an a
Over the last week or so, Prince William county, fairfax county, the district and prince georges county, Flash Flood Watch 2 a. M. Tomorrow morning through 3 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Heres a look at the radar over the past hour or so. You can see the heaviest testimony down toward culpeper, but still we talked about light showers moving in. The heavy stuff comes in overnight. Well zoom in a little bit. This has got some rainfall rates over an inch per hour around gold vein moving essentially off to the east, southeast. This will duck in between quantico and stafford in the next 40 minutes. So let me show you futurecast. Were looking at 5 a. M. , look at all the heavy rain culpeper to fredericksburg, the yellow and orange, heavy stuff. A lot of it ducks off to the south. You might not see anything in hagerstown. I think it will be a little further north than futurecast is showing here. 9 a. M. Showers essentially i66 and 50 south. By 11 00 most of the heavy activity is south of town in
Better secure our nations cyberspace and we cannot underestimate these challenges. During our district work period last week irk took the opportunity to go ton a cybersecurity tour to understand better what Rhode Islands issues are. I visited several companies. In speaking on a panel at the always on Technology Summit i learn about attempts to stem cybercrimes by Rhode Island State Police and i learned about an Election Security workshop. I encouraged accountants to advise their compliants about cybersecurity risks and promoted cyberhygiene practices. Most importantly, i spoke to students and participants at cyberpatriot about their importance as the next generation of cybersecurity leaders. Cybersecurity may be the national and Economic Security challenge of the 21st century but with the talent we have in rhode island im confident that we can take it on. Thank you and i yield back the alance of my time. The speaker pro tempore without objection. For what purpose does the gentleman fro
Didnt know how we were going to make it. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today, the nations top Law Enforcement officer, attorney general jeff sessions, refuted what he called appalling and detestable lies. Sessions asked for todays hearing before the Senate Intelligence committees investigation of russian tampering in the president ial election. This was the administrations first sworn rebuttal of former f. B. I. Director james comey, who testified last week that the president pressured him to drop the investigation of former National Security adviser michael flynn. President trump called comey a coward and a nut job. Today, the attorney general was more measured, even though he declined to answer some of the most revealing questions. We have a team of correspondents covering, beginning with nancy cordes on capitol hill. I mean, what is this . Reporter under oath, the attorney general said he is being smeared by suggestions that he ha