Good evening and thank you for joining us. Firefighters are about to see more relief as well. Drew tuma here with the swaewea yeah weve been battling the winds last couple days and in santa cruz winds from 3 to 9 miles through the next 24 hour s. To the north bay several fires are still burning at this hour. Still have gusty winds around clear lake. Else where are relatively calm between 5 and 9 miles. Weve also been benefiting from cleaner air over the past 12 to 18 hours with an on shore breeze mixing up smokes in the at the mo atmosphere. We still have particles in the air from the north bay fires. We will see changes in the form of wet weather. North to seattle and portland you see the showers. Off shore will have a cold front mo moving through bringing us light system tomorrow night. Best chance of showers between 8 00 and midnight between light to moderate rain. Well detail this forecast hourp by hour to show you how much rain for you to expect where you live. Thanks so much. Goo
Gavel back in. Take you live to the floor, and today work on a number of bills including legislation that would redefine the term joint employer to ensure that franchises and temp agencies are not held liable for the working conditions of employees. Also today, several bills on veterans medical care. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] cappingscappings. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offer bird the guest chaplain, chaplain michael j. Halliard, south texas veteran system, san antonio, texas. The chaplain merciful and loving god, source of life and constant guide to your people, we ask your blessings on our esteemed representatives as they continue to help govern a course for our nation and its citizens. In these days of disrepute and impropriety, keep them steadfast in their deliberations. Inspire them
We are going to be looking to see if there are any tweaks of that before the rules committee on wednesday. There could be an amendment that could allow some state income tax to be deducted. Even proponents of that change say that it paul ryan can get to 218 votes without from, there is likely to be a change. About 20 House Republicans voted against the measure mainly because of the limits you talked about to state and local tax reductions. How much support you think that is going to get from House Republicans, and what about democrats . Looks like there are no democrats coming out to support this bill. What is the california delegation going to do . Most of them fell in line with the budget vote setting up the tax bill. Darrell issa has come out against the bill over this issue. Looking at others like tom mcclintock. So far, it has been the new york and new jersey delegations that have been leading this charge. I should mention that the margin is tight because there is a small group ca
Let us pray. Gracious god, we pray today to remind us of the value of sacrifice. Is a venerable title. Rice paid by soldiers. To never accept defeat, to another quick. One who stayed alive with his friends by selflessly giving up his own. Ande brave men living indepth consecrate our values, the strength of our nation. Their actionse into the fabric of our history. We who are the living should never forget what they did, the friends they lost in what they left behind. We should take to heart the words spoken after battle by a greeting president , that it is for us living to be dedicated thatto the unfinished work those who fought so nobly advanced. God, we ask you to grant these and holy name, amen. Pres. Obama please be seated. Good afternoon, and welcome to the white house. More than four decades ago, in early 1970, an american squad in vietnam set out on patrol. They marched down a trail, past a rice paddy. Shots rang out and splintered the bamboo above their heads. The lead soldier
Lbj had lost 47 seats in the house, this was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. You can see a decline across 1967. On a more fundamental level, what you see leading into 1968 as the breakup of that coalition int lbj had depended on 1964. By 1967, as lbj looks forward in 1968, he can see that was a thing of the past and the coalition he had cobbled together was fracturing. Here on American History tv, we are focusing on the war in vietnam. For the next hour and a half we are going to focus on the state of the war in 1967. To help us do that, our guests are professor lienhang nguyen, history professor at Columbia University and author of the book hanois war. Also Mark Lawrence, professor of history at the university of texas at austin and author of war ak the vietnam Concise International history. For years of you in the eastern and central time zones, call 202748ht 900 8900. If your protester, that line is 202748, lets start with lienhang nguyen. Viet