Mcconnell says lawmakers will be given 24 hours notice to return to capitol hill to vote if a deal is reached. Will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, we trust you for protection and peace, for you have promised to guide us by your grace. May we place our hope in you and never forget how you have sustained us in the past. Lord, give our senators the wisdom to do what is best for america in good and bad times. Continue to rule from heaven, so that your purposes will prevail on earth. Hear the cries of the helpless and do for them through our lawmakers what they cant do for themselves. Bring justice and righteousness to our nation and world. As you transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. We pray in your sacred name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge. 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 al
Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendment here on the floor. And knowing the way the senate does
Those restaurants that is still doing Something Special in spite of everything going on today theyre going to be offering a special mothers day brunch take out that starting at 07 00am so you can place in your order and come down here and pick it up. Now many of us are used to taking mom and grandma out from others david since that is not an option for many of us this year we can still do something very nice for them and restaurants throughout the bay area are going to be opening up their doors for takeout so families can still treat mom and grandma. Now its still fairly early but were going to be talking with families as the morning goes on to find out how theyre celebrating in spite of everything on this mothers day. Now reporting in walnut creek Reyna Harvey Kron 4 news. And the rain while the coronavirus pandemic has hit a new milestone with more than 4 million positive cases worldwide. Here in the u. S. Were looking at 1. 3 million cases in growing. Federal officials are looking a
49ers fans are gearing up for todays playoff game at levi stadium. Visiting viking fans are also here for the show down. The da is cleaning house. He is telling half a dozen prosecutors they are out of a job. The president of iran says it was a disastrous mistake. It is just about 6 am. Here is a live look at levi stadium in santa clara where kickoff is less than seven hours away. The 49ers are facing the minnesota vikings. It is their first playoff game since 2014. We have your forecast plus a look at the rain falling right now. It is a little bit soggy out there but it will clear just in time for the game. We are taking a look at high def doppler exactly where we are seeing those showers. Ocean beach and the western portion of San Francisco is getting a little bit of rain. Also a little bit in the south bay. This is just scattered showers that will clear by midday hours. The visibility is not great. If you are flying in for the big game, you can see some results of that. Oakland airp
Considers itself an advanced nation generation as i head of us on railroad. We are two generations behind, for example, on high speed. And there is zero dollars in this bill for high speed railroad. Amtrak is very well managed. In the committee we had heard what they have done and how they have done it. But they cant manage without at least some recognition from the congress that we too have a role to play in a railroad. No railroad in the world is unsubsidized. This one is subsidized very little. It is still able to run most of its trains over 100 Miles Per Hour and we ought to understand who were talking about. Were not just talking about the District Of Columbia to new york. Of the 25 busiest stations, amtrak stations, what about seattle . Or harrisberg . Or bakersfield, california . At a time when the airlines are in trouble and have reduced air operations, and amtrak keeps growing in ridership each and winning h, we have a operation here. We are sending it back into losing for us.