You have bound us together with noble ideals of liberty, justice, equality and yet we struggle to be one people, a unified nation. We pray for all the members of this house asking you to bless them with wisdom and discernment, to lead our people to rebling silliation, to rebuild our nations confidence in justice, to restore our sense of equality, free them from the divisive distractions of any lesser ideals, that they the ore powerfully serve house. Keep the unity of people through the bond of peace. Bless, also, our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines deployed overseas as they continue to bring peace to this troubled world. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from california, mrs. Napolitano. Mrs. Napolitano i pledge allegiance to the fl
Now as emergency crews try to assess the full extent of the damage, authorities warn the worst may be yet to come with more heavy rape rain sparking devastating floods. Steve heir begin live in texas. Hi, steve. Reporter day two of this rain which simply doesnt stop. Rock port took the brunt of that category four hurricane, 130 Miles Per Hour wind. The entire chunk of this building is just gone, so a lot of buildings you see look like dollhouses where you just took the top off. Were also seeing just piles, not even sure what kind of a home or business was there. And a real problem for First Responders and for anyone trying to get around are these downed power lines. You can see this one dangling over here, a lot more snapped power lines over here, and if you cross the street as well, more snapped power lines. They really are obstacles to those First Responder vehicles. And the wind and the rain is still so bad out, its been really hard for the repair crews to get out here and fix them.
Behind me. A new forecast just in for Hurricane Irma as florida braces for a direct hit. Live for us in the cnn weather center. Take it away. It is now back to a category 5 storm. Zinds increased to 160 miles per hour. We anticipated it would get back up to a category 5 but it has strengthened quickly. Now 195 miles per hour. It is skirting so close to cuba. In fact it may end up being over land. We may actually have an official land fall overcuba, if not now, certainly within the next hour. The majority is still over open water and thats what has allowed it to intensify. We expect it to be a category 5 as it crosses over the florida keys and for the main peninsula florida lightly weaken slightly down to a category 4. Were talking maybe 5 miles per hour. So dont focus on a category 4 or 5 over the peninsula. Focus on the winds itself. Because they are going to remain strong even if youre docking a high end category four verse as low end category 5. Weve seen the expansion of hurricane