Kerry auckland is only helpful drops in from his prison cell in pennsylvania his latest letter accuses prison officials of violating his rights by censoring his communication with the rest of the details from three apple behind bars. Later in the show. A new. Its tuesday january. In washington d c im your deep if youre wanting rt america the weekend today with a gun violence in the wet in the us over the weekend a mall shooting took place in columbia maryland a city located just outside of washington dc. Shooting highlights the increase in gun violence across america in recent years. Research released by yale school of medicine estimates that out of the over ten thousand cans shot in the us in two thousand nine least one third of them die. Additionally according to a usa today reports about last month nine hundred and thirty four people died and Mass Shootings over the past seven years. Thats only one percent of all gun related homicides. And its this high volume of shootings and makes
Good afternoon. Were now going to start the first afternoon session. And the topic, again, is theirst foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. Were pleased to have as witnesses james baker whoshave formerly with the department of Justice Office of intelligence and policy review, judge james carr, whos senior federal judge with the United States District Court of the Northern District of ohio and formerly a judge from 20022008 and marc civillingier zwillinger who is a former doj attorney in the crime and intellectual property section. Rt i understand that each of you have brief prepared remark, so please go ahead, and afterwards we will have, as we did on the last panel be, rounds of questioning, five minutes, thisa time for each of the board members. But please go ahead. Id like to thank the board for inviting me back. Its truly an honor to be here, and its an honor to be able ton discuss these cieps of issues ie this type of setting, so ith appreciate the opportunity. I justes have a
Top. But long before that vote occurred she, too, has been talking to her colleagues noting that freedom for american citizens means freedom to pursue your mission in life, your meaning in life through your work, and that discrimination in the workplace diminishes the individual but diminishes the full potential of our nation as well. So we are now all hoping that we will be able to have final votes on amendments and votes to close debate and to have a final vote sometime tomorrow. That work is not yet done. In the the path before us may still have unexpected challenges to be overcome but as we overcome them and approach that final vote it will be in large measure because of the terrific work of these two colleagues. Thank you, mr. President. The presiding officer the senior senator from delaware is recognized. Mr. Carper good afternoon, mr. President , my colleague from oregon. My wife ran into one of her colleagues the other day, ted kaufman. He was the interim senator, succeeded joe
Country, which is so essential to its security. , thee story we got American University the town student talks about his life experience. The taliban was there and took refuge with his family. Younger boy at that time. As third soon as the taliban were dripping out he came back. As a matter fact, how to read and to write. Now interviewing as a job as a. Ales manager there are full fulbright scholars at the university in kabul. He wanted me to say thank you to the American People. This is as close as i could come. The Education System and afghanistan. So many of them, the number given to them is counterintuitive. So i do not use it. In terms of the lower grades, before you get to colleges and universities, before the taliban was driven out, to the extent they have been, 900,000 boys. Now a Million Students in school. 3 million of those are girls. None of those who couldve been educated before we got there with our allies. Were 20,000e teachers, all male. Is now 200,000 teachers. 60,000
Degrees. A milder afternoon throughout much of the region. Right now wind gusts 20 to 30 miles per hour. Leesburg just had a gust of 33 miles per hour. Most of the gusts are under that, though, around 20 to 25 miles per hour. These blustery winds will be increasing by midday. Temperatures right now are rather chilly. 50 degrees. Shenandoah, into the mountains, some locations there in the 40s. Washington, 50. Montgomery, prince georges, fairfax, mid50s around the chesapeake bay. Lingering showers on the eastern shore. Those are beginning to pull away. Winds coming from this big area of low pressure rotating off long island and the new england coast. That will be with us throughout the day ahead. Next weather and traffic on the day ahead. When the winds finally diminish. Melissa is dealing with a new accident. Brandnew crash bw parkway southbound at 175. Police on the way to the crash. Sounds like a vehicle off the roadway right now. Not impeding anything at this point but it could be on