on the agenda today, resolution on the peaceful transfer of power after the presidential election, live house coverage at c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: speaker s rooms, washington, d.c. september 29, 2020. i hereby appoint emanuel cleaver to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. haplain conroy: let us pray. lord, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. as the stresses of the pandemic and as economic and educational effects stubbornly continue, we ask you once again to send your spirit of peace and healing upon our nation. bless those who labor to bring healing and teaching during these difficult times. comfort all who are ill with coronavirus and those who mourn the loss of loved ones because of it. a
we ve not yet heard back from the other properties on the strip that we called. a former junior high school teacher will spend at least two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty with having sex with a 14-year-old. the judge sentenced nicole wilfinger this morning. we re live with more. tenning about how this has impacted her and her son saying nicole wilfinger violated the trust of not only her family, nicole wilfinger getting in front of the judge and asking for leniency and probation in this case saying she wants to take responsibility for what she has done and would like to apologize not only to the victim but also the families and the teachers and the whole community as a whole. but still, that victim s mother telling us today that she feels that what nicole wilfinger did really violated their family s trust. one of my son s concerns, he doesn t want us to think he s disgusting. will he be rejected or hated? no he s not disgusting. this is not his fault.
so with warmer weather than they re ready to hit the roads. of transportation fleet of nearly 30 trucks ready to dropped. transportation supervisor barry thede. everybody s used to getting back to driving in the winter year that kind of sneaks up on thede reminding drivers of slick bridges this time of basically, we will start when can. but, obviously there are times when we re just doing what used on nearby roads last year, and department of transportation workers say they are more than prepared with enough resources for the first big snow. people need to understand out in the open country, we re not down, because of the blowing snow just makes it worse, but our main roads in the city blocked by the wind, that s where we will be putting salt down. are more than prepared with enough resources for the first big snow. people need to understand out in the open country, we re not going to be putting a lot of worse, but our main roads in the city blocked by the wind, that
northern fauquier county, 66 toward the front royal area, la ray seeing thunderstorm activity. let s zoom on into this area. what you see there is that rain, heavy rain moving toward leeburg. loudoun county, frederick county, you re going to be zealing with the rain. the wider view talking about the line of storms making its way in toward the southeast. all with a frontal boundary that s coming in. this is the same storm system that the southeast and is now bringing severe weather toward parts of georgia and parts of south carolina. nothing severe for us, but we could see some lightning and a little bit of thunder out of this, not to mention that heavy rain. much more on this. amelia draper a and i in all afternoon. remember, download the nbc washington app now, if you re ever away from your phone or television, great way to take a look at the latest forecast and the radar. all right. thank you, doug. community and continue to cause a big threat. today, we learned one more
as we are getting a little bit more of an easterly movement here. heaviest rain, let s zoom in, in through montgomery county. now right over great falls, moving up toward gaithersburg. rockville, heads-up there. in toward bethesda. will move across the american legion bridge already having a tough time as normal traffic is concerned. the wider picture showing the rain will come to an end tonight. in behind it, we get much cooler if not colder. i ll have that complete forecast inclung minutes. thanks, doug. a council member in prince george s county has crashed his county-issued vehicle for a second time. but this time police say mel franklin was drunk. he s accused of crashing his suv into a car at a red light last week. our bureau chief, tracee wilkins, is in upper marlboro with more on this. reporter: this is what was left of prince george s council member s mel franklin s county-issued suv after a crash vehicle he struck looked like. a couple was inside of the car.