The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. march for your life rallies are scheduled for today. some locations underway right now like in d.c. rally-goers reknewing cries for addressing the gun violence epidemic after a series of mass shootings and cnn is covering events across the country and i want to begin with brian todd at the capitol. hi, brian. things are just kicking off where you are? reporter: that is right, amara. the crowd gathering, several hundred strong with the riser and with the white house in the background. we ve talked to several people in the crowd about the general mood as we come out of the horrible shootings in uvalde and buffalo, and it is the mood of being fed up with the gun violence taking place in the country. especially lately. four years after parkland, a lot of them feel like enough is not being done. rackon brown is about to get up here and speak in a few minutes. and he s a survivor of gun violence in d.c. we should add. what is the message t
They only want to vote for individual bills, but they hold me up all summer and wont let me bring individual bills up. Then they say they wont vote for a stopgap measure that keeps government open. So i dont know where do you go in that scenario . The day at the end of the day will get it all. You democrats say they had a deal in place that would keep the government open. Republicans broke their word and turned their back on the agreement that they themselves negotiated. Why because they want to jam their extreme ideology down the throats of the american people. Thats why were in this manufactured republican crisis. A shutdown could affect everything from military members getting paid to access to National Parks like muir woods and yosemite. Now, this afternoon, we spoke with east bay congressman mark desaulnier. He touched on what else would be affected by a government shutdown. If youre going to travel that probably youre probably going to take longer. We know from previous shutdowns
Hill with just days before the deadline. Tonight, it seems congress is on track for a federal shutdown and the division means shockwaves will be sent through much of american life. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. Its an important issue. And tonights abc seven advancer at 11 exploring what a Government Shutdown means for you here at home law makers have two days now. Thats all to get a deal done. And if you listen to the rhetoric out of washington, it doesnt sound like its going to happen. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is dealing with infighting from conservative republicans. Then members say they only want to vote for individual bills, but they hold me up all summer and wont let me bring individual bills up. Then they say they wont vote for a stopgap measure that keeps government open. So i dont know where do you go in that scenario . The day at the end of the day will get it all. You democrats say they had a deal in place that would keep the government open. Repu
His first alert forecast. Total 180 from yesterday with the sunshine. Now were waking up to wet Pavement Outside and it should be that way throughout much of the morning. A live look outside shows fog, patchy fog has developed. This morning right now some areas seeing some rain, especially in the Lehigh Valley where in the last hour you had heavy rains push through. Now its moving into northern new jersey. Elsewhere were seeing rain from philadelphia all the way down toward Camden County and all the way toward portions of millville at this hour. Other areas down the shore remaining dry, that could change this morning as that rain starts to pass through. We have plenty of clouds this morning, those clouds will be around throughout much of your day today so well call it cloudy today with also showers in the forecast. Temperatures right now about 68 for philadelphia, mid60s for allentown, mild for Atlantic City at 69 and dover youre just shy of 70 degrees. This is the forecast. What you c