On abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae good morning and thanks for joining us on this friday. I am lukas voss in for jessica rae us on this friday. I am lukas voss in for jessica rae. Days after president obama announced exececive actions aimed at reducing gun violence. The president took his pitch on the road. He participated in a town hall meeting at george mason university. And argued his reasoning for the increased restrictions. Reporter karin caifa has a more. president obama the way it is described, is that we are trying to take away everybodys guns. In his first town hall event in 2016, the president debated the second amendment. And the gun violence gripping the nation. He stood in front of supporters critics and some familiar faces including Gabby Giffords the former representative who was shot five e ars ago and her husband retired astronaut mark kelly. mark kelly husband of Gabrielle Giffords gabby and i are both gun owrs. We take gun ownership very he never owned a gun and
Temperatures are cool. We do have a change coming our way with high temperatures and above average. Its 59 degrees. Here are the visibilitys. Fog is going to be an issue early on. But now we have about a quarter of a mile visibility. Rochelle just over half a mile. Most of that is moving towards the east. The on the lookout for that. Satellite radar composite shows we are dry. We stayed dry until tomorrow afternoon when a cold front comes our way. Looking at the 3 day forecast, tonight, 61. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. It has been the halftime this entire month. No real action until this upcoming weekend. The weekend is just about here. Is it too early to celebrate . We do have some things to worry about. If this happened a while ago but its still shutting down the entire block. This is where it intersects with 8094. Heading north bound the ramp to westbound 8094 is the one that is closed down. Everything else looks pretty good. Jane addams bridgework in the full swing. Impacti
Its a very intense give and take. And we hear we get thank you notes. We get e get questions. We get kicks from timetotime. Im impressed by a stream of thank you notes. Thank you notes saying thank you for doing this in less than 12 hours. This is an administration that seems to very receptive to intelligence. On ukraine, i havent looked very hard at it. I dont think i have a tutored view on how well we did or didnt do. It depends a lot on what you think mr. Putins time horizon and decisionmaking was like. I think well make this the last question with one wrapup question from me. And then i think youre all invited to a reception afterwards. I want to follow up on the Cyber Security issue you mentioned a couple of times. You said its one of the things youre looking at most in the long range. And im wondering how nick looks at an issue how nick looks like an issue at cyber, where youre looking at technological change over a series of 10 or 15 years as opposed to one nations, you know, na
An immediate risk to the countrys National Security. We want to know what your thoughts on what the president had to say and is dealing with priority change means anything to you. And independent 2027488002 and send us a tweet cspan is our handle and email at cspan. Org. Phone lines are open and start dialling in. New york times says it this way, obamas Climate Change with far reaching effects. President obama Climate Change constitutes a serious risk to National Security and it will impact how our military defends our country. So we need to act and need to act now. After all, isnt that the true hallmark of leadership. When youre on deck standing your watch you stay sreupbl lent you and plan for every contingency. If you see storm clouds gathering or dangerous shoals ahead, you dont sit back and do nothing. You take action to protect your ship and keep your crew safe. Anything else is negligence. It is a dereliction of duty. So too with Climate Change. Denying it or refusing to deal wi
Funding. Was that your experience too and if so is that something thats on going or petered out by now . Senator shut off funding i dont know. I mean, hes a more prolific fundraiser than i am, so he may have felt more of a difference than i did. Youd have to ask him. Im not aware of any conspiracy to shut us out of anything and im not aware of any one person or one group of people who has the ability to do that. Senator paul has this legislation that lets states implement their own medical marijuana laws and make these states no longer breaking law. Is that something you support on the Judiciary Committee . What is your stance on that . Senator is this the one that hes running with senator and had a long conversation with senator the other day. As i recall it would move marijuana from a schedule one to a schedule two; is that right . Right. It has some medical benefit and allows states that legalize it to regulate it. Senator one of the reasons for doing that that senator told me about