Noontime and partly sunny. A look at traffic now with danella. Well start with the rails. Metro, vre running on time, marc train 401 dealing with an electrical problem there. Expect your delays between 10 and 15 minutes. The delay is 14 minutes. Over to the roadway if youre just joining us, im still tracking an accident in southeast d. C. Along branch avenue. Br branch is shut down between camden street and erie street. We do have tony tull en route. Aaron and eun, back over tu. To angie goff now at the live desk. Republican senator ted cruz has spent more than 14 hours in a talkathon. He is against the efforts to remove part of an emergency spending bill that would defund the socalled obama care. It would avoid a Government Shutdown as well. Not able to delay proceedings with a formal filibuster. Cruz began speaking out against obamaS Health Care reforms. They are meant to grab attention and to delay sending the measure back to the house. Hes gotten creative answering a series of ridd
Vote until sunday. He is worried and thats not going to give them enough time to find a compromise to find the kbft. As he continues to talk and cruzs speech is a record broker easily topping rand pauls filibuster on u. S. Drug policy in march. Live from the live desk, back to you. Thank you. Later today president obama will reach out to state level leaders across the country about his Health Care Law and hold a conference as his ads min station comes to educate the public launching in states next tuesday. Kathleen sebelius is estimating that 95 of americans should qualify for two or more options depending on their situation. Another financial problem growing at this hour, we are learning when the government could start defaulting on its debt. Jack lew said building has until october 17th to pizza the nations bor oegs limit. At that point the u. S. Will only have 30 billion to meet commitments, far less than previously thought. President obama is scheduled to meet with secretary lew at
Speech in the senate from the live desk. Weve all been following it this morning. Senator ted cruz talking all through the night and into the morning all to delay a vote on health care and the budget. Live to the senate floor now, the chamber mostly empty now. Ted cruz more than 15 hours into his talkathon protest. He supports the plan up for a vote today. It would keep the government going all while defunding the socalled obama care. His marathon speech is not technically a filibuster but a way to get attention as he tries to delay the democratically led senate from voting and sending that measure back to the house. Cruz has every intention to talk until he can no longer stand. This is him in the last 20 minutes. We can show a level of courage that has been rare in this town to step up and say we will risk retribution from our own parties, stand up and speak the truth. We will stand up and champion our constituents. You can see him there rubbing his eyes a little bit. When he ran out
Memorial to residential school victims burned in 4-hour vandalism spree in Brantford, Ont.
Over four hours, someone set fire to numerous items that had been left at the former residential school site in Brantford, Ont., to commemorate child victims of the system.
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Posted: Jul 12, 2021 7:07 PM ET | Last Updated: July 12
Police have released this photo of a suspect who vandalized items left in a memorial to residential school victims in Brantford, Ont., on Friday.(Brantford Police Service)
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.
Brantford police are looking for a vandal who spent more than four hours Friday night damaging a memorial to Indigenous children who died at residential schools.
During the 4-hour vandalism in Brantford, Ontario, the monument to the boarding school victims was burned down.
Warning: This story contains some details that may be painful for readers.
Brantford police are looking for a saboteur who spent more than four hours on Friday night sabotaging an indigenous child who died in a boarding school.
The only suspect captured by surveillance video arrived at the Woodland Cultural Center in Ontario-the site of a former boarding school, at around 10:30 pm EST on Friday. For the next four hours, the man burned many items left there to commemorate the victims of the boarding school system.