The cause of the fire is under investigation. Not what you want to see as we head into the holidays. Good morning. Im dan schaffer. And im deiah riley. Some of you are looking to hit the roads today. We are off to a warmer start. Much warmer. This puts us in the cool range, but its average for this time of the year. Mid to upper 50s this time of the year. Tampa, the 30s, Crystal River at brooksville, and that will get us to 20 to 21 degrees warmer than this time yesterday afternoon. The morning lows are now being impacted, and they will continue mild for the next few days. We will touch 80 here, and then mostly clear skies, and a few clouds rolling through the afternoon, and upstream, we have to talk about the front and the pressure system that we will eventually make it through the area. More in a few minutes. Good morning, everybody. Today is one of the busiest travel days for the roadways, and they advise according to google that you leave right now, and if you can leave right now,
Begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We have seen political standoffs of all kinds in washington, but nothing like what is playing out right now in the chambers of the house of representatives. Oldfashioned sitin led by a civil rights icon. Democratic representatives literally occupying the house floor, refusing to budge until a gun control bill is brought up for deba debate. Social media continuing to provide images of the revolt, even after housecontrolled tv cameras were ordered turned off. Nbcs Peter Alexander is at the capitol right now with the latest. Not next year, but now today reporter an unprecedented demonstration, dozens of democrats today calling for a vote on gun control. Rise up, americans. This cannot stand. We will occupy this floor. Reporter disru disrupting the house session. The house will be in order. Reporter republicans in retreat, forced to go into recess, cameras show
Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We have seen political standoffs of all kinds in washington, but nothing like what is playing out right now in the chambers of the house of representatives. An oldfashioned sitin led by a civil rights icon. Democratic representatives literally occupying the house floor, refusing to budge until a gun control bill is brought up for debate. Social media continuing to provide images of the revolt, even after housecontrolled tv cameras were ordered turned off. Nbcs Peter Alexander is at the capitol right now with the latest. Not next year, but now today reporter an unprecedented demonstration, dozens of democrats today calling for a vote on gun control. Rise up, americans. This cannot stand. We will occupy this [000 01 58;00] reporter disrupting the house session. The house will be in order. Reporter republicans in retreat, forced to go into recess,
The Supreme Court and diversity in the judicial system, plus the impact of the president ial election and the balance of power in the u. S. Senate. This took place at the annual gathering of progressives, called net roots nation, which happened in st. Louis. Is a pleasure to be here. I am the president of alliance for justice, and coming to net roots is like coming home. Its great to be here every year. I see some old faces, and a lot of new faces, which is wonderful, and i would say, after the events of the past few weeks here in our country, and yesterday in france, it is really good to be among friends today. So thank you all for being here. We have an Amazing Group of speakers, so i will get right to it. I also want to thank adam. Adam, where are you . He was on the board of net roots. He used to be the chair. Booster of this panel, so im very grateful to you. Bys panel is organized alliance for justice, as well as the center for american progress. And again, we are just privileged
Now. Silicon valley, they are starting to come to our community. We are going to be opening up some new businesses that will employ people. Theyre working with her juniorcollege. The juniorcollege program has the most fantastic on the job training for welding and diesel mechanics. It is overwhelming how much they are getting through and how these jobs are becoming available to people before that had lost hope. Some was that given through our collaboration, our Education Collaboration and all of us working together. The true goal is to reduce Youth Violence, get the guns out of their hands. When we get those he kids that need our help, we need to lift them up and put them in a position to transfer to the future. Complements of our friends at family programs today we will have a chance to talk about the community. We have a sense that if we can have our communities safer, we could attract more businesses. That would bring more opportunity. Read is one of your priorities in terms of your