Lord, teach them to be obedient to your commands, doing your good will as your presence fills them with joy. Manifest your power through their labors so that this nation will be exalted by righteousness. Help our senators to put their trust in you and to recapture their trust in one another as your angels guard them in all their ways. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C. , january 29, 2014. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable edward markey, a senator from the commonwealth of massachusetts, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed patrick j. Leahy, preside
Heres whats going on now. Tensions sky high right now on the last frontier of the cold war. North korea now threatening to get physical with south korea. Promises to go forward with underground nuclear tests. And hacked the New York Times falling victim to a fourmonthlong computer atck. They say the source was china. First a dangerous stand off in the middle east that has to do with one of our most important allies. Syria and iran are fear use over an israeli airstrike inside the syrian border. They are now warning of retaliation. The details are sketchy. Syrians say the israeli strike hit a Research Facility near damascus killing two workers. A senior u. S. Official say the jets struck a convoy suspected of transporting weapons to hezbollah in lebanon. Sara sidener joins us as well as Fran Townsend from new york. We have reports from the United States and reports from syria. Is this the same or separate attacks . Reporter thats the thing that needed to be sorted today. We have heard f
The train and walked through a tunnel. Find out what caused the mass confusion. Were live with the latest. Lets begin with the storm system tearing through the d. C. Area, the wind coming down fast, the rain at least and the wind fast and furious. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im brian bolter. Im shawn yancy. Sue palka is outside our studios to begin our coverage. How is it doing . Reporter were still getting rain fairly light to moderate. We can see it here in the street lamp and the wind is not bad. Thats been kind of a surprise tonight because we were expecting winds to be a lot worse, but we did not get thunderstorms. Weve had heavy downpours but nothing to reach up and grab those really strong winds and bring them to the surface, although there was a little damage in Central Virginia with trees down. Its really about the flooding tonight. We do have a number of Flash Flood Warnings which means flooding is occurring. Well start with that and then give you a radar tour. A lot of th
10 days warmer than this in many many years. Winter storm warnings to the west and tornado watches and warnings to the south. We will stack up about 226 but other areas will get more. This is on the ground and it is frozen below the systemsurface. And it has nowhere to go but to run off. Here is the next act. Temperatures are dieting in the west. Precipitation changes to snow to the west. You can see this rain at midnight and the morning rush hour and the rain snow line is three here. We could get accumulating snow tomorrow afternoon. We have some thoughts on how many inches and we will be back with that in this broadcast. Things are slow with reports of 60 minute delays at the airport. Youve heard of fire drills. Tornado drills. About a gun massacre drill . In the wake of the Sandyhook School shootings in connecticut, a northwest suburban high school is planning to run a very realistic preparedness drill tommorow. Thats where wgns sean lewis picks up our story. As students left the hi
They were pulled over early this morning near 67th and south chicago. Police say mayor rahm emanuel personally called hadiyas parents to share the news. They wont share their thoughts publicly until charges are officially filed. But shatira wilks. Hadiyas cousin and the familys spokesperson. Shared hers. If theres any truth to this it is comforting to know that one less killer is off the streets possibly. On tuesday hadiyas family will be in washington dc invited guests for the president s state of the union address. And theres word from the white house. The president will take his policy proposals to the people. With 3 stops including one in chicago on friday where hell talk about gun violence. Some had called on the president to attend hadiyas funeral. But the First Lady Michelle Obama came instead. Along with hundreds of dignitaries, relatives and friends. They packed a Southside Church to capacity on saturday to say goodbye. You dont know how hard this really is. And those of you w