2013. Announcer this is today. With lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plas plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside dylan dreyer and craig hill in this morning. Jeb corliss attempt to go fly through two peaks in china. About the length of two football fields, twas a 40foot gap here . I think 25 feet. The lowest point 15 feet wide, the highest is 60. 5 feet wide, the highest is 60. The tough part for him he had to maintain this perfect position for 20 to 30 seconds. His last jumps were maybe one to and this is a simulation and made it only 50 of the time. He hit the wrong position. Those are great ops going in. Not a lot of room for error. Not too much. I sky dived once, twice, just had to hold this position for 30 seconds and that was impossible. I dont know how you steer between pieces of rock. Were going to hear from him about this incredible feat later on. We wanted to show you a little
He claimed among other things the post office has said it doesnt need money. Here are the facts. Earlier this year the Postal Service board of governors did ask for 25 billion, the exact amount in this bill, to help offset the impact of covid19. The pandemic is also expected to lead to an increase in mailin ballots for the president ial election, something the president repeatedly claims will lead to widespread voter fraud, even though there is zero evidence of that. President trump also alleges the post office wont be able to handle the volume of ballots. But postmaster general louis dejoy, who testified before the senate this week, is pushing back. He says the usps is more than ready for the election. He also says he will hit pause on removing any more mailboxes or sorting machines until the election is over of t. Lets get right to capitol hill and cnns suzanne malveaux. The vote is finally under way. Tell us whats happening inside and what house leaders expect the final vote tally t
Vote, allowing joe biden to be president of the United States and Kamala Harris to be Vice President. It should be perfunctory. It should have been 25 to maybe 35 minutes. Their role is to just make sure that the electoral votes that are sent from the states are the ones that are counted. But they have turned it to Something Else that is ugly and the big reason we had an insurrection at the capitol. That would have happened, but we had a domestic terrorist event happen in the nations capitol. And were still dealing with the consequences tonight in the wee hours of the morning overnight word of a third resignation that we want to tell you about coming out of the white house. The resignations coming out of the white house, do they mean anything . Were not sure, because this one is a Deputy National security adviser. The former White House Press secretary among those who apparently had enough of this. After four years, though . After the bloodshed and all of this . This is their enough ti
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. November 14, 2022. I hereby appoint the honorable mr. Can hey lay to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Holy and eternal god, praise be to your name forever and ever. All wisdom and power are yours. When measured against your authority and dominion over the whole of creation, any advantage we boast, any victory we claim falls short. Humble us we would acknowledge all we have is yours and any influence we wield is held accountable to your design. Immutable lord, you change times and seasons. Depose rulers and raise up those who would replace them. Shape our sense of success into an awareness of and commitment to our responsibility to live into your
Fight the Islamic State. Is there anything you want to say to your fans . Huh. It wasnt an n. F. L. Stadium. Running back ray rice was on a football field getting a worm warm welcome at his Old High School days after being cut by the braveness. And a category 4 storm threatens the mexican coast. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America, im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Thank you for joining us. President obama says the u. S. Is united in grief and resolve from the United Kingdom after video emerged showing the beheading of a british aid worker. British Prime Minister David Cameron is promising to do Everything Possible to find david haines killers calling the murder an act of pure evil. The video is not showing a threat to kill a second british hostage. Aid worker david haines is the first hostage from Great Britain to die at the hands of the Islamic State group. He was kidnapped last year in syria, while working for a french aid group. Dade has been murdered david has bee