Im ben olinsky im the Senior Vice President for structural and governance here at the center for american progress. And its my pleasure to welcome you this afternoon for an incredibly important conversation on on the filibuster with senator jeff and mike zamore coauthors of the newly released book filibustered how to fix the broken senate and save america. And i want to just take a minute to thank you all for your patience, given the vagaries of senate vote timing, its thought that president buchanan was the first to call the senate the worlds most deliberative body to better understand characterization. I looked the term deliberative. The cambridge dictionary defines it as involving careful and discussion when making decisions. So, for example, you might say she deliberated over the menu. And incidentally, when someone over the menu, they ultimately on what to order or they go hungry. But when we look to the senate these days, we see less deliberation. We see less real debate and comp
So she wont take it easy on you in that way. Reporter students describe leslie as someone they respect and adore. A woman who always pushes her students to do better. She is one of the most brilliant woman you will ever talk to. It happened friday near passea verdict parkway in green valley ranch. Detectives say this is the man responsible. 23yearold michael mattingly. The ground and kicked her. Police say he was on supervised release because of a separate battery case from earlier this year. Its definitely been an emotional couple days to have something to horrible happen to a great person feels very heavy. Reporter for leslies students, the attack is heart breaking and terrifying. And they want to know why it happened. We just want her back. We love her as a professor. Just to hear her voice and see her smile again whats reporter so why would anyone attack Leslie Griffin . That is the big question tonight. Police do not know a motive for the attack but we could get answers on monday.
Free at last passengers of Royal Caribbeans anthem of the seas back on land this morning. The cruiseship docked in new jersey overnight. And breaking overnight, the fbi is now surrounding the last occupiers at the oregon wildlife refuge. The standoff could end sometime this morning. And good thursday morning to you and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. You will want to grab a warm cup of coffee this morning. Theres actually a freeze warning and a frost advisory at this hour. So how long is this going to last . And i think we need the jacket all day, right . Well, you will probably need at least a light jacket later today but its going to be more comfortable . The afternoon. Right now you think, my goodness, are we still in florida . Thats the blue shaded area, the purple which includes pasco, inland portions of hillsborough, manatee, sarasota and all of polk county, thats a frost advisory. Even though you stay above frost on the windshield. The aga
Stainly ragin, 19 years old was reportedly seen running away from the scene right and around 3 oclock. Now according to police, hes a known nang member with active warrants out for his arrestt and that hes known to be armed and dangerous. And has a violent history. Certainly what happened this afternoon right out here was violent. Gun fire created a chaotic scenene outside carol city high wednesday. Bullet busted windows reveal where a driveby shooting snfolded near what should be a safe space. I think we avoided tragedy in a dramatic way. Reporter investigators sas bullets came flying from a car headed eastbound on 183rd street aimed at one walking in front of the person targeted is a not a student but that person did fire back. It was 30 minutes after classes got out students who were still outside went running. Thankfullu no one was hit. I heard like a shot, pop pop pop, a whole bunch of kids started running. Surity and everybody told us to get inside. It sounded like fast and quick
Lockdown still under way heree for afterschool programs right now, but were told thatsut of an abundance of caution. Theres no more danger here. Several officers here. 183rd street still shutdown east and westbound 132nd avenue. Those programs cararrying on as normal. Were waiting for a little bit more information from the Public Information officer, but thats the latest we have. An apparent driveby shooting here right outside Carol City High School. Nbc 6 nbc 6 news. South florida is bracing for anothererlast of wintry weather. A live look outside where you may think it is cold now, but were going to be feeling the 40s later tonight. John morals joins us now. Its currently 60 degrees in kendall and miami. A little bit warmer in the florida keys. The wind, which makek us feel a little bit colder, is not that strong today. Winds between 5 and 10 Miles Per Hour heading into night will drop closer to 5 miles and hour, give or take a few. It will feel colder than my projected low temperatu