Their last pitches to get you to your caucus site on monday night. Plea from new hampshire. International city. Des moines is now a player on the now home to a consulate office. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 good evening. Im lynn melling. Thank you for joining us tonight. If you dont have plans yet to get outside this weekend. You may want to sneak in an Outdoor Activity if you can. Its going to be beautiful out there. And it wont last long. Lets go straight to meteorologist Brett Mcintyre with details. Brett. A warm way to wrap up the month of january. Besides the wind it has been a mild day all across the state, and we have one more day of beautiful weather on tap for central iowa. Clouds will begin to move in late which will hold temperatures steady and in the lower 30s. Well see a mix of sun and clouds on saturday with some of the warmest temperatures we have before the bigger system early next week, we will see a chance for
Themselves raising their hands gives me some comfort as i walk out the door, but one of the problems with the disconnect that i was alluding to earlier between how science deals with this question and how lawyers deal with this question is that you actually get a fundamental disconnect between the two systems. So you mentioned that lack of emotional control or lack of ability to control your preferences might lead to insanity, but, in fact, in most jurisdictions as you know, thats not true. After hanky was acquitted under the American Law Institute test because he could not control his behavior, congress in most state jurisdictions changed the law, got rid of the lack of emotional test, the a. L. I. Test and now in most jurisdictions, the nontest requires that you demonstrate that you cant distinguish right from wrong. So now we have, and again, the law uses science for the laws own purposes, but what is problematic here is the disconnect. From the criminal side, if you lack emotional
Incarceration. Are there certainly people who we actually think would be better off in prison than not being in prison . Those types of decisions, i think, are going to be much more useful coming out of the neuroscience in the near term. In the long term, maybe we can get to the point where we make individualized decisionmaking, but so far it hasnt actually panned out. To all of you, do you think that it would be appropriate to keep this out of the courtroom, for instance, until there is a lot more certainty, or should we be using it now and run the risk that were reaching potentially wrong conclusions . Ill jump in first on that and say its already here. So the idea that we should wait for the science to get better, i think, is just, its too late for that. So the cat is already out of the bag. The question is what do you do now that its in the courtroom. Well, we have dualing experts. We have judges sitting in a gate keeping role who have to decide whether or not the evidence should b
Incarceration. Are there certainly people who we actually think would be better off in prison than not being in prison . Those types of decisions, i think, are going to be much more useful coming out of the neuroscience in the near term. In the long term, maybe we can get to the point where we make individualized decisionmaking, but so far it hasnt actually panned out. To all of you, do you think that it would be appropriate to keep this out of the courtroom, for instance, until there is a lot more certainty, or should we be using it now and run the risk that were reaching potentially wrong conclusions . Ill jump in first on that and say its already here. So the idea that we should wait for the science to get better, i think, is just, its too late for that. So the cat is already out of the bag. The question is what do you do now that its in the courtroom. Well, we have dualing experts. We have judges sitting in a gate keeping role who have to decide whether or not the evidence should b
Loses, america loses. Were grateful also for senators who know that before they are democrat, republican or independent, they are americans. As they remember their accountability to you and to history, empower them to keep our nation strong. Staying true to their oath to defend our constitution against external and internal foes. Lord, keep them from making any decision that will seem reckless in the sober light of hindsight. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. 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 president pro tempore the majority leader. Mr. Reid i call up calendar number 211. The clerk motion to proceed to calendar number 211, s. 1569, a bill to ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States government until december 31, 2014. Mr. R