Development of. Vulcan schmidt has a demanding job as prevalent in jerusalem hes the german Lutheran Churches envoy to the holy land. Its a delicate balancing act. That. Doesnt dissolve this is a special place we are located in the middle of jerusalem and thats how we view ourselves as a community and a good mind to the for we want to connect people to be a Meeting Place and a vehicle of understanding across borders this is the sense of tall order but it starts in a small way on simply welcoming people without worrying about Church Membership or what people believe. Talking. Was. Was. He has his headquarters at the Lutheran Church of the redeemer right in jerusalems old city. With. More intimate. Ok so we have it in german we have a prayer time here. Everybody is welcome to attend the may day press service sometimes the congregation is large but other times there are just a handful of people its a german speaking parish. She hears all Summer Reading from the book of the prophet isaiah
Social. You were here in your office when the fire broke out. What was in the shed that burned . Was there anything flammable. No, obviously something was flammable. Bottles of wine and glassware and things like that. Its strange. We dont know what started it. Well find out now. It was just dry storage, normal glasses and bottles pg e was here but there were no gas lines inside. Not at all. I know that there were many people here and also your customers. Nobody got hurt. Thank god nobody got hurt. Luckily it wasnt during the rush hour. It was around 4 00 p. M. There wasnt many people on site. It was tucked away at the very end of the property. Just thank god again that nobody got hurt, absolutely. Im sure youre going to be looking into, of course, why this happened at your business. Absolutely. The Fire Department and the police are here and theyre looking into what happened. And yeah, were going to figure it all out. Thanks, carlos. I appreciate it. Reporter so the Fire Department is
In congress one step closer to a critical legislative victory. With ten more votes than needed. After the president gave a pep talk earlier today. In more than three decades. They have the details in the breaking news tonight. Accusing al franken of sexual assault. Another one accused of harassing her. Judge injure but napolitano. Welcome to risk and reward. Lets get to your money first. Investors are liking what they are seen. They are hitting another alltime high. Watch this the endless now say the s p 500 stocks are not yet priced in tax cuts. They are all poised to gain. Lets get the tax cut. The republicans can only afford to know votes. They still hang over the senators. Lets get to adam shapiro in washington. Lets take a look at the Senate Finance committee because that is where the markup is taking place. They are hoping to finish their work they got here tomorrow. In their home for thanksgiving. With senators that are undecided. For instance take a look at the senators we are
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Congressman a member of the Budget Committee thanks for joining. Nice to be with you. Charles great to have you here, 13 colleague in new york, new jersey, California Congress personnel, people rather. A lot of people are saying that those no votes were selfish, that you were looking out for the interest of very wealthy, blue states who are being subsidized by poor states in this country and many people are wondering why still the 13 of you voted no. Well frankly im offended by the notion that we are somehow being subsidized by other states in fact new york taxpayers send almost 50 billion more to washington than it receives back , but thats not the critical issue for me. It is a concept of federalism. The federal government with this tax bill is reversing 104 years of policy which says that were not going to double tax, the taxes that are paid by citizens of the state to their State Government or their local government. Thats been the policy of the federal government since 1913 when t