Taking a live look in d. C. Three republicans joined democrats to vote down the so called skinny repeal healthcare bill. The final vote, 4951. Andrea is in the newsroom monitoring the new developments. Andrea. Liz and ken, the Affordable Care act remains the law of the land tonight. The republicans latest effort to repeal it failed again. After a marathon session that went into overtime. This is Nuclear Grade bonkers what is happening here tonight. The Senate Debated the skinny repeal bill to strip away parts of the Affordable Care act. This legislation only makes a very bad situation worse. Senator Mitch Mcconnell introduced the bill on the senate floor tonight. The legislation i just layed down is a healthcare freedom act and it restores freedom to americans that obama care took away. But Republican Leaders said they are not actually trying to replace the aca, they claim its essentially a place holder bill intended to trigger negotiations with the house. I need assurances from the sp
Hes been hospitalized. Back in august he was taken to a san diego hospital because he was not feeling well. You wish him the best. Will bring you updates. We want to say good morning. Thank you for joining us for the valleys only 11 am newscast. The big story youve been tracking is the rain. We are tracking the showers across the valley. The rain is coming down. We look live with our valley cam across central phoenix and the northeast valley. The showers and a few embedded thunderstorms moving through across the valley. Theyve been working their way in from the west. Were seeing pockets of heavier rain. Spots like levine getting some heavy rain. The showers tracking generally northeast. They will move across the Downtown Phoenix also impacting freeways like the i17, the i 10 and state route 51. Even the loop 101. Look at scottsdale, not far from the airport, right over the airport, very heavy rain coming down. That batch will continue to track to the east northeast eventually moving on
Under 30 percent temperatures by lunchtime will be teams 45 and 50 see how they start to spread from west s to east and eventuay fall apart watch the left side of your screen. Widespread rainfall overnight tonightht sc and also look at the pros traffic time for patty. Right now on the roadways we are thats good news we are in sky foxth looking at the in abot and traffic is slowing lot coming across the inner belt bridge between hours of nine and sites crews will take out the as you head into townwi for suny work. We had an accident this morning down and akron along russell streetand police attempted to pl over the vehicleic for a traffic stop and bit slide hitting the streets to teenagers were transported from that vehicle no word on their condition. This is c in the 650 bucks russell afternoon down and akron in the roadway has been clear. Jessica dill life at first worse from there he threw three touchdown passes including two h percent most of his afternoon itsent dancing in the end
Learning the fire claimed the total of three lives. Two victims identified this morning. Nbc bay area Stephanie Chuang in middletown this morning. You spoke to one of the people who knew one of the victims very well. Reporter she heard early this morning she heard from Sheriff Deputies, but its not getting any easier. Were into day six and people are getting news of the latest death and making this a lot tougher. I want to say we are back in middletown and standing in front of ro sa gonzalezs house, or whats left of it. We met her in the Evacuation Center in calistoga today and yesterday. We said wed come and check it out. You really cant tell what is standing. Just some trucks and foundation and some of the garage. Meanwhile Lake County Office confirmed two bodies around 8 30 last night. A body found presumed to be bruce burns and based on a second location, the sheriff says the other body is expected to be the body of leonard neft. He told his wife saturday afternoon he didnt smell s
Assignment. Parents outraged this afternoon accusing the teacher of trying to make students renounce their faith. A jogger fee teacher asked students geography teacher asked students to copy the islamic statement of faith which translates into there is no god but a lot and mohammed is the messenger no god but alla h and mohammed is the messenger. Some parents feel this was an attempt to indoctrinate their children. The superintendents that the assignment was meant to teach world geography in an interactive way. Why couldnt we just write hello or goodbye . Normal words. Lash out and say my kid is missing school because somebody open their mouth that is not fair. Some people dont really understand what exactly was put into that worksheet that the kids were sent home with paid the decision to close the school was one made after consulting police. There is no specific threat. A significant number of parents complain. Students will continue practicing calligraphy. Samples used will have not