Morning. Hmm . That person clearly was right. Well check in with al in a check. Also, today, the weather is our top story. Damaging winds sweeping east after a rough wednesday for tens of millions of people. Nbcs ron mott is in chicago this morning, hawaii, ron. How are you . Reporter good morning. A rough night in the midwest, especially in chicago, which is living up to the nickname today. It is very breezy. You can see the flags behind me dancing. This wind is expected to gust today 50 to 55 Miles Per Hour, and it wont go away any time soon. They will blow all day today into tomorrow. In chicago overnight, stunning lightning lit up the windy city as the nearby suburbs had to dial with downed power lines and massive downpours. The storm moving east after nine suspected tornadoes touched down in iowa wednesday, destroying homes and overturning a semi the roads. Uprooting trees and lifting this parked car into the air. In iowa city, wind gusts combined with rain and lightning. Causing
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by rear admiral brent w. Scott, deputy chief of chaplains for the United States navy and chaplain of the marine corps in washington, d. C. The guest chaplain please join me in prayer. Heavenly father, we begin this day in the privilege of prayer, thanking you for this great nation, a people gathered from every tongue and tribe, bound together through the more noble ideals of liberty and justice and equality, formed and favored as one nation under god. We ask your help as you continue to make us as one. We pray for our senate in this session, and ask you to bless them with wisdom and discernment to lead our people toward reconciliation, to rebuild our nations confidence in justice, to restore our sense of equality. Free each one from the divisive distractions of any lesser ideals that they may more powerfully serve the people as a body of, by, and for the people, making every effort to keep an
Often, lectures raise more questions than they answer saw i would be happy to do that with you. A year and a half ago, i he justd the book mentioned, serving god and country u. S. Military chaplains in world war ii. My research to put that together took me several years. I have studied a lot of American History. I have written American History. But i did not expect to be so influenced by Something Like this book. I have no sense of the crucial role chaplains played in world war ii. There, i had in my mind were these chaplains floating around during the war, a lot of them on the home front in america in those 600 plus chapels built on the basis and forts all over the country. Withthey went off on ships the troops, they were sort of in the background. Maybe in tent hospitals. Maybe they were holding Worship Services when they could. All of those things are true. But what i had no idea of was the hero as him perilous him heroism of these men. I have no idea of the crucial role they played
cheers and applause cheers and applause stephen hey welcome to the report. Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen. Stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. Folks, thank you. cheers and applause . Thank you for being ladies and gentlemen, i hope that ive made this clear over the years, but i love new york city. Because everything, everything in new york is bigger. Weve got the tallest buildings, the richest bankers, the racistest cabbies. In no other city to the drivers even know the proper ethnic slur for people from malta. laughter its farc, by th featherhead, be way. Theres one thing about new york that is not as big as we thought. It apires particular demographic in new york has been expoinencely overestimated the rat population. Common lore states there are as many rats as humans in new york city, in the neighborhood of eight million. However a statistician from Columbia University says there are really just two mill
Stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. Folks, thank you. cheers and applause thank you for being ladies and gentlemen, i hope that ive made this clear over the years, but i love new york city. Because everything, everything in new york is bigger. Weve got the tallest buildings, the richest bankers, the racistest cabbies. In no other city to the drivers even know the proper ethnic slur for people from malta. laughter its featherhead, by the way. Theres one thing about new york that is not as big as we thought. It appears particular demographic in new york has been expoinencely overestimated the rat population. Common lore states there are as many rats as humans in new york city, in the neighborhood of eight million. However a statistician from Columbia University says there are really just two million rats in the big apple. Stephen new york has only two million rats . I mean, thats like finding out new york only has two million original