Rae has the morning off. Lukas millions of people along the east coast are scrambling to dig themselves out of the snow and ice after this weekends crippling winter storm. The blizzard killed at least 14 people. Grounded thousands of flights. And shut down several of the nations largest cities. Chris welch has the latest. All along the east coast the diligent hum of digging can be heard. Nats and scraping. Nats and of clurse plowing. Crews trying to clear roads. mayor Muriel Bowser washington while we have made some progress there is still a lot more to do. Washington dc schools and the City Government are closed monday. As is the federal government. While some of the citys transit will be back up and running. The dc mayor cautioned residents about one of the big concerns in the coming days black ice. mayor Muriel Bowser washington we expect that with the temperature dropping tonight and every night this week that we will se continued slick and dangerous roadways, so of the roadways. I
Decisionmaking. Greg abbott on the other hand believes that it is his right to intrude even when a woman has been the brutal victim of a rape four has been the background of incest. It should come as no surprise given that mr. Abbott attitudes towards women have revealed themselves another ways. He pays women in his office less than he paid males assistant attorney generals. He campaigned with a known sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls. Thank you. Earlier this week the Congressional Hispanic Caucus held a conference in washington. This Panel Focused on the underrepresentation of hispanics in business, entertainment and the federal workforce. Its under an hour. One thing that was sent mentioned. Its the kind of thing that would make my parents cringe. Since present company as president company on the history of latinos in america, which is Available Online or a book steered near you. Its called the 500 year legacy that shape the nation and very germane
Republican Pete Ricketts and Democrat Chuck hassebrook. We welcome those joining us on adt television and radio where they can a. G. Web site and also Nebraska Broadcasters Association Member stations carrying us today and welcome to those joining us across the nation on cspan2. We are live tweeting this debate. Use the hashtag and e. T. Debate on twitter to follow us and you can give us your comments during and after the debate on our Facebook Page. For the next hour the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists and each other. The rules are pretty simple. Each candidate will have 90 seconds to respond to the question and if warranted me give a 30second rebuttal. Tonights debate is taking place before a live studio audience. We have asked the audience to refrain from a pausing or cheering because it will only take semifrom the candidates. Before we meet the candidates lets introduce the panel of journalists who will be asking the questions tonight. Fred knapp of net new
Is chasing the drug demand in the United States, doing it with the currency of the United States and weaponry largely produced in the United States. One of the things we could do to help the Mexican Government is to help drive up the demand for Illegal Drugs by recognizing the demand that drives much of the controversy is within the United States. The second thing we could do to help secure the border is to recognize that when people are less desperate they dont crash borders. They use lawful processes to apply for new opportunities, they go places peacefully to try to emigrate the ways many of our parents emigrated peacefully. It has to be affordable, it has to be understandable and it has to be we should give people who come to the United States because they love our opportunities, committed no crimes where they came from men tried to live here without documents, a pathway to complete citizenship and welcome them. At the last debate mr. Sasse said congress was too dysfunctional to do
Election. I applaud him the easy thing to do for elected leaders and politicians is take a poll. There is an old saying that politicians, basically a mob marching on city hall. He did not do that. Welling the spend Political Capital to cut taxes and restrict the size of government which will help the economy. I think that we need leaders that are willing to use the Political Capital to implement pulled strategies. A think he will be rewarded. As people see the results you will see poll numbers improve. We need more of that. We have too many politicians only paying attention to shortterm pools of but im willing to do things to address the escalating debt. We have one of the worlds highest tax rates, seeing companies toward overseas, seeing an anemic Economic Growth i think the lesson to be taken his eye when need bold leaders willing to debate things. The poll numbers were lonely. Your competitive curatorial race. Even when he was in the United States senate he took positions based upon