What does this day, memorial day mean to you . Good monday morning on this memorial day. Simple crime. Somebody who died known only to god. This piece dont take the remembrance out of memorial day. Share with you in part what he writes at the hill. Com. What does memorial day mean to you . Is a day off work, time spent grilling with family and friends. A day to grab the hottest discounts on cars and electronics. It seems over the years memorial day has come to represent the luxuries of to society and best sales since president s day. Those who served and the families of those who did not come home it is anything but a retail holiday. It is a day to honor the ultimate sacrifice so many of our brothers and sisters in arms have made for this exceptional nation. Good morning from the hill newspaper. Congressman republican from florida had to to say about memorial day. Those heroes never thought about what was easy or popular to masses. Or what they would get out of their actions. Who will
Folsom. james and im James Fletcher. Lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic. Major hot spotsan mateo bridge drive is 88 min from 880 to 101 due to an earlier crash. Take wb 84 instead anny hong dry and seasonable weather today into tuesday. Some cooling starts by wednesday ahead of the next weather system. On thursday a late season cold front will likely bring some light rain to the north bay down to around the golden gate. Lingering showers and cool on friday. Dry with a warming trend next weekend. james breaking news were following this morning. Orlando police say at least 5 people are dead after a shooting at a business park. This is video of the scene. According to local media. One of the dead is the shooter. The fbi is now on scene to assist with the investigation. Local media is also saying this is not being investigated as an act of terror. We will continue to follow the story and bring you updates as they become available. james our top story this morning. M
There was talk that Something Else could have killed the people on board. Take a look. The impact destructtive. The house shook. The noise heard for blocks. A bang. I heard that and said probably our electricity will be turned off. The nissan slamming into a tree at 1 00 this afternoon. Killing the passenger, 58yearold sonya smith of baltimore. Leaving the mail driver in critical condition. The kitchen window where the car is. His motherinlaw saw it sailing by. Imagine preparing dinner and a car comes through and hits the street. They thought there were injuries not from the crash but Something Else. They now believe it was not due to gunshots. We believe its the result richard still a strange situation. This is a straight road. Its under investigation. It sounds like the loudest slap of thunder i could imagine. The 2013 to the 2016 Nissan Altima are part of the air bag recall. We dont know what year the car was. If we find out that is part of the investigation, we will let you know. I
The guest chaplain mr. President , members of the senate, may the lord be with you. Let us bow our heads in reference to his presence. God, our help in ages past, be our comfort still. Thank you for this great, great nation, and its foundation of one nation, under god, indivisible. Thank you, lord, that we can emphasize indivisible. Thank you for the liberty, the justice, and the freedoms we enjoy. We pray for all who walk these hallowed halls where lifechanging, worldchanging decisions are made. Bless this austere gathering of men and women chosen by you and the American People to serve us all. Give them wisdom to acknowledge you first in all they do. Give them grace, as has been extended to them. Guide them, o holy spirit. Guide them, o holy spirit. Fill them and this chamber with your presence, and fill these halls with your glory. When they leave today, may they say, we have not just been in the presence of men; we have been in the presence of god. Now, in the name of the one i tru
West. A state of emergency as temperatures reach up to 120 degrees and heat alerts from the midwest to california this morning. And good morning, america. It is another busy news morning. We have more fallout from that massacre in orlando. Thats right. Overnight, that dramatic scene on the floor of the senate. Democrats going past 2 00 a. M. Battling for action on gun control. In the wake of the orlando shooting. That was connecticut senator chris murphy and could have votes as early as today. But we begin with that deadly alligator attack at disney world. This morning, we are learning new details about the family of that 2yearold boy right there, lane graves, and what happened in the moments leading up to the attack. Abcs gio benitez is in orlando with the latest. Good morning, gio. Reporter george, good morning to you. The Family Learning just over 12 hours ago that the boys body was found intact just yards from the shore. After a desperate 16hour search by air and boat, the heartbre