Himself a combat veteran, i recognize the gentleman from colorado, mr. Coffman. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Coffman as a gulf war and iraq war veteran, im grateful for your leadership on the House Committee on veterans affairs. H r. 4 61, the Gulf War Health Research Reform act of 2014, which i sponsored along with Ranking Member kirk patic right hand and full committee Ranking Member michaud restores the infence of the Research Advisory committee on gulf war illnesses to perform the role it has historically played. As intebbeded by congress. To improve the lives of gulf war veterans. This bill is necessary because some career v. A. Staff have been trying to revive the discredited 1990s fiction that nothing special happened to gulf war Veterans Health and that the problems experienced by gulf war veterans are, quote, what happens after every war, unquote. Due to psychological stress factor. Because there is no Scientific Evidence for this position, v. A. St
Thanks. Microsoft did indeed report its earnings after the closing bell. The companys Second Quarter profit and revenue exceeded projections. Net income was 6. 56 billion. That reflected . 78 a share. Starbucks also out with its earnings numbers. The Worlds Largest coffee shop ain reported First Quarter sales. They rose. Analysts on average have projected 4. 29 billion. And billionaire investor carl icon says hes increased his stake in appleby another 500 million. That brings his total holdings to 3. 6 billion. He also today released an open letter to shareholders repeating his recommendations as the company increased its share repurchasing program. Those are some of your top headlines at this hour. Thanks very much. Today at the World Economic forum in switzerland, u. S. Treasury secretary called on the u. S. Congress to reach a deal on the debt ceiling sooner rather than later. Our chief washington correspondent has more on the secretarys latest warning. Time becoming the enemy in th
Lets take a look at other areas. You have to go to 1900 feet in the east bay hills for 200. Sfo about 100. The radar is out there. It is showing us some scattered showers. Not picking up all of them. This is a very low level event. Im looking to the east, and i cant even see berkeley from here which i can usually see. I cant see hayward either so i know some rain is falling in those areas even though it may not be showing up. Heres the cold front. Notice energy well to the north. This area of low pressure that you see to the west of the front will hook up with it and keep the chance of scattered light showers in the forecast. Most of those should be fading by 5 00. Less than a tenth of an inch except the Higher Elevations where we could get a quarter of an inch. If you have evening plans, dont worry about the wet weather but youll want to dress for temperature that will rapidly fall into the 50s this evening. This is what the weather looks like at the San Francisco international airpor
Dog after falling onto the subway tracks in new york city adds a new friend to the family than tox the kindness of strangers. Were there exclusively today, sunday, january 26, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im lester holt alongside dylan and jenna. Sadly another case of a gunman opening fire with thousands of people nearby. Typical saturday, people go to the mall and suddenly shots ring out. Thats our top story. It hadnt been open for very long on saturday when people started running for covering, hearing the barrage of bullets all around them. This Morning Police are still trying to determine just what may have sparked the senseless violence. Kristen welker is outside that mall in columbia, maryland, with the latest. Good morning. Reporter erica, good morning. This malo kated about 25 miles outside of washington, d. C. Remains closed this mor
His last public mass with cardinals as pontiff. His ceremony is beginning now with a procession to st. Peters villica. The 85yearold told his audience this morning that hes simply not Strong Enough physically or spiritually to continue. Its for the good of the church, he said. Pope benedict will spend his final day attending a ceremony with those cardinals. Now to the rain and snow headed this way. The clouds are already making it very glum outside. What you need to know with the latest storm. Its coming from the west. Right now the storm team 4 radar showing stri ining sprinkles tr reach the ground. A lot of them not reaching the ground. The areas in white, the left of your screen, in west virginia. Viewers watching west of westchester may have a few flakes hitting the ground there. And farther south some light rain. And then farther west of there to charlottesville. Closer to washington, some sprinkles hitting the ground. Probably is in northern fairfax into louden county into prince