About 2 gallons working this afternoon on an executive nomination. Expected to vote on limiting debate on the next defense secretary. The chaplain of the house of representatives, father patrick conroy, will open the senate with prayer. The guest chaplain let us pray. Righteous god, deliver your people from evil. Set our lawmakers on safe paths, protecting them from dangers. Preserve them and their loved ones, keeping them from stumbling. Provide our senators with counsel, even in the night sessions, that they may prevail against the evil that seeks to destroy our nation and world. As they trust your loving kindness, may their hearts rejoice in your salvation. Lord, deal bountifully with them and the members of their staffs. We pray in your marvelous name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and
Is and how many massive it is. It had multiple centers and now a concentrated center so our computer models are getting a better grip and coming to a better consensus of the track of this storm. Look at this snow inland i just got a report from charleston, south carolina. 6inches of snow. So if charleston gets 6inches, you know that we can we could be in for it the storm will accelerate, intensify as it moves up and off the eastern seaboard. It will bomb out over new england and that means rapidlily intensify. There is a blizzard warning for our shore counties and also sussex county, delaware. A winter storm warning where you see the pink for philadelphia, south jersey and our adjacent suburbs and Winter Weather advisory as you go north and west further await from the storm but everybody sees the snow. Snow rates of one to 2inches an hour in that rapidly intensifying storm especially of course in that blizzard warning down the shore. Down the shore winds gusting to 50 miles an hour and
We are working hard to collect every penny that we can. I am out of time, apparently. Mrs. Titus. Thank you mr. Chairman. A lot of that money leftover though, was used quietly to pay for the continuation of the denver project, wasnt it . Are you talking about the money from the treasury for the last five years . Wherever you found that. Its not available to us. We cant use that money. We thought we could, and its money that essentially becomes, as i said deobligated as expenses come in and also sometimes that there are new expenses for whatever might have happened in, lets say, in 14, and that money is used in that year, so you can become antideficient after the fact, so to speak. So that 1. 3 billion was not available to us. We had hoped it would be. I was the staff person that had the cryptic conversation with the house staff back in june and we had we thought we had a plan when i mean, in my opinion, quite frankly, we are a victim of our success. We have gotten many more veterans ca
Farewell to gene wilder, a star of the screen who learned his craft here in iowa. [singing] . Trying hard to make it like gary cooper . We begin tonight with a developing story out of palo where a shooting Investigation Continues now. Fox 28 news is told it happened before 5 00 this afternoon at palo auto salvage. Investigators say 59yearold david mcvay admitted to shooting 45yearold melvin roberts. Mcvay told roberts that he was trespassing. An updater began and he shot robert an argument began and he shot roberts in the leg. Mcveigh was taken david mcvay was take into custody. It remains under investigation. The white house has met the goal of relocating 10,000 Syrian Refugees in the u. S. Many fleeing a terror hotbed like syria has become a hot political issue. Republicans warn islamic extremists could use the Refugee Program to infiltrate the u. S. The Obama Administration said it did not take corners when it came to vetting the men, women, and children admitted. The state program
Lifesaving medicine more affordable. The battle that could be coming soon for smokers in Johnson County. In the education level for state employees. Welcome to cbs 2 this morning. This is i83 where it crosses i 65. It is dark at 6 00 but the sun is poking up over the horizon and there are no problems to report so far on this Tuesday Morning. Welcome to cbs 2 this morning. I am kevin barry. I am there are lighter showers moving through the forecast, but we will keep an eye on the sky for possibility of heavier showers as the humidity continues to build. Lets look at the numbers. 74 at 10 to gert a 10 00 this morning. The super whopper 3d doppler shows a little bit of moisture just off to the east by the toward muscatine county. Here in cedar rapids, we are cloudy and muggy and we have had rain, but we are drying out. It is 69 right now. Visibility is 2 miles at decorah. Dubuque to monticello, a little fog. Sarah be a check city and 68 at monticello and 71 and iowa city. The wind is out