Coronavirus briefing with vermont governor phil scott to keep longterm commitment to coverage of the us senate. You can watch the remainder of this briefing on cspan. Org. Senate lawmakers are completing work on the third coronavirus economics to me was plan, final vote on the bill is expected today. Now live coverage of the u. S. Senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god, our father, we lift up our hearts in prayer because we trust in you. Lord, we know well the weakness and the insecurity of our hold upon this life. Comfort those who have lost loved ones during this Global Health crisis. When we wrestle with sad memories of mortal loss, give us all the glorious hope of life eternal. Lord, provide our lawmakers with the confidence that your allsufficient grace and power will enable them to become more than conquerors during this time of trouble. Remind them t
Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious complex security challenges now than we have faced before. The hearings and briefings we have held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The administrations budget request of 603 billion for base requirements is 6 above the 17 enacted level and 3 above the last Obama Administration Budget Proposal. Its 37 billion below what this committee assessed last fall was needed and 58 bi
Tuesday october 21st, 2014. Oh, that is an interesting story the states verse the feds in the battle over football. Should be interesting. Lets talk about weather because you sue, we understand there could be a trace of rain on the radar. A little bit but you no he what we will do we will Start Talking about temperatures because it is so much different from yesterday where all we could talk about was how cold it was, i say it was because it is not so cold today. We were right around freezing in mount pocono. 48 degrees. Fifty in pottstown. Fiftyfour in the city. And, it looks like 52 in millville, 52 in wildwood. These temperatures, for your information, are about 16, 12, 15, 14 degrees warmer then we were yesterday at this time. The bottom line is even though you will need your umbrella, possibly, you wont need to bundle up. Weve got this low pressure system kind of bringing moisture into the a area. A as we youll in closer quite a few clouds. That is why we didnt get the so cold and
What they say the city should focus on instead of where they are smoking. Good day everyone it is tuesday october 21st, 2014. So much news this morning. Little bit warmer. We will get to sue in a moment. But our reporters are working on top store thinks morning. Steve keeley is live in trenton where lawyers for all four major sports leagues are expect to argue against Sports Betting in the garden state. And then Jennifer Joyce is live at Philadelphia School district headquarters with the small victory for the Teachers Union. A lot more on both of those stories but first sue serio has your weather on the ones and your traffic. Yes, you will notice a big difference when you walk out the door this morning if you are just joining us, temperatures air lot milder then they were yesterday at this time. We will start off with the number of the day, we are giving you a seven, much milder temperatures as we said, a bit of sunshine this afternoon, at times, but generally mostly cloudy skies and s
Today were looking to find out how this Security Breach at the white house happened. Good tuesday afternoon from the fox news deck. Prosecutors are once again telling a jury that jodi arias must die. That as the convicted killer gets a second shot at saving her own life. He penalty phase retrial started in phoenix and this is a picture from the courtroom. Looks familiar. She is still wearing the same glasses but she got rid of the bangs. Jurors will not decide whether she is guilty of murder. We already know that. She is very much guilty of murder. Instead theyll decide whether the state should execute her after the original jury couldnt decide on that. Last year, the jury convicted jodi arias of murdering her exboyfriend, travis alexander. The jodi arias claims why she she nearly cut his head off. The jury saw pictures of jodi arias, ones she took, seconds before the murder, showing her lover in the shower. Prosecutors shot the undergruesome pictures of the corpse, naked in the shower