days from today. we re seeing key developments here in the final stretch shaking up the battleground states with power in the senate hanging in the balance. we ll watch day-by-day as we get closer. new hour starts right now. dana is off today. back tomorrow. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. sandra: cruised through the first hour. i m sandra smith. election day is now just five weeks away. democrats are losing ground in one key state, pennsylvania, where the senate race is getting tighter there. democrat john fetterman watching his lead slip away as dr. oz gains momentum and closing the gap. it dropped from 11 points in mid-summer to 4.3 in the latest real clear politics average. as that race gets tighter, both sides arguing who is tougher on crime. i m sick of oz talking about john fetterman and crime. the truth. john gave a second chance to those who deserved it. john fetterman has the courage to do what s right. dr. oz doesn t know a thing about crime. they endo
On sunday, august 2nd booktv is live with media benjamin cofounder of the Political Advocacy Group code pink on in depth, our live monthly callin show. Shes the author or editor of nine books including her most recent an investigation into the use of drones for military purposes, drone warfare. Other titles include the greening of the revolution which examines cubas use of organic agriculture and stop the next war now on how to create political change through activism. Her other books cover topics such as how to aid People Living this the third world profiles of Inspiring Women and further examinations of cuba. Media benjamin, live, sunday august 2nd on in depth. And you can participate by sending your questions or comments to facebook. Com booktv, on twitter booktv or call in. Ginger adams otis talks about the 100year struggle to integrate the new York City Fire department which continues today. The fdny has only 300 black firefighters out of a total of 11,000. During this event held
To serve you as we seek to keep america the land of the free and the home of the brave. Abide with our lawmakers, be their companion as they labor to keep this nation strong. Drive away all snares of the enemy, and may no weapon formed against them be able to prosper. Make our senators models of excellence and integrity for our nation and world. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the Senate Majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , let me quote from a letter i recently received from our colleagues across the aisle. Heres what they said were writing to reiterate our interest in working cooperatively to facilitate the fiscal year 2017 appropriations process. As we see it,
Reviewing and current track of joaquin. Hurricane joaquin path has moved east and looks like it will miss us. Good morning and happy friday, im daniel miller. Im Catherine Parrotta and while thats good news later this week we are seeing rain later this morning and shiri spear tracking both as we head into the weekend. Hi, shiri. Good morning, you guys and going to start off with couple headlines about the rain today and stepping out we have more rain the forecast for just about all of us and even more for the cape and islands where we get hit the hardest but Hurricane Joaquin 8 00 a. M. Advisory came through and winds havent changed, motion hasnt changed it is still a tremendous storm for the bahamas, cat four hurricane and as it tracks up toward us thats where the big changes come in the last 24 hours so i got a look at that much further out to sea forecast came through and late last night coming up in a couple but for right now i got showers from boston and worcester where we have sp
For his wonderful remarks. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] you are watching American History tv. Like us on facebook. Welcome to Grand Junction, situated on the Colorado River on the high desert of western colorado. This city of 59,000 season average of 200 85 days of sun per year. Making it ideal for outdoor enthusiasts as well as growers. Without from our Charter Communications Cable Partners, we will look at the history of Grand Junction. Here about the area positive contribution of development of the atomic weapons in the 1940s. When the Atomic Energy commission started in 1940 seven, Grand Junction becomes a regional hub for uranium purchase. How earlyfind out turned it into an agricultural center. They said water is more precious than gold. It is our light source and blood source. Without it, we would be anot