Marriage legal. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, good morning, im randall pinkston. Today is the day the senate must decide what to do with the patriot act. Its a controversial law covering everything from how the n. S. A. Collects information without a warrant to the handling of terror suspects. The law passed in the wake of the september 11 attacks but expires june 1. The senate will be on recess when that happens. As libby casey reports many are now questioning whether the law should remain in effect. 14 years after the patriot act and the attacks of 9 11, lawmakers and americans are still grappling with however the government should go. The debate is whether the act has made america safer at the trillion dollars cost to implement it. The civil rights attorney argues that it has not made the country safer and understands the cost goes beyond money to civil liberties. What the patriot act was put together and rushed through Congress Post 9 11, a lot of republicans a
Midterm elections fast approaching can congress likely to get anything done . First, the pentagon now considering air strikes on isis targets in syria after the murder of james foley at the hands of the terror group. So far u. S. Strikes with drones and fighter jets had been limited to iraq. But the heart of the terrorist group lies next door in syria. Top military leaders are making it clear this week they will do whatever is necessary to protect americans. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin joins us live from washington. Jen, do we have a time line on the series of strikes or is the pentagon still in the planning stages . No time line as as of let. A senior official tells us in the wake of the foley execution the Defense Department actively began weighing options for the president po include air strikes in syria against isis as well as the possibility of spending u. S. Special operations troops on the ground. A dramatic shift from the narrow mission the president outlin
killing middle-class jobs. jim acosta is out on the campaign trail in florida in st. petersburg right now. here s the question, is mitt romney starting to feel the heat? what s going on? reporter: that s right, wolf, he is. at an event here in st. petersburg, florida, mitt romney did not take reporters questions about his former private investment firm bane capital. in fact, his campaign went out of its way to block reporters asking romney about bane. it was all caught on video. thank you. thank you. reporter: standing in front of a mini national debt clock, mitt romney left no doubt about his message of the day. if i m president i m actually going to take responsibility and lead and get us on track to have a balanced budget. reporter: and after the event was over as romney was shaking hands with supporters along the rope line, aides to the gop contender made sure the candidate stayed on topic. this press aide physically stood in the path of reporters trying to
a cold front will get in later this afternoon that could kick off an isolated thunderstorm. most of the day will be dry, warm and humid, highs as mentioned in the mid-80s. cooler weather on the way. details coming up in a couple minutes. daytime highs, 85 washington, 87 fredericksburg, 86 la plata. speaking of, traffic and julie has your latest. sunny and 85 who can come lain. it is perfect. on the roads crew in sky fox checking out our drive coming in along 66. good morning to our team once again as you work your way eastbound. we were in fog a few moments ago coming eastbound, 234 to manassas. now we are into the sunshine. you will be coming through the fog into the bright sun glare as you head in towards 123 through vienna. in the clouds, fog and bright sunshine keeping you guys on if brakes, headed guys on the brakes headed eastbound. let s update the drive, northbound 395, across the 14th street bridge. nice and easy headed for southeast, southwest freeway. 295,
we ll see some sunshine later on. it s going to be a warmer day and that will set the stage for warm air making it s ens known in our area its presence known for tomorrow. and we do have a few clouds out there this morning pushing few. we ll see more clouds push through but then mostly sunny skies by the latter part of the day. the clouds are moving in from the east like we were seeing yesterday. also want to mention there have been areas of fog and mist this morning. current temperatures, 67 degrees in the district. 66 in baltimore. dulles airport is at 67. fredericksberg 68. ocean city is at 61 degrees at this hour. the forecast for today, some early-morning fog and some mist and some cloud cover becoming mostly sunny though. high of 81 degrees. i ll tell you how warm we think it will get tomorrow coming up in just a few moments. right now let s go to julie wright and get an update on traffic. we re talking about 270 and the mess that s been all morning. a crash down at