[applause] [applause] please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable kevin mccarthy, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Mr. Mccarthy good afternoon, and welcome to statuary hall. Kind of loud. Its great to be here in the peoples house with so many friends. Thank you all for coming out and celebrating a very special day. This is the first portrait unveil as being speaker and i could not think of a tearer friend to have of a dearer friend to have this opportunity than paul ryan. In this unveiling of the 54th speaker of the house, it celebrates a man who everybody in this room respects and admires. I remember before i even became a member of reading of paul ryan. I remember when i first got here, i became the freshman rep to the conference and i got to vote for who would be the Ranking Member on budget. I think that was a very smart decision from the very beginning of our relationship. But let me introduce, there are so many special people in the audience. First
For committing federal crimes u. S. Investigators file charges in the russia meddling probe but dont. Dont name anyone from the tribe campaign. Europe security is security zachariah charged. The man accused of raping and killing a seven Year Old Girl in pakistan is sentenced to death the crime sparked massive protests across the country. And im peter stomata its the Winter Olympics and japanese superstar using two hundred new has made history by becoming the first male figure skater in sixty six years to defend the gold medal. Fake identities staged political rallies and a Systematic Campaign of social media trolling just a few of the allegations made in a u. S. Indictment of thirteen russians and three companies for criminal and espionage conspiracy its part of the Ongoing Investigation into tampering with the twenty sixteen u. S. President ial elections but it does not say whether the Tram Campaign colluded with the Kremlin Mike Hanna reports from washington. And anti trump protest m
Heres whats coming up on sportsday tonight englands summer of cricket draws to a close, but will they have ben stokes for the winter . Well have the very latest on a very damaging week for the sport. Birmingham get the green light from the government and theyll be favourites to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Manchester city will be without Sergio Aguero this weekend after he broke a rib in a car crash. Theres also bad news for manchester united. Also coming up in the programme, the day sir viv traded in his carribbean hot spots for hot pots and landed in lancashire to play. Good evening. For the next half an hour. We will bring you all the very latest sports news. Some great features coming up, and well be looking ahead to the weekends football with trevor sinclair. But all this week, england cricket has been dominating our coverage. Not the mens and womens ashes squads for the winter series, they have been completely overshadowed by ben stokes arrest under suspicion of causing act
Injured. The shooter 64 yearold Stephen Paddock had a weapons, 23 rifles and handgun in his hotel room. In his home police found 19 guns, ammunition and explosives. And while isis claimed responsibility, federal investigators think there is no link to international terrorism. I want to emphasize we believe paddock is solely responsible for this heinous act. We are aware of the rumors outside of the media and also on social media, that there was more than one assailant. We have no information or evidence to support that theory or that rumor, we believe it was only one shooter and that was Stephen Paddock. Right now the detectives are working around the clock, to process that scene, based on the additional rounds they have found, they think this could have been so much worse. As we look at chilling video there were people from different walks of life link by this horrific tragedy. We are learning about all those people who who their lives, victims, couple celebrating their first annivers
But our temperatures are mostly in the 40s and 50s as we walk out the door, nothing on radar. Current temperature in philadelphia is 53. Northeasterly breeze and sunrise almost at that 7 00 oclock mark officially so 75 degrees another beautiful day, close to 70 by lunchtime. Sunset time 6 40. Another fantastic weather day to day, changes as we get into what for many will be the Holiday Weekend bob kelly because we have columbus day. Hold on do kid have off from school. I dont know. Good one. They will wait until sunday to inform me. Live look at 422, down to one lane here, heading in to king of prussia part of the overnight construction one of the few zones still active, and busy, day at the Pennsylvania Convention center , pennsylvania conference for woman expecting 12,000 visitors in center city , including our get speaker Michelle Obama around lunchtime hour. We will have increased volume on the Regional Rail lines and increased Traffic Volume around the Convention Center, plus, ext