A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senior senator from connecticutmenconnecticut. Mr. Bd and proud to the presiding officer the senator is in a quorum call. Mr. Blumenthal i apologize, mr. President. I ask the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blumenthal mr. President , im very proud to follow my colleague from New Hampshire and thank her for her leadership in offering the military retirement restoration act, which i am very pleased to support, as an amendment to the Unemployment Insurance extension bill. For all the reasons that ive stated and others have expressed even more powerfully than i, this bill makes sense. We must extend Unemployment Benefits for the longterm jobless. And the merits of this bill are absolutely indisputable and undeniable. This bill offers us a really critically important opportunity and we ought to seize it to correct and fix a deeffect in the budget a fix a defect in the budget agreement that was reached
The anth arctic. And revealing secrets from a tomb uncovered in egypt. Today the world saw at least some of those 276 nigerian schoolgirls for the First Time Since they were kidnapped almost a month ago. Their captored the heavily armed group, boko haram released a video. In it the group gave the government its demands, a prisoner release in exchange for the girls freedom. Reporter their kidnapping has shocked the world, and now these first images of nigerias missing girls are likely to cause further distress. The kidnappers are heard speaking in arabic, reciting lines from the quran. Three of the girls were also interviewed. Its hard to determine from the video the location where it was shot, boko haram leader also makes a separate appearance. In his second video since the girls were taken, he says he will not let the girls go unless incarcerated members of the group are released from custody. The government has repeatedly maintained it does not negotiate with what it calls terrorists
Enforcement when he holds rally at that airport in michigan. In later this evening, hes going to head to wisconsin to share his law and order message there. The president is trying to energize his base and win the backing of undecided voters as polls showing him trailing democratic rival joe biden with just 17 days to go until election day. We have live Fox News Team coverage, Hillary Vaughn is live in janesville and begin with kevin live in michigan, kevin. Reporter i hope you can hear me arthel. I mean, this is sort of a Party Atmosphere 17 days in a finish for the president you mentioned here in the state of michigan he did win four years ago let me show you where hes been over the past day and a half. Basically, were talking about florida, were talking about it georgia were also talking about coming here to michigan, and another stop here in the midwest making his way over to wisconsin yes a sprint to the finish now today, we do expect to hear a great deal about Law Enforcement in
We have been pushing against that ceiling this week. Currencies, yesterday it was the ecb decision that got things moving. The euro is slightly higher at 1. 362. Thats because the euro was so much weaker ahead of the news yesterday. Lets get over to andrew. He has some top corporate head liens for you. Good morning, andrew. Thank you, becky. I dont call these corporate headlines. Its like wall street fine headlines. Bank of america this morning reportedly now in talks to settle mortgage probes. The wall street journal reporting that the bank giant could pay more than are you ready for this, joe . 12 billion with a b. They did robo signing on people that were two years in arrears. To settle with the Justice Department in several states. The probes involve the handling of mortgages before the financial crisis. 5 billion of that number amounts to what is expected to go towards helping home owners in reducing principle amounts and monthly payments. Bank of america and the doj are not comme
Crash. But we now know had only suspected not o one, but two fire trucks ran over the girls body. She was covered in flame retar dent, foam. If there is anything certain we can learn from the event of that extraordinary day, were all about improving our operation. The ntsb report says minutes after the crash, two firefighters concluded the teenager was dead just by looking at her. They didnt check her breathing or pulse. The chief says firefighters acted within protocol for mass casualties. Theres a category not expecting to survive. Our members that day had difficult decisions to make. One was visualizing someone that appeared to be dead or expectant verses going on to a diverting plane with reports that people still need to be rescued. Reporter also under scrutiny . Training. Fire crews posted at the airport have to take a specialized aircraft rescue course, but their commanders do not. People think it should be considered to have that kind of training, o is it not necessary . At thi