Mr. Vice president , mr. Speaker, honorable members of congress, dear friends, i am most grateful for your invitation to address this joint session of congress in the land of the free and the home of the from which we have all received so much and toward which we share a common responsibility. Each son or daughter of a given country has a mission, a personal and social responsibility. Your own responsibility as members of congress is to enable this country, by your legislative activity, to grow as a nation. You are the face of its people, their representatives. You are called to defend and preserve the dignity of your fellow citizens in the tireless and demanding pursuit of the common good. For this is the chief aim of all politics. A Political Society endures when it seeks to stimulate the growth of all its members. Especially those in situations of the greater vulnerability of ri tsk, legislating the activity is always better to take care of the party. You are to serve those who elec
Catholics to come out for any pope. What did you see that this was different. Pope benedict was a man of ideas. John paul was a dramatic figure, but this man knows how to use a provocative gesture to symbolize kindness. Youve seen the steady line of babies, the pope reaching out to those who are disabled. They see in those gestures christ. Youve seen it for about three years, from the very beginning when he bowed down, saying pray for me, paying for his own room, those are the ways he preaches the gospel. We think about the airport in philadelphia the other day, reaching out to the young child in the wheelchair, but again, that is something we would expect, that sense of compassion. What did we see in terms of moments . One that staying in my mind. I teared up, ill confess, when he appeared before congress. Here is an event that would have been unthinkable in the 19th century, probably the first half of the 20th century, calling us the land of the free and the home of the brave, and ca
To answer his call to serve. Nightly news begins right now. Pope francis in america. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from philadelphia. Good evening. Within the next hour or so, pope francis is expected to board a plane and fly back to rome. His extraordinary sixday threecity journey to america concluding with a huge outdoor mass that wrapped up a short time ago here on Philadelphias Benjamin Franklin parkway. The pageantry of the moment in sharp contrast to a painful meeting the pope had earlier today in which he sat down with victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests and others in positions of trust, expressing to them his pain and shame, with victims advocate groups urging the pope to follow up his kind words with action. Anne thompson starts us off tonight. Reporter philadelphia reveling in the francis effect. At the popes final day of his firstever trip to the u. S. , a mixture of the joy of faith and the still painful business of the church. Fra
Refrigerator, but thats not really true. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday feb this is the cbs morning news for friday, february 5th, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. This morning a powerful storm sometimes known as the Pineapple Express is taking aim at the Pacific Northwest with floodproducing rains and strong winds. Flood and Wind Warnings and advisories are posted from washington all the way down to california. Wind gusts could reach 60 miles an hour. The storm is expected to ratchet up this morning and last through the weekend. Storm preparations are under way in northern california, which could see up to 10 inches of rain before its all over. Hillsides stripped from fires are a potential danger for mudslides. Meteorologist paul deanno of our San Francisco station kpix is tracking the dangerous weather. Most of the countrys pineapples are grown in hawaii and thats exactly where the Pineapple Express comes from. It works ac
Laws that we really want for our cities. Its hard for me to project from this particular when use issue. We dont have the laws [inaudible] the landuse. So, im going i artie thought about several things that we do that i can actually move us towards the path of reducing the usage or at least accessibility of these type of items from people. One [inaudible] we have seven vacancies right on the block. If this were to open up as a business today, doesnt mean that by tomorrow would have six more applicants . Probably not but theres a chance maybe another one would come up. So its important for me to look at a legislation to make sure that we do some cover measures in terms of insight clustering just like we did with some places in the city with medical marijuana. So, i appreciate again everyones thoughts on this. It wasnt an easy decision on my part. Im sure its not an easy decision they have intimate in a moment. Thank you very much okay. Not seen any other Board Members on the roster, we