Como is talking about roads and mike, man, were all ears for the forecast. Its winds that will get you this morning and its taking 0s and teens and making it feel like Single Digits in suburbs. Going through all numbers and letting you know how long it will last, hey, erin. We have wind advisories in effect over the bay bridge and look at overnight construction lingering. All right, thank you both of you. If you just get up with us now 5 01 letset get you started on the news. Shockings in a Democratic Victory in Alabama Democratic doug jones besting roy moore to become the state first democratic senator in more than 20 years. Jones he election is a huge win for democrats nationwide and traditionally red state. His victory was aided by voter disgust with accusations against roy moore. Roy moore accuse of Sexual Misconduct of teenage girls during his time as a prosecutors. They believe the accusations could be true. And to build those bridges within across with those that deposit vote fo
People of these United States of america. I pray that they will serve with humility, dignity and honor. To enact laws that would be fair , just and equitable. You have blessed this nation with great wealth and great resources. Thank you. Help us to be mindful of the disenfranchised, the despondent, the dejected and especially those who have been affected by Hurricane Harvey and we pray for your protection for those in the path of Hurricane Irma. Lord god, i humbly beseech you to hear my prayer and enable this gathering to hear and believe in the power of prayer. In your holy name i pray, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings. And announces to the house his approval thereof. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from michigan, mr. Walberg. Mr. Walberg i ask all to join in the pledge. 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 l
Still on paid adminstrative leave, which is protocol for officerinvolved shootings. Because it is a part of an investigation. Officer jones is on leave which is protocol with officer involved shootings. He was cleared and last years shooting of jonathan gossman. The Attorney Says that state law prevents the release of the dashboard camera video. Dora miller is live at city hall with a breakdown of fake dora. We are at a City Council Meeting where the cry is just this, release the tapes. They are demanding that the tapes be released so they can see what happened. The City Attorney said that he cannot do it because its unlawful. Others say not so fast, there is more to it. The Public Information board deals with public records and both say it is up to the lawful custodian to make the decision to release the video. The custodian is the chief of police or the county attorney. They say they are not bound by law to hold onto the video and they can release it if they want. The city plans to r
Independent groups which we hired to figure out what would be the most vulnerable places and where the attacks would come from without us knowing about them. There was a basically, a process of replicating what might happen in an attack. We learned a great deal from this. The quantum dawn exercise occurred last july. We expect to do it again. The systems held up fairly well. We were reasonably accountable with the fact that the industry is doing a good job at trying to get ready for this type of a threat which we consider to be extraordinary. Is there anything you think regulators should do on the cybersecurity front . I think congress should do something. Congress has a responsibility to come up with decent cyber language which creates a proper sharing of information across agencies. This was a problem when i was there. We spent a fair amount of time on this. Those were the good old days. That is the way it should be today. Just kidding. [laughter] i didnt say that, barbara. Breaking
Week i hope this body can come together and reverse this provision which unfairly changes the terms of retirement for our veterans. Our veterans have stood up for us as a nation when theyre overseas and we must stand up for them here at home. The second, madam president , i want to express hope in the bipartisan spirit that just led to an agreement to debate the bill regarding restoring emergency unemployment. Ive had eight town halls over the weekend and i can tell you that it strikes people as fundamentally unfair that in states with high unemployment like the home state of oregon that these weeks of emergency unemployment which were a deal hammered out in a bipartisan fashion under a republican president , president bush, that this deal should be sent asunder. Indeed on december 28, 18,000 oregons families fought a lump of coal in their stocking. And in the course of this coming year another 58,000 oregon families will be thrown out in the cold, if you will, due to this action of fa