Construction projects. All lanes are open on the inner loop where we started off with some construction and lane closures. That has cleared. No big problems or delays. All lanes open at this time there. 66, moving along in those usual hot spots. About 60mileperhour as you come in from centerville through manassas and in toward the beltway. From start, coming up, youre looking good. I know yesterday morning, we had quite a few earlymorning problems right along that stretch. Its good to see them moving right along. 295, also one of those delay free areas. Southbound and northbound, looking good. This is our live shot along south capital street. You can see very light conditions headed into toward the district. American legion, also absolutely beautiful. Looks like theyre picking up moderate conditions as you approach the American Legion. So far, so good. Jummy and scott. Well, our top story, a host of important issues will be in the spotlight today as president obama goes before the gene
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Lewis was one of many who rallied outside the court this morning for the Voting Rights act. They were there on a day the justices heard a challenge to a key section of the law it requires states with a history of discrimination mainly in the deep south to get federal approval, or pre clearance, before changing voting procedures or districts. Lewis argued the provision known as section five must be preserved. There are still forces in this country that want to take us back to another period, but were not going back. Weve come too far. Weve made too much progress to go back. The literacy test may be gone; but people are using other means, other tactics and techniques. So we still need section 5 and thats why we are here today standing up for the Voting Rights of all americans. applause brown in 1965, lewis helped lead 600 people across the Edmund Pettus bridge in selma, alabama, where police beat them with nightsticks and state troopers fired tear gas. The event became known as bloody su
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productins brown the Supreme Court heard a challenge today to the landmark Voting Rights act from alabama officials who said a key provision has outlived its usefulness. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Ifill and im gwen ifill on the newshour tonight. Marcia coyle fills us in on the Court Arguments followed by a debate on whether the whole the law is still needed. Brown then, ray suarez reports on the political push to tighten gun control laws, including a ban on assault weapons. Ifill does it matter where we work . Yahoo c. E. O. Marissa mayer sparks uprr by banning employees from working from home. Brown from our coping with Climate Change series, Hari Sreenivasan takes to the slopes and asks could rising temperatures endanger future ski seasons . You dont know if youre going to have good snow. You dont know if its going to come early or late, or if the spring is going to become warm, and the season is going to end prematurely. We just dont have
And civil rights leader john lewis was one of many who rallied outside the court this morning for the Voting Rights act. They were there on a day the justices heard a challenge to a key section of the law it requires states with a history of discrimination mainly in the deep south to get federal approval, or pre clearance, before changing voting procedures or districts. Lewis argued the provision known as section five must be preserved. There are still forces in this country that want to take us back to another period, but were not going back. Weve come too far. Weve made too much progress to go back. The literacy test may be gone; but people are using other means, other tactics and techniques. So we still need section 5 and thats why we are here today standing up for the Voting Rights of all americans. applause brown in 1965, lewis helped lead 600 people across the Edmund Pettus bridge in selma, alabama, where police beat them with nightsticks and state troopers fired tear gas. The ev