The authors of the books featured. The u. S. House plans to meet tomorrow at noon eastern till the first floor vote to elect a speaker since congressman Kevin Mccarthy was ousted from the position nearly two weeks ago. Watch our live gavel to gavel coverage of the house on cspan. In the meantime the senate is returning to the after a weeklong recess. Lawmakers will debate the nomination of Jeniffer Hall to be use District Court judge for delaware. A vote to advance her nomination is scheduled for this afternoon at 5 30 p. M. Eastern. And now live to the senate floor here one cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal lord god, the author of peace, as wars and rumors of wars bombard us, we turn our eyes to you. In the past you have brought order from chaos, light from darkness, truth from falsehood, peace from conflict, and hope from despair. Please do it again. Today, use our lawmakers as instruments of your peace. May they strive to please you in all that they think, say, and do. Lord,
Heartland yet again. The plains bracing for another day of tornado outbreaks. Our meteorologist Angie Lassman is tracking the danger for you this morning. And inflation taking a bite out of fast foods bottom line. And would you be down to staying in the house from up . Or does x mark the spot at the xmen mansion . Airbnb opens the door to a dream come true for iconic franchises. Its thursday, may 2nd, early today starts right now. Good morning, glad youre with me. Im frances rivera. We begin with the protests on campuses coasttocoast. Activists are trying to get universities to divest from the state of israel. The most volatile situation is at the ucla campus in california. A tent city was attacked by proisraeli counter protesters. Lapd antiriot forces are currently deployed on campus. For the latest, lets get to brie jackson. Good morning. Can you recap the events for us overnight . Reporter good morning, frances. So yesterday was an explosive day for universities across the country.
And we thank her for her decades of service to this country. All of our thoughts with her family. We will continue this breaking News Coverage the death of senator Dianne Feinstein continues now with cnn news central. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. And we do continue with the breaking news, Scrat Cdemocrati senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away at the age of 90 years old. We have of course seen the senators struggles with her health in recent years, she has been previously hospitalized in august after a fall. We now want to get to Cnns Wolf Blitzer who is taking a look back at her life and incredible legacy. Announcer Dianne Feinstein emerged on the National Stage after a 1978 tragedy in San Francisco. Mayor moss coney and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. Reporter after the Assassinations Feinstein was sworn in as the first female mayor of the city by the bay. Mayor feinstein quickly got the attention of the National Democratic party on a short list of vp cand
All of which tend to make us less and less efficient, less and less successful. Lessan and less able to do the will of the people. Less and less able to really do the things weve been sent here to do. Now were having a lost complaining about what is goinga on right now but, to make a long story short the democrats were pushing Financial System that was bound to take us right into bankruptcy. Yeah, we might have have had two more years where payments could be made but we gone right straight to hell as far as being able to handle the matters that are so important to everyone of us in this country. Now i have to admit our side has some flaws too. Some of our people think that, you know, we should do a better job without any money. Or the we should do a better job without any increase in taxes. Or we should do a better job without, without the federal government. Both sides have been in error. Both sides have been from time to time wrong. I have to say a former democrat when i was coming u
With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well call to order the subcommittee communications and technology and i want to welcome everyone here today and wish a very good morning to chairman wheeler and commissioner pay, delighted to have you back before the subcommittee again this year. We appreciate the work youre doing at the fcc and i look forward to your testimony and our opportunities to pursue some issues. At the risk of sounding a bit like a broken record, however i continue to be concerned with the commissionys failure to adhere to sou