Through carroll, far northeast tuscarawas and southern stark counties headed off toward the north and east so columbiana and mahoning counties, heads up. We are also tracking a slug of rain coming from the i75 corridor. That is moving toward tiffin and into the mt. Vernon area. If this rain holds together, it will move into tiffin just after 12 30 or so. So, we are kind of just in and out of these scattered showers d i dont think we will see a ton of thunderstorm activity, but there may be a few rumbles of thunder in conjunction with the showers. Temperatures only, in quotation marks there, only, copping out in the lower 80s today. Thats a big improvement, right, over the 90s from last week. But it is still pretty sticky out there. We will talk about how long this we have in terms of rain chances. Theres more rain forecast in southern louisiana where flooding has left thousands of people in shelters. Over the weekend there were more than 20,000 water rescues. Don champion getting answe
We want to start off today with a debate closer to home gas prices. Congress is considering raising the federal gas tax. The money could be used on bridges and infrastructure. We want to get your thoughts and comments on this issue. You can also join in on the conversation, many already have, on our Facebook Page. Or send us a tweet. Good sunday morning to you. Front page of the Washington Post focusing on two big stories. First of all, in france, the Prime Minister saying that the country is at war. Next to that, jeb bush and mitt romney beginning to maneuver on a potential bush romney primary in 2015. I want to share the story with you from cnbc on gas prices. According to the aaa, gas prices have dropped putting over 14 billion in the pockets of consumers. The question of whether or not the congress should increase the tax rate it is argued that consumers can take it. Speaker the house john boehner sharing his thoughts. How we will funded, we will have to work our way through this.
President joe biden, nancy pelosi, attorney general eric holder, congressman bob goodlatte, and james clybourn. This is just under an hour. I guess we will go ahead thats even better will get started. I assume everyone has a program. When it gets too loud, i will stop. We have waited a long time for this. Look around the room. Look at the portraits. Its going to be very interesting to have the congressman looking over at all of these individuals and these individuals looking over the congressman. Im going to get started right away as we should start. That is with invocation. Our good friend dr. Wendell anthony who is not only the president of the detroit double naacp if you could come forward and give the invocation. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon everybody. The longestserving congressman in the history of the u. S. Congress. [applause] for the historic occasion by which we have gathered and for those of us who live in detroit, we are proud of this individual who has led the way
Host here are the front pages of international papers. France and United Kingdom taking a look at the tax attacks in paris. The response in the Washington Post this morning and editors have this. Again, those are the thoughts of the Washington Post this morning as far as the reaction. For the first 45 minutes, we are interested in hearing from you on how the world should respond to these attacks in paris. Again, the numbers to call in. President obama was in tennessee yesterday to talk at a Community College. He remarked on the incident in paris and the u. S. Response. [video clip] we have been in close touch with the french government throughout this tragedy. The moment that that attack took place, we directed all of our Law Enforcement and counterintelligence operations to provide whatever support that our allies need in confronting this challenge. We are hoping that the immediate threat is now resolved. The french government continues to face the threat of terrorism. It has to remai
Just think of that. 12 democrats, 11 republicans, Something Like that. Today we have over 60 House Democratic women. [applause] not enough. We want more. But all of us who were there, that dozen of us for the time, we took responsibility to try to put more women in congress across the country. I am proud that in california our delegation of democrats is a majority of women, not even counting our two senators. Women are empowered in california. I also want to acknowledge that although our members are great here, two of our colleagues have gone on to the senate. Senator elect Tammy Baldwin [applause] senator elect mazie hirono. Only the second woman of color to serve in the senate. That is very exciting. Unfortunately we do not have kathy hochul this next congress, but the future is soon coming upon we know they will be making a great public contribution. So here we are. We are still finishing up some of our campaigns. We are very proud of the success as you see here today. Why is it imp