Andre yanku to be director of the u. S. Patent and trademark office, a confirmation vote scheduled for 5 30 eastern this afternoon. Later this week, a shortterm government funding bill to keep federal operations running past thursday is expected to come to the floor. We will have live coverage here on cspan2. O order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god our rock, we look to you for safety in a chaotic world. Were grateful that you hear our prayers, responding to our requests for help. Be a shield for our senators, protecting them from dangers seen and unseen. As they put their trust in you, fill them with your spirit, giving them confidence in the unfolding of your powerful providence. Lord, remind them that no weapon formed against them will ultimately prosper. Lead them like a shepherd beside still water, as you fill their hearts with your peace. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reci
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It. When you look a little bit closer on ultimate doppler you can see that counterclockwise swirl creating that spin in that environment that is why were still see very heavy rain and some of those poe then shall tornadoes but nothing in our region right now. We do have flash floor warning in effect for kent and says sucks county in delaware and Cumberland County new jersey until 6 00 oclock tonight. S were he look closer 2. 4inches of rah nine dover. Over 5inches in Cumberland County where we have flooding occurring near for tess ski and 3. 6 just to the south of millville. As we widen out you can see on ultimate doppler this area of low pressure and that area of low pressure is going to continue to move toward the north and east and as it does, it will pull all of that rain along with it. But guess what . We still will have a few lingering showers this evening. It will be slow to clear across the Delaware Valley but heres the bright Silver Lining in that cloud. The weather only gets
Stuff what happened to the marble book copy book. Composition book. And number two pencil. And a trapper keeper. That is okay. Everything. But, it is time to do that once again and buy all those supplies. It is starting to feel touches of fall a little bit. Right, with the le humidity we will get after the rain gets out of here we will start thinking about that. It is, august after all but we will start off with a number of the day which is a bigger number then yesterday, it is seven out of 10 but as you will see here on radar we still have some rain around the area, especially to the south of us, southern delaware , jersey shore, we will zoom in closer, and show you a couple of showers in Lancaster County a few scatter showers in the pocono mountains this system is not quite out of here just yet. We have got 68 degrees. We have shifted our wind direction though, it is northwesterly breeze at 5 miles an hour so we will have slow, clearing, today, sunrise time 6 06. 58 degrees mount poc