Girls homes. A firefighter died after battling a blaze over the weekend will be laid to rest. Gabriel lee died in the basement gym of engine 50 fire station in north philadelphia. Lee is a 17year veteran at the department. The cause of death has not been disclosed. In baltimore, case closed in the death of freddie gray. They dropped the charges of the three remaining police officers. Three others were already acquitted. Gray died after sustaining a neck injury in the custody of Baltimore Police officers. The death triggered days of protests and riots. The man that shot Ronald Reagan will soon be free. He will go live with his elderly mother in virginia. Hes been in prison in a Psychiatric Hospital since the shooting. He shot four men, including reagan in front of the washington hotel. Reagans daughter, patty davis says she is, quote, sickened, but not surprised by his release. The als ice bucket challenge resulted in more than funny videos. The money funded a breakthrough in research.
Workers. We meet orphans caught up in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine even though there is supposed to be a ceasefire. Sports story this friday six months ahead of the rio olympics one of the most successful countries kenya could find itself ban from the games. Right now its only an agreement on paper and wont result in a complete ceasefire or an end to russian bombing, following a marathon meeting in germany world powers have settled on what they are calling a cessation of hostilities in syria beginning in a weeks time. One priority is delivering food, medicine and shelter to besieged towns and cities and james base reports from munich. Reporter 19 delegations the sponsors of International Peace efforts in syria gathering in an effort to get things back on track. But the most important meeting happens several hours early on the 15th floor of the same munich hotel, this is where Russian Foreign minister Sergei Fedorov and u. S. Secretary of state john kerry came facetoface. And if you
Last week. We are getting a great start. Its mild but warming up. We start with a live look heading out this saturday morning. It is partly cloudy, temperatures mild thanks to the cloud cover. 57 in oakland right now, 54 San Francisco, 56 san josi. No freezing temperatures out there this morning. Checking the headlines today, mild start and patchy fog out there this morning, partly cloudy today and dry and mild this weekend. As i mentioned, we have the possibility of showers in the forecast. I think well see march rain, so well talk about that coming up in a bit. Looking forward to that. Happening today, voters are at the polls in South Carolina to take part in the states democratic primary. This comes a week after donald trump won the republican primary. Hillary clinton is expected to win over Bernie Sanders. Polls will close at 4 00 p. M. Our time so stay with us for the latest results. March 1st is super tuesday. Hundreds of delegates are up for grabs in several states. Vice Preside
In which he outlined his Climate Action plan. So i was reading a legal opinion recently and it said a president s speech is certainly not a matter of law but the president making these International Agreements has through regulation pursued his commitments that he is making. But other countries that are part of these agreements are not doing the same thing so the u. S. Is being penalized because of these extreme actions. So what you all are doing, and im reading from a legal opinion that mr. Tribe wrote, you are forcing a select set of victims including consumers communities regions, businesses and utilities to bear a substantial part of what is a global problem that even you and your predecessor indicated that these regulations were not solved so you are asking for 425 million more dollars than last year. A lot of that money is going to go to hire additional lawyers to defend them litigate these extreme regulations so we look forward to the opportunity today in exploring this situatio
Priority for me is the issue of Environmental Justice and making sure the states are providing adequate direction in order to achieve the interest of local income and minority communities. In cases where safe may not be sure how to conduct Environmental Justice analysis or how to define an Environmental Justice community then i believe that it would be very helpful if the epa provided states with guidance Technical Assistance and resources to help protect the most vulnerable communities that have the least amount of influence to help themselves. Can you speak to this issue and assure me that the epa is listening and working with the Environmental Justice groups as the agencies prepares to finalize the rule and two the agencies will provide states with guidance data, tools and resources to help identify and protect these communities i can assure you of that,ranking member and point out the Environmental Justice budget is given an increase this year which will go a long way to provide th