Why dont we now go to supervisor farrell. Thanks, president chiu. So, colleagues, we are very lucky in district 2, i know we had [speaker not understood] in our own districts to have a ton of Amazing Restaurants, certainly along our commercial corridors. Today its a lot of fun for me to honor number of individuals who are running and own one of the restaurants on the street that i grew up on, on Chestnut Street down in the marina district. And the team from de la rosa. Want to welcome you guys up. I want to acknowledge [speaker not understood], the chief executive officer and the manager [speaker not understood]. Thank you all for being here very much. For those of you who havent gone to de la rosa, a few of you, my colleagues have already commented theyve been to the restaurant before down on chestnut. It is on Chestnut Street in between pierson steiner. It has become one of the main stays of Chestnut Street over the last five years since theyve been around. These proprietors also hav
In my view thats a military purpose. The lawmakers say the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School show that assault weapons need to be banned. A number of the police who came to newtown said to me we could not have stopped that shooter. Even with the body armor we were wearing with that kind of assault weapon. But Vice President biden downplayed the need for an asalts weapons ban thursday. He said those weapons are only used in a small percentage of crimes. Im much less concerned, quite frankly, about what youd call an assault weapon than i am about magazines and the number of rounds that can be held in a magazine. And even sponsors of the bill acknowledge an assaults weapons ban is a tough sell on capitol hill. We owe it to our constituents and our country to try. The nra calls the feinstein bill a wrongheaded approach and said gun bans dont work. Now, the original passage of the assault weapons ban in 1994 is blamed for costing the democrats both control of the house and the senate
The Obama Administration takes its push for gun control to virginia today. Vice President Joe Biden will meet with gun Safety Experts in richmond. Its the opening for the growing support to curb kbun violence. Yesterday Congressional Democrats introduced a plan to ban assault weapons but even they admit thats an uphill battle. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Annemarie, good morning. The ban would be tougher than the assaults weapons ban that expired in 2004. It would ban 157 different militarystyle filearms, so with such a tight fight again they believe public support will help them win public support measures. Vice President Biden is heading to virginia to try to gain public support for president obamas gun support proposals. Its not about keeping bad guns out of good people but keeping bad guns from bad people. They joined a group of democrat it lawmakers. Dianne feinstein introduced her own bill. Militarystyle assault weapons have but one purpose and in my view
Cane abel, romulus remus. My boys are perfect and they get along every minute of every day. Sure. Still ahead on monday on starting point because its friday from the winners to the losers to the fashion, well have a complete recap of the s. A. G. Awards, they take place sunday night plus the hit amc show the walking dead David Morrissey will join us to talk about that. Remember the darth vader volkswagen ad, sneak peek at the ads for the super bowl. Cnn newsroom with Carol Costello right now. Thank you, soledad. Conservatives in charlotte with a sweeping message of change. We have to stop being the stupid party. We must quit big. We are not the party of big business, big banks, big wall street bailouts, big loopholes or big anything. Governor bobby jindal and the importance of messaging. The first u. S. President to support samesex marriage in his inaugural address, this morning the head of the gay and Lesbian Task Force is here to talk obama, defense of marriage act and gays in the wo
Hasnt already, totally end any kind of talk that he could be up to become our next president. Aides say he will give an official statement at the Republican National committee official ruling himself out of any nomination. Lets go to our senior political reporter manu raju live on capitol hill with all of the details. Listen, he said no multiple times before. But finally this is it, is it really . It seems that way. Paul ryan has dealt with this increased speculation that he needs maneuvering behind the scenes to position himself for a possible run in a deadlock convention. Hes tried to end all that chatter. For months weve been asking him. He said no, im not running. Its only seemed to intensify the speculation and the chatter also among people in the Party Establishment who are worried about ted cruz, who are worried about donald trump and view paul ryan as a savior. Hes going to make the case very clearly that no matter what he will not accept the republican nomination. He is of cou