Today i am announcing that in the coming weeks, i will be resigning as a member of the United States senate. Let me be clear. I may be resigning my seat but i am not giving up my voice. I will continue t to stand up for the things that i believe in as a citizen and as an activist. It looks like in this situation here when you have that ground swell of people on your side saying time to get out, you really cant be an effective leader regardless but he did take that opportunity to fire some salvos from the floor. Yeah, he absolutely did. Lets take a listen actually well get to Tom Fitzgerald right now. Fitz obviously a lot of talk about this one today. Reporter well, we can talk about those salvos, jim, because it really did open a lot of eyes. What he said when he was on the floor of the u. S. Senate today was standing there unaware of the fact that he was leaving the United States senate when the president of the United States and the Republican Senate candidate for the seat in alabama
An Anne Arrundel is asking roy moore to refund a 1,000 donation. He says he waited to make the request by email because he expected moore to drop out of the Alabama Senate race. Civil rights icon john lewis says he will not be at this weekends opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum because President Trump will be there. The georgia congressman was supposed to speak during the event but he said the president s hurtful policies are an insult. And breaking right now on capitol hill, the house has passed a temporary funding bill to avoid a government shut down this weekend. The measure passed 235 to 193. This running through december 22nd. The plan is to buy more time including the budget a Childrens Health program and federal aid to puerto rico. Firefighters investigating a possible case of arson in montgomery county. Crews responded to a townhouse fire on cedarwood drive in rockville just after 2 oclock. One person was injured, two were displaced from the home. They have one pers
Christmas. Im excited shopping done . Not yet. I like the challenge of lastminute shopping. Slowly but surely. Well start with a live look this morning. Boy, isnt that beautiful . Great sky out there. What a difference a day makes yesterday. Of course, we were dealing with the on coming onslaught of the first snov the season. Didnt turn to be be to much onslaught. Things cleared up nicely and bright, brisk day out this morning. It was nice to sai see grassy area covered and winter wondrerland. Lets look at the snow from yesterday. Flakes started falling after 8 00 and kept going most of the day and mid afternoon i would say most of the city looked like a winter wondrerland, right, gary. Beautiful, beautiful. Snow stopped and we are in for a change now. You know, weve been unseasonably warm the last couple weeks. Dpary that stopped now and were into real, real winter weather. Yeah, part of the week. Cold air comes in and settles in a couple days. The the pattern looks like overall will
Now the latest on the man accused of trying to carry out a terrorist attack in new york city this morning. According to investigators ula strapped a crude pipe bomb to himself and set off the bomb. Busy Port Authority hub time james. He satisfied he was inspired by isis to carry out the attack and set off a bomb as retaliation for u. S. Air strikes on isis and claims he has no direct contact with the terror group. Witnesses describe a chaotic scene after the bomb went off. I see a group of people like 60 people and women fell and nobody because the panic what was so scary. And new york governor said the man making instructions on internet. He and three others were hurt and none of the to be lifethreatening. And not part of a larger attack also ton those thoseing donald trum. Tom fitzgerald is could could having this from the hill. Hey, fitz. Names are jessica hole i have, rachel leads and crooks. Ul three women in new york city detailed what they say was a pattern of Sexual Harassment
Had this individual had any wherewithal toll what he was doing he may have created something exactly a low great explosive what he used and he probably would have done it considerable amount more damage. And the good news is high grade explosives and are difficult to come by and its hard to find syntax and c 4 as you know a result of explosion down at the building with Timothy Mcvay and accessibility to fertilize ear in subways and people ghoing for the Holiday Season. Anything we can do to protect ourselves. To be candid and truvl absolutely not. If you see something, say something. I think what people have to understand is that people come into a terminal like Grand Central and come in droves like cattle and preoccupied with the weather and preoccupied with getting work on time and any other number of distractions and on a daytoday basis and we cannot expect them to have what we refer t awareness and thats our ability to look at situations or conditions with surrounded with and reali