Ruling in the heavens. Keep our lawmakers faithful to you, as you use them to accomplish your purposes. May they hear the groans of the poor, the cries of the helpless, and the moans of the oppressed. Help our senators to cause justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Give them the wisdom to find in you a refuge in turbulent times, remembering that you will never abandon those who seek you. Grant them the greatness of being on your side doing your will on earth, even as it is done in heaven. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask the chair lay before the senate a message from the house of representatives
Good afternoon, were going to go to head get started we would like to welcome you to the skeleton in the closet decision im president Trinity University here in san antonio and this is my colleague lidia pine and we want to first of all, say thank you for coming to the session, and we want to thank the San Antonio Public Library as well as Southwest School of arts and craft ares for opening up their facilities for this great event today, and we are also supposed to encourage everybody to please post any of your photos were your tweets and things please put them up on social media. And use the hashtag hrveg sa book fest civil for twitter so please put those out there out into the internet i should say. I would first of all like to ask everybody to please silence your cell phone if you havent done that please put those off and informed us that flash photography is not permit masters degree the room. The way that the seventh going to work today is is that im goinged to a brief introductio
Down. It was this time that five department of correction employees were taken hostage. Now, that starts at 10 30 and at 2 40 one of the five hostages that was injured was released identified as a 35yearold correction officer and struck numerous times in the face with fists and a mop ringer. He is ted to be awake and four hostages inside and one counselor inside of building c. A flow down unit where inmates from maximum security is processed into medium security and we dont have an official count of the hostage takers at this point and reports of as many as 35 and they are not confirmed. Nor do we have specific demands or threats against the hostages, authorities are not taking questions or answering questions at this point in time. They are trying to have a situation where they have an ongoing situation to negotiate peaceful resolution and the department of correctional personnel and fbi are involved. They are not taking questions but indicated every hour they will put outp dates abou
City that mourns, the police chief of the departments that lost their fellow officers. The president of the united states, his sitting predecessor gathered in dallas to honor the five officers gunned down in a downtown protest against Police Shooting of africanamerican men in louisiana and minnesota. The final words came from president obama who acknowledged in his time in office he has spoken at too Many Services of those killed in the Mass Shootings like this. He said its hard but he holds out hope. President president obama we dont have militia on the street. Instead we have public servants. Police officers. Like the men who were taken horace next the funerals for the five fallen officers begins tomorrow. Michelle thank you. This is what it looked like last night in dallas where at least a thousand people gathered to mourn the fallen officers. Much like today, portraits of the officers were on display as friends and family took their time to speak about the losses. Stay with abc7 fo
Eastbound sahara is blocked off at burnham avenue, which is just before the eastern intersection. Use desert inn and charleston to get around this one. While were talking about sahara, use caution around sahara and valley view where nv energy is reporting an outage. 2,0 customers are without power in the area. Theres a crash just off the westbound 25 exit to south decatur. Its blocking the right shoulder. Hours after a man was killed on the east side of the valley. brian loftus it happened around 11last night at boulder highway and nellis. Police say a man was crossing the street againt the signal. And was hit by a car. Police say the driver did not seem to be impaired and speed was not a factor. sgt. Richard strader metro police historically, over the past few years, these next few months are when our numbers start increasing. We dont want to see that happen. Letse but the only people who can make that change are you and me who are out here driving around, walking around, being parts