Panel, is going to focus on policy issues, policy issues who gets to come into the country, how, who gets to be naturalized, how, those kinds of issues, state governments, and also policy issues that have to do with the church itself, integration of our catholics. My apologies. Proper integration of catholics into american life. So those kinds of issues were going to focus on today. We hope to have a great discussion about what catholic policy issues are like, what catholics opinion, roles positions in policy debates of today, but we also believe the Historical Context, the history of catholics dealing with these kinds of issues, is also important. That will be provided as well. Im going to introduce our speakers and the order they will appear. Were going to begin with todd scribner, the Outreach Coordinator for the migration and Relief Services at the u. S. Conference of bishops. He focuses on issues of migration, Catholic Church, American History, dealing with immigration. He has a p
Delayed benefits to the families of children dying on faraway battlefields. It is time for our lawmakers to say enough is enough. Shame with the robe of your righteousness. Forgive us. Reform us. And make us whole. In your merciful name, amen. The issue of death benefits for families of military personnel killed in action has evolved since the commons is morning from the senate chaplain, very black and the house passed a bill that will restore the 100,000 death benefit that passed in the house very heavily. There is word from the white house today. Good evening and welcome to a discussion for the next hour on the Government Shutdown, day number nine today. That of discussion about death benefit for military families. The house today, as we. Entioned, past the bill uncertainty in the Senate Whether they will take up. The headline says private foundation to pay death benefits for soldiers. And they talk about moving to defuse one of the mayor controversial cutbacks brought on by the Gove
Their budget. 31,000 employees. In the meantime, we want to go through the newspapers and look at some of the news stories, including ukraine and the violence of there. The president budget is being previewed and the gop tax plan is being unveiled next week. Have a Public Policy discussion item that you would like to add to the table, we are going to put the numbers up on the screen. You can dial in. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Go to social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle. In our participate conversation on the nih on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan. Here are some headlines on the ukraine. Ukraines bloodiest day. This picture is taking a most of the front page. Bodies of some of the protesters that were killed. Here is the front page of the pittsburgh postgazette. Their headline is ukraines president open to early elections. M politico, John Mccain White house on ukraine stunning. Sanctions on the ukraine and slammed the administratio
Several nearby businesses were evacuated. The building was used by luxor cab company. The company where they did the maintenance for its taxis, fire Officials Say seven workers in the building did get out safely. Witnesses said they heard explosions and popping inside of the building as Industrial Supplies ignited. Investigators theres paint, acrylic, metal, a lot that will explode if ignited. A lot of hazardous materials. Investigators havent released the cause of the fire but the roof collapsed and walls buckled. Smoke could be seen for miles. Look at this on the left. The view from san mateo at the height of the fire, on the right side what it looked like across the bay from emeryville. There were no alerts issued in terms of air quality. Thousands came to lets turn things over to jeff ranieri. Were talking about clear and sunny today but its going to change. Yes. Any kind of soot or anything in the atmosphere will get washed out as were tracking rain. Some of the warmest temperatur
There you can watch the storm roll in in our intertive all of this on nbcbayarea. Co no to an nbc bay area exclusive. A political scandal with a new twist. For months, shes been investigating former san clara county supervisor george shirikaw andavier compe campos. Nbc bay areas Damian Trujillo joins us from san jose. Have any laws been broken here reporter it doesnt appear to be the case athis point. I found the documts filed at the citys clerk office atan nothing illegal, in the terest of publipercepti, she should have recus herself from this case. At issue a these anonymous fliers sent to vietnaseamerican voters in 2010. Ey gave t appearae carasco who was runningor city council was aligned with communist assistantd. A. Karenaid the a of former countysupervisor george shirikawa was on one of the flyers so lt month she hauled carascos opponent i that case, xavier camposo teify who was also an aide to shirakawa, now sving time for other crimes. R. Campos wascting on my advice. Eporter