Mr. Brown madam president. The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Brown thank you, madam president. Madam president , i join we joined last year to do this reading. Im glad shes presiding today. Its an honor to jape my join my colleagues on the floor to read dr. Kings letter from the birmingham jail. Thanks to senator cassidy first, casey, lankford, britt, butler who will wrap it up for joining for this annual bipartisan tradition. Every year, we bring together three republicans and three democrats to read one of the greatest pieces of writing of the 20th century and reflect on the mission and powerful words ever dr. King. This year, a reading falls right after workers memorial day, which we marked on sunday, a day when we honor all the workers killed on the job over the past year, workers past year, workers injured and killed throughout our history. Every year on that date im reminded of dr. Kings final trip, second trip of the year, his final trip to memphis. He went to sta
Aside from a lingering flurry towards the east this evening, counts on it to be mostly cloudy and cold. Good news when it comes to the weekend, big changes in a more favorable direction if you want to say be outside, ill join you back in the studio in a little bit. Well have that full sevenday forecast still coming up. Back to you guys. All right, thank you, caitlin. Within the past hour, the sentence came down for a formerden in our area, convicted of sexual assaulting several of his patient krysten leon live with whats been an emotional afternoon for the victims. Kri kristen. Reporter the sentencing wrapping up not too long ago, two hours of emotional testimony both sides. The prosecution and the defense. And essentially here, ahmed, used his power in this case to lure his victims, used his power for sexual pleasure at his practice in georgetown. Five victims ended up testifying in court again very, very emotional. You could hear the shaky ness in their voice, one of the victims, a f
The 911 call from chris soules, one he made himself before police say he fled the scene. Is he breathing, sir . I cant tell. This morning a new twist. Investigators trying to find out who drove him home. And a woman casually takes a seat on a train 12 stories high forcing a two and a half hour rescue. What did she say to you . Im okay. How are you . I go well, im doing good. I just hope we can get out of this together. Now shes under arrest. Why she was up there in the first place, still a mystery today on april 27th, 2017. Good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I guess you file that last one in the category of things you dont see every day, but a dangerous situation there. Well have more on that in a moment. Well begin on this thursday morning with a flurry of activity at the white house. President trump is abandoning his plan to withdraw from nafta, at least for now. While the battle over his administrations massive tax reform plan is getting underway. Well talk to the
Morning, maybe again late sunday wild up down temperature swings over the next 10 days today sunny becoming mostly cloudy late. Highs 4247 winds nw 5 mph tonight stray shower flurry. Becoming mainly clear and breezy. Lows 2128 winds w 515 mph thursday blustery and very cold. Highs 2129 winds nw 1020 g 35 feels Single Digits and teens julie toss to john right now at 5 xx were following breaking news out ceasefire appears to be broken less than 24 hours after it began. In the last hour activists in alleppo say shelling hit several rebelheld neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city. A ceasefire was reached tuesday between the government and the rebels just as govern were on the brink of taking the entire city. A withdrawal was supposed to start early this morning as part of the deal, but just in the last thirty minutes, buses that were supposed to transport people returned to their depots. New this morning. New laws are now in effect in arlington, to protect consumers from predatory
Now at 11 00, 2016 takes another star. All allen thicke died suddenly this evening. All kinds of reaction. Plus new information about the Wild Police Chase at the heart of rush hour tonight. A woman in handcuffs driving a stolen cruiser into virginia and workers planning to strike tomorrow at two of our major airports. The impact it could have and what theyre demanding. And first up tonight that breaking news on i95 in maryland. We sent you the alert on our nbc washington app. We show you the traffic getting by slowly now in both directions after a tractortrailer crashed near the icc in laurel. This is on the northbound side. Both directions were closed at one point tonight. A helicopter landed to take one person to the hospital. Prince georges county fire Officials Say one adult and one child have life threatening injuries. Two other people were hurt. Were still working to get more information, but expect the cleanup northbound to last a while. Now to the breaking news we told you abo