Checking in at 77 at phoenix sky harbor, so a very pleasant start to the day despite the cooler temperatures we felt earlier. Going into the afternoon, it will be gorgeous, a repeat of yesterday with a high of 86 degrees. The most accurate forecast looking good today but well talk about how long well keep the 80s in that sevenday forecast. Trump is making his sixth appearance in our state ahead of the president ial election. Today at 2 00 hes holding thats where melissa spoke with people waiting there right now to get in. Reporter the countdown clock is at about three hours now until donald trump will take the stage here at the Prescott Valley event center. Take a look at the hundreds of people who have lined up here, some since yesterday, amid very tight security for this speech. We saw a large secret service this growing crowd. We saw some people from the valley and as we speak with those here in Northern Arizona, they say this is a very patriotic area and they are fed up with washin
Thank you for being here today, mr. Secretary. Thank you for coming today. Bringing you cast of thousands. Youve got a lot of support here today. Big budget, big support. Were proud to have secretary mcdonald be here today. We were proud to have in order danny, doctor, thanks. Ronald waters. Laverne counsel. Ed murray. We appreciate all of you. With all that support, mr. Secretary, im sure youre going to do a great job. Ill make my Opening Statement and then turn to blumenthal then to your testimony. I dont want you to feel compelled by any fiveminute light. I want you to say what youve got to say. I understand the average Attention Span of the United States senator is about nine minutes. After that we all start blinking. Speaking for myself. Thats selfimposed limitation. Thank you very much, mr. Secretary, for being here today. Were looking forward to discussing the 182 billion budgetary appropriation. It would be an 8. 9 increase. Should it be adopted, medical funding would increase
Wednesday morning a house subcommittee hears from attorney general Loretta Lynch on the justice departments 2017 budget request. Thats live at 10 30 a. M. On cspan 3. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson returns to capitol hill to talk about his departments Budget Proposal for the 2017 year and the Senate Homeland security subcommittee hearing live tomorrow on cspan 3 at 2 15 p. M. Eastern. I am trying still to decide which candidate to support. Im trying to decide between the governors who have executive experience or some of the other candidates like ted cruz and marco rubio. The most important issue to me is national service. There are more than 5 million Young Americans that are ready to step forward and serve t country for a year with americans like the peace corps and youth build. Veterans affair secretary Robert Mcdonald will testify outcan loined the budget request for his department. He was followed by a panel of veteran Services Organization representatives with their take
Sinking southward to bring us a chance of showers in the south hair on today. You also might run into patchy fog this morning. Everything looks okay. I ran into a patch coming in. Town by town 52 in roxboro and 57 in goldsboro. Temperatures hold steady today. Yesterday was a high of 71 but low to mid 50s across the board today with a few showers on and off. Renee. Looks it good elizabeth thanks. Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Trayvon Smiths sentence. The same jury convicted him of killing melissa hugins jones in her apartment. Mikaya is here to bring us up to speed today. Closing arguments are scheduled for this morning and the jury has to decide between melissa joins was found beat and stabbed to death by her eightyearold daughter. The same jury found Trayvon Smith guilty of her first decree murder. On friday the state and defense rested. Today the jury is expected to get to the sentencing case. A death sentence requires a unanimous decision by all 12 jurors. When the jury
No 70s today like we saw yesterday and wont do that for the rest of the week either but expect low to mid 50s with cloud cover and a few spotty showers this morning and more wide spread rain south of the triangle later this afternoon. Its going to be a fairly wet start to the week through wednesday and well talk about who will see rain when coming up in a few minutes. Brian has video of an accident . What is that there . This is on the eastern side of wake county. Daniel harrison shot this on his way in while he was stopped in that traffic. This is at smithfield road and at last check they had opened one left lane so traffic is getting by but we are seeing delays this morning working to find out more about this accident. If you can shoot video of an accident or get pictures of any back ups you might run into and you can do so safely while the car is stopped send them to us on twitter. Unfortunately the cameras are not working this morning so we cant give you an idea of the delays you a