Witnesses on the impact of guns in their lives, the effect on communities, and what steps could be taken to curb gun violence. This is just over an hour and a half. We are here today because 203 days ago, the house passed bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation and the u. S. Senate has done nothing. After every mass shooting that makes the headlines, leader mcconnell says it is too soon to talk about policy. Unfortunately, there have been more Mass Shootings this year than there have been days in the year. If we wait for a day without gun violence to talk about it, we will be waiting forever. The Senate Leader mcconnell hopes that if he waits this out, it will just go away. Well, we are not going away. We are not going to go away because children are dying and the trauma is scarring an entire generation. Week, 500 children under the age of 11 have been killed or injured by someone using a gun. Over 2000 kids between the ages have been killed or injured by someone using a gun. Al
And what legislative steps could be taken to curb gun violence. This is just over an hour and a half. The forum will come too orde, please. We welcome everyone and thank them for being here. Our speakers, thank you very much for being here. Our fellow members and guests of the committee, thank you. We are here today because 203 days ago the house passed bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation, and the u. S. Senate has done nothing. After every mass shooting that makes the headlines, leader mcconnell says its too soon to talk about policy. Unfortunately, there have been more Mass Shootings this year than there have been days in the year. If we wait for a day without gun violence, to talk about it, we will be waiting forever. The Senate Leader mcconnell hopes if we wait, if you wait this out, it will just go away. Well, were not going away. Were not going to go away because childrenir are dying, ad the tron is scaring an entire generation. As of this week, i find her children unde
To the south and you will see that here on doppler 9,000. The last of the showers are moving to the south and east. Its still raining pretty steadily in culpepper county. Can you see where that rain is still actively falling. As we he head through the day we are going to see a return of the sunshine and temperatures will also start to get milder. So we are going to get back into the 60s where we should be this time of the year, actually. Our average high in d. C. Is 70 degrees by today. We like to see the temperatures closer to normal. 60 degrees at 1 00. 63 at four. Notice that sunshine returning. The winds lighter out of the northwest at 10 Miles Per Hour to a good chunk of the afternoon. 43 manassas. 43 cull perrer where its still raining. Coming up, we will talk about a milder trend for next work week, the approaching work week. Its going to look better than what we had last year. Mike, back to you. New this morning a fire has caused extensive damage at a hotel. It broke out at the
And as you were saying, decide whether or not they can live with whatever happens with iran. What are the factors one would have to measure, if youre a goal state, what are the factors one would have to measure from israels standpoint and the difference is ineffective, or are those factors ready some our . I think you would have to receive some material dismantling of the Nuclear Iranian program. We had an unusual event about a week in africa. Africa. The first of a chemical israel and the iranians agreed on an aspect of the Iranian Nuclear program. Israeli spokespeople and iranian spokespeople both came out and said that president obamas claim that parts of the Iranian Nuclear program had been dismantled, as an interim agreement was not true. No part actually agreed. You get hardpressed to see what parts were, in fact, dismantled. You know, the 20 stockpile of enriched materials was oxidized, such only 180 kilograms of material. They have about 67,000 kilograms of lowenriched uranium,
Preview of the hurricanes strength. We have Team Coverage tonight as the storm approaches the midatlantic region. Sarah sampson is in ocean city tonight, where residents could be on the front line of the storm. George is in the lowlying areas of fells point as people are gathering sandbags. But lets go to our meteorologist who is tracking the storm. John, whats the latest . Well, sandy is a hurricane, marginal, category one, with 75mileanhour winds, a little better than 300 miles away from Cape Hatteras. Heres what the weather looks like for us. We had the cold front to the west and all that moisture coming up from the south from sandy. But its kind of held down to the extreme southeast virginia, the mouth of the chesapeake bay. Weve had a very nice afternoon this afternoon so far. Lets switch over to our main computer and here are the various tracks. We still got a variety of solutions, but most of them converge on new jersey. I want to kind of focus now, instead of having two or thre