We dont have religious tests here. Our founders, our constitution, our bill of rights, are clear about that. And obama again called on congress to act to keep assault style weapons out of the hands of people intent on doing harm. Reinstate the assault weapons ban make it harder for terrorists to use the weapons to kill us. And obama asks what about muslim americans, he said we have seen our government mistreat our fellow citizens and its a shameful part of our history. Lets return to orlando and action news reporter, chad pradelli, you have learned more about the women from philadelphia and their horrific experience in the club and fon your of then it turned deadly. Reporter this morning i sat down with tiara parker, she was released from the hospital yesterday and her cuzz akira did not escape. They recalled the horrifying hours. The lady next to me was like please help me, i have baseball hit, i have been hit. As omar mateen sprayed the nightclub with bullets. They ran into a bathroo
[ room noise ] [ room noise ] so the House Rules Committee taking a break here. When members return, this meeting will continue live on our companion network cspan 2. On the house floor votes are currently under way. Members are voting on two bills including one that aims to prevent suicides among veterans. The measure requires an annual thirdparty review of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention programs at the png and veteran affairs department. Thats live now on cspan. And in the senate today there was a procedural vote on a bill authorizing construction of the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline. The vote was 6332. Which was enough to limit debate and advance the bill for a vote on final passage at a later time. As always, you can watch the senate live on cspan 2. Here are a few of the comments weve recently received on the 114th congress. The thing that really needs to happen is going back to what the incomeing majority said, is they need to get back to regular order. If they go back and pass
Screeria nigeria. Then the u. N. Secretarygeneral talks about priorityies for the u. N. In the new year. The u. S. Naval academy recently hosted a debate on the role of Air Contractors carriers in u. S. National security environments. Two retired Navy Officers looked at whether the vessels were the most effective and efficient Maritime Defense strategy for the u. S. Military. This is just over an hour. Food good evening. Im c. C. Felker. On behalf of superintendent vice admiral ted carr, i want to welcome those flag officers and navy senior civilian leaders escaped the beltway to join us our distinguish faculty in the indianapolis economy, and most of all our midshipmen, who are the real reason were here tonight. Id like to recognize Lieutenant Commander claude bareby for respond forring this event. Hes continued the transformation of the Naval Academy museum to a more active educational medium for the midshipmen. Tonights debate is representative of his energy and imagination. Id also
Stephanie chuang is live in San Francisco. This comes as regents votes on new proposals and the students want their voices heard. Good morning. Absolutely. We have seen this before. Good morning to you both. All but one of thee deals really pretty much done. And were talking about the regents approving a twoperson committee made up of governor jerry brown and a uc president , Janet Napolitano to study funds and how to prevent tuition hikes from happening. A move that gavin newsom describes as unnecessary. Its very quiet, peaceful. A lot of Police Officers outside the meeting, as is protocol pretty much. The meeting, though this morning did get heating at one point as students tried to deliver a letter to napolitano with their demands. You can see uc police cuffing two young men, a cal and a ucla student, leading them away after they crossed the barrier. Theyre protesting napolitanos up to 28 tuition hike for the never five years approved by the board in november. They had offered 120 m
Also talked today about signage that is already posted in trains. We have over the last year or so made improvements in the communications we have on the trains for employees and for customers to know what to do in the vent ofevent of an emergency. I just encourage our riders to read this type of information on every railcar we have. Reporter my next report at 5 00, the head of the union that represents metros frontline employees talked to news4 and says more needs to be done than just these safety changes. Adam tuss news4. They lost children and parents in one dramatic tragedy. Today four parents in mourning speak out as work continues to recover those lost in the annapolis mansion fire. News4s Darcy Spencer is looich now live now with this update. Darcy . Reporter that fire scene is right here behind me down this private driveway. This is as close as we can get to the scene right now. Yesterday we reported that cadaver dogs had found two bodies in that debris. What we learned today i