Passed 2020 spending legislation, the funds the federal government passed at tonights midnight deadline to the 20th to avert a shutdown. Votes are expected at 11 a. M. Eastern. They and plan to work on the nomination to the next energy secretary. Live coverage of the senate right here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God, the fountain of every blessing, in this thanksgiving season, we praise your holy name. May the lives of our lawmakers please you. Inspire them to walk in your ways, keeping your precepts with such integrity that they will glorify your name. Incline their hearts to your wisdom and provide them with the understanding they need to accomplish your purposes. Lord god, let your mercy protect our senators from the dangers of this life, as they learn to find delight in receiving your approval. Keep them evermindful of lifes brevity and the greatness of
For take off. An adorable danceoff at the airport. Welcome. Im elaine quijano. We begin with an update on senator john mccain. The former president ial canned date and vietnam war hero headed back to arizona sunday to spend the holidays with his family. On face the nation sunday, mccains soninlaw conservative commentator, ben dominic said the senator is doing well in good spirits. Mccain had been at the water Reid Medical Center in maryland since wednesday. Treated for side effects of chemotherapy for his brain cancer. A source tells cbs news the republican senator will not vote this week on a Major Overhaul of the tax system. More on that in a moment. We turn now to the monster wildfire raging in Southern California. The thomas fire northwest of los angeles started two weeks ago. And is now one of the largest in states history. It has destroyed more than 700 homes. On thursday, it killed a fire fighter. Carter evans is there. Windwhipped flames reignited the thomas fire, illuminating
Worker who is not being identified right now contracted ebola while volunteering in sierra leone in a treatment unit there. After an examination, n. I. H. Doctors say the patient is in serious condition. The patient was transported to the u. S. In isolation on a chartered plane overnight. This just in from Prince Georges County now. Home owners could soon see an increase in property taxes. The proposal to hike taxes was Just Announced at a budget meeting and tom roussey is live in Upper Marlboro with how much more people could be paying and where this money is going to go. Tom . Yeah we just attended a long press conference for the county executive here in the county building. A lot of documents they handed out, too, that were still going through right here. Bottom line is hes calling for the first time in 35 years for Prince Georges County to raise the property tax rate. This is video from the press conference that wrapped up about a halfhour or so ago. Bottom line is if you own a 200
Five counts of fiveday forecrs murder. The attack coming after an Appeals Court sided with the paper in a lawsuit brought by mr. Ramos. I can confirm at this time that we identified the suspect with help through other investigating techniques. There are no other suspects were looking for right now. We did find evidence at the residence. I cant go into a whole bunch of details about that, but i will tell you its evidence showing the origination of planning. Things like that. Ill say this, the fellow was there to kill as many people as he could kill. Joining me now is craig melvin and Pete Williams in our washington bureau. Pete, in addition to everything we heard, the prosecutor said the suspect barricades the exit door to hold his victims in that news room. What are your big head lieps li far from everything we heard . One that a person that was shot tried to get out that door and couldnt because it was barricaded. Secondly, the ramos bought the shotgun that he used this attack about a
Angry. You know who else isnt a democrat . Probably not angry either. Bob mueller. No, hes not angry. I think angrys not the word. Focused. Calm, not angry. Life long good morning everyone. Unlike a lot of those republicans yesterday that were on that committee. They were just sort of unhinged. Really angry and unhinged. Hair on fire. Just sort of spewing a lot of facts that werent true, but they were so angry and unhinged, for an fbi director, life long republican like chris ray whos committed his life, certainly, did this, came in donald trump asked him to be his fbi director. Came in and is doing such a great job. Rod rose enstein, a life long. Theyre yelling and shouting. For them to be so unhinged and screaming and yelling like that at two of americas top Law Enforcement officers. A lot of americans are looking and saying why are they so unhinged. Because theyre worried. Its that simple. If they werent worried, they wouldnt about. I thought with the tie undone, they are worried. I