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David w. Jolly to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Berra bera for five minutes. Mr. Bera thank you, mr. Speaker. Today i rise to honor the memory of Sacramento County sheriff deputy danny oliver. Deputy oliver served the citizens of Sacramento County for 15 years when he paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty this past october. Later that day the sheriff investigative junior was shot by the sa
Parts of asia hard. The most intense cyclone is here. Its causing extensive damage. Hundreds of thousands of people are forced to leave their homes ahead of the storm. Theres a powerful storm in japan, vongfong. It is expected to hit the countrys southern mainland today. On saturday it blew through okinawa injuring at least 25 people. Derek van dam has been tracking it in the International Weather center. Where do we start . All eyes are on the east coast of india at the moment, including the eye wall of the Tropical Cyclone. This is the latest radar coming from the region. You can see the eye wall. This is edging closer to the main land of india. Its located right here. It should be feeling the brunt of the strongest winds be as we speak. Now well get a lull in the winds as the eye passes over but the winds will pick right back up again and it couldnt be worst timed as this is timed with high tide so well look at coastal flooding as a major concern. You can see the latest satellite im
It has already made landfall but this is the scene just before it did and its kicked up some serious surf across this area. Villagers and fishermen bracing from the impact from the storm. Winds still sustained at 215 Kilometers Per Hour but i expect that to lessen as the hours go on. The center of the storm has moved on land so it no longer has the moisture source. But this area, the east coast of india, the northern state, that was ground zero for the center of this storm as it made land fall as a strong category 3 equivalent if it was in the atlanta basin. This is the track of the storm. Were expecting it to deteriorate as the next 12 to 24 hours progresses but it will still be a rain maker. Flooding becomes a concern. These are the concerns we have. Flooding, very slim chance of tornadoes but we do have a storm surge and wind as well. Take a look at some of this video footage thats come out of that region. Heavy rain and wind uprooting trees, knocking out power and halting some of t