make sure that once power is restored . it stays on. but they say rural areas and secondary neighborhoods might take longer than others. flooding isn t the only concern for drivers following the winter weather. downed power lines are a concern in roanoke. city workers put up warning signs and barricades to keep drivers off of mason mill road after trees toppled over leaving live power lines down. 13-th street and north avenue north-east have also been barricaded. roanoke city workers say . they ve contacted a-e-p about the problem. but as of now. there is no timeline as to when the live wires will be cleared. in your w-s-l-s ten timesaver traffic report. another area to watch out for is i-81 in salem. there s about a 2-and-a-half mile backup near mile marker 1-37. the south left shoulder and left lane are both closed. while safe and salted roads are months. they do come with unintended consequences. the salt used to keep streets safe them as well. says it s typical to see mor
week i hope this body can come together and reverse this provision which unfairly changes the terms of retirement for our veterans. our veterans have stood up for us as a nation when they re overseas and we must stand up for them here at home. the second, madam president, i want to express hope in the bipartisan spirit that just led to an agreement to debate the bill regarding restoring emergency unemployment. i ve had eight town halls over the weekend and i can tell you that it strikes people as fundamentally unfair that in states with high unemployment like the home state of oregon that these weeks of emergency unemployment which were a deal hammered out in a bipartisan fashion under a republican president, president bush, that this deal should be sent asunder. indeed on december 28, 18,000 oregon s families fought a lump of coal in their stocking. and in the course of this coming year another 58,000 oregon families will be thrown out in the cold, if you will, due to this a
pollution and create 33,000 jobs. host: his point about where the spent, what is eing done to ensure this money stays in the united states and doesn t fund jobs overseas? note it is important to that the american recovery and reinvestment act which provided the resources had a buy america clause in it make sure was built inssible the u.s. i will give you an example from the wind industry. years ago only one-quarter a wind omponents for turbine were made in the u.s. hanks to investments under the recovery act three-quarters of the components in turbines are made in the u.s. last month the siemens company which is a fortune company to have it was going the largest order ever to build $2 turbines, almost billion, to build at their plant mason, iowa. i believe that will create about 1,000 jobs. sorry, fort madison, iowa. hat is an example of where you sort of jump started the industry in 2009 when the credit markets were frozen after the horrible financial crash of 2008 capital
good evening breaking news on new points. new polls shows hillary clinton is losing her edge with donald trump. and trump hires vetter for research. trump is taking steps to raise his stature in the gop. more on all of it from jim acosta. reporter: it is a mood seen to calm conservative critics. presumptive nominee released a list of picks to replace supreme court antonin scalia. john cornyn who criticized trump s tone last week praised the list as, quote, reassuring. trump tauksd policy credentials with henry kissinger, came one day after trump closed the idea of talking with kim jong-un in what would be dramatic departure from u.s. foreign policy. i would speak to him, i would have no problem speaking to him. at the same time, i would put a lot of pressure on china. but you say you would talk to kim? i would speak to him. i have no problem with speaking to him. reporter: he mocked trump with this tweet, asking whether the job of secretary of state would go to form
unbearable. how will the candidates address race relations in their first debate just four days from now? and the suspect s wife. new york and new jersey bombing suspect ahmed rahami s wife returns to the united states as the fbi seeks more information from her and her husband s family. investigators have pieced together a detailed timeline on his movements of the day of the bombings. why haven t the two witnesses sought by the fbi come forward? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the breaking news tonight, hundreds of national guard troops and state police are on alert in charlotte, north carolina. a state of emergency is in effect, and officials are weighing whether to impose a curfew after two nights of violence. it s been sparked by the police shooting death of keith scott, an african-american father of seven. police say he threatened officers with a gun, but his family says scot