The guest chaplain mr. President , members of the senate, may the lord be with you. Let us bow our heads in reference to his presence. God, our help in ages past, be our comfort still. Thank you for this great, great nation, and its foundation of one nation, under god, indivisible. Thank you, lord, that we can emphasize indivisible. Thank you for the liberty, the justice, and the freedoms we enjoy. We pray for all who walk these hallowed halls where lifechanging, worldchanging decisions are made. Bless this austere gathering of men and women chosen by you and the American People to serve us all. Give them wisdom to acknowledge you first in all they do. Give them grace, as has been extended to them. Guide them, o holy spirit. Guide them, o holy spirit. Fill them and this chamber with your presence, and fill these halls with your glory. When they leave today, may they say, we have not just been in the presence of men; we have been in the presence of god. Now, in the name of the one i tru
Few tornadoes. Tonight storms continue to pound parts of the viewing area. We now go to meteorologist terry swails who has your weather first forecast. We did have a number of tornado Warnings Issued and we were on the air for about three consecutive hours for that reason. Now we have evolved to a flash flood threat around eastern iowa as heavy rains have fallen in the northern and western counties. Before this happened there was north and that will be out until 7 00 on thursday so we were concerned with the development of storms and it came to fruition today. Now we are seeing rain and big totals coming from the northern and western counties particularly in floyd county. Heres the radar and you can see we still have thunderstorms that are active around the area. They are in the Northern Counties. This is north of highway 20. This is where we see some of counties. We do have a Flash Flood Warning that is in effect and that includes county. That is out until three or clock. Strong storm
Today in new york starts now. Happy st. Patricks day and good morning. 5 00 a. M. On this thursday. March 17th. Im michael gargiulo. Im darlene rodriguez. Storm team 4s chris cimino is here. Today, if you look outside, the barricades. Barricade, the green line is down on 5th avenue. Temperatures will cooperate. Thats the good news. Have to deal with a couple of showers before the parade is through. Poughkeepsie at the mild 47. Low 40s across most portions of long island and northwest new jersey. Yesterday, showers, theyre long gone. Had a couple of flashes of lightning and thunder last evening. This next batch is coming on in. Intensifies a little bit. Weve got plenty of real estate between the showers out in western pennsylvania right now. I think were going to buy some time there. The day planner if youre headed out to the parade, look for the winds to pick up, though. The temperature climbs. 06 at noontime. Forecasting a high of 56. Possibility of a few spotty showers. More details
Not very impressive. I dont think it will be as vigorous as the batch yesterday with thunder and lightning. Nonetheless, cant rule out an isolated rumble of thunder. For the time being, its quiet out there. Partly cloudy to clear skies. Parade kicks off at 11 00. Should be fine. The breeze will pick up. The temperatures are picking up too. 58 at noon. Forecasting a high of 66. From 3 00 on, first spot of showers. In for lauren this morning, good morning. Good to see you. Good morning. There was an accident already on the garden state parkway southbound. Its in the local lanes around exit 116. Its off to the side. Still expecting delays. The George Washington bridge where the upper level, earlier roadwork has cleared but the outbound lower level got a couple lanes blocked there. Do expect delays. With the goethals, lets go to the maps. More weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Group of students will be tested for lead poisoning. This comes after elevated lead levels were found at 30
Looking at the mid30 s. Looking at the 20 for our temperature change, how fun was it we were saying 20 degrees or so was warm . We re 22 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago, but it is not going to last. Right now sitting at 45 degrees at cvg. 50 the easternmost communities. 34 in indy in the 30 s are already creeping in the southeastern indiana. Once the rain ends in your town, you have about an hour, maybe off and the 30 you can see were looking at rain showers moving out east of cincinnati. Cincinnati and the 275 loop done, the cold front about to drop the temperature for those close to downtown. Lingering showers right now through portions of Highland County and further south along 62 and portions of brown county. This rain pretty much out of air. Connors phil currently at 37. Our temperatures are going to fall into the 30 s, downtown by 9 00 a. M. , in the 30 s and we stay there through the afternoon. 34, noon, 35 and we stay there in the second part of the day with the wind at 10 to