glor: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m jeff glor. the new congress was sworn in today with republicans again in control of both the houses. but first there was a fire to put out. it started when house republicans attempted to weaken an ethics panel over the objections of their own leaders, and it turns out the president-elect. conditional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill. do you solemnly swear. reporter: the first controversy of the 115th congress came even before members were sworn in. house republicans voted to gut the office of congressional ethics only to reverse themselves 19 hours later in the face of bipartisan condemnation. virginia republican dave brat. part of it is the headlines were we were backing off on ethics. that s not a good headline. reporter: the white house called it revealing. that s not draining the swamp. reporter: the final straw came in the form of a social media tweet from donald trump, who usualed the party to focu
glor: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m jeff glor. the new congress was sworn in today with republicans again in control of both the houses. but first there was a fire to put out. it started when house republicans attempted to weaken an ethics panel over the objections of their own leaders, and it turns out the president-elect. conditional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill. do you solemnly swear. reporter: the first controversy of the 115th congress came even before members were sworn in. house republicans voted to gut the office of congressional ethics only to reverse e@ themselves 19 hours later in the face of bipartisan condemnation. virginia republican dave brat. part of it is the headlines were we were backing off on ethics. that s not a good headline. reporter: the white house called it revealing. that s not draining the swamp. reporter: the fina came in the form of a social media tweet from donald trump, who usualed the party to focus o
temperature, which 84 would be the average, as you can see, once you get to saturday, sunday, even looking at monday and tuesday, heading well above average. so yes, things are about to change. you can see it as i show you the weekend forecast here, highs in the upper 80s on saturday and sunday. so a big difference, from what we ve been feeling the past few days. we re also going to talk about tropical storm erika when i come back, i ll track that for you, gave you give you all of tt information. i show you the five day, the stretch of heat, little bit overwhelming forehead g into september. right? you think you are winding up the heat, meisha, when you get it at the ends of the august, but not in time. just kicking it up a northbound. just too good to be true, kyla, i don t know. it is gorgeous, yesterday was gorgeous, today will be gorgeous, it is just the philly weather, i tell you, just beautiful. here s some construction we re looking at. now, this is camera at woodh
elderly man and two children. roads and bridges are impassable. as erika heads west, supply from hardware stores are being snapped up in south florida while neighbors there are keeping their fingers crossed. one man said this is the best time to buy a chainsaw. he wants to be ready for erika starting toppling trees or tree limbs. you have to be safe. hurricanes are preunpredictable. you just have to take your best shot. one home depot in west palm beach already sold out of generators and d batteries. right now police in our region are searching for a convicted sex offender. 49-year-old james alexander norris walked away from a court ordered home visit in hyattsville. maryland state police and prince george s county police are working to track him down. if you superany information about the man you see here on the screen, please call 911 immediately. turning to the latest in the roanoke shootings. a memorial is being planned for alison parker. her boyfriend says it w
north korea far as a missile, which flies high above japan, 17 times the speed of sound. south korea and japan won t respond. ah, hello, i m down. jordan, this is out as they are alive from dell are also coming up. the russian parliament votes unanimously. annexation of 4 regions in ukraine, where kim s military continues to retake territory. morning and indonesia for the 125 people killed in a stadium stampede, a police chief and other officers and i wonder investigation. and and embarrassing, you turn for the new british government, the challenge that forced to abolish tax cuts for the rich optim negative reaction from both markets on the public. ah, north korea has thought a ballistic missile over northern japan, the japanese government warned its citizens to take cover and was forced to suspend some trained services in northern regions. the missile was launched off north korea s east coast and fell into the pacific ocean. the u. s. as its consulting its allies on a robust