About 2 gallons working this afternoon on an executive nomination. Expected to vote on limiting debate on the next defense secretary. The chaplain of the house of representatives, father patrick conroy, will open the senate with prayer. The guest chaplain let us pray. Righteous god, deliver your people from evil. Set our lawmakers on safe paths, protecting them from dangers. Preserve them and their loved ones, keeping them from stumbling. Provide our senators with counsel, even in the night sessions, that they may prevail against the evil that seeks to destroy our nation and world. As they trust your loving kindness, may their hearts rejoice in your salvation. Lord, deal bountifully with them and the members of their staffs. We pray in your marvelous name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and
Relations, this runs just over an hour. We are delighted and honored to have this as the First Program of the school year to so to speak. The council prides itself on being nonpartisan. What better way to demonstrate nonpartisanship than having this fully Bipartisan Commission here working out of the council for a couple of days, and the chair man and Ranking Member of the commission here with us . Congressman Mike Gallagher from wisconsin and congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi from illinois, thank you for agreeing to do this program today. We would love to get your perspective on, first and foremost, chinas role in the global economy. China has traditionally driven about one third of global growth. We benefit from that, in terms of being able to export there. Trading Partners Benefit from it. Germany slows down because china slows down, europe slows down, japan slows down. It affects us back here. When you look at the china challenges the commission is working on, do you want china to sl
Precursor of what comes later. We will start off with these showers. We will catch a midday break and then eventually this moves in. You can see the heavier rain right new rolling in western lake erie, this is all eventually going to help reignite a fresh round of potentially severe then are storms, the timing of which looks less than eye tiehl for all of the typical evening commuters, about 5 00 to 9 00 p. M. That is window for thunderstorms to rumble in, basically north west to south east as they so often do with the way the movement of the atmosphere tend to be. In the meantime right new we are at 77 at philly international. Seventyfour ac. Slightly cooler by comparison but still muggy in the poconos and around the resorts, you are talking upper 70s in the mountains but everybody is fair game here to see the stronger or severe thunderstorms, rumble in at some point. So while i do think we will catch a break to see some sunshine here by midday that is only going to help ignite any of
Santa cruz 56. Cupertino 56. And fog and low clouds means a cool day and a couple of spins in the atmosphere. 50s, 60s, 70s coast and inland temperatures coming down 10 to 15 degrees. We had a situation at concord and pleasant hill. And thats been resolved. Thats all been taken care of by the good folks aft the chp. They got all the lanes back open. Freeway closure not an issue any more. Here is a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. And at this early hour its a very smooth ride heading up to the pay gates and all the way across the span to San Francisco. No slowdowns there. And the san mateo bridge is a nice ride as you cross over to the peninsula. And not reporting any slowdowns or accidents or anything of that nature. And in the south bay, everything looking good with one exception there. We are showing one crash southbound 101 just north of the capital expressway. Looks like a couple of cars and trucks involved in a crash. But it does not appear to be causing a backup. Dave, ove
Medicaid providers and patients will be able to share their stories at a listening post in des moines on monday. Weve put details for that meeting under this story on kcrg dot com. Bruce, the federal centers for medicaid did ask for that meeting to be live streamed so they can also listen in. Thanks, sarah. Firefighters say a cedar rapids man is a hero this evening for saving his neighbor from a burning boyfriend died in the fire. The fire that killed naquave whitlock started about 2 am at 611 a avenue northwest. He was 22. Kcrgtv9s Dave Franzman joins us from the scene. And dave, you talked to the Good Samaritan and the woman he saved . Beth, we did. Bradley burnell is the neighbor who at first thought from across the street were something he was dreaming. Then he realized someone was in trouble and he jumped up, saw it was a fire with a woman on a roof, and ran to grab a ladder. 20yearold alize watson was still grieving the loss of her boyfriend as she returned to the ruined home aro