These companies and more, including comcast. Do you think this is just a Community Center . No, its way more than that. Comcast is partnering with a thousand Community Centers to create wifi enabling listening so students from low income families can get the tools they need for ything. Comcast supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. And this morning, Senate Lawmakers continue work on a shortterm spending bill to avert a Government Shutdown on saturday at midnight. Nell vote at 11 45 a. M. Eastern time to debate the measure. Take you to the floor of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Immortal, invisible, god only wise, you still work wonders in the earth. Teach us to do your will. Teach us that prayer still brings results. Teach us that we need not fear what the future holds,
Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We want to send her thoughts and prayers. , he had amentioned massive heart attack, i think it was an internal did did you later that may have say defibrilator that may have saved his life. Keep them in our thoughts. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being testimony, but for the last two and a half months. I have been to femas response center. I have talked to the men and women working with you. Doing an extraordinary job, working 12 hour shifts for weeks, months on end. This has been unprecedented. Withing in late august harvey, then irma and maria, we have not seen anything like this. I think it is heartening, really. After katrina, the lessons put into place to great effect. Have hurricanes and disasters of this magnitude, you cant just snap your fingers and make it well again. This is going to be a recovery effort that goes on for years. Recovery effort has been extraordinary. I think the men and women that work with you in your
Tonight. 31 degrees in philadelphia. The colder air is pulling in. We were 66 a couple of days ago. Trenton, 29. Allentown 27. The poconos, 19. Dover, 33. Cape may, not reporting at this hour, at last report they were sitting at 34. They are in the clear, as well. Cold air is spilling this way down the eastern slopes of the appalachians, most of the big cities are below freezing all the way down to washington, d. C. Here comes a sliver of moisture approaching from the west running into the cold air and producing light snow. The blue is sleet and freezing rain mixture. The white representing the snow, and the greens and the yellows, representing the rain. Its not even close to what we saw last weekend. Cloudy this morning, light snow and sleet developing this afternoon. High temperatures close to 37 degrees. Breaking it down, a little more specifically for the philadelphia area, this afternoon the light snow will fall, but most of the roads are wet with temperatures in the mid 30s. Its
Wire tapped. President trump offering no evidence, but demanding Congress Investigate his predecessor for what he calls, quote, executive abuses. Did President Trump really call president obama bad or sick without any basis . Democrats say yes, he did. Its a distraction from jobs and taxes and even the travel ban that was said to be an urgent need. We havent heard about it for weeks. Might that change today . Day 46 of Donald Trumps presidency begins with senior washington correspondent joe johns live at the white house. Joe. Reporter good morning, chris. The white house this morning is not backing away from the president s wiretapping claim. The takeaway from here is the president firmly believes it happened and that it needs to be tested and investigated, despite the fact its been contradicted by a former director of National Intelligence and the fbi. President trumps unfounded claim that former president obama ordered his phones to be wire tapped in the midst of last years election
Out to tillerson himself, trump spoke to reporters and made clear he wanted someone in the state department who the wouldnt disagree with him. He found his man in cia direct ker mike pompeo. Lets watch. Rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. We got along actually quite well. But we disagreed on things. When you look at the iran deal, i think its terrible. I guess he thought it was okay. I wanted to either break it or do something. And he felt a little bit differently. So we were not really thinking the same. With mike pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. I think its going to go very well. I got along well with rex. But it was a different mindset. It was a different thinking. I wish wretch a lot of good things. I think hes going to be very happy. I think rex will be much happier now but i really appreciate his service. But with mike, weve had a very Good Chemistry right from the beginning. Actually, rex is not the name of a dog. Its the name of the secretary