Theres an old adage that partisan politics should stop at the waters edge. When it comes to our foreign policy, that it is the United States of america, not the divided states of america. We met the former president at a symbol of americas past divisions, the Smithsonians National portrait gallery was a hospital in the civil war. Clara barton and walt wittman cared for patients in the building where the 16th president consoled his wounded. We joined mr. Obamas peers in the gallery of the president s to talk about his book. Im curious about the title. I think a lot of people feel that we are farther from a Promised Land. Well, i titled it the Promised Land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes, even if we experience disappointments along the way, i at least, still have faith we can create a more perfect union, not a perfect union, but a more perfect union. You write in the book our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of a crisis. What do you mean . We have g
750,000 passengers during the Holiday Weekend last year. This year is not expected to be different. With more people, also comes added security. We work closely with state, federal and local law enforcement. Our canines will be out and about making sure our stations, platforms and trains are safe. Reporter just wait until sunday when everyone returns home. So were covering planes, trains and automobiles. As it pertains to the holiday rush. We can check trains off your list. Coming up at 5 00 well bring you some of the reunions happening at the airport. Reporting live from king of prussia. Aundrea clinethomas, nbc10 news. Slow traffic behind you. Sky force 10 is keeping an eye on the roads from above. Mitch is over the mid county tolls. Reporter youre looking at the pennsylvania turnpike. You can see the eastbound lanes pretty slow as we pan out. You see why from the midcounty toll. The merge is slowing traffic. The traffic coming north off of 476, its a little bit backed up. Not too ba
Minutes to record their resence. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker on this roll call, 375 members have recorded their presence. A quorum is present. The chair the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from llinois, mr. Rodney davis. Mr. Davis please join us in the gallery. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it ands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker the house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from califor
Here today, in the city of many of my predecessors, our theme tonight is the history of the cbc and the legacy of Martin Luther king. Week, we begin a celebration. A great man and patriot who loved america and the ideas of our democracy. Up with dr. King comics that i cap comments that capture our political comment climate and what is at stake. Of all forms and inequality and justice and health care, the most shocking and inhumane greate think about the leaders in our nation before us who came about to lay a great framework for equal pay, equality and housing, we are reminded of what is at stake and how much we have to lose in this current political climate. We have a lot to lose under the current administrations destructive policies. Dr. King would be greatly disappointed at many things going on in this country right now that affect all of our communities. We are in the business of doing no harm but we must continue to , fight to show results and solutions that help move our neighborh
For this to move in. In fact, most areas will not see that steady accumulating snow until tonight. But there will be some snow showers around to start with. Certainly cold enough for it in the suburbs and the lee high valley. 20s right now. 20s in new jersey. Weve got a warmup before the snow moves into the rest of the area. 38 degrees this afternoon in philadelphia. 40 degrees in new jersey, and up to 41 degrees in delaware. So big differences neighborhood by neighborhood. Ill take you through it hour by hour when i come back in a few minutes, but first Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Updates on the ram as around the schuylkill express street. It looks like the eastbound delay has really thinned out. But now with this accident scene over to the shoulder the offramp has cleared out of the way, but now its that backup into south philly. You dont want to take that westbound schuylkill and get stuck in this for quite some time, of course you can take the grays ferry and he