Watch book tv on cspan2 this weekend. Washington journal continues. Host next we are joined by john fortier, studies director at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Here to talk to us about what to expect heading into election day, you wrote a book in 2006 promises and perils, while that is the story so far with states like texas and hawaii already surpassing their total of 2016. What you think that massive number of votes means . 2006, it maybe was not as interesting but we are talking a lot about it today. We are seeing a huge increase in voting by mail and early voting in person. 2016 we saw 41 of the population voting for election day. 17 by early in person voting. We are seeing another explosion beyond that in this election. We have already seen 92 Million People vote early this as of last night. We are going to see more before election day. Deservescdonald really credit for keeping these numbers which keep expanding. We will see on most 50 of americans voting by mail. The average for t
Journal comes your way tomorrow at 7 00. We take you to the house of representatives. [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 the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by guest chaplain pastor Mark Westerfield, Central Baptist Church, round rock, in round rock, texas. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, i am humbled to stand before you in these honored and distinguished men and women today. To stand in the gap and offer this prayer. Today we gratefully recognize the gift of life, liberty, and responsibility you have given us to lead this great country. On behalf of these men and women, i ask for wisdom, discernment, and unity as they carry the weight of caring for the close to 350 million citi
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It is moving very, very quickly, but the areas picking up the downpours is very, very heavy. Live on sky6 live hd, Philadelphia International airport, gray skies, its another soupy morning, dewpoints are extremely high. Its starting to feel like florida. This is the latest, Storm Tracker 6 live weve set it in motion, theres the line bearing down on the Delaware River, palmyra, riverside, frankford, this is racing off to the east northeast 40 Miles Per Hour. Once the line pushes through theres nothing behind it. After 8 00 a. M. Or so, well see the sun peek through west of philadelphia. Places like lang, allentown were seeing partly sunny skies, one band in the process of pushing through. Its producing one to two and a half inches of rain of we have a flood advisory in chester and berks. Day planner, gray, downpours, humid, 11 00 a. M. , 80 degrees, 1 00 p. M. , 86. 3 00 p. M. We continue to climb, 87. 5 00 p. M. , 88 degrees, the first thing youll notice this afternoon, the humidity dr
Talks. Five universities are impacted. Take a look. Monique braxton is live with how it is effecting students. What can you tell us . Reporter hey, vai. Faculty here a west chester have been walking the line since about 5 00 this morning. We also learned winter and spring class registration is suspended. West chesters university 17,000 students watching this are being told to go to class and study. Some have received email to the contrary. One student told us she got an email from one of her science pro fesse professors. I am hoping its sooner rather than later. I want to graduate on time. Hopefully the state gets a message and comes up with some type of agreement. Reporter back out here live now you can see the students walking through the concert hall. They are staging a class walk out at this time. The faculty members have been on strike more than six hours. The governor says the results strike will have far reaching effects from years to come. In just you should two years i have in