New york. New york was under a Winter Weather advisory this morning. The mayor said the person that died was sitting in a parked car. The crane was moved into a secure position when the winds topped 20 miles per hour. Wet weather from earlier this week playing havoc with local roads. Crews continue to clean up mudslide. All lanes in both directions cloes add 9 00 this morning. The city tweeted out about a half hour ago the eastbound lanes are open now. Stay with local 12 news and local12. Com the state auditor will follow the facts whenever they lead. He plans a special audit of the met metropolitan district. Earlier this week they reported 850 million of spending with minimal oversight by city officials. There were allegations of connect people and contracts bids. I think like everybody who read that expose in the cincinnati ininquirer, i was deeply troubled. Were going to do a special audit one thats a standalone piece of work. Months to complete. Its a deep dive, and well report bac
Quorum call mr. Schumer i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer madam president , i rise today to discuss a topic of great importance to our countrys security, economy and social fabric and that is our broken immigration system. No one can dispute that our system is broken. We do not yet have sufficient resources on our border or in our interior to prevent ilLegal Immigration, and our Legal Immigration system takes far too long, has far too much bureaucratic red tape and does not sufficiently serve our economic needs. And in the meantime, our broken system has created millions of broken families. Many of these families are separated simply because of immigration status. All of these problems can be solved by passing Immigration Reform legislation. Immigration reform will jumpstart our economy, reduce our national debt, secure our country and heal these broken families. The truth is, weve heard excuse after excuse after