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Dana phil keating is live in parkland, florida. Phil . Reporter dana, this was absolutely a day of much trepidation and apprehension for the more than 3,000 students who did show up today. The superintendent said 95 of the total student body did return for this first day back to school. Thats pretty impressive, considering so many went through so much. As they walked across the street heading onto the campus today two weeks to the day since 17 people were shot and killed, there was plenty of uni...

4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. Around the world, good day to you. Day number two of this u. S. Government shutdown and in washington, d. C. , its all about the blame game, and pretty stiff finger pointing. While across the country, the real effects of the shutdown are starting to be felt. The statue of liberty and ellis island, now closed. Some National Parks are accessible but Services Like rest rooms and trash collection are not. The senate will convene at 1 00 p. M. The house at 2 00 p. ...

The whole minute, no one came out, nobody knew what was happening. There were six people on the helicopter. The pilot freed himself. The other five did not. So police and fire divers entered the water and removed the other five. Great tragedy that we had occur here on an otherwise quiet sunday evening. Bill what do we know about the investigation, laura . Good morning. Reporter good morning, bill. The National Transportation safety board is sending a fourteam member go team. They are in route no...

One year. Dana john roberts is standing by. John . Reporter lets go through the highlights of the infrastructure plan so that everybody at home can be sure they know what it is that the president s proposing. First of all 1 . 5 trillion in total. However the federal contribution of that is about 13 , 200 billion. That will be in federal seed money, grants and loan. 50 billion for rural infrastructure. Those will be block grants to governors. Stream line the permitting process to a period of two ...

According to Court Records made public this morning, he lied to agents about his contact of the target of a special russia probe in their conversations two months before the president ial election. Guilty plea is expected in the case today. Its standard to finalize outstanding issues at the Fbi Field Office beforehand. Court records allege the lawyer lied ab his last contact with rich gates. The 31 page, 12 count indictment focused on their years as lobbyists and Political Consultants working wi...

And less secure. In my view it would be quite uncontroversial. Quite uncontroversial in a more normal political moment. One person close to the white house says that the president is melting his own administration down. It is on track for the worst year since the 08 financial crisis. Were going to speak to him in a moment, but garrett hake is joining me now. That is where the drama is for the moment, senators still voting on whether or not to proceed with debate on the continuing resolution. It ...

To the other southern border given whats happened over a food box will go out to one desperate family in israel. Where defense chief mattis visit this past week . Comes as u. S. Troops are stationed in texas, arizona and no. I mean, theres been no inside the food box is a special note that will bless them california to help with indication. Security. As you can imagine, i talk to and will let them know this as reuters reports 400 the president fairly often. That america strongs in solidarity wit...

A video of President Trump salute ago north korean general. Why would the president do that . And why is the former reality tv star letting kim control the imaging . Im wolf blitzer. You here in the situation room. Breaking news, the Justice Departments internal watchdog finds that former fbi director james comey violated agency norms in the clinton email investigation but was not motivated by political bias. On the other hand, the sweeping and skating 568page report says the handling of the cli...

Heard for months from the president but it also contradicts the house report released earlier this year. Right. Thats what makes this so interesting. Last january the intelligence agencies put out their conclusion that they believe russia meddled in the 2016 election and they did it with the goal of trying to help Donald Trumps president ial campaign and to hurt hillary clinton. Both the senate and House Intelligence Committees dug into these findings to see if they agreed with the assessment. T...

But we begin with mike emanuel. Mike . Reporter dana, good afternoon. There are reporters and news crews following key senators all over capitol hill these days. A short time ago we had an unusual instance where you had Lisa Murkowski talking to reporters. She jumps in with maine Susan Collins another critical senator on the kavanaugh nomination. Murkowski told us shes been told the fbi will be thorough. What i have been assured is that they are conducting this Background Investigation as they d...