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The politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. National holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians arrive they will battle it out, and the winner of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. So, lets get started. Competing for the press t...

Own, worked up. So many people have no idea you need towork, bring us the workweek, the pensions, unions, the folks who brought us the weekend. I wanted to explain to people, unions have achieved a whole lot in american history, but now they are really in decline and have really taken it on the chin. As a result, things are considerably worse for workers than was the case 30, 40 years ago. Featured nonfiction authors this weekend and every weekend on booktv on cspan two. Fall, the this National ...

Programming tonight. Congress has not yet delayed the spelling bee a national holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians arrive they will battle it out, and the winner of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. So, lets get started. Competing for the press team this year is our defendi...

Fromion, Alexandra Petri the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. Hey, john. [applause] f npr, myheslow o former colleague. [applause] tillman of buzzfeed. [applause] we have a buzzfeed crowd here. [laughter] cheating, she brought a second competitor. [laughter] gangitano from the hill. [applause] from theawsey washington post. There you are. [applause] eric geller of politico. [applause] is a g...

Hasnt yet declared spelling bee day a national holiday, some of our competitors are stuck at work. Are onour competition the hill for late votes. We will do things differently and have the journalists compete for their champion and when our politicians arrived, they will battle it out and the winners of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. Lets get started. Competing for the press team this year, we have our defending champion, Alexandra Petri from the washington post. ...

Amtrak train jumping the tracks outside of tacoma, washington, falling onto interstate five below during rush hour. Later, we knows that three people were killed, more than 100 or taken to the hospital, and all of the train cars have been searched. The big question right now is why did this happen. Jonathan reed andrews with our sister station is live at the scene. What do we know . Reporter we are awaiting a News Conference set to start in just moments where we may find out if more people died....

The state of alabama had a special election to decide whether or not an alleged sexual predator of young girls would be their senator. Remember when we used to find out politicians were dirtbags after we elected them . [ laughter ] i dont know the results yet. The polls just closed. I do know that roy moore, he shouldnt even be in im not talking about the senate race. I mean the human race. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] its mind boggling. Today he rode a horse named sassy to his polling p...

The highway below killing three and injuring a hundred more. Marcy gonzales is live near the crash. Good evening. Part of the highway is still shut down. You can see bumper to bumper traffic on i5 as investigators work into the night investigating. The car dangling is part of the aftermath of the crash that killed three people and injured more than a hundred others. Emergency, we are on the ground. All but one of the cars careening off of the track in washington, several crashing on tohe highway...

Live, where you live. This is abc 7 news. Things just started to tip over and stuff started flying around and everything went dark. Kind of felt like the end of the world, you are just standing mu among all the wreck edge. Passengers shaken, the train went off the tracks can killing three. It happens weeks after a local official warned it was dangerous. Good evening. And im in for ama dates. Ten people remain in serious condition. And tonight, we learn the mayor of lakewood, washington raised co...

Out politicians were dirtbags after we elected them . [ laughter ] i dont know the results yet. The polls just closed. I do know that roy moore, he shouldnt even be in im not talking about the senate race. I mean the human race. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] its mind boggling. Today he rode a horse named sassy to his polling place. [ laughter ] young girls love ponies, i guess. I dont know. [ laughter ] theres been plenty of opposition to roy moore even from within his own party. The othe...