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Be homeless man yelling at the mayor. Things get heated, he then confronts an officer guarding the mayor and then pulls the officer down on the ground. Things dont end there. Mayor Michael Nutter was with some of his staffers and other city officials here at concourse of the Municipal Services building directly across the street from city hall. The mayor spokesperson tells me they were talking about issues related to the concourse a place where the homeless tend to congregate. The mayor phil phy...

Coming up. Thank you. A fastmoving fire that erupted in Southern California is barely contained. It start bad 55 miles northeast of los angeles. It destroyed 20 vehicles and damaged four structures and prompted mandatory evacuations. Officials grounded the firefighting planes for 15 minutes out of fear that the drones would collide with aircraft. Matt has the latest. The fire sparked an inferno on the highway. I could feel the heat. Trucks bursing into flames. The brush fire jumped the freeway a...

Segment. Chris. Lisa, thanks. Now breaking news this morning. The total number of victims killed in thursdays shooting is now five. Navy issued a statement confirming a sailor who was shot died early this morning. He had been in Critical Condition since the shooting. Throughout the state of tennessee flags will be flown at halfstaff until july 23rd to honor the five victims. Authorities say the shooting suspect went on a shooting rampage as a shooting recruiting center and then drove to a navy a...

Zone right now. And caught on camera. Elephant rampage. The angry animal gone wild chasing down his handlers tossing this car like a toy, so what set him off . All right, hey, good morning. Were going to start here with the story that is still developing this hour. Firefighters tell us theyve never seen anything like what happened overnight on this freeway in california. The video shows the moments when a fastmoving wildfire swept across this highway. The drivers were surrounded by those flames....

I hereby appoint the honorable scott r. Tipton to act as speaker pro tempore on this dafmente day. Signed, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour, each member other than the majority and mino...

Too often it is one party power and sticks it to the other party. And then secondly i know you mentioned geographic concerns. We try to putt some other limitations on the map drawing process by requiring districts to be drawn more according to county lines or natural geographic features rather than just these crazy districts that squiggle around. Thats not you know not easy to do but one thing it does is makes it possible impossible for people to be too key yative. Some of the districts are very...

We want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what its going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the jobs done. We cant keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like Social Security so easy to fix. When the kid comes out of the Social Security on year one, start taking taxes out. Dont wait 18 or 20 years. Take a little bit out of earned Income Credit and not miss it. It would ...

That time by his body armor neighbors awoke this morning to the sound of gun foyer. Scary because it happens where you live and at the same time you need a sense of calmness but the police acted quickly. So it didnt get out of hand. Police were glad it did not happen later in the morning when kids are outside playing. You look out your window and you have kids and its a scary experience. The officer is a 17 year veteran of the force and has a wife and two children we are not releasing his name u...

Weve been watching and you can tell john kerry, the secretary of state, visibly getting frustrated with lawmakers as he is trying to defend the deal he put together and this is getting more contentious back and forth as this hearing is going on. A couple issues have been brought up that john kerry has tried to defend. One of them the arms embargo, weapons that embargo being lifted after five years, Ballistic Missiles after eight years. Kerry testified he said the fact that they got an extension ...

This afternoon. We had the strong thunderstorms before the sun came up for most of us. Now were seeing the cloudy skies but you can feel the humidity. It is back and will stick with us for the first half of your work week. 84 degrees it feels like 89. We have the feels like temperature in place because of the southerly winds. Were starting to see a little bit of sunshine for some areas. You can see where were feeling it in some areas. Warren ton were in the 70s and 80s elsewhere where the clouds...