Good evening. Im dan ashley. An epa team is working to mick sure the area is safe for survivors returning home, abc7 news is rif from middleton with the story. Melanie . Reporter epa officials have found a few compressed air tanks and theyre removing those. Theyre finding air cans like these. You may be wondering how theyre finding anything here. They tell me the first key is to identify both the garage and the kitchen. Those are the two rooms most likely to have Hazardous Waste. These trucks where homes have been reduced to ashes. The idea to keep as much possibly asbestos laced ash from getting into the area. The epa is trying to do the same. One thing were being careful not to do is stir up ash and dust. Reporter epa coordinator brent moxley spent the day collecting cylinders. This is likely empty, not knowing from looking at it. Best thing to do is getting it out of the way. Reporter the team removed Hazardous Waste from 15 homes closest to schools. There are 1280 homes to get to f
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The secretary the speakers rooms, washington the clerk the speakers rooms, washington d. C. , december 23, 2013. I hereby appoint the hobyorble fred upton to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, revved rend eugene emrick, Catholic University of america from washington, d. C. The chaplain lord, we thank you for yet another year, the awesome blessings you have showered on us. We pray that as we enter 2014 you will bless this congress with unity, creativity, and the american spirit that has made our country great. We pray especially for the next generation who will inherit the works of the u. S. Congress. May you bless it with heartfelt concern for the world they will live in. A world of peace, justice, and in awe of the god who created us, amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 6a of House Resolution 438, the journal of the last days pr
He once that very badly, if they do not win. You read the article, and you think he is going to run again. You think he is going to run . I do. I think he is one of those people who is so in the game, and i do not mean to say that to but ish the importance, think one of the lessons of is that it is interesting in american politics. Evolve or change and get back up, so i do not see him wanting to get out of it. And with respect to his age, he is among the older but has a more youthful spirit than some of the other senators. So i think he would reject the notion that he is too old. Like a nice excerpt this morning. One of the greatest anecdotes that i have heard before. Mccain, retirement equals death. His dad retired. Has theyork times mother as 101. I think she is 201. She has been 101 for quite some time now. But, yes, old age is not a thing. All right, another rapid round of oneword responses. Media leans left, yes or no . Yes. I think [laughter] in places, yes, but not entirely. Yes
Touch each other but we chose not to. Lets talk about what is going on when it comes to policing in this country. A lot of sobering up. We need police and people look around and say they do protect us and maybe we can reform for 2020 and thats why the attorney general is working with senator tim scott. They were in South Carolina yesterday and reviving some Police Reform and Law Enforcement reform in this country. There is also a sense, among others that we need to maybe disband the police and black lives matters philadelphia representative is making it clear that when it comes to accomplishing the police. It doesnt have to happen today but it has to happen. One of the things that were demanding is the defunding over five years to complete abolition. We dont want to see any police in our community and over the course of those five years. The five years gives time for the community to begin to build what is needed instead of police. And at the same time, build Restorative Justice practi