Today, use our senators for your purposes, enabling them to live worthy of your name. May the words they speak bring edification and unity as they build bridges of cooperation. Give them the wisdom to depart from strife, remembering that soft answers turn away anger. Inspire them to avoid contention in their search for common ground. Give them cheerful hearts and optimistic spirits. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call dispensed with. The presiding officer
Mobile home park. This is where it all went down. According to this man s family, it was all over his prescription medication. His family says 74yearold Ronald Hollingsworth was beaten bloody by two women after out to rob him for his medication. Early this morning, they say the victim let one of the women into his home at this Mobile Home Park off clark on a road. The woman, without the victim knowledge victims knowledge, let open a backdoor to let another suspect in. The family says hollingsworth was able to get the board away from his attacker. They tried to kill them. They tried to beat him and kill him. He grabbed the cutting board and hit them with it during the altercation and, they tried to kill him. They really did. According to the family, they say he did know at least one of these women. In fact, they may both live inside the Mobile Home Park. As for investigators, they are incurred confirming there are suspects in the case. None have been named and as far made. Developing st
We sh 2 news sunrise starts right now. Good friday morning. Let s get you out the door with the forecast. You re going to feel pretty comfortable. You might light jacket or a sweater. We re going to change it up in the afternoon. It s 56 right now. Let s get over to amy. What can we expect . Amy we are similar to where we were yesterday morning. Some of us are in the 40 s and some of us are in the 50 s. We are warmer along the coast. As you look at the day planner, you will see plenty of sunshine and temperatures will approach 70 degrees by noon. We will see some clouds building this afternoon. It will be not quite as much sky as we had yesterday. We will become partly cloudy will top out in the mid70 s. It will be warmer than where we were yesterday. It is 40 degrees right now in ocala. Of we are at 52 in daytona beach. But it cocoa beach. It is 65 along the coast because we have that breeze coming in off the ocean. That breeze is that only bringing an higher, it is going to start sen
Jason insults fly at the republican president ial debate. We ll break down how it all unfolded. Wesh 2 news sunrise starts right now. Announcer local, live, latebreaking. This is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. Jason good friday morning. I am jason guy. Let s get you out the door with your first alert weather. This camera shows drops on the lens from overnight rain. The temperature is in the 70 s. Let s get to amy sweezey. Amy we are dealing with rain. A cold front is making its way through here today. This rain is out ahead of that front. We will be dealing with it this morning for a couple of hours. Once the front slides through, the ring goes away. We will end up with sunshine for your friday. Temperatures top out in the mid to upper 70 s. Here is where the rain is now. County is dealt with the rain. We head south, you can see how the rain is quickly making its way through into brevard. 59 degrees in ocala. 66, melbourne. Temperatures will climb. Cooler to the north. About a
Alex, what are you seeing there . Alex we just got some new information. Fhp tells us this crash killed the driver of this van was driving the wrong way on i4, and had a collision with a taxicab. A spokesperson says there was a bottle of alcohol in the front seat. The driver of the van had a bottle of alcohol. It reeked of alcohol. That is something witnesses also told us. This was a case of drunk driving. And because of the two deaths here. The cause of the two deaths here. The emergency scene you re seeing now has been playing out since the accident happened around 3 20 this morning. Fhp says the van was going the wrong way in the westbound lanes, when it crashed into the we talked to a witness who says the taxi was behind a tow truck that swerved erratically to avoid the van. This witness was driving behind the crash at the time and he says when he got out to help, the van reeked of alcohol. From our Vantage Point here off of idrive next to the holiday ve been watching as troopers i