You uphold the universe by the words of your power. Today, walk with our senators as they work. Help them to remember that there is no purity without vigilance, no learning without study, and no mastery without discipline. Give them the wisdom to be willing to pay the price to honor you. Provide them with joy in service and devotion in discipleship. Infuse them with a spirit of power, love, and selfcontrol. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the 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. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley one minute in morning business. An oped i penned recently mentioned countries that still has laws on the books and it touched the nerve in bangladesh. I certainly didnt mean to imply that it was the worst off
Broom, wusa 9. Theres no word on whether the second man in the car taken into custody has been charged. Baltimore police say a private investigator shot a 13yearold boy who opened his car door and pulled out what turned out to be a bb gun. The 73yearold former city pole officer was sitting in his car yesterday in southwest baltimore when a group of wrung men approached him. When the 13yearold opened the door and displayed what looked like a handgun that man shot him. The teen is in critical condition. Heres a christmas story with a happy ending, some joyful victims of sneaky alleged porch pirates are getting their holiday packages back today bruce leshan is live in germantown. Hey, bruce. Reporter yeah, add am, ill tell you what, thanks to some watchful neighbors and Good Police Work a whole lot of folks are going to have christmas presents under their treesn yeah, thats great. Over joy ed ed to get her husbands christmas wallet back almost before she knew it was missing. This is the f
Heart attack and stroke. A daily sugary drink resulted in an average of 30 more fat over six years. Were not going to discuss what a daily sugary cupcake will do. Man, you might, as well give up at that point. Diet soda not that bad apparently. Take your word for it. The ringling brothers circus will roo tire its elephants in may. 11 animals are on tour right now but so many cities and kentuckys have passed anticircus laws out of concern for mistreatment that the Company Found it couldnt arrange tours for their traveling circuses to 115 cities. The elephants will now join 29 others at a Conservation Center in florida. Okay. So you can make out of anything you know, and brian owens is proof of that. He makes portraits out of salt. Including this one of actor Morgan Freeman. Wow, look at that. He uses a playing card and a small brush to direct the salt that is fantastic. Brian says that he takes lots of pictures as he works and compares them side by side with the original and he chose Mo
Friday night. Good evening im ken wayne. And im heather holmes. This major freeway closure is happening right now and it comes after that construction accident set power lines crashing on to the roadway last week. Highway101 from buehrleing burlingame to san mateo are going to be closed down. Debora villalon is live where crews are starting a new round of repairs, deb. Reporter heather its a high wire act and crews are just getting started. You can see crews half way up there getting into position. Its the first time in three days 101 on the peninsula has been closed but at least this time its planned. A piece of the mangled transmission tower knocked down friday night. The tower is long gone to a pg e yard. Two wooden poles are ready to stand in for it but that requires uses these ropes to pull high power lines, but to do that repairs have to be done and a freeway closed. We want to make sure we do the work at a time thats less impactful to our residents. Reporter theres nothing its h
Reporter the pastor says until attitudes about violence change, nothing on the streets will. People who live in this east oakland neighborhood keep an eye out for one another. But saturday night, they couldnt stop a wouldbe robber from shooting and killing the mother of a 2yearold girl as she got into her car in front of her home on the way to a concert in the city. Crazy. What where are we going . Reporter neighbor horace houston walked outside and saw the telltale Police Lights and then found out his neighbor had been shot dead. There has to be Something Better than people going around and shooting and killing each other. Has to be. Reporter the victim, 29 yearold Jessica Anderson drove about a half mile from the shooting to the corner of avonall and bancroft. This is where she died. A stunned neighbor recorded the crime scene on her cell phone. She said the passenger in the car was screaming for someone to call 911. They did, but it was too late. Anderson was one of six people shot