National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
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Talked to one of the residents in the area this morning who i was asking him when i got here to the know exactly where the statue was because its no longer here and he was shocked because he was like wow i run by here every morning and its no longer here which is really strange to not see it so last week and the leaks weeding up the weeks leading up to this day. Well people in the area and protesters were calling for the removal or loot removal. Of the sir Francis Drake sculpture that was because of the according to them, sir Francis Drakes controversial past and saying that he had ties to slavery. Now hundreds of people last week take to the streets and demonstration asking not only for the removal of a sculpture out here but also they wanted removal from street signs as well as park locations. They even like you mentioned aria got that petition online and thousands of signatures. Well there so again residents waking up this morning to the removal of that sculpture again were going to
Talk more about what happened reyna. And its right it was hard to miss it 30 foot tall statue here right behind me and now its replaced with a sign from the city the city letting people know this morning why they decided to remove that statue again were going to show you what it looks like here before it was removed. You can see this sir Francis Drake statue it had been here for many years i talked to residents in the area this morning. We were confused as to why was in here this morning. They are so used to seeing on their morning jog. Now people have been calling for the removal of the metal statue for weeks protesters said they wanted the statue gone because sir Francis Drake was a slave trader. Now theres a sign left by the city like i mention that says they temporarily remove the statue in response to demonstrators saying they were going to remove the statue them sales and so the city wanted to make sure they removed it before that happened now a petition on change dot org had rec
Getting better and better a future cast for map showing us the fog will continue to roll out said through midday and then well see it just sticks to summer coastal spots. There were the remainder of the day but really look at that the east bay south bay and north a nice and clear with a lot of sunshine and the temperatures like i was saying getting into low 90s once again. Let you know exactly where coming up in just a bit back to you daria thanks a lot of 2, 9, oh one and breaking news weve been following overnight the controversial statue of sir Francis Drake and marin county is gone. But it might just be temporarily lets go to kron fours reyna harvey shes been live monitoring the story all morning long reyna. Darya good morning and the reason why we think its for just a limited amount of time is because of that sign behind me thats where the statue used to stand right here and now theres a letter from the city and the city say they removed it. Temporarily because demonstrators said