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Pressing thoughts they would like to address with the panel. Right here in the front. The flaw in the current law . There is defamation, intimidation whenever we have a high profile case, theres a from people who think they can solve the problem or people who were injured who want a new law specifically for that issue. Why do we need a new law in this case . Do you want to start . Rights work did not start with any high profile case. Years ago when average people were being affected by this. Thi...

First of all, lets not make too much of this. A majority of the people who vote yesterday were female. It was 5149. But it was less than we a point or so less, but it wasnt like there was a huge shift in the gender balance in the electorate that voted yesterday. Women have a tendency to place a higher priority on issues like education and health care and i think any politicians, republican or democrat who hopes to appeal to women has got to have something intelligent to say about both of those i...

Good morning for twain. Heres the good news. The storms the whistle yesterday our history. But the damage is done. We saw a few inches of rain yesterday today we have showers tapering off. 67 degrees right now. 65 in waukegan. 63 in the cal. Satellite repair composite shows showers across the extreme southern and eastern communities. As the front moves through the rain will taper off quickly. The heaviest of the rain is behind it. 75 degrees by noon today. By 9 00 p. M. Were down to 68. The offi...

Good evening. The Weather Service is calling this a cold and unsettled weekend here in the east. But in places from the carolinas to maine, hit by big, early and in some cases record snowfalls, that may be an understatement. Tonight freeze warnings are out from alabama into pennsylvania on the heels of a weather system moving up the coast, dumping snow and dropping temperatures and leaving more than 1100 electricity customers in the dark in six states. As we see the live radar, it is new england...

Good evening. The Weather Service is calling this a cold and unsettled weekend here in the east. But in places from the carolinas to maine, hit by big, early and in some cases record snowfalls, that may be an understatement. Tonight freeze warnings are out from alabama into pennsylvania on the heels of a weather system moving up the coast, dumping snow and dropping temperatures and leaving more than 1100 electricity customers in the dark in six states. As we see the live radar, it is new england...

Name calling between boehner and mcconnell, but its not going to be that much easier for things to move smoothly through the house and then through the senate, including many of those bills that passed the house the last time. One comment we havent talked much about president ial consequences. This election was very good for Hillary Clinton, if she decides to run, not only because it puts a crimp in the potential campaign of my former student, Martin Omalley, who isnt going to be helped by the f...

Would be certainly the likely candidate. But the other thing is perhaps there was a report a couple weeks ago about the potential Lindsey Graham for 2016. He was bored. But to the point of there will be sort of this jocking for a position on Foreign Policy matters. And senator graham from South Carolina who david mentioned had really not erased for his own reelection. Hes certainly in this camp with mccain,. Rubio seems to be in that group. Im interested to watch is what the senator from New Ham...

Upper 70s. Partly cloudy early this morning. Maybe some patchy fog. It will be cooler along the lake. Cooler than the upper 70s. 63 greg now at the lake front. 64 in lansing. Its 62 aurora. Chocolate composite shows some of that cloud cover over the region of the rain will stay to the south and west. High temperature 79 degrees today cooler along the lake. It was High Temperatures 79. Friday we have spotty showers High Temperature reaches 79. Three days in a row and 79. What wrong with the fourt...

It is the debate over those weapons that is revealing a split between president obama and german chancellor Angela Merkel. Both say the fighting in ukraine must end but there are differences, how that should end. Merkel was at the warehouse Jamie Mcintire is at the white house. There is doubt whether diplomacy will work here. Thats right tony. Angela merkel says, that sending arms to ukraine would make things worse, president obama says that although it might not necessarily make things worse it...

The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 53, the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary, randolph d. Moss of maryland to be United States district judge for the district of columbia. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the may nominati...