Members of congress, distinguished guests colleagues from the department of defense, past and present. Members of the Vietnam Commemoration Advisory Committee the, thank you for being here today. Thank you to the organizers an commemorative partners of this important event and thousands like it across the country and the entire vietnam commemoration effort. Most importantly, thank you to the vietnam era veterans and their families who join us. You honor us with your presence. In a year of anniversaries for this years marks the 150th anniversary of the end of our civil war, the 70th anniversary of the end ever world war ii, the 65th anniversary of the start of korean war, today we gather to remember the vietnam war and to honor those who served in it. We remember the 50th anniversary of president johnsons executive order establishing the Vietnam Service ribbon and we honor our 7. 2 million living vietnam era veterans. Fair fallen comrades in arms including those still unaccounted for an
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The 8,042 meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this eting is nonproliferation, democratic peoples republic of korea. The agenda is adopted. In accordance with rule 37 of the councils provision of rules of procedure, i invite the representative for the republic of korea to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. Members of the council have fore them document s 2017 769. That takes of the draft resolution submitted by the United States of america. The council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. Will those in favor of the draft resolution contained in please s 2017 769 aise their hand. The result of the voting is as follows. The draft resolution received 15 votes in favor. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously. S resolution 2375 of 2017. I now give the floor to those me
Not as big as weve seen some days this week but it is filling in. Some areas are already clear. Temperatures are kohler this morning. Santa rosa, 49. 56, half moon bay. 57, fairfield. A lot of 40s to the north. Fog will give way to sunshine and temperatures will begin their warmup today. Tomorrow, things kick into high gear gear. Today, upper 80s and 90s. 60s and 70s on the bay. Their may be someone hundreds popping up on saturday. I do have traffic getting busier. Good morning. Were looking at traffic coming in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. Its only taking 19 minutes pick however it is not going to be too crowded. When you get to the bay bridge there is a backup at the toll plaza. A 10 minute wait. Also looking at interstate 880 north and southbound. Traffic is moving along nicely. In the south bay we have not had a big commute. A couple of minor issues. We have a crash reported that we will talk about coming up in a little bit. A serious city crash that we will get
A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin id like to vitiate. The presiding officer were not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin i ask to speak concerning we have a colloquy, speak on the protection act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Manchin madam president , as you know very well, weve been asking for immediate passage of the miners protection act not just for our state of West Virginia but for all the miners across america and basically the retired miners who have done everything thats been asked of them. We have some of our colleagues today and im going to go, at this time, if i can, and my other colleagues will allow me, i would defer right now to senator brown from ohio, since he has other commitments. Hell be coming back and forth, if he could go ahead and get started at this time. And ill come back and go to our other senato