Of you from Msnbc Roe Headquarters here in new york. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We are beginning with this Breaking News. Hundreds on capitol hill as the federal government heads towards a, potential, shut down in just 12 hours. Soon the house will vote on speaker Kevin Mccarthys new plan to keep Government Open. We see those votes being cast, in fact, as we speak. However, mccarthy is leaning on democrats to support it admitting that there is no guarantee that his own caucus would do it. The house is going to actually government will not shut down. We will put a clean Funding Stopgap on the florida keep Government Open for 45 days did you get any assurances from any of the republicans about this . No, i have tried. Well, a senate vote is also expected to get underway in the next hour. The impact of a potential shutdown will be felt foreign right across nonessential federal agcies. For almost 4 million employees and military, it would mean working without pay. Here is part
Not one but three water spouts. This is in the new orleans area captured by wwlv. This is over the lake. They have canceled school in southern louisiana and southern mississippi ahead of this system. I want to bring in meteorologist shay ryan because we want to talk about these images. This doesnt affect our area yet. Yet. Thats the keyword. It looks like it will intensify quite a bit before it does that. We have had reports of damage possibly from multiple tornadoes out of louisiana today. As we take a look at our weather our Computer Source here, you can see that these are pictures that are coming from twitter and facebook. This is from kenner, louisiana earlier this afternoon. And you can see the damage done to the back of the house, part of it torn off. Also siding here left on the front lawn. Off in the shopping plaza. Dramatic footage from a golds gym. I have that on my facebook. We have had an escalation or intensification of the storms is expected over the next several hours. T
Court said, nope, you cannot do that this attorney said everyonery person deserves due process. Libberty and justice for all, the best of the best and the worst of the worst. And mr. Foster falls on that or where anyone falls on that continuum is not for us to decide, thats a judgment left to god. He is before the court ready to enter a plea, i understand the order of the court does not allow that. He wants to enter a plea under the laws that exist. Judge. They want the sides to turning in the argumentings and reel based on the argument soon but jeff brown said it may surprise people that prosecutors are objecting to a guilty plea that give the defendant life in prison without parole but its you dont want them to do that without parole. Thats strange but remember, a lot of prosecutors believe in the Death Penalty and the punishment should be reserved for some and pay for their life for taking a life. Keep in mind experts say that if they side with the defendant they will appeal it. Exp
Going to last coming up in your complete forecast. Good morning. Great looking forecast there and if youre heading out to work early this morning you will not run into my problems in your morning drive i540 weve got no major issues, traffic moving smoothly in both direction. 540, 440 and 40 all looking good this morning. No major issues to report to you once again things looking good. Youre eastbound loops your drive times all in the green on 540 from glenwood avenue to u. S. 64 youre looking at about a 17minute drive and 440 to i40 to capitol boulevard is about a 10minute drive. A devastating weekend fire. The fire destroyed several businesses on sunday. North carolina News Reporter emma now with details on why the flames were who hard to put out. This is a four aher fire. We know it started yesterday at noon. Take a look at where this happened. You cant even tell the two businesses used to be here. Were told this fire started at roberts cabinets and tops. Were told it spread from tha
Frig . The honey still have about 400 of them. More on that dilemma, with the girl scouts coming up. It is thursday, february the 19th, 2015. Wow. Oh, my goodness. Oh, oh oh. Wow. Well, okay. If you havent noticed Chinese New Year. Yes. Happy new year everybody. Whew. Started about nine hours ago. Thank you, so much. Now in the year of the sheep. Yes. Can we bring back the Little Dragon real quickly. Hey, drill dragon vincent is that your name . Yes, his name is vincent. Last night in china town there is scene played out with the fireworks going off fire cracker popping, dragons were dragging and little vincent, was vincent up at midnight . Was he up doing that last night . No, no. He had to go to bed to be ready to go on the showment common slide on in here. So. So i mid vincent couple every nights ago right . He did his first lion dance this year. So i said howell are you vincent . Seven. I said do you want to come . He said i have to go to school. So well write awe note. Maybe you c