The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy are we in a quorum call, mr. President . The presiding officer we are not. Mr. Murphy thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , i thank my colleagues for their indulgence this evening, and for those of us those of you who help us keep this floor open. I will make some longer remarks later this evening, but while we have a short break in the floor waiting for senator brown to arrive, i wanted to say a word of appreciation to all of my colleagues who have decided to join us this evening on the floor. This is my first appearance here, to talk about the imperative of changing the nations gun laws, recognizing that this number, 100 americans killed by guns every single day, is not inevitable. Almost every single one of these murders and suicides and accidental shootings is preventable. If we make different choices here on the floor of the United States senate, and our purpose tonight is to try to bring some consistency of effort
Area beaches. Got a few clouding billing up. 87 degrees at st. Pete. Already hitting 90 in tampa, 91 in apollo beach. These numbers as mentioned, warming up quickly. Weve still got mid level dry air thats really not giving us much in a way of cloudiness. With all of that sun, were baking. Heat index values already feels like its in the upper 90s for most of central florida. The radar, not showing much in the east coast although we are getting a few showers and storms starting to fire on the east coast sea breeze. Eventually that will start working back across the state. Youll see through the afternoon, as that works inland, well see our west coast sea breeze fire up. Could see a couple of isolated showers, thunderstorms there around 5 00. Theyll be hit and miss but could be lingering around the get a little warmer than that. Well take a complete check of the afternoon forecast and the work week forecast coming up. Were tracking breaking news. One of the top pitchers in baseball has die
Thats normally the green low lane at this hour. Thats tying things up out of vienna and fairfax as you make your way east from 123 to 66. Thats the big trouble spot. Howard, you said 80 degrees . Is that right . 80 if not the low 80s. We might not get out of the 40s, though, by saturday so big changes coming your way. For your tuesday enjoy t. Partly to mostly sunny. Perhaps a bit of a breeze developing. Low 70s aft morning chill. Its not even that cold right now. 79 at 4 00. I think the high will be 80 in town with low 80s south. But a really fine day all ahead of a front which isnt even on the map here. We do have high clouds coming across the region. Overnight they tend to act like a blanket, keep the heat in. Temperatures range from the protected areas in the 40s like cumberland at 46. Gaithersburg 48. 50 in fredricksburg. 64 already in winchester. Its 60 at the Pax River Naval air station on our way into the upper low 80s. Showers possible tomorrow. More on that coming up in a few