The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain. Reverend kyle wright ii, Holy Cross Lutheran church and school, collinsville, illinois. The chaplain let us pray. In the name of the father, son, and holy ghost, amen. I thank and praise you heavenly father for moving each and every one of these men and women to serve this country which you sustain in your mercy. Watch over them this day that your will be done in their discussions, decisions, and most of all their actions. You are the god of all power and might who out of love for your creation established order from chaos, peace from discord, and life from death. For the sake of christ jesus our lord, forgive us of our pride, our disobedience, and poor stewardship of what you have placed into our care. According to your mercy, open the eyes and hearts of your people so they may know the depth of your love found only in christ jesus. Dear lord, i commend to your care our congress, our government,
Just the Arctic Refuge, but the wildlife and the indigenous who depend on this sacred, natural landscape. 1146 earlier. R. This year with my republican colleague, brian fitzpatrick, believe, as do 182 other cosponsors of this bill, that are are some places that simply too important, too sacred to be spoiled by oil and Gas Development. His is the same basic proposition that we were presented with yesterday when bipartisan ssed legislation to protect our coasts from offshore drilling, of use the north coast california is too special to have its fisheries and coastal conomy put at risk for the profit of big oil because places like the low country of south too special to be spoiled by oil spills. And today, were here to show the Arctic National wildlife refuge, the largest wildlife refuge in the united too special. So than fuge is home to more 200 different wildlife species pine,at includes the pork caribou herd. He refuge is a special place where veterans, recovering from begin. Find them
Berkeley. Reporter hundreds of people are here at berkeleys Civic Center Park for a city sponsored rally. Were city leaders are telling their own personal immigration stories. I think about the fact that that couldve happened to my family, if they were a younger me. Reporter her voice, shaking, berkeley city auditor jenny wong addressed the crowd gathered just the on the steps of city hall. We couldve been rounded up and placed in detention centers. Reporter wong says she, her parents, and her two sisters came to the United States illegally from taiwan when she was only six years old. Her family became legal citizens in 1986 thanks to Ronald Reagans amnesty law. That is what i experienced as a child. A government that showed compassion for immigrants. And, now, we dont have that compassion. If ice comes into our community, we will protest, we will fight for the rights of our immigrant brothers and sisters here in our community. Reporter todays rally was originally planned to demand mor
Theres the other scene looking across the bay from the roof here. Kpix you see the bay bridge looking at low gray clouds. While its thick are gray at the bay, you get further in san jose its sunny and some of russ waking up with thicker clouds than yesterday. Most of us are waking up with less or no clouds. So, the real overall story here is its clearer for most of us. Thats what it looks like in the trivalley. The camera is over dublin. As far as how it feels, its warmer in concord, its 64 right now. And thats what you get for making it into the low 90s yesterday. We are in the low 50s in the city. Its 53 in San Francisco. We will go to 64 in San Francisco today for the daytime high. Its going to stay cloudy on the coast side, sunny on the bay side. And everybody else will pretty much have sunshine today. And you can see its going to forecast across the rest of the bay area including inland locations which are still staying hot today. 91 degrees again for the daytime high inland. We w
Restaurant says enough is enough after a celebration is ruined by another break in so this afternoon with the owner has now decided to do. Plus, a San Francisco judge handing them the consequences for dozens of protesters who shut down the upper deck of the bay bridge in november. But does the punishment fit the crime . And the future of the pedestrian bike path on the richmond, sandra fell bridge. What it might look like next. Station. Hes calling for news 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news that 2, im justine waldman. Our top story this afternoon as that an oakland Business Owner is saying that hes just had enough after burglars smashed through his eatery overnight happened right in the heart of downtown. And this he says, is the 3rd breakin there in 3 years. The owner tells kron 4 sweeps all. He is now exploring his options to leave oakland. You want to just take a look . You know, these are hes a thats, you know, the sites and here. The found that opened here. Theres a