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Of our tower where you can see it is a cloudy start to the morning. Our current temperatures right now in San Francisco 53 degrees. Cool inthe south bay, 51 in san jose, coolest santa rosa 43 degrees. Headlines for today mostly cloudy, a few sprinkles, cool afternoon with a mix of sun and clouds. Rain will return soon though about midweek. Our high temperaturestoday in the mid60s to low 60s, cooler along the coast, 63 in santa rosa. Developing this morning in texas investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a man to open fire inside a Church Killing at least 26 people. Authoritie...

We turn to a reporter on capitol hill. Us. Elsey snell joins tell us how senator mcconnell wrangled the vote for this motion to procd. How did he have to lobby the last couple of votes . Out talking to senators well into the day to the vote. He was particularly worried about a group of moderate senators from these expansion states that accepted Medicaid Expansion under the aca. He was speaking directly to them about how they could spend the money that medicaid would this would receive. He ended up th an amendment that would give a hundred Million Dollars to medicaid. This amendment is being ad...

Up next the chief political reporter for sky News Australia hosted program wrapping up the most recent session of the australian parliament. Many members of the Australian Senate and house of representatives focus the question to Chamber Leaders on a strange relationship with the u. S. And the Trump Administration asking about recent australian diplomatic overtures to the white house and recent shift in american Climate Change policy that clash with australian policies. The parliament was expected to sit next to midmay of 2070. This is 30 minutes. Hello and welcome. Like most important allies ...

And democratic representative mike doyle of pennsylvania is the new Ranking Member on the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology, and hes our guest this week on the communicators. Representative doyle, if we could start before we get into specific issues, given the atmosphere in washington, the atmosphere on capitol hill, are there issues, do you think, that can be found and worked on in a bipartisan manner when it comes to Telecommunications Policy . Guest ing sure. And i think the energy and Commerce Committee has a long history of bipartisan cooperation. Weve put ...

Much, indeed, senator faucet. In the 58 days since President Trump was inaugurated, the Turnbull Government has been swift to engage with key figures in the administration. As we know, the Prime Minister has spokessen with the president. Spoken with the president. The president s honoring an agreement with america to accept refugees, an important outcome for australia. Already three nsclevel ministers have had face to face meetings with their counterparts and other officials. Last month the secretary of state and the defense minister, also last month [inaudible] this morning i returned from th...