we thank her for our tireless service and achievements for the city of bellevue, anti-state of nebraska. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize a young lady in nebraska who is a fighter. a fighter gets medically complex condition known as acute myo lloyd leukemia. a fighter to gain support of h.r. 3325, the advancing care for exceptional kids act of 2017. or the's -- or the ace kids act. grace is 11 and diagnosed with a.m.l. when she was 9 after dark bruises appeared on her shins. her parents thought she had dancing mishap. aggressive treatment was started for grace at children's hospital and medical center in omaha, and her parents managed to maintain a family for their two other children. wile going through these treatments. mandy was able to step away from her job to care for grace and jeff was able to telecommunity. thanksgiving that year was spent in the hospital cafeteria and her sister spent her birthday ith her baby sister. increased travel costs made for a tight situation. medicaid stepped in to help alleviate the cost not covered byish shurens, but the deductibles were high. t

address tensions in society by engaging with each other in his christmas message recorded at berlin's bellevue palace steinmeier said the nation must not be allowed to drift apart. christmas for the german president. or is a time to talk to one another with family with friends and also with those who have political leanings other than your own. christmas is a time not only for carols but sometimes also for quotes i believe it's good for us to engage in debate it's good for us to talk to each other if i had one wish for our country then it would be let's have more debate. steinmeyer things germans are spending less time actually talking to each other and more time in their own social bubbles. however no matter how upset we are about others or wish they just didn't exist one thing remains true we are all part of this country regardless of our origin skin color approach to life or favorite sports team or. orderly ping's month. his christmas wish this year is that people enter into dialogue with one another other countries he says are showing us what happens when societies drift apart. we have see

detective bellevue called homestead police department and talked to the arresting officer. >> please a handgun? >> he said it was. >> tell me it was a glock 9 mill meter. >> he goes it was. >> now please tell you have that weapon? >> he goes, i do. >> reporter: bingo. >> we got to get that gun. >> reporter: yeah. >> art went down and picked up the gun. we submitted it to the firearms tech. >> reporter: the report came back, clear as day, this was the gun that killed susan sutton and blinded her husband. which obviously connects garrett kopp to that murder pretty intimately. >> absolutely. >> reporter: but detectives did not rush out and arrest kopp. for a simple but very important reason. there was a bigger question that needed to be answered. did his friend christopher know anything? was he even, perhaps, involved? shocking question of course, this was sutton's son, the son who devoted himself to nursing his father back to health. but something about christopher bothered them. and had ever since he was interviewed the morning after the murder. he said that i was at the movies. he sa

zachary: ward eight of washington, d.c., in a small community called bellevue.rian: in the anacostia section? zachary: yes, about 10 minutes from anacostia station. brian: what was the house like? zachary: it looks kind of like a duplex. you have someone living beside us. the two homes are attached. it was in utter disrepair. you walk into the kitchen and you have to be careful where you step because there is a gaping hole covered by a piece of plywood. and my grandmother has diabetes and the medicine makes her gain weight, and she would have to work through her mobility, not that great, getting to the refrigerator every day just to put something into the microwave. in terms of going up the steps, the railing was very bad. there was always water leaking at the top of the steps. in my room, it was the worst, the ceiling had caved in numerous times, and every time we tried to fix it, it would happen again because there was a faulty roof. we tried to get the roof fixed once, it was leaking in another place. there were so many things that made it incredibly difficul

host: let's go to bonnie joining us from bellevue, washington. hello. wife of a vietnam veteran. the war affected us at home in aly as those -- different way as those serving abroad. the point i wanted to make was that in 1968 on only were the protests going on, april, may, --e of that year when we had my husband and i were 1964 graduates of high school, 1960 graduates of college. i don't believe most people were volunteers. my husband was a volunteer only because he was going to be drafted in three months. he walked in and volunteered because he wanted to choose the time to go. he felt he had no choice. , we had manylass who passed away, who were killed. ptsd. extreme cases of that from the class of 64 and the class of 68. training. was in we had martin luther king killed, bobby kennedy killed. we had riots. it was a very tumultuous unsettling unhappy time. host: i want to jump in and remind you we are going to focus next week on those political events. but thank you for adding that to the conversation. all i want to thank you and your husband and your

southeast texas, from beaumont, to sabine baytown, , liberty, aims, king wood, humble, porter, mount bellevue, cleveland, champions, spring, klein, spring branch memorial and where i'm from. many wonderful people along the way and the staff that i would put up -- i have the best staff in congress. i always have. fortunate for me and fortunate for the folks in our congressional district. our four chiefs of staff, heather was my chief of staff and now my current chief of staff. also janet who has since moved off to seattle, washington and latest was tim and now heather. chiefs of staff have been excellent. a lot hink all of us owe of our success in getting things done for the people who work for us. my case workers in texas are great. viviana and amy, both veterans, one from afghanistan and iraq and they deal with the case work. they get it and understand veteran issues which is one of the many things we do is case work. but all of my staff work is excellent. i thank them for their proud work they have done especially in constituent services. i don't know what is next. it is time to dance with

. >> let's go to bonnie from bellevue, washington. go ahead, please. >> caller: hello? >> go ahead, bonnie. you're next. >> caller: okay. i am a wife of a vietnam veteran. of course the war affected us at home as equally as those in -- in a different way than those serving over abroad. the question, the point i wanted to make was that in 1968, not only were the protests going on, we haven't gotten to april, may, june of that year when we had -- my husband and i were 1964 graduates of high school. 1968 graduates of college. i can -- i don't believe that most people were volunteers. i think my husband was a volunteer only because he was going to be drafted in three months, so he walked in and volunteered because he wanted to choose the time to go. he felt he had no choice. most of our class -- we had many who passed away, who were killed, ptsd, extreme cases of that from the class of '64. and the class of '68. '68, when my husband was in training, we had martin luther king killed, bobby kennedy killed. we had riots. it was a very tumultuous, unsettling, unhappy time. >> b

i will be at bellevue hospital on christmas eve. i try to go someplace where people can't leave.insley: it is online. >> thanks for asking. brian: joe knows everything. >> you have to have fox on. blessed christmas to you and to everybody. brian: back at ya. steve: perfect set up for a gospel group opening for the radio city rockettes. they're performing live for us. ♪ ♪ sing about the joy, joy ♪ [upbeat music] you wouldn't feel good not knowing the price here. don't let it happen when you buy your diabetes test strips. with the accu-chek® guide simplepay program, you pay the same low price. all without having to go through insurance. plus, they come in a spill-resistant vial along with a free meter. skip the guessing game and focus on your health. not the cost. make saving simple today at simplepaysaves.com. ♪ ainsley: oh, we're so excited. we're in the christmas spirit. the season is upon us. we just heard from cardinal dolan and guess who we have in now? some beautiful gospel singers. steve: doxsa singers, from redding, pennsylvania to open for the radio city rockettes. they s