the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. bilirakis: i'm prepared to close. i would like to say this is a very important bill. we were just overseas and met with the troops and we had quite a few servicemens from puerto rico. now, i like to say that most of them spoke perfect english but they may not and that doesn't -- they should have access to all the information in their first language. so with that, madam speaker, i urge the passage of this bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from fleal yields back . the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. takano: madam speaker, i'm prepared to close and i will render my final comments. our veterans and their survivors deserve the best care possible. the v.a. benefit application process can be confusing. congress has taken action to reduce confusion and ease the application process. i remember when only a few years ago, initial claims were taking more than a year. today, initial disability claims are being completed in less than 160

epstein in florida only limits prosecutors in florida. it is not bind prosecutors in new york. they are free to run with these charges. laura:a why was that secret p deal that mr. epstein entered into in florida -- by the way, the now-labor secretary alex acosta was the chief lawyer in florida back -- why is it so controversial? seph:oe it reallys to the heart of what resonates with a lot of people, which is that while our justices to is largely seen as really good, and times it appears -- certape times it aps that the rich and the powerful will get deals that perhaps the ordinary and not so powerful will not get. this seems like it could be a situation where you have allegations of literally dozens of victimsgainst mr. epstein in florida and he essentially got a slap on the wrist, 12 or 13 months in a local state penitentiary, sex offender gistration -- that is serious, of course, but it could have frbeen decades in ge what he was facing back then. it goes to the heart of whether or not our justice system is fair for everyone. laura: whatma do yo of the fact that federal prose

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. cline: thank you, madam speaker. it's my pleasure to yield four minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: thank you very much. let me first commend my colleague from central florida, mr. soto, for his leadership

first of all, that was conduct completely in florida, the southern district of florida that allegedly took place in the early 2000s. meif you look in the indi unsealed in new york, it takes great pains to detail the fact that the allegations took place in new york. they touch on florida as wel but they focused largely on allegations of sex trafficking ndandage prostitution in new york. that is done very strategically. the other thing is that the nprosecution agreements that was entered into with mr. epstein in prosecutors in florida. it is not bind prosecutors in new york. free to run with thes charges. laura: why was that secret plea deal that mr. epstein entered into in florida -- by the way, the now-labor secretary alex acosta was the chief lawyer in flida back -- why is it so controversial? joseph: it really goes to the heart of whaloresonates with a t of people, which is tt while our justices to is largely seen as really good, and times appears -- certain times it appears that the rich and the powerful will get deals that perhaps the ordinary and not so powerful will notis get. e

that was florida law. that was not a federal decision. >> epstein's accusers have been fighting in court. they say this nonprosecution agreement that protected him from being prosecuted in florida as well as his co-conspirators should be thrown out. the federal judge did rule that that plea agreement was illegal. but today epstein's lawyers have filed a new motion contending the deal needs to stand. dana? >> they did, bryan. president trump responding for calls for alex acosta to resign. >> what happened 12, 15 years ago when he was a u.s. attorney in miami -- is it miami? if you go back and look at everybody else's decisions, whether it's a u.s. attorney or an assistant u.s. attorney or a judge, you do back 12 or 15 years ago or 20 years ago and look at their past decisions, you'd probably find they would do things a different way. >> dana: that came after chuck schumer brought it up on the senate floor earlier today. >> i'm calling on secretary acosta to resign. it is now impossible for anyone to have co

, florida, and daughter of two citrus growers, as she was named miss citrus. to win this latest competition, she was able to show her skills as a dance major, a talent she uses to express her dreams and her struggles. she has plans now to use her other college major of public relations to help promote florida's economic and cultural strengths. mikayla will promote brave and beautiful, which encourages women to live healthy habits. brave and beautiful already launched conferences in multiple schools in central florida and made strides in kenya, guatemala and the dominican republic. mikayla, i'm proud of hearing how you're using your many gifts to transform lives and i applaud your efforts. you are wonderful role model for our young ladies. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recessmore of your phone calt a second. you can keep calling it. another place you can go to read a lot of news is the rollcall newspaper, rollcall.com. kathleen is a staff writer there and joins us on the phone to cover a

owe ho of florida. the chair: -- mr. yoho of florida. the chair: the gentleman from florida, mr. yoho, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. mr. yoho: thank you, madam speaker. i stand in support of an amendment i have offered to the damon paul nelson and matthew young pollard national intelligence act. i would like to thank representatives nunes and schiff for their work on this legislation. my proposed amendment includes within the report on 5g technology the flet threatt to the national security of the united states posed by telecommunications companies that are subject to the jurisdiction of foreign adversary. namely, china, russia, iran, north korea, and syria. this will cover threats from acquisitions, importation, transfers, or use of communications technology by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the united states that involved technology designed, developed, or controlled by a foreign adversary. as globalization continues to shape the world we live in, it is increasingly important that the united stat

i florida. you are watching "velshi and ruhle" on msnbc. n florida. you are watching "velshi and ruhle" on msnbc. in florida. you are watching "velshi and ruhle" on msnbc. hing "velshi and ruhle" on msnbc. kraft for the win win. i get to select my room from the floor plan... when i book at hilton.com free wi-fi... ...and the price match guarantee. so with hilton there is no catch. yeah the only catch is i'm never leaving. no i'm serious, i live here now. book at hilton.com and get the hilton price match guarantee. >>> i want to give you an opportunity because i know you've been under the spotlight with this epstein thing and i don't want to come at you with facts, but i want to give you an opportunity if you want to just explain some things. were there ever federal charges because the "miami herald" article said he was facing 53 federal indictments. >> there were -- if i could just provide a brief overview, congresswoman. >> yes, please. i would appreciate it. >> this matter -- this was a state matter. >> before it went to the state it was my understa

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the gentlewoman from florida. ms. mucarsel-powell: just to a couple of quick responses to my colleague. mr. brooks, the only thing that i do agree with is, yes, we have to put our own house in order. we have an executive in disarray at this moment. but i think he is maybe ill informed. he people of venezuela did not vote him in. they had fraudulent elections in may of 2018. please do not insult the people of venezuela who are suffering, who have no food and no access to medicine. we have seen the worst humanitarian crisis in this hemisphere and not because the people of venezuela helped him. e interim gitimate present is not there. but we are not going to see a tsami of people of venezuela coming to thisountry. this is aecting people residing in the united states. i yield to representative deutch for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. deutch: i strongly support h.r. 549 the venezla t.p.s. act. the situation is outrageous and some of this chamber would blame the people of

the man who headed the florida case, alex acosta, now secretary of labor in the trump administration. >> at the end of the day, mr. epstein went to jail. epstein was incarcerated, he registered as a sex offender. >> reporter: the "miami-herald" in an investigative report helping prompt today's charges found that acosta signed off on a deal essentially shutting down an fbi investigation giving immunity to any potential co-conspirators allowing the multi-millionaire to pay restitution to his victims, register as a sex offender and plead guilty to two state charges. he spent 13 months in palm beach county jail where he was allowed to leave, six days a week, 12 hours at a time. >> the world was put on notice

attorney in florida at the time. speaker pelosi calls that deal unconscionable, and the controversy is rising, again, after federal prosecutors in new york implicitly rebuked acosta's handling of the case, filing new charges yesterday accusing epstein of running a sex trafficking ring. they allege the millionaire financ financer abused dozens. >>> they uncovered a trove of lewd photos in his safe last weekend. he faces 45 years in prison. jeffrey epstein's social circle involves a wide swath of powerful people, including two u.s. presidents and a saudi prince. we are also learning that attorney general bill barr has recused himself from parts of this case because of his professional and family connections to epstein. at this hour, we are waiting to hear from secretary acosta, and from the white house. cnn's brynn gingras is here with all of the latest developments and there are many. >> jeffrey epstein, an already registered sex offender, meaning this was no secret but he still had friends in high places, former pres

these are the charges that the florida u.s. attorney's office could have brought and probably should have brought. i think this leaves a lot of open questions about why the federal prosecutors in the southern district of florida walked away from these kinds of charges. why epstein was allowed to plead to a minor state charge in that case and why the victims were intentionally excluded from the process. they are stunning charges for a number of reasons and given the posture, they are more stunning. >> the attorney answered very few questions, but why is this case being brought by the public prupgz unit and ycorruption uni. does that sound as strange to you as it does to us? >> the answer is it's hard to tell. jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district. >> who are is a donald trump appointee. >> correct. he came out firmly and said please don't read anything into the fact that this is being prosecuted by the federal corruption unit. i prosecuted some cases in the eastern district. because the charges came in and

joining me now isna sr rick scott of florida. welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, chuck, you doing? >> i'm good. i want to start with the senate intelligence committee report that was just released the day after the report. they carried into at least 2017, in an attempt to itrude at some point all 50 states where the russians extracted information,. >> the russians say that russia ran china. we have to be ver diligent. when i was governor, i allocated dollars for cyber security and dollars for our separately elected county supervisors. we passed ait provision wh the ndaa. look the russians are here and they're going to try to get into our system. >> it seems like the president even did it, if they did it they're not being deterred.th president himself poo-poos this, how will we get deterres if the president won't stand up to him? >> let's look at the facts. president obama did not do what he should have doneand that's why there russians able to get into two counties in florida. the trump administration put a lot of

into the southeast, parts of the carolinas and florida.e're going to need to watch out for those, especially into the afternoon. this area of low pressure once it gets to the gulf there is the potential for it to develop into a tropical system later in the week. we're going to watch that very closely and see which way it goes. but we also need to watch out for additional severe thunderstorms across parts of the plains into the upper midwest with damaging wind gusts and hail a threat. i'm accuweather meteorologist adam del rosso. >>> coming up, a drug bust involving burritos. >>> also ahead, surprising developments in the kevin spacey sexual assault case. >>> plus, the investigation into how a 1-year-old girl fell to her death off a cruise ship. >>> later, the new technology your boss won't like. a n >>> we're back with a bear entering a barbecue restaurant in alberta, canada. he didn't stay for long. the restaurant posted the video saying the bear was turned away because of its no shirt, no shoes, no service policy. silly old bear. >>> a d

, within the southern district of florida. if these are different crimes properly venued in the southern district of new york then separate charges can be filed. there's no statute of limitations for child sex exploitation and sex trafficking and so if there are crimes that occurred somewhere in new york, in manhattan, for example, where jeffrey epstein had his residence, those could be separate charges that could be charged separately regardless what happens with the investigation into the resolution of the miami charges. >> what should it tell us, is in think, a that these new charges are being handled by the public corruption unit? >> that's a good question. it could mean a lot or it could mean nothing. what it could mean is that some public official is bound into this somehow. it could be, that person could be a co-conspirator. that person could be a john. but we don't know. we won't know until today. and we -- >> hold on. definitively, isn't a john a co-conspirator? >> not necessarily. could be just -- not necessarily. be

she zeroed in particular on one inson for female inmates lowell, florida. it came to her attention that many of the women in that prison were there because they had been trafficked over the years and the subject was of great interest to her. she began to research the topic of human trafficking in the name jeffrey epstein kept coming up. so she decided to dig a lilittle deeper. that is when she discovered this deal enginineered in 2007 and 28 by mr. acosta when he was the u.s. attorney. concurrent with that, mr. acosta have been named as thehe labor by newry and designate president trump. she observed at his confirmation hearing that he got kid glove treatment by virtually all of the lawmakers who were there to grill him with one or two exceptions. so she decided to take a very deep died into this topic, working with the visual journalist, and the result was a series of stories called "perversion of justice." i belieieve as a reresult of tht series is what we saw yesterday, the indictment of mr. epstein and finally some measure of justice, perhaps, for his m

the man who headed the florida case, alex acosta, now secretary of labor in the trump administration. >> at the end of the day, mr. epstein went to jail. epstein was incarcerated, he registered as a sex offender. >> reporter: the "miami-herald" in an investigative report helping prompt today's charges found that acosta signed off on

the department of justice do the investigation, in the second investigation and what happened in florida a decade ago and now in new york to finish this out with new additional witnesses, let that go and let's get this person prosecuted and get justice to folks and then allow that investigation to go forward and review what happened ten years ago. i -- i think it is appropriate and the focus needed to be on the kid lz and getting justice to them. >> the girls were 14, 15 years old. you make a very important point. >> horrific. >> and they were clearly abuse and that raises the question why did alex acosta in south florida give this lenient plea deal with epstein? >> yep, and i think those are all lodge itd matt questions to ask him and i that i the department of justice will pull that up and when they are retrying the issues and bringing up additional people with additional witnesses to go back and find out what did the state of florida do and why are they trugling to prosecute the case and how did it end up in the u.s. attorney's office and how was the plea deal made and reasonable ques

of safety measures by certain florida schools . it's unbelievably disappointing when , he will talk about this, when we have talked about what we need to do and then you see people that for whatever reason don't take this seriously. they don't think it's ever going to happen at their school . i'm sending a letter to the school superintendent, board members and administrators demanding action . i'm disappointed in response but i'm confident that when we talked about this a little bit at breakfast, we're not there to fight and it's going to happen long-term. unfortunately all not all of us want to be here, can have something more important than what you're going to talk about but after i finish here i have togo to armed services for a mandatory meeting . so thank you for being here and thank you for your testimony and i think everybody, every senator up here tears deeply but this doesn't ever happen again. >> peggy senator scott, it would be appropriate if we had a moment of silence in memory out of respect for those who have lost th

may have found additional witnesses to talk about conduct that happened in new york as opposed to florida, but what seems to me from being an outsider looking at this, what's really new is the evidence brought to bear from the miami newspaper that made it clear the way in which the resolution happened in florida with alex acosta at the head of the u.s. attorney's office was done in a very strange, arguably, potentially corrupt way. i was u.s. attorney for 7 1/2 years in my own district and i never once had a meeting, ever, not withstanding -- not even off campus, but defense counsel in any case, not to mention a high-profile case without the team there and negotiated personally a resolution, which looks like what happened here. i think alex acosta has to answer a lot of questions why it was resolved that way and what his reasons were and what he based his decision on. >> the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york cited the excellent reporter by the "miami herald" over these past many, many months. a lot of speculation, preet, and i need your expertise on this,

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they come to florida. when colombians have problems, where do they come? to florida. is not the message that he gives to american people today. here‘s what is frustrating to me. why don‘t we do the things that solve the problems? why don‘t we secure our border? why not fix our asylum laws? no, i understand what you‘re saying. why don‘t we say, you know what? we love immigrants ‘cause we do, but let‘s have an immigration policy that actually works. but, you know, and you didn‘t have to blame both parties. both parties have to have done this. they‘ve sat here and not solved problems. you keep saying, "solve the problems, be practical, make deals". isn‘t the truth about donald trump‘s america, that he thrives on polarisation, he thrives on it, and if you look at the reality of politics today, his approval rating in the low 40s but with a base of 30 plus percentage of people that think he can do no wrong. look at the majority in the united states who think that the country is headed in the wrong direction and that despite a strong economy. but stephen, it was worse before

phil keating working the story from south florida. first bryan llenas reporting live outside the courthouse in manhattan. brian. >> at 1:15 p.m., jeffrey epstein made his first court appearance in federal court find me here in manhattan. he pled not guilty to both sex trafficking charges. our courtroom producers say two of jeffrey epstein's accusers were inside the courtroom when he pled not guilty. they described epstein is looking disheveled but also calm. he wore a blue prison jumpsuit and he was not handcuffed. federal prosecutors have charged him with one count of sex trafficking and another count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking if convicted the 66-year-old could spend 44 year. according to prosecutors, epstein paid hundreds of dollars to girls as young as 14 to massage or have sex with him. prosecutors believe there's dozens of victims and they are urging any potential victims of epstein who stated his new york townhouse or florida mansion to come forward by calling 1-800-call-fbi. >> as alleged, epstein was well aware t

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>> yeah, touch you in inappropriate places. >> reporter: the florida power broker struck a plea deal, serving just 13 months in county jail, registering as a sex offender. the agreement also halted a federal grand jury investigation, and gave epstein and any potential co-conspirators immunity from federal charges in florida. the u.s. attorney who authorized that deal, the current secretary of labor, alexander acosta. acosta questioned about the case in his confirmation hearing. >> the department of justice has defended the actions of the office in that matter under both president bush and president obama's administrations. >> reporter: courtney wild, a plaintiff in a long-running lawsuit challenging epstein's immunity, tonight telling abc news she's overwhelmed epstein is off the streets. >> she felt like, i was abandoned by everyone. 11 years later we still don't know the why. why would you cut this deal with jeffrey epstein? >> reporter: we reached out to labor secretary acosta's office. they had no comment. epstein is expected to appear in court tomorrow, when the indictment is uns

attorney in florida back then was alexander acosta, trump's current labor secretary. acosta cut epstein a plea deal on lesser state charges which sent him to prison for a little more than a year and he registered as a sex offender. >> i really don't know too much about it. i know he's done a great job as labor secretary and that seems like a long time ago but i know he's been a fantastic labor secretary. >> reporter: epstein's lawyers calling the new charges a quote, do-over of the florida investigation, which is now being looked into by the justice department. berman said the agreement made in florida has no bearing on the new charges. >> that agreement only binds by its terms the southern district of florida, the southern district of new york is not bound by that agreement and is not a signatory to that agreement. >> reporter: and epstein will remain behind bars until his bail hearing scheduled for next week. and when u.s. attorney geoffrey berman mentioned this case and he said the victims deserve their day in court and the u.s. attorney's office said in the last 3

a deep dive into the waters off florida, to see scientists trying to save a natural treasure.nd iconic collection. ste historic archive of african american life now staying in public sight. >> there's hope in these boxes, a lot of hope. this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. president trump started his day today with new attacks on democratic congressman elijah cummings and his home district, in baltimore. so far, republicans have been mostly silent. but the response from many others -- including the "baltimore sun" -- has been scathing. here's nikole killion. >> reporter: president trump defended his twitter tirade against maryland congressman elijah cummings, saying sunday, "there is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know, that elijah cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district, .nd of baltimore itself. the president doubled down after calling the city a disgusting, rat- and rodent-infested mess, and, no human being would want to live there. >> this is being perceived as racist. do you unders

we did it when i was governor of florida. we made sure we worked with dhs and doj to make sure this didn't happen. all of us have to understand the russians are here and other countries. they're going to try to influence our election. they're doing the exact same thing in europe. >> i want to move to the president's tweet storm. you spent a lot of time, energy and resources trying to win over nonwhite voters in the state of florida in your elections for governor and the senate. you have learned spanish. you speak spanish. you spent a lot of time reaching out. the president spends a lot of time on his twitter feed trying to racially divide the country. does that undermine efforts of the republican party in the state of florida? >> first off, i think it is important you talk to everybody. whether you are running for election or when you are elected, you represent everybody. on friday i met with a group of chinese americans and i had a rally with venezuelans about what's happened down there. look, i think we have got to do every

it included the florida activity. so you have a very, very interesting thing here where the southern district of florida is most certainly at odds with the southern district of new york in these prosecution decisions. and we may learn a lot more before the day is up. >> i think you're right, danny. let me ask you, tom, about something else here. the indictment lays out. and it charges that epstein knew a number of girls he was involved with were underage. he had knowledge they were under the age of 18. and it talks about the involvement of epstein's assistants, people that he worked with that were making calls to help organize all of this. would they be also protected under the nonprosecution agreement, or is it possible those individuals are also potentially on the hook? >> it's a great, great question, hallie. so we have to let the nonprosecution agreement in florida guide us here in which several of his assistants and a number of his employees were specifically named. charges would not be brought against them. ther

attorney in florida. they amassed enough evidence for a 50 plus page indictment when acosta was the u.s. attorney even though acosta wouldn't bring federal changes against him. somebody else finally did bring considerable charges, in this case for sex trafficking. he pled not guilty and facing 45 years in prison if convict and sentences to the maximum term. today in washington the press conference by alex acosta was designed, it seemed, to signal that he is not planning on resigning over the scandal. labor secretary also took questions. this was clearly him showing he is willing to face criticism on this. face his critics. alex acosta's defense started to boomerang on him. this i did not expect. in a bunch of different ways, what secretary acosta did today and in particular the information he released to the press today seemed to have made things worse for him in terms of efforts to justify his previous actions and justify why he shouldn't be apologizing now at least if not resigning over his role in this

collins: i yield to the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i thank the ranking member for allowing me this time. and i want to start by commending the gentleman from florida, mr. soto, for his relentless leadership on this issue. he has a tradition of working in a bipartisan way. and has a tradition of working on things that are important to the people of florida and this is important not only to the people of florida, but when you talk about venezuela this is important to the national security of the united states. mr. soto mentioned about the reality in venezuela today. the reality of what we have seen ecause of this socialist regime. and venzuelans don't have access to food, medicine. the most important thing is the repression they are suffering day in and day out. the people are doing everything they can to recover their freedom. i am proud of what this trump administration has done in support and solidarity and in support of the cause of freedom. while that's going on

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in florida. she was in middle school and captain of the cheerleading squad and played the trumpet. he had good grades and braces and when she was 14 years old, she was introduced to a man named jeffrey epstein. he is an incredibly wealthy multimillionaire who surrounded himself with powerful high profile people. his private airline has hosted high profile guests like bill clinton, prince andrew and various celebrities and donald trump described him as a friend. in 2005, florida police started investigating and what they turned up was horrifying. he was running an operation to molest and rape large numbers of girls. he was in his 50s and many victims were children. the fbi got involve and was able to identify dozens of girls who had been his victims. most were between 13 and 16 years old. some people think there could be hundreds of other victims out there. one of the alleged victims was courtney wild who was 14. he said he sexually abused her for years. it was spelled out in the "miami herald's"

petersburg, florida. here's dr.>> reporter: for 77-year-old lynn fleming, a small cut suffered two weeks ago from a fall on the beach turned quickly into a fatal illness. fleming's son wade says she liked to walk on this gulf of mexico beach near her florida home. >> she didn't know there was a small ditch there, and she stumbled and fell and hit the embankment on the other side. she had a small little three- quarter-inch long cut on her shin bone. >> reporter: three days later fleming was found semiconscious in her home. she was rushed to the emergency room and was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a rare but potentially deadly infection from so-called flesh-eating bacteria. she died two weeks after her fall. this comes on the heels of another case in florida, a 12- year-old girl contracted the illness from a scrape on her toe and is now recovering at home. according to the c.d.c., approximately 700 to 1,200 cases occur each year in the united states. even with treatment, up to one in three people with necrotiz

to now draw this artificial line and say, well, i'm recused from that florida part as you point out, not going forward is a completely artificial line that all of a sudden is drawn the day after this, you know, bombshell case comes out from the southern district of new york that i'm sure is making donald trump, amongst others, very nervous. and his buddy epstein for sure because it's a strong case. and so it just looks so bad. and this -- the bottom line is when you have an attorney general that you can't trust is defending justice and looking out for the department of justice, that's where this problem really comes to light. we cannot have faith in bill barr, and that's where his whole history so far is now just, you know, coming to the fore. >> so, zerlina, bill barr's father -- >> yes. >> -- his father hired jeffrey epstein, who he knew was not a college graduate. jeffrey epstein took a couple of college courses in physics. and he hired him at one of the most expensive private schools in manhattan to teach math, knowing he wasn't a college graduate. bill barr knows, he knows tonig

morgan chesky from plantation, florida. thank you, sir. >>> let's turn it over to evan hoffman who's with us on the phone. he was there at the gym just adjacent to the fountains mall when the explosion occurred. evan, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> you okay, first of all? >> caller: yeah. a little ringing in the ears and a little bit of a headache. it could have been a lot worse. >> did you go to seek assistance? did you go into any medical facility to make sure that your hearing, your head's okay? >> caller: no. i'll give it a day or so to see if it subsides. i mean, there was people with a lot worse than i was. my concern was after the initial explosion, you know, there was concern for my wife who was also at the gym, just making sure i was able to get my wife out safely and myself out safely. it was quite an experience. >> absolutely. and she's okay? >> caller: she is fine, yeah. yeah. she is fine. >> evan, there's always that question, what was the lead up to the event, right? and often it's difficult to rem

frankel of florida. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 476, the gentlewoman from florida, ms. frankel, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. frankel: thank you, mr. chair. you know, i think there's a few of us here in congress that are old enough to remember a time when we actually did nuclear bomb drills in school, and it's probably would have been a futile action if there was an attack. even though a nuclear warfare is an existential threat to all of us and our allies around the world, it's been arms control hat have led our lives -- go about our lives daley without that worry of nuclear war. agreements, like the intermediate-range nuclear force treaty, known as i.n.f. treaty, which led to the elimination of thousands of united states and russian nuclear missiles. in recent years, it's become apparent that russia has been violating this treaty, and in response, in february, the trump administration announced its withdrawal to the consternation of our european friends, giving both the united states and rus

, and i -- live oaks, florida, and that hand been in the news college and i didn't know she had beenn florida so armed with that name and location i wassible able to find this whole string of documents in florida, mortgages and civil claims where she had stolen from people and all of this whole like long trail that she left behind there, and i was able through that series of names and locations and addresses to track down -- to found her family, and her son had lived in chicago for a long period of time. he felt like she had basically ruined his life; that by virtue of being born into this family, he had been dragged around the country, he had been victimized by her. he had been abandoned by her off and on, and he was just -- windshield he had been able to -- >> she wasn't a mother. >> -- been able to live under different circumstances but the end of her life, any '90s she was institutionalizes by the state of florida and he decided to take her out of the institution and bring her back to illinois because she was his mother and he didn't want to leave her like that. maybe didn't want

but i'm in florida, so obviously it's not an earthquake.as just terriedho. >> reporter: the explosion was powerful enough to be felt for miles around. >> when we arrived, we found patients scattered all about the debris area. >> reporter: first responders set up a triage area, and firefighters with specially trained dogs searched the area to make sure no one was trapped or killed. fire officials say everyone has been accounted for. >> we're very much relieved that, considering the debris field, and considering how we found the patients and where we found them, that the injuries are not as severe as we thought they would be. so we're very thankful for that. >> reporter: peter king, cbs news, orlando. >> ninan: a search is under way in texas tonight, after a horrific case of road rage left four people badly burned, including two young children. it happened when a man shot at a truck, causing fireworks inside to explode. here's kenneth craig. >> reporter: this surveillance video captured the terrifying assault. fireworks exploding inside a mov

with the southern district of florida. that agreement only binds -- by its terms only binds the southern district of florida, the southern district of new york is not bound by that agreement and is not a signatory to that agreement. >> why is it being handled by the public corruption unit if it's just sex trafficking charges at the moment? >> i'm not getting into the staffing decisions can he u.s. attorneys office. the public corruption unit can ably handle this investigation, prosecution as it has so many other matters. i will, again, urge you not to read into the unit assignment anything one way or another with respect to the investigation. >> look at the evidence, how confident are you that jeffrey epstein is going to spend the next several decades of his life behind bars? >> look, i'm not going to comment right now on the evidence. i will say that we are going to request detention pending the trial in this case. >> i was just wondering reading this indictment as someone has already asked, one of the alleged activities

this is a repeat of what happened in florida so this shouldn't be happening.d any water? >> no, paw the charges involve both conduct in florida and also here. >> the significance of this being handled by the public corruption unit of the u.s. manhattan district attorney's office. >> unclear. they could be looking at acosta. >> prosecutors say don't read too much into that. they kept warning us a lot today. there is a lot of information out there. a lot of it inabiliccurate. a lot of people speculating on different facts of the case. you can't help but read into it, right? did they think maybe there was inappropriate conduct within the government, right? maybe acosta or something. so, therefore, that's what started it, but it doesn't necessarily mean that anyone in the government is going to be charged with doing anything wrong. >> i've got to go. it will all come out. i moon, obviously. we'll see what happens. thank you, jennifer. thank you, shimon. appreciate it. >>> joe and jill biden sitting down with chris cuomo. what they're saying about 2020 and the demo