that hatch opens up on the shoulder of the redeemer's statue. beautiful city of rio below. no word whether they had any behind the scenes help. i don't think so. i would imagine the folks what curate this statue may want to increase security. >> put some locks on some doors. >> you would think there would already be security. >> bad, bad but cool. >> you might want to fix that before the olympics, just saying. >>> this robbery has a real international flare. according to metropolitan police in england you see this guy right here? he and his buddies are from astone ya. police said they flew to london to rob the watches of switzerland shop and these guys actually grab $1.5 million in luxury watches, but security is hot on the trail. there you see they get him into a bear hug. let that guy go. this gang was caught. they were on organized gang and went with the intention of robbing multiple places. they got 51 years for what they were trying to do here. another robbery attempt with some tools, this time with a sledge hammer and an axe. you see right here two guys walk up to a j

hatch: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: mr. president, now that votes are concluded and we have successfully passed our legislation granting tax relief to millions of americans, i want to take a you fao minutes to express my -- a few minutes to express my gratitude. this has been a very long and sometimes difficult process, but it has at almost every step been bipartisan and cooperative. i think the results speak for themselves. this legislation, the path act, will help families and job creators grow our economy. this legislation will show businesses -- it will allow businesses and run-of-the-mill taxpayers to more effectively plan for their future. this legislation will pave the way for comprehensive tax reform, and this legislation will relieve the pressures we face every year on tax extenders and end the cliff for crisis mentality that surrounds much of our tax policy. it is quite simply a win for good government. the last of many we've enjoyed in what has been a very productive year here in the senate. i'm so pleased to hav

hatch hatch i rise today to -- mr. hatch: i rise to discuss the state of the united states senate. in my 39 years of service in this body has given me an increasingly unique vantage point to reflect upon this institution. over the years i've seen the senate both at its best, rising to meet the lofty expectations of the framers and unfortunately seen it at its worst. last year i came to the floor to speak about what i viewed as the abuse of the senate and this body fell into great dysfunction. in addition to identifying these abuses i did my best to lay out a vision for how the senate ought to function, how we could best live up to the best traditions of our forebearers. over the past year since my selection as president pro tempore, i have endeavored to continue to offer what lessons i have learned and what accumulated knowledge i have acquired in my nearly four decades here to help our new republican majority to get the senate working again. after a year of hard work, i can report a significant degree of success. under the leadership of our new majority leader and his team, the se

hatch: today i complete the series on religious freedom. chart aging a path forward requs taking stock of where we are right now anding where we've been. the story of religious freedom shows that we must choose between two starkly different paths. the story begins with religious freedom itself and why it is uniquely important and requires special protection. as i said in september, quote, "no decision is more fundamental to human significance than the decision we make regarding our relationship to the divine. no act of government can be more intrusive and invaif of individual autonomy and free will than the act of compel ago person to violate his or her sincerely chosen religious beliefs." unquote. the story continues with the central place of religious freedom in america's identity. at no time in world history has religious freedom been such an integral part of a nation's origin and character. the seeds were planted centuries before the actual founding of this country with one religious community after another coming to these shores to fre

luckily the hatch was between me and a lot of the debris that blasted through. it put a few big dings in my hatch, but i was very happy it was there and protecting me from large chunks of shrapnel. or any debris that could have probably taken me out. >> captain brown downloads the video to his laptop and his soldiers gather around to watch it. >> the first time we watched the video, i think we all said the exact same thing that i said on the video. >> oh -- >> because even though we'd watched the scene unfold in real life, you still don't see it coming. >> that's a lot of like patting on the back like, glad you made it through. the only reason that i think we didn't get blown up was the triggerman was a little slow or didn't have his timing right. i think maybe we were moving faster than he anticipated. >> the entire squad spends the next five days scouring the area of the explosion for the insurgents responsible for the attack. although they never find the men who planted the ied, they do eventually secure this area of mosul and rebuild the road for safe passag

. >> hatch hatch, thank you, indeed. iraqi said that they're close to the center of ramadi. the military said it has engaged in a gunfight with isil fighters there. the army began its newest offensive on tuesday with the 1947 of u.s.-led coalition airstrikes. >>> 27 soldiers have been killed by isil fighters south of fallujah. and several civilians were killed when sheffield united by the army. >> many, thousands say they need help getting home safely. we have the story in northern iraq. >> he way fighting isil and captured on his way back home by shia militias. he said it was because he was sunni. he was tortured for ten days at a youth center used as a prison. his uncle, who was a police officers, died after being tortured by the same militia. >> they used to hang us, and ten people used to hit me. they would set nylon alight and set it on my body, telling me to tell the truth. >> the area is now a ghost down after tens of thousands of people were reportedly forced out of their homes. those we smoke with said there were no isil fighters there. and they were punished on the

the hatch is locked closed again, safely back in the spacecraft.pointing spacewalk in a true sense. >> the only thing we did not do well was eva, extra vehicular activity. for the last flight gemini 12 he brought in the idea of training in the water tank. >> i was a scuba diver from 1957 so i knew a bit about dealing with currents and moving around and spacewalking, it was very delicate moving and you balance so you don't exert yourself. so i started training under water. >> buzz put all that together and the final eva was done very much by the book. it was a big success. >> so i was standing up in the hatch and looking around and took a couple pictures of texas and the astrodome and took a picture, nothing unusual about that. but that was the first selfie in space. >> gemini 12. >> when gemini was over, the team of people, planners, astronauts, and people in the control center were complete synched and we came out with confidence in ourselves. let us have this apollo stuff. we'll take it to the moon as fast as we possibly can. android smartphones,

hatch: i also ask that i be permitted to complete two sets of remarks here. last night after months of discussion and several weeks of intense negotiations bipartisan leaders from both the house and senate reached an agreement on both the substance and a procedural path forward for legislation that will provide millions of american families and businesses with much-needed tax relief and set the stage for comprehensive tax reform in the future. the bill which we're calling the protecting americans from tax hikes, or path, act of 2015 would make a number of temporary tax provisions permanent, putting an end to the repeated tax extenders exercise that has plagued congress for decades and giving certain -- giving greater certainty to u.s. taxpayers across the board. there are no two ways about it, mr. president, this is an historic bill that is actually the latest in a long line of historic bills we've considered in the senate this year, and it has quite a bit in common with some of the other efforts we've tackled in 2015. for example, for many years now much of

. >> translator: hatching the eggs have been our biggest goal.ppy this coming spring we'll be able to release the hatch links. >> reporter: a local convenience store is serving a constant stream of workers, but this is all a big gamble a long-term bet on coaxes an abandoned town back to life. >>> china's president has called for countries to be allowed to set their own rules for cyberspace without interference. he was speaking at china's second world internet conference. beijing is often accused of online censorship. the chinese leader says his country has the right to govern the internet in any way it sees fit. >>> the u.s. city of flint in michigan is under a state of emergency over the safety of its drinks water. >> reporter: for parents in flint, michigan, the declaration of a state of emergency over the city's water system is long over due. >> it's too late. the damage has been done. >> i don't understand why it wasn't done before. >> reporter: in a statement declaring the emergency, the newly elected mayor said: so she's asking for federal

they say wht was hatched by a group of fifth graders. it's happening in clifton. bu e students accused all attends school number 11. police say they plotted to bomb nearby clifton high school. "today in new york's" lori bordonaro is in clifton with the latest. >> reporter: and kerry, turns out that bomb was made up of say that this here was no prank. these five fifth graders planned to carry out this attack on the high school. a school administrator got wind of the plan yesterday morning, uncovering written plans to blow up the high school during a field trip that was scheduled for yesterday afternoon. they called police, who then found the device, again, made up of cinnamon and negar. while it was not explosive, police say the students intended to carry out the plan. although, it's still not clear why, police are investigating. darlene and kerry, they have not yet charged the students. they have released them back to their students. all five students have been suspended. back to you. >> fifth grade. unbelievable, lori. thank you. >>> 5:

tell me how the plan for nest was hatched.y: because of my time with my grandfather, i learned a lot about houses. i was always fixing them, even before nest. when it came to designing a home for a family, i did not just let an architect run with it, i wanted to get into every detail. that is when i found all of the problems in the home, specifically heating and cooling. even when i told my wife, like, "i want to make a thermostat," she looked at me like "you're nuts." i said, "no, let me tell you." when you explain the situation, that this is not just a thermostat. there eyes perk up and they go i think you should do it. emily: you reinvented the thermostat, the smoke detector. you gave cameras, home security cameras, a complete makeover. before you even got to the cameras, less than five years passed, and google snaps you up. you sell to google for $3.2 billion. tony: i think the first decision was should we allow google to invest in the company? that was 2.5 years earlier than the actual acquisition. through building a rela

he was on patrol last year when he was struck in the head with that hatch et. >>> 4:32. right now police are looking for a man who slashed an exchange student in queens. it happened while she was walking to school in whitestone. "today in new york's" jen maxfield is at the school. you just spoa with police, correct? >> reporter: yes, kerry. that's correct. we are here outside the whitestone academy in the whitestone section of queens. police say they still have not made an arrest in this case. the victim here is a 16-year-old foreign exchange student who came here from china just eight months ago. she was walking to school yesterday morning when just around 8:15 police say that she was slashed in the face from behind in a completely random police say that the attacker was wearing a surgical mask and surgical gloves. the young woman was slashed in the face in one case from her throat to her ear. so some serious injuries, though they're not considered to be life threatening. neighbors here in the whitestone section of queens say this random, unprovoked, and fightening atta

officer through the top hatch, that's a hatch that you can deliver gas or shoot. they're around the side of the vehicle. there's another vehicle directly off from the driver's door straight out and so they've got somebody in there. they're talking to him. you know, they may be just yelling at him. they may be talking on the cell phone. usually you just yell and say what's your phone number? we'll call you on the phone? and they're probably negotiating with him. >> we heard they had been trying to convince these folks to surrender. you mentioned the door open there. we can see the wnd shield appears to have been shot at. those would appear to have been goonshot. the windshield wipers seem to be randomly moving on that vehicle. and all of this happened very quickly, within the last 10 or 15 minutes we're told there was this flurry of activity. 14 people killed at the inland community center. the number injured has risen to 17 and all of a sudden we heard from reporters on the ground officers flew off quickly, he saw s.w.a.t. vehicles coming in. we're hearing as well

. >> and you can see on the pictures from the explosion clear as day that all of those thief hatches are closed. >> the explosion was so bad that dustin's pick up was parked about 25 feet away, it blew out all the seals on his doors, it blew out the sunroof on the truck. >> investigator ross rolshoven was hired by dustin's family's attorney to look into the accident. >> in dustin's case, the top thief hatch was not open. so there was no natural draft ventilating through the top of the tank. >> look at this. >> oh man i didn't see that. you can still smell it up in here. >> you think it would still test hot? >> i believe so. >> i wonder if that's the area where in the area he was working >> yeah >> what happened to dustin was unfortunately very avoidable. the truck should have been put outside for 24 hoursyou check for flammable gases and do that type of thing. and if it doesn't pass at that point, you let it sit outside for another 24 hours. >> kinda surprised to see it still sitting here. >> they probably just forgot and moved on about it, i mean hell the caution tape ain't even up.

he basically sold the escape hatch. he sold the eject button. so flint was committed to drinking from the river, this idea they'd come up with. the detroit water, the water they used to be on, that was water from the great lakes. the water they were switching to was river water from the flint river. and if you talked to people who know about this stuff, they will tell you that you do not switch from drinking lake water to drinking river water as flint did, without taking certain precautions. river water has a different chemical balance, which basically boils down to rivers being saltier than big lakes, and that makes river water more corrosive. so you have to take steps to keep river water from basically eating the old pipes, which are held together with lead soldering. if you let the untreated, corroded salty river water eat the pipes, the lead leaches out of those pipes and gets into the water. and lead in the water makes people really, really sick. there's no level of lead in water that is considered safe. but if you take in way too much lead

permanent reform is never going to be easy to come by, but this thoughtful legislator, senator hatch, never gave up and he and his staff continue to work on this issue for a very, very long time. the result is a significant accomplishment for american families and the american economy, and i can't thank senator hatch enough. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: before the republican leader leaves the floor, i want to say a few things. in the years i've served in public office, i really brush aside most press. i don't let it bother me. but once in a while something comes along that does, and there was an article in one of the hill newspapers this day that really troubled me. "bad blood: reid-mcconnell relationship hits new low." mr. president, i have a difficult job, and so does he. we both have done our respective jobs. we started out in leadership positions here doing different things. but when we first started working closely together, we were both whips. and no one knows our personal relationship except him and me. there are things he doe

so when these little chicks hatch i would cheat and i'll take this little chick and give it to another hand. put it in a box with a lantern. get more fresh eggs, place it under it again and then the hen would sit on the nest for another three weeks. when i look back on it it was not the right thing to do. it is not the moral thing to do, not the the most loving thing to do, not the most democratic thing to do. i was never quite able to save $18.98 to order the most inexpensive incubator from the roebuck story. anyone old enough to remember the sears roebuck? some people called the ordering book, some people called it the wish book, i wish i had this, i wish i had that. i just kept on wish it. but a little child around eight or nine years old, i wanted to be a minister. i wanted to preach the gospel. so from time to time at the help of my brothers and sisters, cousins, help of my brothers and sisters, cousins, we would gather the chickens together in the chicken yard. my brothers, sisters, cousins buying the outside of the chicken yard. along with the chickens they would help make up th

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome roy blunt, orrin hatch, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, george w. bush, and dick cheney. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please and stand for the presentation of the colors by the u.s. armed forces colorguard, the singing of the national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. ♪ oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what's a probably we hailed at whotwilight's last gleaming is broad stripes and bright stars fight, overperilous the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air nightroof through the that our flag was still there o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave freethe land of the brave? ♪ome of the ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand as the chaplain of the u.s. senate, barry black, gives the invocation. >> let us pray. eternal god, our refuge and strength. as we begin this unveiling ceremony of the marble bust of vice president dick cheney, who we think you for his service to you, and country. remembering the many years he labored in the political arena, we are gra

officials tell cnn that marquez says that he and farook hatched a 2012 terror plot. they abandoned it because they got spooked. the fbi at that time made another terror arrest. marquez also telling u.s. officials that he and farook had been radicalized as far as 2011. there are questions about the visa application process. how the wife was able to enter the united states without being detected. she applied for a fiancee visa in pakistan. malik was not questioned about her jihadist leanings. she was already radicalized. alison, christine. >> thank you for that. the house will vote friday on the stop-gap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. it will give lawmakers a few days to hammer out the deal. the negotiations are stalled because both parties are fighting over riders to the bill. president obama is threatening not to sign the bill tomorrow unless there is hard and fast agreement with procedure matters to clean up. >>> time for an early start on your money. stock markets down. yesterday, the dow extending the losing streak. the s&p 500 fell 1%. what's weigh

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome roy blunt, orrin hatch, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, georgedick cheney. [applause]

. >> he had wives and relatives here, he's in afghanistan, hatching a plot. i don't know if you can -- you know, i don't know. >> you can't really take them out. >> hey, bill? we have to be much tougher than we are. we're just not doing it right. we have to be much more vigilant and we have to be tougher. we can't allow this to happen. they take the wives and put them on planes and send them home. let's watch daddy on television knock down the world trade center. there has to be retribution. if there is no retribution, you're never going to stop terrorism. >> i asked mr. trump why he makes statements that get him into trouble. right back with you. during bass pro shops' holiday sale. ladies flannel shirts - 2 for $20. get a free $50 bass pro gift card with purchase of the go pro hero 4 video camera. plus check out basspro.com for daily deals and free shipping. it begins from the the second we're born.er. because, healthier doesn't happen all by itself. it needs to be earned every day. using wellness to keep away illness. and believing a single life can be mad

more than hatch cost $30-- half cost $30 or less >>> much more on our website, al jazeera.com. >> it's christmas eve and u.s. soldiers are preparing for their last month in afghanistan. about 40,000 are still here. by the end of the year there will be just 8,000. we traveled to afghanistan in the midst of this transition. but on the base, we found a story that isn't being told. the people doing the day-to-day work here are mostly civilian contract workers. men frommen india and nepal who travel to a war zone gist for a promise of a good job. or many of them that promise turned out to be a lie. they ended up deceived and indebted victims of human traffickers who thrive on military contracts . front line investigates the american military has come to rely on an indentured workforce. camp marmel is the largest base in northern afghanistan. nato's mission here centers on training the afghan national army. >> the complexity sometimes is when we first got here is i started thinking about it, it but -- >> this is the u.s. regional garrison commander responsible for daily operations in the nor

seeing a lot of activity in the winter can be a sign there will be a lot of hatching going on in the spring. those little green worms, you know those ones? like, they are everywhere. had a lot of moths on the door. the window part of the door. because it's been so warm, so they come out and lay their eggs. >> one made their way inside and my dog was after it. >> did tucker get it? >> yes, he did. he was snapping at it. it was funny. we'll see what happens come this spring when they start to hatch and the little green worms come everywhere. it's been so warm, the winter moss starts to come out. now it's the first day of december, we flip the calendar. happy first day of metrological winter. a chilly and damp start to the month. there's no snow in sight. we may get a couple wet flakes to mix in from time to time. we'll talk about that in a second. the sun will be back out in full force and temperatures will be pretty normal for this time of the year. normal is in had the upper 40s now for the start of december. 32 in boston right now. 19 in nashua. same in keen. we're in the 20s across

. >> hatching the eggs has been our biggest goal. i'm so happy this spring we'll release the hatch lings. >> the work is being replicated around the town. a convenient storm helps a stream of workers. but thi coaxing back a an abandoned town back to life. >> we'll have more on sport. see how some of cuba's baseballs most high profile defectors have been welcomed home for the first time. >> we will he a get all the sports news now. >> barbara, thank you very much. the board of english premier league chelsea has met to discuss manager jose mourinho. mourinho led the club, and is one point off the relegation spot one of its players said it's clear where the fault lies when it comes to chelsea's poor season. >> we all have to take responsibility you have to perform like a big player and perform like a big player. >> on tuesday gladiola watched his team reach the quarterfinals of the german match. he indicated that he would make a statement next week. he has yet to taste success in the champions league having won the time as coach of barc

also, a man in upstate new york accused of hatching an isis-inspired plot foiled and we have an nbc news investigation about the replacement for a medical device that was associated with dozens of deaths, well now the replacement also has a potentially fatal flaw. all coming up on nightly news. the national championship game. right now the third quarter is just getting underway...oklahoma is up 17 to joe gorchow caught up with some rowdy tigers and sooners ahead of the game today. a sea of orange invades south miami... into their own death valley... away from home. take sot "when you're 13-0 and have a team like clemson and a coach like dabo you can't help but follow them." oklahoma's played in more orange bowls than any program in the nation... so there fans feel like the sooners run this city. take sot "we're the miami sooners. we own this place. we're the miami sooners we're not intimidated by these people. we own this place. we live here. they're the intruders." tigers fans feel differently. "40-6. hey.. .i tell them like drake... we're going back to back. back to back." as fans part

reporter heidi hatch sat down with this brave young girl. (chrissy turner/ cancer patient) i was scared. 8 year old chrissy found a lump on the right side of her chest in october- it wasn't going away but she was afraid to talk to their myself to tell them. (annette turner/ heart drops. her mom annette had rare form a cervical cancer in 2000. her dad is still fighting his own battle. (troy turner/ father) non-hodgkin's stage 3. chrissy's dad troy armpit. (troy turner/ father) i gone in earlier, but i nothing. and that's why when chrissy said she had a lump they wasted no time. (annette turner/ mother) listen to them, don't take anything lightly. chrissy's doctors had good news at first... but it was short-lived. (annette turner/ mother) 99.9% of all tumors in children are benign so there is that ok, we'll just get it out, all will be well. and then the phone the diagnosed: a slow-moving and very mother) you just think i'm going to lose my (troy turner/ father) as hard as it was to it, it was 100 times harder to tell her that she had it. moth

if everything in the united states was based on hatch's views this legislation would like different. but that is not where we live. here in the real world any undertaking is going to require compromise. i know i say that a lot about that and learning the art of the doable every time we considering a high profile piece of legislation this year. but that doesn't make by arguments any less true. this is a good video. anyone can make excuses to vote no if they break it down but taken overall we should welcome the positive impact this bill will have on our economy and future legislative efforts here in the congress. i urge my colleagues to support the path act and provide real tax relief at this political time. before i close, mr. president, i have to note a lot of work has gone into this legislation. every provision of this bill has a number of champions who worked for years to preserve these previsions in the hopes of making them permanent and i want to acknowledge some of those efforts today particularly those on on the senate finance committee. the reduction of state and local sales t

joining me on the phone from chicago is reverend marshall hatch.ou're the pastor of the children that betty jones attendsed. the new mission baptist church. you're also the leader of the church in chicago. let's talk about the family members of betty jones are doing. her neighbor had asked her for help when police arrived, and she was shot. >> yeah, well, obviously, the family is absolutely devastated. the fact of the matter is that miss jones was simply being a good neighbor. and that the preliminary evidence suggests that the first bullet went through the door before the door was open. so there was no irate young man with a bat to be confronted when the first shot was fired. and the evidence suggests also that betty was shot first. this is -- this is now become unconscionable that we would have police acting this recklessless when we have the department of justice overseeing policies and practices. it suggests that the whole situation with the police and community is out of control. >> and a preliminary autopsy has been done and they're waiting f

. >>> also to night, he is front runner and he is in a firestorm, donald trump returns to new hatch shear tonight for the first time since calling a ban on muslims entering the u.s. this poll, we should point out was taken before the controversial comment. jim armstrong is live in >> david you have no idea that donald trump is the frontrunner by the looks of this crowd here in portsmouth, normally trumps protesters are out numbered bishop porters, not the case here tonight, a doss or so pro tump folks, i heard a count from one person close to 280 people here from all over the area, we met some folks up in here. they hope to show him that message when he shows up in about and hour or so seeking the endorsement of the police benevolent association. >> donald trump has been making voters mad since the day he general nouned for president, his most recent comments about keeping muslims out of the country are simply the final straw. >> to say that certain socio identities should not be allowed in the country is unamerican, unpatriotic. >> native of new hampshire what it says that he keeps comin

and then nowrks senator hatch, chairman of the senate finance committee. and senator wyden, the ranking member, a democrat, working together to try to come up with some of the funding mechanisms. but as the majority leader said last week, it would not have been possible to pass this multiyear highway bill for the first time in a decade if it weren't for the bipartisan cooperation we saw, and particularly on the democratic side, the leadership of senator boxer. now with this legislation, states like mine, like texas, growing states, can plan and build projects that should strengthen our nation's infrastructure and make our transportation system safer and avoid some of that churning and uncertainty and inefficiency that comes from temporary patches. president obama signed that legislation last week, and so now it's the law of the land. like the education bill i mentioned a moment ago, the transportation funding bill, which was called the fixing america's surface transportation, or fast act, passed this chamber with more than 80 votes. 80 votes. 54 republican

how they met and the jihadi plans they hatched together.u're live in the "cnn newsroom." >>> hello, everyone. thanks so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. democratic presidential campaigns not

to irving back to the king down the hatch for two of lebron james' 25. cavs within 6. a buck 17 left, to lebron james, in to love, back out to jr, he loads and fires a 3 ball, on target. cavs are within 3. here comes mr. curry with the ball, he looks it over, and said i'm handling it by myself, straight to the hoop, up and in, two of his 19, warriors, with to win 89-83, improving record to wow 28-1. >> on the hardwood in oklahoma city this afternoon. butler did it as in jimmy butler 35 feet away, on target at the buzzer end first quarter, giving bulls 32-26 lead on hometown thunder, then final 30 seconds of third quarter, butler does it again. this time with steel, finished with slam, butler with team high 23, bulls spoil christmas in okc. 105-96, final, one other final heat beating pet -- pehl pelicans 92 that is it for us, stay tuned for modern masters special, good kids don' t stay little forever. so help them get the opportunity they need. it' s never too early or too late to save for college. account with just $25. and you may get tax benefits in new york state. l

hatch: thank you, mr. president. as we count down the remaining days of the -- on the 2015 legislative calendar, there is still a bit of work to do and a few more big ticket items to put to bed. still, even with so much still on our plates, i think it is appropriate to take a look at -- a look back at the year we are now finishing up and reflect on what we have been able to accomplish. twist has been a -- 2015 has been a big year in the united states senate. after many years of unproductive division and stagnation, the senate finally has returned to work. while some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have tried to down play the productivity we have enjoyed under the current senate leadership and the "washington post" fact checker awarded them some pinocchios for their efforts, no one can seriously argue that things haven't changed around here. under the current senate majority, the committees have been allowed to function and work. under the current senate majority, we've had fuller and fairer debates here

the front will have little to no impact on the they're battening down the hatches for what coule b a rare major winter flood in o interstates to shutdown, and caused sewage to flow into waterways. and with a flood warning in place for the weekend, and rising waters, some residents are concerned. raycom's jerry askin reports. as memphis residents are gearing up for the chance of serious flooding in our area, many are reminded about the massive it was scary watching all that water now, with a flood warning in place beginning saturday for the mississippi river... already, crews are busy at work clearing storm drains and prepping for the possibility of flooding right here in memphis. "when it rains real bad, all of water" tuesday, we found this flood wall now in place near bass pro - along the river. peggy morris lives on orchi street in north memphis. her home was sparred thankfully during the 20-11 floloing. bubu her neighbors weren't so lucky. here's video of her r reet then. "all these houses down there were evacuated" and that's why city and county crews are taking to make it all ma

chairman brady, for example, chairman hatch, myself. a number of colleagues on both sides of the aisle have said they want to do comprehensive tax reform, and want to, as i have described it, break the chain of every year or every two years just once again passing these extenders. we're not the extenders congress. i don't want to have us back every two years just doing the same old, same old. we can do a lot better, and this time we have at least laid the foundation for real tax reform. i want to thank a number of my colleagues, in particular chairman hatch, our committee members on both sides of the aisle, the two leaders, leader reid and leader mcconnell for their efforts. we had an awful lot of dedicated staff people working on this issue. our diligent tax counsel is here, todd metcalf, i want to thank him for his great work, our terrific staff director, josh schenkman, our chief counsel, mike evans, the tax team, ryan abraham, bobby ambras, adam carasso, karen debt, rob jones, tiffany smith and todd wooten. all of them have worked l

. >>> it was where the san bernardino terrorists hatched their murderous plot. syed farook and tashfeen malik opened fire at a hold party on december 2nd. 14 people were killed. the radicalized couple lived in this redlands home. police killed them in a shootout. the fbi found pipe bombs but also rounds of ammunition in the residence. farook's family was at the home this morning while the items were hauled away. >>> president obama visited the vi families of those killed in the terrorist attack. he said he was inspired by the courage of those who lost loved ones. >> i know the pain and heartache that they've been feeling. they could not be more proud of their loved ones and more insistent that something good comes out of this tragedy. >> the president says even as we're vigilant about terrorist attacks, we must remind ourselves of the overwhelming good out there. >>> terrorist attacks in paris and san bernardino have put a spotlight on muslims. people came together today on the peninsula to get to know their neighbors and learn more about the muslim faith. maria