[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 389. the nays are one. 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from south carolina, mr. rice, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7227 as amended on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 7227, a bill to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to modernize and improve the internal revenue ervice, and for other purpose. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. members will record their votes y electronic device. members, please be reminded, agai

dear commission president hillis and commissioners, as a decades long equity advocate, asian, inc, has reviewed the conditional use authorization submitted for the project referenced above. as part of this, asian inc has participated in the publicly noticed sponsor meeting which took september 5 and followed up with the project sponsor's representatives to engage in more direct conversation regarding the project as it relates to our diverse constituencies and supporters which include the u.s. department of housing and urban development, u.s. department of commerce minority business development agency, and state of california governor's office of business and economic development. recently, we had the opportuni opportunity to meet with the leaders of whole foods and our conversations with whole foods have been how whole foods can work with asian, inc -- [inaudible] >> -- current supplier vendor eco system. based on the for going, we believe that whole foods and asian inc will be able to forge a long lasting partnership to the benefit of the community. towards this epd, we look forward t

[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 355, the nays are 7. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended. the senate amendment is agreed to and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden, to suspend the rules and concur in the senate amendment to h.r. 6615 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 6615, an act to re-authorize the traumatic brain injury program, senate amendments. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and concur in the senate amendment. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-fint vote. [captioning made possible by

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qaeda have urged supporters to carry out attacks using any means necessary including vehicular ram, inc. terrorists and inspired home-grown extremists have heeded this direction and have carried vehicular-based attacks over the past several years including in france, england, spain, ohio and in new york city. d.h.s. has existing programs that can be utilized to prepare front line personnel to address the threat of vehicular terrorism. h.r. 4227 requires the secretary to develop a plan on how to improve and increase these capabilities. this bill passed the house on march 22 of this year. the senate made minor changes to the measure and passed it with unanimous consent on december 18. i want to thank representative latta for his work on this important measure and urge my colleagues to support this bill. thank you. and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california >> i rise the house to concur in the senate amendment, the vehicular terrorism prevention act of 2017 and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pr

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christmas tree business thrive.saying their love for live trees is boosting demand.the same "square inc" report found prices for live trees went up 17-percent in the past two years.meanwhile, more than 95 million u-s households are expected to put up christmas trees this year.that's according to a new survey from the american christmas tree association.the survey also found eighty-two percent of the christmas trees displayed will be artificial and nearly 18-percent will be real trees. artificial trees are still the most popular...but the trend of millennials ditching artificial trees is giving christmas tree farmers plenty of holiday cheer.for consumer watch-- i'm mary moloney. (vicki) coming up at 6:30... snow causes chaos on the roads in southern california. and it's all caught on camera. we'll explain what happened. (ken)and coming up in sports.......the raiders played in what was likely their last game ever at the coliseum.....hear from the team after their emotional night..... (mabrisa)and i'm tracking your weeknight forcast... that's just ahead. (vicki) tonight at 6:30... christma

the supreme court heard oral arguments for apple inc. v.r, which could decide if a group of iphone app purchasers could sue apple for antitrust damages over its apple store and pricing scheme. this is one hour. >> the argument first this morning in case 17204. apple inc. v. pepper. >> thank you mr. chief justice and may it please the court. thisnly damages in monopo

tonight, people pray psalms 23 ince remembran of her. >> shall follow me all the days d my life, and i will dwell in the house of the lrever. amen. >> reporter: naya dream of becoming a hair stylist and makeup artist. she worked at a sdoughnutp and studied in the evenings. >> my daughter was a wonderful, beautiful child. >> reporter: according to court documents, she and smith knew each other. after the shooting, smith allegedly told people naya shot herself. her mother and aunt say that's not true. >> she didn't deserve it w anre going to get justice. >> we're going to get justice forya that's next. she will not die in tein. >> rep naya's funeral is tomorrow. robert smyth is charged with second degree m hder and next court appearance is next month. shomari stone, news 4. >>> the university of maryland today confirmed more cases ofir aden on campus. to keep more people from getting sick, the school says itill expand efforts to disinfect student dorm rooms over winter s break, and of tonight, the school lists 35 confirmed cases of adenovirus. one case was deadly. a student died of com

on wednesday, the "national enquirer's" parent company, american media, inc., entered into a prosecution agreement with the feds in the statement of fact section attached to that agreement, a.m.i. as it's known admitted it paid $150,000 in hush monday toy silence damaging allegations against trump just before the 2016 election. >>> also says that in august of 2015, pecker met with michael cohen and, quote, at least one other member of the campaign. "wall street journal" first reported, nbc news has since confirmed that the president is that, quote, other member of the campaign. this comes as the president is working overtime to try to distance himself from his former personal attorney. on wednesday, michael cohen was sentenced three years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to a number of charges including campaign finance violation that's cohen said were carried out at donald trump's direction. one of those violations, cohen's role in the aforementioned payments from american media, inc., to former play boy model karen mcdougal. the other was a payment to silence stormy daniels ov

[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 372, the nays are two. the bill is passed and without objection. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from florida, mr. mast, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 7319. the clerk: h.r. 7319 the amend to amend the federal assets sale and transfer act of 2016 with respect to real property and for other purposes. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 372

. >> >> inc. you so much for being with us. in accordance with the sunshine act, to public observation. as we assemble here today, i am reminded that the funeral in pittsburgh are continuing for the victims of last weekend shooting at the synagogue in the squirrel hill neighborhood. of course, the work of this agency and our mission guided by title vii and the civil rights act is to prevent and remedy discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, and religion. before we begin our meeting today, i have asked commissioner bell's to if she would lead us in the moment for the families and victims of the pittsburgh community. >> thank you. i'm just going to say the last line of the mourners kaddish , which is being said over and over today. . he who gives peace in our midst shall give peace on all of us and let us say amen. >> amen. thank you, at this time i'm going to ask bernadette wilson to announce any notation boats that have taken place since the last commission meeting, ms. wilson? >> good morning and before i be

and by contrast in the trump manner, you have the chairman of america media inc.i itself that made one of these payments. they're in the prosecution agreement in which they've acknowledged the purpose of the payment was to influence the election. >> we're not talking about one difference, we're talking about four. all of those are significant. i want to have you respond to what paul said and also to what we just heard from the president. he said, i made a mistake. the fact he said those aren't words the president typically utters. >> it could be significant like everything else in america in 2018. i'm going to agree with my friend paul ryan. what do we have here that's different from what we had in the john edwards case? we also have a personal attorney under oath in federal court saying this was for the purpose of influencing the campaign. we have media america incorporated saying this was for the purpose of influencing the campaign. we have a federal prosecutor saying the same thing. we have a justice accepting all of the statements. we also have common sense in

in one instance, cohen caused american media inc, a.m.i., to make a $150,000 payment to one woman.the other, $130,000 payment to another woman through an llc he incorporated. cohen was reimbursed for the latter payment in monthly installments disguised as payments for legal services performed ed pursuant to a retar when no retainer existed. cohen made or caused both these payments in order to influence the 2016 election, and did so in coordination with one or more members of the campaign. so part of the scheme here, as outlined by federal prosecutors, as they secure prison time for michael cohen in conjunction with these felonies, part of the scheme here, according to prosecutors, is the fact that cohen was paid back the money that he used to commit this felony. it was the trump organization that paid michael cohen back. but according to prosecutors, not just according to open source reporting but according to prosecutors, the trump organization covered up what the money was for. they called it a legal retainer for michael cohen when in fact it was no such thing. again, that's acco

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inc.you, go ahead. >> chairman corker, ranking member menendez and distinguished members of the committee. i'm honored to appear before you as the director general of the worn service and the director of human services at the department of state. it would be my privilege to advance american security and values by empowering and strengthening the work forced charged with this critical mission. our service will employee personnel and other colleagues who work at the state department in washington and at 277 post around the world. secretary pompeo noted in a mission statement that this mission is not for the faint of heart. mr. chairman, for over 31 years i've had the pleasure of working with capable and dedicated and patriotic public servants. these women and men toil both at home and abroad in service to our country. they sort an oath to protect the constitution, defend the constitution and often to a great sacrifice to themselves and their families and i can pick up no higher honor than th

we founded foia inc. and won a great case. we got incredible documents including ultimately your secret papers and let me say one thing about the secret papers. u.n.e u.s. archives, her papers, 198 boxes of her papers were all secret and classified until we declassified them in 1988. there is lots of stories there in those papers. have some home movies i want to show briefly. this is from campobello, home movies taken by missy lohan. there is no sound so we can sort of talk over it. campobello was a sort of an important place for eleanor. that is nancy cook, that is marian dickerman. wasescape to campobello away for them to get away from the pressures of albany or washington, d.c. you talk about this second volume, this is the arrival of fdr after the first 100 days when he sales up the coast. this is an interesting exchange. ship about their relation and how they found parallel lives to be effective. there is his court -- these are missy luhansk movies?-- lohan's she really welcomes her as the junior wife. really close and th

this is about david pecker and american media, inc. one associate speaking in anonymity said, one associate of mr. pecker felt betrayed when the president's legal team failed to push back against revelations in july that mr. co help had recorded a conversation with mr. trump discussing the mcdougal payment. the recording seemed to support the notion that ami was complicit in an illegal campaign finance scheme. it's true we heard everything in that recording, i'm going to get the papers, i'm going to get the papers. it sounded like a mob recording to me. tell me the story in your past about david pecker and ami and how that forms your opinion, and does this sound like kind of a vendetta from pecker about trump? >> i can tell you this. when you base your relationship with someone whose entire universe is his own self-interest, that loyalty gets very short when he doesn't support you and you -- the light bulb goes on and you realize it's all about him, there's no protection for you. my history with ami and david pecker goes back to the fa

though it appears to be true trump didn't pay american media inc. federal prosecutors say trump directed the company to pay mcdougal to keep her from telling her story during the 20-16 campaign.the president had kinder words for another one-time friend, former national security adviser michael flynn.fired by trump and now cooperating with special counsel robert mueller's russia probe.while trump said flynn didn't lie ... president trump:"i have a feeling that maybe he is a tougher kind of guy then cohen. but they took a general that they say didn't lie, and they convinced them he did lie and he made some kind of a deal."that's precisely what flynn pleaded guilty to, lying to the f-b-i, and is now awaiting sentencing. (pam) (pam) (pam) a federal appeals court has blocked new rules by the trump administration... which would have allowed more employers .. to 'opt-out' of no-cost birth control. the 9th u.s. circuit court of appeals upheld a preliminary injunction against the rules... the ruling is based on the claim that the changes were proposed, witho

under the agreement, american media inc admitted to making a 150-thousand dollar payment in cooperationwith president trump's campaign ... in order to prevent former playboy model karen mcdougal's claims of an affair with trump from being made public during the 20-16 presidential race. they also admitted to paying for negative stories about trump's relationshippublish the as part of the agreement, charges will likely not be brought against the publisher. (james) coming up next on the kron 4 morning news ... the holiday shopping season is also a big time for scammers. and we'll tell you how to avoid some of the most common scams going around this year. (james) and here's a live look outside... at the embarcadero. (ácommercialá) (áábreakáá) (james) welcome back. checking in on your morning forecast. skies much clearer to start the day today than the past two days with fog being limited this morning. temperatures will boost into the low to mid 60's with plenty of sunshine overhead to take us through the day and into the afternoon. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min fr

. >> always great catching up with you, inc. you for your time. here's what's coming up.etting warmed up. qatar is said to be skipping the gcc summit today in riyadh. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> 8:30 a.m. in dubai. plenty to consider, the soaring oil price is one thing, the geopolitical developments in riyadh. what kind of progress, if any, can be made in terms of the standoff between qatar and the rest of the gcc? let's check in on the first word headlines from around the world. christine? >> thanks. the white house chief of staff will step down toward the end of the year. white house advisers believe that vice president mike pence's chief of staff will be acting chief of staff. he emerged as

[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 223, the nays are 178. the previous question is ordered. the the question is on adoption of the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the speaker pro tempore: in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned c

item 54 is a resolution to approve amendment no. 1 to the agreement between the cross country staffing inc. and department of public health for as-needed registry personnel to respond to the increase of patient census at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital and for a technical adjustment to the contract with no change to the term of the contract for $25 million. >> president cohen: all right, thank you. colleagues, if we could take this same house, same call? it appears that we can. these resolutions are adopted without objection. madam clerk, item 55. >> clerk: item 55 is a resolution to approve amendment no. 5 to waste water enterprise water system improvement program funded agreement. engineering designed services for continued engineering design and engineering services during the construction for the regional groundwater storage and recovery project on the san francisco groundwater supply project for $22 million and an agreement term for 15 years through december 6, 2022. >> president cohen: all right, thank you. colleagues, take this same house, same call? without objection, thi

this morning between 28 and ad observation unfortunately here you'll need to back up the lot via the inceliam parkway access. unfortunately due to the high standing water. >> thankyou. 's 4:52 and we're about to hit the peak travel period for the holiday sea later this week. both on thethoads ande air and this could be a record year. starting on thursday, aiwiines ll be adding more flights. 143,000 more seats per da that's to make room for the people expected to fly. re americans have more money to spend because of a stronger >> 112 million will be traveling this year. that is the highest travel volume for end of year travel since aaa started tracking it back in 2001. >> eeperts say dding on the weather, nework city on new year's eve may be the destination of choice for holiday traveller this year. >> new this morning, for one chicago bears player, yesterday's winas not the best part of the day. look at this. he proposed to g hislfriend just minutes after the team clenched the nfc north title. he took a knee at the center of soldier field and popped the question and she said yes. she's li

prosecutors announced they reached an agreement with american media inc. that's the publisher of the national enquirer. ami admitted it made the $150,000 payment in concert with the candidate for presidential campaign in order to ensure the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the 2016 election. ami admitted the principal purpose wads s to suppress the woman's story to prevent it from influencing the election. joining me is tom winter. kimberly atkins and former u.s. attorney chuck rosenburg. tom, let's start with you where the action has been playing out all day today. three years here. three year jail sentence for michael cohen. there's the campaign finance aspect which involves him claiming that trump directed him to break campaign finance law. there are other issues involving bank loan applications. the three year sentence, what exactly goes into that sentence. what is he being sentenced for here? >> reporter: right. the three year sentence is specific to michael cohen's case here in new york brought by federal prosecutors here in new yor

well has an imperfect way to end this segment thank you for sharing your story with us on the stream inc you very much appreciate it thank you we go now to israel where women throughout the country hit the streets on tuesday calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government to address the uptake and femicide and domestic violence take a look at this video of the rally posted to facebook by women's rights activists some are selling me. thanks to the settlers . let . someone joins us on the phone now she's the founder and director of not arab women in the center also with us in tel aviv allison summer is a journalist for the israel. newspaper ha'aretz welcome to both of you start here with a hash tag it's in hebrew and it is all over instagram right now. translates roughly to i am a woman i'm on strike and you can just scroll down and see the people who are posting this their self protests alison talk to us about how this movement got started what brought people to the streets. so actually if you see the words written on the people's palms it says emergency situation or state

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the supreme court heard oral arguments for apple inc. v. pepper, which could decide if a group of iphone app purchasers could sue apple for antitrust damages over its apple store and pricing scheme. this is one hour. >> the argument first this morning in case 17204. apple inc. v. pepper. >> thank you mr. chief justice and may it please the court. thisnly damages in monopolization is in a 30% commission that apple charges developers, which allegedly causes rice is to increase for consumers. brickse is barred by the doctrine, because they pricing acisions are necessarily in causal chain that links the commission to any consumer damages. if the commission increases beyond the competitive level, developers do not change their apps prices. consumers suffer no damages. if app developers do change their prices to pass on some or all of the overcharge, that is precisely the kind of damages they read that the illinois rake doctrine prohibits. anyn your view, is there first buyer in this picture? >> there are two different buyers. there the app devel

[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the peaker o tempore: on thnays are. e resolutionsdopted. withoutbjection, the motion toeconsideisd on t table. rsuanto clause 8 of rule ,the fished biness is the questin agreeing to the eakes approval th jourl whi the chair w t novo. e estn is on ageing to thepe proval of e journa thosn favor y ay tho oppos, n opin of the chair, the ayes havit. the gentleman from texas. >> -- mr. brady: mr. speaker, i call for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united state