you mentioned mac mathias and. mac mathias defeated my father for reelection. they were best friends. so during law school they were classmates at university of maryland magnetized lived with my father in his house during law school. my father was an usher and mac mathias as wedding mac mathias as my my brother's godfather father. they served in the legislature on the judiciary committee in the us house, in the us senate and magna us. after my father's problems continued to increase, went to daniel brewster his best friend, and said, danny somebody is going to beat you. it might as well be me and they continued a very friendly campaign. they had great admiration and for each other after mathias defeated my father, i went work for him with my father's blessing. after i graduated from college and. this is the story and think about we are today politically in this country. my father lost he'd been to federal court. he was embarrassed he'd lost his reputation and mac mathias on the next democratic inauguration, which was jimmy carter in 1976, senator calls up his o

[applause] >> senator mathias, chief justice burger, vice president bush, speaker o'neill, senator dole, reverend clergy, and members of my family and friends and my fellow citizens: this day has been made brighter with the presence here of one who, for a time, has been absent. senator john stennis, god bless you and welcome back. there is, however, one who is not with us today. representative gillis long of louisiana left us last night. and i wonder if we could all join in a moment of silent prayer. amen. there are no words adequate to express my thanks for the great honor that you've bestowed on me. i'll do my utmost to be deserving of your trust. this is, as senator mathias told us, the 50th time that we, the people, have celebrated this historic occasion. when the first president, george washington, placed his hand upon the bible, he stood less than a single day's journey by horseback from raw, untamed wilderness. there were 4 million americans in a union of 13 states. today, we are 60 times as many in a union of 50 states. we've lighted the world with our inventions, gone to the ai

senator mathias. chief justice berger, vice president bush. speaker o'neill, senator dole, reverend, clergy and members of my family and and my fellow citizens. this day has been made brighter with the presence here of one who for a time has been absent. senator john stennis, god bless you and welcome back. there is, however, one who is not with us today. representative gillis long of louisiana left us last. and i wonder if we could all join in a moment of silent prayer prayer. amen. there are no words to adequate to express. my thanks for the great honor that you on me. i will do my utmost to be deserving of your trust. this is as senator mathias told us, the 50th time that we, the people, have celebrated this historic occasion when the first president, george, placed his hand upon the bible. he stood than a single day's journey by horseback from raw, untamed wilderness. there were 4 million americans in a union of 13 states. today we are 60 times as many in a union of 50 states. we've lighted the world with our inventions. gone to the aid of

mathias faces multiple charges, including vehicular manslaughter, dui and driving without a license. a pretrial hearing is scheduled for 830 this morning in a few hours. a vote impacting the future of governor gavin newsom's controversial underground water tunnel in the central valley is set to happen today in the bay's. bob redell joins us live from t altamont in livermore this morning. so, bob, that tunnel needs help from several local water agencies before they can build it. you are correct. good morning to you, marcus. a dozen local water agencies, including zone seven here in livermore, have already approved to fund the planning and design of this 45 mile long underground tunnel that would connect with the existing above ground aqueduct that you see on 580 when you're driving into to tracy behind the on the altamont behind me. later this morning, a 13th agency will vote during 11 a.m. board meeting. we're talking about the santa clara vall water district. they'll decide whether or not to contribute $9.7 million towards the planning and design of this massive infrastructure proje

felix cline alexandra, mathias dreyfuss and andy baker and one of the other things about our office when20 years ago, 21 years ago we were the first office of the special envoy and what's happened since then as we have been joined by dozens of other counterparts on boys coordinators special representative and we have this international network of government officials dedicated in the fight against anti-semitism. in my final week is deputy envoy and after three years i wanted to give an overview of what we have done and maybe provide some kernels for discussion today. her team has risen to the occasion traveling throughout the world. we launched global guidelines to combat anti-semitism a symposium to honor -- counter on line and one thing that's been consistent for october. since october 7 to many people make excuses or reasons for anti-semitism. the connection of jewish people everywhere and factions of one particular government so i wanted to spend a few minutes to talk about how we are on to see anti-semitism as a multilayer threat. first and foremost is the impact on the local jewish

there used to be more opportunities to get together pastor mathias claim and also sees the toy bag term project as an opportunity for the community as before we showed up to so i'm really looking forward to having a tradesman here again. i've been here on the holly islands for 29 years and can well remember the days when we had a tradesman in winter there the fresh produce on thursdays and the whole of hollywood congregated that. what the shopping at the traders on thursdays would take an hour to caught up with almost everyone in that design book like because like i said, the fresh produce came only once a week and to have that kind of meeting part again would be lovely. sure. of course, and there's also initial interest in the plan living space on the way back. but the question is whether they can afford it. go ahead. ok, now that they are ready please, nobody has said anything about the price yet, but what an apartment should cost? i think it's good that you applied. there's no one applies. it's an i think the buyback a turk for more community, more meet ups, more togetherness, the, b

. >> the deadly palisades fire leaving thousands of residents, including mathias hernandez, without a place to call home. >> i completely did not believe it would be like, be like this. our community is. >> everything's gone. hernandez says when he finally evacuated, he only left with the clothes on his back as he never thought this would be the reality he returned to. >> and me and my friends are calling these past two days the worst day on earth for us. i mean, this is the worst possible thing imaginable. >> worst case scenario over the last four days, the flames have scorched more than 20,000 acres, destroying more than 5000 structures. the scope of the damage continues to go far beyond just homes. this is actually the palisades village, a place where people shop, eat and simply go to the bank. now, what's left of the rubble remains unrecognizable. the battle to contain the blaze still underway. from the air and the ground. while the future remains uncertain for families across the los angeles area. >> i think we've all had someone impacted by this fire. i keep saying it. you are n

$15.00 time champion, nationality it will start said behind theaters hank, left hand and foot m sports mathias extra them. all right, that is useful for now. it is back to during so thank you so much. will the president of interest has threatened to shut us military bases in the country of president elect? donald trump reports migrants from her country and a new year address serial mara castro said that her government may reconsider the agreement of the incoming administration goes ahead with it's plans. john holeman has more from mexico city. as you know, i get out of this sadly presidency amount of castro is responded to donald trump's threats of mess migrant deputations. once he becomes president, i'm a live on minister. i feel not in the national, broad coastal new year's day. she said, if you send home durance back home, she could kick us out of military bases in her country that will not be too low speed in the face of a hostile attitude of mazda full tuition of our people. we'd have to consider a change in our policy of cooperation with the united states, especially in the ministry fiel

m sports mathias extra them. alright, that is all useful for now. melissa laura, thanks very much indeed. now the us house of representatives has just rejected. might johnson's been to be speaker and the 1st ballot? is it despite the presence elect donald trump, by king mike johnson, in this case, right? the island bishop and joins us live from capitol hill and i was was always going to be a close vote. how does the house members cost that balance? well suddenly mike johnson was seeing in the last couple of others that he thought he was going to win, that he had the boats. and of course, he had the backing from donald trump, even just in the last few of us on social media said that he back to 100 percent. but there was always going to be difficulties. at least one republican thomas massey from kentucky, said that he was looking at someone else for speaker 3 representatives in the and voted for someone else. and that was essentially enough to be real. but johnson's bit to become speaker, also in 3 other republicans, did not vote. it meant that he won

. >> you guknow why carolina regina mathias, cha cha cuomo, tiktok. she has been made a stakeholder in our democracy because of this. she wants tiktok back. she doesn't understand how she could have something taken from her words, her choice, how to use and that is an interesting place for the country to be. and that is where the country not this room. this room is in the business of division. this room is in the business of party fealty over loyalty to country. that's what gets them where they are. that's what keeps them where s whthey are. it's that offset against what the country demands that makes this an interesting moment about what winds out and we'll only know that based on what he does and how we react to it in the media. if you keep pushing his opponents to have a better idea, if you keep pushing this administration to proveawhat they're going to do for what they're going t about things o do and not just blame how we've got here on someone else. we're giving ourselves a chance go ahead no, i i would never some parts are stier. what's interes