in the constitution of the state of missouri -- missouri. and that i will faithfully demean myself as governor of the state of missouri, so help me god. >> congratulations. [applause] [gun blasts] [applause] >> hey years ago i had the honor to be the first person to introduce the new president of the united states, donald trump. today i have for me and equally great honor to be able to introduce to missourians and people who understand and love our state, the 58th governor of the state of missouri, mike kehoe. gov. kehoe thank you, and please be seated. i've already been told i'm on the clock. president pro tem, speaker patterson, members of the general assembly, state and federal elected officials, former governors, judges, friends, family and fellow missourians. we stand this morning honoring a group of brave men and women who represent the best of those who serve and protect our communities. would you please welcome the salute to hero honorees that we honor this morning in the states rotunda seated behind me. [applause] i would like to ta

the gentleman from missouri. mr. graves: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. grace: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. graves: i'm proud to be a co-sponsor on this tbhism bill is spended -- intended to ensure that annual bonuses awarded to amtrak's top executive are made public at the beginning of every calendar year. amtrak relies heavily on government subsidies and has never made a profit. however, amtrak's officers have been award generous bonuses. the disclosure of such huge pay yots outrages the public and members of the transportation committee. this bill is a strong step toward transparency for amtrak executives and amtrak's board of directors. i very much appreciate the gentleman from north carolina, representative rouzer's, work on this legislation and i urge adoption by the house. with that, i woul

the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. kelly, the chairman of the tax subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. kelly: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of this bill. this bill would be the first step in establishing an informal tax treaty with our ally, taiwan. currently, taiwan is our largest trading partner without a tax treaty. through fair and reciprocal tax treatment, h.r. 33 would deepen our economic relationship with taiwan, specifically our semiconductor and chip manufacturing industries, and secure our strategic supply chains. america should not have to rely on foreign adversaries like china for our supply chains when we can partner with better allies like taiwan. if we've learned nothing from the pandemic, it's that we cannot rely on people who do not feel the same as we do to supply us with needed products. as the conflicts continue to rise across t

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the president's home of missouri has several displays. one of them a wagon drawn by mule. other blows depict the product and of the various states. this is kentucky the vice president's home state? state, texas float moved down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington from the float honoring early american settlers who landed on the of that state. if of uncle sam striding down the avenue and. living civic business labor and fraternal organizations representing millions of their members from all over the country participate in the inaugural festivities, supplying the music of more than 40 and many drum and bugle. near the white house. the excitement mount is the chief executive approaching the president gets a rousing ovation as he prepares to leave his car and take his place on the reviewing deck. of. nearly 3 hours. the president and vice president stand together, acknowledging bodies of their countrymen and. a group of california cowboys, the new president, crewmen and does their pet dalmatian. the president's

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the president's home of missouri has several displays. one of them a wagon drawn by mule. other blows depict the product and of the various states. this is kentucky the vice president's home state? state, texas float moved down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington from the float honoring early american settlers who landed on the of that state. if of uncle sam striding down the avenue and. living civic business labor and fraternal organizations representing millions of their members from all over the country participate in the inaugural festivities, supplying the music of more than 40 and many drum and bugle. near the white house. the excitement mount is the chief executive approaching the president gets a rousing ovation as he prepares to leave his car and take his place on the reviewing deck. of. nearly 3 hours. the president and vice president stand together, acknowledging bodies of their countrymen and. a group of california cowboys, the new president, crewmen and does their pet dalmatian. the president's

these are pictures from missouri — one of the states under an emergency.ds while air travel has also been hit. more than 5,000 flights across the us have been cancelled so far, that's according to flight tracking website flightawa re. the mayor of kansas city, missouri's largest, says special operations will be in place over the next few days to address the harsh conditions. the cold weather is as much of a challenge as the snow and ice is as well. you get the subzero temperatures with sub zero windchill we know that can have a negative impact on workforce and residents so we are making sure we are addressing, all of those issues. dan depodwin is senior director of forecasting operations at accuweather. he gave us this update from the global weather center in state college, pennsylvania. very impactful storm already you can see on the radar heavy snow across portions of missouri and kansas, picking up over a foot of snow fall, heavy snow extending to the east through the central appellations, the next phase of the storm will be heavy snow across the ohio v

blizzard conditions being reported in parts of kansas and missouri. first responders are struggling with these treacherous conditions, according to the kansas highway patrol. some areas seeing at least a foot of snow. this trooper showing how quickly that snow is falling. >> we've got a lot of drifting. i mean, this is my patrol car. if we get right here, you can see how much it's just sort of building up around the vehicle. >> treacherous road conditions across several states, including missouri, nebraska and indiana. officials urging people to avoid travel in kentucky. downtown louisville, a winter wonderland with several inches already on the ground. >> that's about five inches, at least on that picnic table, and it's still coming down. >> a state trooper being treated for non-life threatening injuries after his patrol car was hit on the highway last week, this same system dumped heavy snow in the west, prompting officials to carry out this controlled avalanche in utah. in the east, residents in syracuse, new york, digging out after several inches

he a newspaper in westport, missouri where his law office was. he needed a posse. so he contacted a militia that was in westport, missouri, call themselves the west rifles. he deputized them. they immediately changed their name to shannon's sharpshooters. they did that. the territorial governor, shannon of opened up the federal arsenal in liberty, missouri, and passed out federal firearms to them, making them, in effect, a federal militia began the countryside looking for brown brown was trying to keep it low profile because of pottawattamie and payton his they didn't just look for anytime they came across the free state settlement or a free state homestead they would try to convince those free staters that they'd probably live longer if they didn't stay in kansas very long. not something you think a marshal should be doing, but that's what they were doing. and then eventually they they near near osawatomie, they they found two of john brown sons and took them prisoner. they said we weren't pottawatomie. but pate assumes they were brown's. they were automatically l

one of them, a flight drawn by missouri mules.depict the scenery of the various states. this is kentucky, the vice president's home state. the texas flute moves down the avenue. -- float moves down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington monument. the massachusetts float honoring the early american settlers that landed on the shores of that state. the figure of uncle sam strives down the avenue. -- strides down the avenue. ♪ labor and fraternal organizations representing millions of their members from all over the country participate in the inaugural festivity. more than 30 bands and corps. ♪ near the white house, the excitement mounts as the chief executive approaches. the president gets a rousing ovation as he prepares to leave his car and take his place on the reviewing staff. ♪ for nearly three hours, the president and vice president stand together, acknowledging their countrymen. a group of california cowboys salute president truman and sit down to pet their dalmat

missouri anybody ever heard of this? lucy nicholson well, i'm not really surprised that it's not a name that rings bell because there's not an awful known about her. but they do know one of the things she did apparently when general was here in missouri. early in the war, was in great, great need of help. he wounded soldiers. they need bandages. they needed medicine and they were out and there was no way to get any. he sent a runner of sorts to lucy's house and, said this is what the general needs. he said, okay. so her fortunately for her, her brother had a store that how are all the medical supplies that were needed. so she goes to her brother and she says general price needs morphine, he needs quinine. he bandages, he says, well, i've got him, but i can't sell them to you. i can't give them to you. but i have to go into into town. in a few minutes. so he left. she took it all. she went to a general store nearby and bought lots of velvet and lots of gravely. and went home. hmm. what a weird combination and she took the

raiders operated in missouri during the civil war. they did not like lawrence, kansas, because lawrence, kansas had bad memories from the bleeding kansas days. it was named for amos lawrence, who? the financier for the new england immigrant society, which helped new englanders, people who opposed slavery to kansas in order to win the popular contest out there, and also, if they needed weapons whip, weapons were provided. and so in 1856, there was a sack of lawrence by a posse that was organized by the territorial governor, which was which was a legitimate. no, it was legal government because. it was authorized by the buchanan administration. it wasn't a legitimate because perhaps up at that point, it would not be legitimate government. a legal government is, one that's got legal authority, illegitimate government is one that's got the consent of the governed. when we talk about the american revolution, we make a distinction between the legal and the legitimate revolution took place because americans decided the legal authorities of gr

he was in missouri the whole time. who are you seeing?k and mild mannered. dennis murphy: however, he did say he'd rallied briefly to help his landlord fix his car. that part of his alibi would be easy enough to check. a he's got a little shop, dennis murphy: while wayne was talking to detective lebid at the station, other investigators were digging through his home, collecting cell phones and computers, looking for evidence that could link him to the murder. in the driveway, they noticed a rental car. there was nothing obviously helpful there. so you don't find, like, a fast food bag discarded, from bonita springs on it or something? no. we wish, but no. dennis murphy: but inside the console, they found an old garmin gps device. the memory had been wiped, but they bagged it anyway for a forensics review. now we got to go out and try and track everything down. dennis murphy: the detectives headed out, trying to meet anyone they could find who was connected to wayne. we're kind of shaking the bushes because we're pretty confident that this

ian lee from cbs news sent this from st louis, missouri.of snow, other parts of the state had over a foot, they have cancelled schools today, flights have also been cancelled, we have seen cars trying to bring these treacherous conditions, some getting stuck in these snow berms. i was speaking with the director of operations yesterday who operates the snow ploughs, he says they have 32 hundred lane miles of roads to clear, that�*s equivalent of if you were to drive from seattle to me army, or if you were in europe, driving from london, of course you�*ve got to take the ferry and go to baghdad. so thatjust kind of shows you how much roads they have got clear today. they are telling folks today. they are telling folks to stay off the roads, they don�*t think they will have this really situated for the next couple of days, it will be cold here. but if you move further south to where we are at in southern missouri, southern illinois, they are dealing with a ice storms, ice has kicked down power lines and trees, 1

in missouri. other four northern border states with slavery, sumner is banging lincoln relentlessly. please, please. the border states in the emancipation proclamation. lincoln says, sumner, i can't do it. why can't you do it? lincoln says, i hope i have. god on my side in this struggle, but i must have. kentucky has farmland. kentucky has factories. kentucky has population. thus troops. kentucky is the protector of illinois and indiana to the north. if emancipation proclamation includes the four border states, i will lose kentucky. if i lose kentucky, i most assuredly am going to lose maryland. and if we lose maryland, we are going to lose washington, d.c. just look at the geography. so i'm not doing it. sumner kind of gets it kind of gets it. lincoln needs kentucky. lincoln needs maryland. and so that's why the emancipation proclamation doesn't include the four border states? and the last i would say, or the last big thing i would say that that sumner learns from lincoln is power of personal con

a state of emergency has been declared in seven states, including missouri, kentucky and arkansas. reports. the snow is heavy, thick and relentless. this is stjoseph, missouri, where blizzard conditions have brought much of the state to a standstill. tens of millions of americans are bracing themselves for what's predicted to be the heaviest snowfall and coldest temperatures in more than a decade. travel has been badly affected. this is louisville airport in kentucky. across the states, thousands of flights have been cancelled or delayed. conditions on the road have been described as treacherous, with snow and ice causing major problems. this roadway is very slick, very, very slick. so let me get some traction here and watch my feet. are you ready for this? that's what we're dealing with out here. and it's not getting any better, it's getting worse. the weather people are calling this a polar vortex, freezing conditions brought down from the arctic. in kansas, the temperature is forecast to get down to —29 celsius. when you get these subzero temperatures, these subzero wind chills,

you've got the heavy snow that's been pumping across missouri all day. look at the line of thunderstorms. all of that lightning stretching from the missouri bootheel down to the gulf coast. we have had reports of thunder, snow and thunder sleet across parts of missouri. that's how dynamic this is. that's how much that warm air is rising, how quickly it is, and it is creating thunder sleet for the southern suburbs. there is saint louis. you can see thunderstorms coming into paducah there with some icing just to the north. now, the reason why this storm has so many different types of hazards is because the temperature profile is very different. you've got temperatures in the 20s up in indianapolis and cincinnati where you have pure snow, but then where you've got all the pink, the icing, that's where those temperatures are flirting with freezing. so you're finding that rain falling as rain until it gets to the surface and it's freezing on contact. that's that freezing rain. and it is really such a burden. you know, it doesn't really take much of that ice t

these are pictures from missouri — one of those states under an emergency. ice and plunging temperatures have affected the roads while air travel has also been hit. more than 5,000 flights across the us have so far been cancelled, according to flight tracking website flightaware. joining me live now is ben noll. he's a weather, climate, and meteorology reporter for the washington post, who's been tracking the winter storm. good to have you with us. in the midwest talk of a white out, how bad could it be? we have had _ out, how bad could it be? we have had a — out, how bad could it be? we have had a lot _ out, how bad could it be? - have had a lot of snow fall in states like kansas and missouri a foot and a half of snow. 0ver a foot and a half of snow. over 30 centimetres of snow, it is blowing around, the wind is gusting quite high, we could be looking at when gusting in excess of a0 miles an hour. the snow is making whiteout conditions that is what it is very dangerous to travel across several state tonight it will be ending overnight in the cold temperatur

. >> maggie vespa is going to join us from kansas city, missouri shortly and give us a bird's eye view of what's happening. >>> meanwhile, let's go to the day's political headlines with tomorrow marking a fraught anniversary on capitol hill. the congress will certify donald trump's victory in the 2024 election. it also marks four years since the january insurection on capitol hill. to date, 1500 defendants have been charged, more than 600 sentenced to prison. >> four out of five people in the last election felt that donald trump had done something wrong. he did, he did. he led an insurrection. >> four years later, people are trying to say what people saw with their own eyes didn't happen. >> for those of us who were there in the capitol, it will be an emotional experience to be back in that environment on that day. >> security extremely tight in the nation's capitol, law enforcement focusing on three security events among others. with 15 days left in the white house, president biden has a packed schedule. tomorrow he heads to new orleans to meet the families of the victims of the new y

and this morning, more than 200,000 are still in the dark from missouri to virginia. let's turn to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman who's keeping an eye on frigid temperatures gripping much of the country, good morning, michelle. >> good morning, frances, making power outages worse. we have a wind chill making it feel colder than it is, and we are waking up to 31 million under cold advisories in the south. albuquerque to corpus christi. houston, jacksonville and tampa. temperatures are so frigid across the country. just 3 degrees in bismarck. factor in the winds, it feels like 14 degrees below zero. it's not just the northern tier of the country. as we go throughout the day we keep the cold blast in place for miles city, houston, new orleans, to tampa. 15 degrees below normal. most temperatures will be 5, 10, 15, even 25 degrees below what is typical for this time of year. tomorrowe'll keep the cold blt in place. 23 degrees below what is typical this time of year, and 27 in boston. we'll talk more about the cold weather and the ld air going over the warm lake water

these are pictures from missouri — one of those states under an emergency.affected the roads — while air travel has also been hit. more than 5,000 flights across the us have so far been cancelled, according to flight tracking website flightaware. the mayor of kansas city — missouri's largest — says special operations will be in place over the next few days to address the harsh conditions.