we have this in vermont. our local police did a great job, within a half-hour of a report, they have their eyes on the guy. into his high school, and this is -- and this is a real concern. we want to keep our kids safe in school. host: nickless, on the republican line. nicholas, on the republican line. caller: the second amendment is not a right to harm, but rather the protection of oneself against the two radical government. surely to protect oneself from the government, even in ar-15 is not going to be enough. haven't we got to face the you are going to allow the citizens see a no holds barred approach, that they should be armed with whatever they want on themselves with? we should repeal and revise the second amendment. i do not understand, did he say we should repeal the second amendment? host: >> "washington journal" live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. find this online at c-span.org. we'll take you live next to american university in washington. former national security advisor susan rice is on your scr

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of vermont in the wintertime. we arrived, and i think the southern gentleman was not ready for temperatures to dip down to around 20 below zero. that's cold weather even by vermont standards. but this wonderful southern gentleman turned to me and he says, pat, this is not mississippi weather. and then made a few other suggestions, but we had a wonderful visit just the same. and we stayed in what's called the rabbit inn with fire places going, and then the next day at our meetings, i think vermont was ready to elect thad cochran as the third senator, he was so impressive. but we also traveled beyond vermont and mississippi. we met with leaders around the world. the senior members of the senate, we could go in a bipartisan way to see how they felt about the united states. we and our wives became close on these fact-finding visits. no matter how long the trip was -- and some were onto the other side of the earth -- thad, through his conversation and his friendship, made even the longest trip seem short. but in our tr

we have vermonters -- we've had 10, 20 inches of snow in places of vermont in the last day or so, and it's snowing heavily there now. buwe know in washington a half n inch of snow would close the place down. not in the presiding officer's state, not in my state. but these vermont students are not going to use a heavy snowstorm as an excuse they're not showing up to deliver their message. we're here in comfort in a secure building. we ought to act in solidarity with these students. the students put shoes out here on the lawn of the capitol showing just rows and rows and rows of shoes reflecting children who have died. now, imremember about a -- now, i remember about a little over a year ago, millions of women across the nation brought to the halls of government, my own hometown of montpelier, vermont, our state's capital, it's only 8,500 people, we had 19,000 to 20,000 who showed up on the statehouse lawn for the women's march there. how brave and strong they were in speaking out. my sister was one of the ones joining them. they parked their cars at the interstate. it caused such a tra

in vermont, and let me go to my vermont home state, we completed a thorough review back in 2014. we completed both physical and cyber. in 2015, we implemented a new election management platform. because the system was new and it was newly designed, it included cyber risk assessments. some of the best practices we used are paper ballots and post election audits and no internet connection of our vote tabulators and daily back up of the voter registration and daily monitoring of traffic and black listing of known problem or suspected ip addresses and additional penetration testing. we also have same day voter registration and automatic voter registration. we are planning and in the process of planning a statewide cyber security forum to be held in our state. we have no less than three levels of security between the outside internet and our cyber systems and they are monitored on a daily basis. we have joined the sharing analysis center and we receive weekly cyber hygiene scans and met with both dhs and fbi contacts. we have recently ordered an einstein monitor to attach to the syste

thirty five as well arrive in vermont in the autumn of twenty nineteen. the airport in burlington is located in a very heavily densely populated area so there are one hundred twenty four thousand people that live within about five miles of the runway is half a dozen of us put on a demonstration of what that sounds like and people came running out and said stop this is horrible my children my animals my family it is not appropriate for a city it's one of the causes of heart disease it's a cause of cognitive impairment in children according to the best medical studies what happens is children have delayed reading learning disabilities memory and concentration become impaired we have thirty five jet program is the most expensive u.s. weapon system to date costing around one point five billion dollars and yet out of two hundred eighty aircraft produced hoth still grounded america and seven allies currently use the jets nine countries were involved in the f. thirty five element which has been plagued by production delays and cost overruns well the f. thirty fi

of vermont in the wintertime. we arrived, and i think the southern gentleman was not ready for temperatures to dip down to around 20 below zero. that's cold weather even by vermont standards. but this wonderful southern gentleman turned to me and he says, pat, this is not mississippi weather. and then made a few other suggestions, but we had a wonderful visit just the same. and we stayed in what's called the rabbit inn with fire places going, and then the next day at our meetings, i think vermont was ready to elect thad cochran as the third senator, he was so impressive. but we also traveled beyond vermont and mississippi. we met with leaders around the world. the senior members of the senate, we could go in a bipartisan way to see how they felt about the united states. we and our wives became close on these fact-finding visits. no matter how long the trip was -- and some were onto the other side of the earth -- thad, through his conversation and his friendship, made even the longest trip seem short. but in our tr

. >> our guest is vermont senior senator patrick leahy, first elected in 1974. senator leahy is first in seniority in the united states senate, seniormost member of the judiciary and agriculture committee, and is vice chair of the senate appropriations committee, meaning he was in the middle of the negotiations of $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that the president signed into law friday. 2232 pages long, and it passed the senate by a vote of 65-32. thank you for being with us. sen. leahy: thank you. susan: we are speaking on friday, in the hour after the president's announcement, very critical of the democrats, saying the size of the bill is to directly to the democrats' opposition to spending more on the military and exacting concessions. what is your response? sen. leahy: that is baloney. i would give it the benefit of the doubt. the bill was -- i was involved in all the debate and work in negotiations for the past several weeks. it was something where republicans and democrats came together on a bill that would pass with democratic and republican votes. w

the majority opinion in vermont was in favor of the war. a lot of newspapers favored it. i said i would vote against it. people were targeted for defeat. 10 were defeated, myself and one other made it through. that was a wave election. i had the second closest election in the country. i assumed it was because of my philosophy, so i called the senator who had the closest election and said barry goldwater, is it our philosophy? and we became very good friends after that. susan: another question? andy: sen. leahy: i don't know. the last few elections, i have been able to pick them very well. this one, i can't get the feel. i think it was a strong sign in what happened in alabama. with senator jones with the gubernatorial race in virginia. -- with senator jones. with the gubernatorial race in virginia. but i don't know the answer. i hope it is, because i like to see our party in the majority. anna: one of the long-term issues facing the country is the deficit. not just discretionary spending by five mandatory programs. i was wondering if you could see a political coalition th

thirty five based here it's going to be damaging to the people of vermont it's going to be in it's going to make us a collaborator with any kind of foreign intervention that the president decides on . haven't i don't have a tough yeah with most of us. even if it i mean you'll love this war looming before. it's been almost fifty years since we've had human beings on the surface of another planetary body and i hope that we could actually put together an international lunar exploration initiative much like we have the international space station consortium and together the countries of the world cooperating with the private sector could afford to get back into real space exploration and i think that would that would create a a lot of excitement. church secret indeed slick priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally had to call this to do graphic solution so what the bishop means to do then he finds out that the priest says is a perfect or it is simply moves him to a different spot were the previous standards not the highest ranks of the catholic church

in my own state of vermont, my own state of vermont, senator leahy and i represent, we need $700 million a year through 2018 just to get our roads into a state of decent repair. 30% of our bridges are obsolete. or structurally deficient. our small community drinking water systems need $510 million over the next 20 years. and our waste water and storm water facilities need an additional $156 million in needed repairs and upgrades. the fact of the matter is that the american people understand, whether they are republican, democrat, progressive or conservative, that in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, where we used to lead the world in our infrastructure, we are now falling further and further behind many, many other countries. now is the time to rebuild america. now is the time to create 10 million to 15 million decent paying jobs. now is the time to restore pride in rural america that has desperate needs in urban america that has desperate needs. unfortunately the trump plan, as you have heard, is a sham. it is a fraud. we need a real investment for real jobs to rebuild

we have this in vermont. our local police did a great job, within a half-hour of a report, they have their eyes on the guy. into his high school, and this is -- and this is a real concern. we want to keep our kids safe in school. host: nickless, on the republican line. nicholas, on the republican line. caller: the second amendment is not a right to harm, but rather the protection of oneself against the two radical government. surely to protect oneself from the government, even in ar-15 is not going to be enough. haven't we got to face the you are going to allow the citizens see a no holds barred approach, that they should be armed with whatever they want on themselves with? we should repeal and revise the second amendment. i do not understand, did he say we should repeal the second amendment? he think should we redefine the second minute? -- second amendment? guest: the second amendment has been interpreted by the supreme court, and i'm not quite sure i understood the gist of the caller's question. he was tal

thirty five based here it's going to be damaging to the people of vermont it's going to be in it's going to make us a collaborator with any kind of foreign intervention the president decides on. palestinians in a district close to jerusalem's old city say their lives are being ruined by an excavation project israeli archaeologists and settlers have been tunneling under buildings in the neighborhood in search of the ancient ruins of the city of david and their activities appeared to be causing devastation above ground. after the excavation work started for the ground began to sink our houses bringing about twenty centimeters to watch shine and the water started to crack the floor has also granted. them to have it done a look at the house she read until it collapses under children on my son and his wife look at the destruction look at how crooked the house is they could have lost their all broke in the roof once fallin on my grandson. hear them working at night and the thing all starts to shake of course i'm against . this is our home that we're also supposed to go norma can stop them well

. ♪ >> next, newsmakers with vermont senator, patrick leahy.utlinessident trump his plans for combating the opioid crisis. after that, kiersten nielsen at a senate hearing on election security. our guest on newsmakers is senator, senior patrick leahy, first elected in 1974. he is first in seniority in the united states senate, seniormost member of the judiciary and agriculture committee, and is vice chair of the senate appropriations committee, meaning he was in the middle of the negotiations of the omnibus spending bill that the president signed into law friday. 2200 32 pages long, and it a vote of senate by 65 to 32. speaking friday, in the hour after the president's announcement, very critical of the democrats, saying the size of the bill is due to the democrats' opposition to spending more on the military and exacting concessions. >> i'd give him the benefit of the doubt. -- i was involved work and debate and negotiations for the past several weeks. it was something where republicans and democrats came passed witha bill democratic and repub

he doesn't have to, nate chooses to continue to work for a political non-profit from their home in vermont. the job also pvides health insurance for the family. although elizabeth has left her fundraising job, she prefers to say she is "financially independent," as opposed to retired. inact, she earns money fro her blog, and now her book, too. >> retirement evokes this idea of sort of doing nothing and laying around on a beach which you know which would be nice. but my husband i are both people who ve doing and love workinav and love hg projects. being financially independent means that we do not have to i woorder to live and eat and feed our children. but we do work that we're passionate about. >> sreenivasan: this week in new york city, the art world convened for the armory show, ie of the biggest art fai the world. we took a quick tour to learn more about some of the fais highest profile pieces, which reflect the issues of the day. the edge of manhattan's west side highway is a 24 foot tall mural by the french artist j.r. he'snown for enormous portraits displayed in public. this one is

in vermont, and let me go to my vermont home state, we completed a thorough review back in 2014. we completed both physical and cyber. in 2015, we implemented a new election management platform. because the system was new and it was newly designed, it included cyber risk assessments. some of the best practices we used are paper ballots and post election audits and no internet connection of our vote tabulators and daily back up of the voter registration and daily monitoring of traffic and black listing of known problem or suspected ip addresses and additional penetration testing. we also have same day voter registration and automatic voter registration. we are planning and in the process of planning a statewide cyber security forum to be held in our state. we have no less than three levels of security between the outside internet and our cyber systems and they are monitored on a daily basis. we have joined the sharing analysis center and we receive weekly cyber hygiene scans and met with both dhs and fbi contacts. we have recently ordered an einstein monitor to attach to the syste

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condos, welcome from vermont. we in maine think of vermont as the west coast of new england. we're glad to have you here. i understand that in senator lankford's bill, originally, there was a red team provision. you heard me describe it. that would have had a hacking team at dhs or somewhere practice and that the states furiously opposed this and it was dropped out. is that true? >> i am not aware of it. i can't answer that. i don't know if that was true or not. >> do you think it would be a good idea? >> i think many of the states, if not all of the states, are going through penetration testing already, which is, i think, the same thing as what you're talking about. professional folks who try to hack into your systems. we're already doing it. we've done it already in vermont and we are continually to do it as we go. >> i just hope it's being done at the highest possible level, because i understand there was a so-called hack-a-thon last summer where every state was penetrated or every state that was -- they tried, they managed to penetrate. the results were devastating. so i

they did not do as was just mention why the senator from vermont. as a matter fact, they decided not to take up this measure that we are taking up today because they thought it was not a good measure to pick up. so i don't want anybody in this body to think that the house has already supported this effort. the house not only didn't support it, they wouldn't take it up because they thought it was damaging to our country foreign-policy so i hope people will join me in voting to table this motion, to let the committee to its work as it is supposed tong do. let us bring something to the floor that will actually have an outcome, have an outcome, then let's haveow a debate down the road on the aumf, the '01-'02 aumfs which i hope we will give floor tiger with that i think the time is ended. i moved to table the santa's motion to discharge s.j. res page four and ask for the gays and maze. >> sunday on c-span's q&a, yale university law school professor amy chua talks about a book. >> overcoming political tribalism. we need to be able to talk to each other a

students in burlington, vermont, determined to participate.heavy snow could stop them in vermont. >> all the way across the country in l.a. county, students at charter high school spelled the word "nenough" on the football field. students around the world walked out in solidarity with american students. >> in littleton, colorado, students walked out. these students were not born when the gunman killed 18 people at columbine. the fear is still felt 19 years later. >> i find the best place to hide in the door in case of an accident. any doorway i walk through, just in case. >> as students were marching worldwide, nra sent this tweet out of an ar-15 weapon with the message i'll control my own guns. thank you. what's next? columbine, the anniversary of that, and another walkout. march for our lives is march 24th in d.c. some estimate 500,000 people there. >> the message and momentum for the kids in parkland. yesterday was proof a month and a day later, they have momentum. >> how do you turn that to action? >>> the terrorism trial is under way for

i thank my colleague from vermont for his patience. former chairman barney frank on relief for community banks. this is in an interview on cnbc. with regard to banks under $10 billion, some of them are spending more money than they should complying with provisions that were never really intended to apply to them and i understand that. the volcker rule which says that large banks should do more to lending and less der derivative trading, which i think is a wholly good thing, a number of the -- small banks which never did and i would agree to raise the $10 billion threshold. this is one from the bipartisan policy center recently. the words of -- to the folks from there. as u.s. politics descends ever further into politics, there is signs that old-fashioned legislating is not dead. this week, the senate banking committee will mark up one of the first significant pieces of financial regulatory legislation in years with real bipartisan support. these are not major changes. yet, taken together they are constructive and should provide greater

. >>> back in a moment with some cold justice served up in vermont. the co-founder of ben and jerry's arrested for making too much noise. >>> there is a new search under way for a centers for disease control employee missing now for three weeks. police and volunteers combed the woods near the cdc office in atlanta for any sign of timothy cunningham. cunningham has not been seen since february 12th when he left work after saying he did not feel well. >>> in alabama today, a march to commemorate a turning point in the civil rights movement as they do every year. thousands crossed the edmund bridge in selma today, the site of bloody sunday in 1965 when police attacked voting right protesters attempting to cross the bridge. >>> police in vermont busted the co-founder of ben and jerry's ice cream during a protest. ben cohen is accused of violating the city of burlington's noise ordinance. police say he and two others were demonstrating against the air force's decision to move f-35 fighter planes to the area. cohen and the others are accused of blasting jet

. >> the average s virginia teacher by the way about $400a year, making tehers in th>> c vermont >> onaturday ben cohen and other blasted jet noise from multiple speakers throughout burlington , meant to bst, national guard s building a base in the city right now. planes b next year. >> it is cents physicall cognitively destructive impact on people's lives who are in this dome >> headquartered in vermont. cohen and other organizers charged disorderly done duct. they'll vote tomorrow on whether officials will oppose e is 4:45, not what i want to hear on a monday morning, but chelsey tracking >> i know, guys, one storm exits, another one making its that's certainly something we will be covering this morning. let's start with a look at today. quiet on storm scan3, in fact, we have mainly clear skies the delaware valley, even as we take a live look at center city, it is rightwinds t of the5 miles per hour, sustained, that is making it feel a l fact0 , as you wake up and walking outside. so be minorning to you. pottstown, 29 degrees in media it is , 31 in mullica hill, certainly reminder th

thirty five fighter jets being stationed at a local port vermont state residents rejected the move in a non-binding vote saying they're concerned about noise pollution safety to make their feelings a lot done clearer before the vote in speakers were used to the sound of a flying jet in the city said. a number of protests were held over the weekend against the f. thirty five base police made one high profile arrest among the activists ben cohen co-founder of the ice cream brand ben and jerrys local earth force authorities have already invested some eighty three million dollars in preparing the base for the jets which is scheduled to come into operation next year. the airport in burlington is located in a very heavily densely populated area so there are one hundred twenty four thousand people that live within about five miles of the runway half a dozen of us put on a demonstration of what that sounds like and people came running out and said stop this is horrible my children my animals my family this is not appropriate for a city it's one of the causes of heart disease it's a cause of c

every weekend this happens on vermont street. this is in the potrero hill area right by mckinley square. a very steep roadway. and the organizers have two divisions. one for the kids at 3:00 and one at 4:00 for the adults. anyone over 14. you'll notice they have plastic wheels. that's because one of the few rules is you have to have plastic wheels. i think because traction is boring. and you have to have a helmet and you have to sign a waiver for the adults and a waiver for the kids as well. this is an annual event which i have not yet been to. it looks like a lot of fun. maybe we can get an nbc bay area team. >> did you see that there were kids the dressed like the p. pamplona bulls. >> that's april 1st. you can check out all these cool stories online and the breaking news you've been talking about. >> happening tonight, a live look at the coliseum. that's where the oakland a's will be back at i against the los angeles angels of anaheim. one day after the thrilling opener. the a's won as marcus semyon knocked out powell. tonight

to absent himself and vermont's sole democrat congressman can deliver the vote for jefferson and four federalist from maryland to cast a blank ballot and turns maryland in a state voting for jefferson and four federalists in south carolina cast a blank ballot so its vote doesn't count and the election ends up being ten votes, six votes, two. so, you know, we look at these things now through the gloss of history and say, well, jefferson must have been so popular. he took 106 days to get a victory confirmed. but, and i'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, but the election of 1896 is the one that we glossed over. about ill is right we have a republican that comes into play with abraham lincoln, but the five elections, american politics is fundamentally broken and polarized and five presidents without 50% of the vote and two presidents without the popularity vote and win the electoral college sort of like the guy now and the guy i served. and another wins the popular vote and the margin is less than 10,000 votes and along comes the most misunderstood and unknown president, the 25th p

that's when they hold the bring your own will race on vermont at 20th street. that's in the fortero hill. that event starts at 3:00 p.m. sunday for kids and starts at 4:00 p.m. for all of the oversized kids like you see there. >> probably good that they separate the kids from the kids. >> i've always wanted to go to this event auto. i was at toys "r" us one morning and two larger grown men carrying these big green machines and they were going there. >> jealous, right? >> let's see if we can see them. >> there he is. >> oh, my god. >> that one looked like it was souped up. my pediatricians would be going, helmet. >> knee pads. >> yeah, helmet. raid the helmet for a bonnet this weekend. >> i love your whole bonnet thing. >> maybe it's just a little house on the prairie kind of thing. >> whatever you will be wearing this weekend it's looking great. we are excited to have such a nice weekend ahead. it's going to start out in the upper 40s and low 50s as you head out the door now. livermore, morgan hill, 49 degrees and 54 now in san jose. it's 56 in oakland and in s

the presiding officer: the senator from vermont.

another matter, later today the senate will vote on a resolution offered by the junior senators from vermont and utah. their goal is to end u.s. support for the saudi-led coalition houthi insurgence. they plan to do it using the provisions of the war powers resolution and the security assistance and arms export control act. i oppose their resolution for two reasons. the first reason, mr. president, is that my colleagues -- their substantive policy aim is actually misguided. the supreme leader and the regime know what their goals are, preserving their rule and harming the united states and israel. that's what they want to do. that's why iran exports violence, intimidation, and coercion. that's why iran expands its ballistic missle program. that's why iran uses proxies such as the houthis along with others to go into yemen, iraq, bahrain and beyond. during the obama administration they drew down the conventional force structure. we traced after a flawed nuclear agreement. we reduced our commitment to our city arab partners. iran noticed our -- it supported a support of proxies and supported th

first, we head to vermont. and go to our coffee shop. and meet dave. hey.hy is dark magic so spell-bindingly good, he asks? let me show you. let's go. so we climb. hike. see a bear. woah. reach the top. dave says dark magic is a bold blend of coffee with rich flavors of uganda, sumatra, colombia and other parts of south america. like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters packed with goodness. [seen it. covered it. n. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> millions in the northeast preparing to dig out from the second nor'easter to hit the region in a week. still seeing near blizzard conditions in massachusetts, maine and new hampshire. wet and heavy snow in bridgewater, new jersey, taking down power lines. as well as starting a fire near homes. expect more power outages as this moves across the northeast. >> good luck digging your car out. up to 2 feet of snow fell in areas. the storm p

meantime already spent around eighty three million dollars preparing the base for the jets and the vermont national guard said choose a night that indeed the thirty five are still sure jewel to arrive in the autumn of twenty nineteen. the airport in burlington is located in a very heavily densely populated area so there are one hundred twenty four thousand people that live within about five miles of the runway half a dozen of us put on a demonstration of what that sounds like and people came running out and said stop this is horrible my children my animals my family this is not appropriate for a city it's one of the causes of heart disease it's a cause of cognitive impairment insurance according to the best medical studies what happens is children have delayed reading learning disabilities memory and concentration become impaired well controversy is the basis and it's a controversial play in the f. thirty five program as the most expensive u.s. weapons system to date with the expenditure of about one point five billion dollars thus far and yet out of two hundred eighty aircraft half are st

and dumb ago lot of snow in vermont and new hampshire, and part of massachusetts.35 degrees, so here in the city above freezing. we have windchill of 27, though, so keep that in mind, keep that winter coat on. sunrise time is 6:24. sunset time, 6:01. , during this chilly afternoon, it will be about 43, 44 degrees, at the end of the day. we have the weekend, and boy all anybody wants to know about, bob kelly, is that possible storm we're going to get on monday. i wonder why. >> example what's happening back here, route 23, fayette street, conshohocken, the crews, manicuring all of the roadways, the on and the off ramps, this is a live look again, the bridge, into out of conshohocken, so be prepared, a lot of road closures, still a lot of downed trees, wires, a lot of dowe will run it down n the next couple of minutes here, so not going to be a cake walk this morning, so give yourselves some extra time, slow your roll, and a lot of the schools with the two hour delay is actually going to help give some of the buses a chance, to get out there the ram from creek road t

the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h.r. 1865, which the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 339, h.r. 1865, an act to amend the communications act of 1934, and so forth, and for other purposes. mr. sanders: mr. president, pursuant to section 1013 of the department of state authorization act, fiscal years 1984 and 1985 and in accordance with the provisions of section 601-b of the international security assistance and arms export control act of 1976, i make a motion to discharge senate joint resolution 54 from the committee on foreign relations. officer under the previous order, there are four hours of debate on the motion equally divided between the opponents and the proponents. mr. sanders: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, article 1, section 8, of the constitution states in

the motion to table i was interested to hear my friends of command connecticut and vermont that the motion to table and stop debate. that's not exactly true. what it will do is facilitate full debate full consideration of the merits of the underlying resolution starting with the foreign relations committee. it's unusual for resolutions like this to come immediately to the floor where you have 100 senators voting on it because not all of us are up to speed on the details are what the unintended impact may be as the foreign relations committee set up for the purpose of examining legislation in matters like this. this important timely manne mats officials are in washington this week in the crown prince was scheduled to meet with president trump today. i met with him this morning along with other members of the senate foreign relations committee. he's an important member and is a counterpoint to iran. in yemen we see both terrorist operations, that's isis and al qaeda and iran to shoot missiles into saudi arabia i think it currently takes the form of intelligence including air to air refueling

wisconsin were in the top five as well filling out the top five or top ten were northeastern states vermont and massachusetts coming in six's maine with hawaii connecticut iowa new hampshire rounding out the top ten places phillips for women to get to the bottom of the list will have to go south the worst states for women are alabama. oklahoma mississippi and arkansas and at the very bottom is the great state of louisiana which ranks as the warst place for women with a score of thirty six out of one hundred so what areas decide if a place is good for women well this state has the highest median income for women are topped by state that isn't a state turns out washington d.c. the district with no representation for our taxation and does represent women in the paycheck coming in second again is minnesota moving down the list to delaware virginia and illinois rounding out the top five states with the highest median income for women say sort of the most unequal in pay with the lowest median income for female workers are kind of a surprise well why isn't the top ten overall there dead last in me

and when it's all said and done, vermont will have received more than 3 feet of snow. when it comes to the seawall, it can take anywhere up to 5 to 10 days before it's patched up completely. >> really rough for them there, demarco, thank you so much. >>> airlines have canceled more than 400 flights today as they recover from the storm. widespread delays are expected throughout the morning. more than 2,700 flights were canceled yesterday. another 2,700 were delayed. >> new state gun legislation headed to the desk of florida governor rick scott this morning after last month's deadly school shooting in parkland. he has not said if he will sign it. florida lawmakers voted for final approval of the bill last night. it raises the age to buy rifles, increases mental health resources and allows some teachers to be armed. the accused gunman was formerly charged yesterday with 17 counts of first degree murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. adriana diaz is at the state capital in tallahassee. adriana, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. state representative who introduce

senate may vote on a resolution offered by three of our colleagues the junior senators from utah, vermont and connecticut to direct the president to cut off financial support and other support for the saudi led coalition in yemen. this is a proxy in many ways betweenha iran to intervene in the civil war in yemen and not only to allow the saudi's the means to defend themselves against incursions against iranian backed rebels but also our relationship with the saudi's and m radisson is important with antiracist and anti- al qaeda effort with those locations located in yemen also our support is already from the saudi led coalition in yemen and secretary defense has described this as the alternative to put american boots on thehe ground. we operate by and with and through our allies by providing majestic will support, intelligence, and some technical advice. and to take the form of logistical support and refuelin refueling. this is clearly noncombatant as traditionally defined and historically a known and with that true process of procedures inin compliance with international law of armed con

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ski report time, mount snow i vermont, a foot.unting with more snow coming down. meanwhile, hard freeze warning in the south as some of those trees are startin >> good morning i'm tamala edwards, 7:56 a.m., thursday, march 8. let's head over to matt pellman to look at your traffic, is it looking better, matt? >> reporter: no, no, the camera is nodding in agreement it's not a great morning on the roadways tam. this is i-95 southbound side, the delay is not as normal but it's heavy near the betsy ross bridge. northbound in bucks county we had an overturned vehicle accident by street road that just cleared out. we have an accident on the benjamin franklin parkway inbound out of view heading toward the city. vine expressway, vehicle off to the side, busy. eastbound side busy. down wires blocking elbow line and hartford road and church road. septa bus routes are not running because of the weather. tam. >> let's go over to sky6 live hd. live look out across center city. at least, karen, it's clear. >> reporter: it is, in fact the sunshi

we still have snowfall through midday for massachusetts and maine and into new hampshire and vermont. we have winter storm warnings for the locations. that will expire roughly about 1:00 p.m. with the additional 6 to 12 inches of snow for maine. perhaps only another 2 to 4 inches of snowfall expected near boston. in terms of temperatures, cooling things off for the east coast. warm enough to melt some of the fresh fallen snow. 41 degrees in the big apple. 45 for washington. boston, you top 40 degrees. back to you. >> another snow day for kids. >>> the trump administration and california officials escalating the immigration battle. governor jerry brown fighting back at jeff sessions after the department sued over the immigration laws. brown slamming the sessions visit to california as a political stunt. >> we know the trump administration is full of liars. this is basically going to war against the state of california. the engine of the american economy. >> the lawsuit against california challenging the so-called sanctuary policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration offici

t senator jacob colymer of vermont said difficulty was to be found in the fact that the president had no cabinet in the true sense of the word. he explained, it was notorious that the president did not consult his cabinet counselors as a party upon important matters. vermont senator reported that he understood the president to express the opinion that it was bestte to have no policy and le each member of the cabinet attend to the duties of their department -- of his department. this was poor management and a recipe for failure, he believed. he thought that measures should beni taken to bring about a different state of things in the administration. senator refecedent then told republicane senators that a crisis had arrived requiring the senate's active interposition in affairs. he warned that the caucus should proceed cautiously and with unan unanimity. in all events the maine senator had no doubt that measures should be taken to make the cabinet a unity and remove from it anyone who did not coincide heartily with our viewers and relations to the war. he obviously had in mind secretary