the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, walter david counts, iii, of texas to be united states district judge for the western district of texas. mr. isakson: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: mr. president, i rise today to talk about the tradition of new year's day, the beginning of a new year. our great country and many of its great traditions. i'm sorry that the minority leader left so quickly because i wanted to brag about how great new york city did, the police and law enforcement on new year's eve. millions of americans gathered in new york city to watch the ball drop and the new year to start. we all enjoyed doing that in the warmth of our homes, particularly on days like today, but also in the warmth of america. there is a second great tradition that takes place on new year's day as well. it's called the college football season, which is capped off by the rose bowl which is played in pasadena, california. this year, the rose bowl was between the university of georgia, my home state, and the university of oklahoma. one of the greatest foo

lehigh valley and chester county saw snow during the morning commute and as david said there is more snow on the way. walter perez is live now with the word from penndot. >> reporter: as david mentioned and as you can see we received more snow in the lehigh valley than the delaware valley. penndot had a busy morning and get ready to hit the roads once again tonight. round one came through leaving as much as and inch of snow in spots and the timing left something to be desired and now a winter weather advisory remains in effect with round two expected later this evening. and the projected lows around the freezing mark the lehigh valley is expecting 2 to 4 inches before it's said and done and penndot is urging commuters not to adopt a false sense of security as it arrives bit bhav roadways, we say that we have crews out there. but no matter what if you see weather coming down drive appropriate. slow down. we have to be partners in safety out there. >> once again several school districts if the lehigh valley are dismissing school early because of the impending snow and urging computers to take it slow especial

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david, is no. he is going to walter reed on friday for a physical examine, not, the white house says, a mental examine. and the doctor who will be examining him has been a white house presidential physician for more than a decade. the same doctor who examined both president obama and president bush. >> all right, jon karl at the white house. jon, welcome back. >>> next, to the especially dangerous strain of flu, spreading across the country tonight. a major spike in new cases. the flu now spreading across 46 states. hospitalizations doubling in just a week. and in hard-hit california, they are setting up tents now in some places. and tonight, this question. how effective is the flu vaccine this year? and if you haven't received the shot yet, should you still get it. how quickly does it make a difference? abc's kayna whitworth from california. >> reporter: tonight, hospitals overflowing, incoming flu patients doubling in the last week alone. overcrowded hospitals forced to use tents. e.r. cases triaged in the hallway. >> we're so busy that paramedics are spending a good amount of time in this hallway.

and david says that the south jersey shore region is expected to get harder. walter perez is checking out the preparations in ventnor, new jersey at this hour. >> reporter: sara and rick, greetings from the jersey shore, the consensus among local officials we spoke to here is that the coming storm is nothing they have not seen before but the lingering concern as usual is the back bay flooding and strong winds expected to accompany the storms. the back bays in ventnor city is an icy scene. and they are looking at the probability of 4 to 7 inches of snow by the time it's over and the snow totals lessen the further inland you go. and storm warning for cape may ocean coinses at 9:00 tonight. and the city officials say they hope for the best and prepare for the worst. >> a nuisance storm to us really hope it doesn't get better and goes east more and we don't get nothing. but we are hoping. >> the concern is the wicked cold and strong winds expected to accompany the storm. reporting from ventnor, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. with snow coming for parts of the area

in the united states for example, we had three television stations and everybody watched walter cronkite or david brinkley, everybody had a common set of facts, so there might be conservatives and liberals, but people generally could agree on a baseline of reality. one of the dangers of the internet is people can have entirely different realities. they can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. one of the things i think i discovered, even back in 2007 and 2008, is a good way of fighting against that is making sure that all my communities do not just a online, that they move off-line. what i mean by that is that i think social media is a really powerful tool for people with common interests to convene and get to know each other and connect, but then it is important for them to get off-line, meet in a pub -- >> meet in the community. >> meet at a place of worship, meet in a neighborhood, and get to know each other, because the truth is on the internet everything is simplified and when you meet people face-to-face, it turns out they are complicated. there may be somebody wh

david miliband. ♪ ♪ >> "amanpour on pbs" was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter good evening, everyone, and welcome to this special program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the world view. it was the exposé that shifted the global agenda. our team, led by reporter nima elbagir, discovered young men being sold like cattle at auction in libya. it's been a failed state since the fall of muammar gaddafi, and it's become a choke point on the deadly trail of migration from sub-saharan africa over the mediterranean to italy. migrants carry horrifying stories of beatings, kidnappings, and, yes, even slavery. the reports sparked outrage across the globe and protests on the streets of paris, london, and new york. the international organization for migration says that because of this reporting, the dam has burst on this issue. governments from the u.k. to france and africa itself have condemned it, and they're demanding action from the u.n. and repatriation efforts have already begun. as i said, it all began with this game-changing report in november from our team, l

walter reed medical center on his way to joint base andrews. the president is making his way to west palm beach, there you go, spending weekend at mar-a-lago. davidlooks hail and hardy being probed by the doctor. i didn't want to go there exactly. let's rewind that. oh, we're not tape we're live! >>> president trump denying accounts what he said about poor countries like haiti at immigration meeting. lawmakers from both sides are chiming in. blake burman will give us the latest on fallout. reporter: hi, david. the latest debate at white house and washington surround whether or not the president described haiti and countryies in africa as s-holes to keep it in pg format. he took to twitter claimed the language used by me at daca meeting was tough. this was not the language used. he said in follow-up tweet quote, never said anything der interrogatory about haiti that haiti is very poor, troubled country. never said take them out. made up by dems. this is a meeting at white house and democrats and republicans handful or so and president never -- discussing a deal. tom cotton and david perdue came out with statement, giving the president a bit of wig

it's what walter and bruce all work towards and what helply griffith invested her life in. there's no other place like it. david mason our poet said it best some come out west to beat the odds and find out the sky is the limit. some simply stare no end to it. the way you can love a land and quite a few of the people in it, give me the sage in sunlight, warm even in winter, give me the moonlit snow. give me the book cliffs and the farms. the wild flowers of colorado. one of the greatest joys in my life was when i was pitching baseball games in high school. you have to -- be so focused in everied atom in your being is throwing that pitch to the perfect spot. but you'll never succeed without a agreement team behind you. the joy of these past seven years has been every bit as intense and every bit as sweet. i've been blessed to work with incredible group of people i would like my cabinet and senior staff to stand up and again, with be recognized. [applause] and i also include all of you as part of of this team you be an incredible group of poem and i cannot express how much i appreciate your partnership. your frien

david remnick, on protecting press freedoms and fighting fake news. ♪ >> announcer: "amanpour on pbs" was made possible by the generous support of rosalind p. walter>>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. this week, republican senator jeff flake will take to the senate floor to defend free speech against what he calls donald trump's unrelenting, daily assaults, and he's not pulling any punches, tracing the president's enemy of the people attack on the press all the way back to the soviet dictator, joseph stalin. flake is one of the few prominent republicans willing to stand up and criticize the president. not coincidentally, he's also one of the many republican legislators leaving congress this year. so, in accusing president trump, is senator flake also accusing the president's republican enablers who stay quiet? senator flake joins me now from phoenix, arizona. you plan to take to the senate floor on wednesday, as i just said. and i'm just going to quote a little bit from your speech. you said, "2017 was a year we saw the truth, objective and empirical evidence-based

it's what walter cheesman, claude boettcher and bruce randolph for towards, and what emily griffith invested her life in. there's no place like it. david mason, who became our poet laureate in 2010, said it best: "some come out west to beat the odds and find out the sky's the limit. some simply stare - no end to it, the way you can love a land and quite a few of the people in it give me the sage in sunlight, warm even in winter. give me the moonlit snow give me the book cliffs and the farms, the wild flowers of colorado." one of the greatest joys of my life was when i was pitching baseball games in high school. yet to be so focused of every atom in your being, just being totally intent of being able to throw that pitch in the perfect spot. bute never succeed without a great team behind you. last several years have been every bit intense and sweet. have been blessed to work with an incredible group of people. i would like my cabinet and senior staff to stand up and be recognized. [applause] >> and i also include all of you as part of this team. you are an incredible group of people as welland it is not expressed how ch i appreciate your

chestnut hill, 42 degrees in south jersey, checking in with david dutch in clementon mostly cloud there i, heading in to delaware, also at 42 at walter's some photos from our weather watchers, showing just with a gray, glummy looking day it was, this one from allen, showing, gray overcast skies, this afternoon, and that is pretty much, all day, we saw blue skies this morning, northwest but walter showing us road are blind. they are well underway, in newark, delaware. that is good. we will have snow, that could lead to slick conditions. gray, cloudy over cats sky tonight and even though steady rain ace long the coast we are seeing, possibly a few drops here and there, you may need to swipe windshield wipers a few times out and about this evening, around the city and suburbs, but getting cold enough that flakes could mix in tonight. any area that gets brush and mostly heading out to sea a long the jersey shore points as well, this low will head out and not joining forces with this boundary moving in we're talking about a inch or so around the city and second system on thursday, overnight, at the shore points but by 10:00 o'clock tomorrow

walter is correct. book tv moving into the realm of fiction books. with writers like david ignatius who will be joining today -- joining us today. tv is on weekends and it has onn on the air -- book tv is the weekends and it has been on the air for nearly 20 years. focusing on writers of historical fiction. national security thrillers and social commentary. the first sunday of every month. we hope you tune in and check out the full schedule at c-span.org. on the democrat line. morning.ood the biggest stable man to be a genius like he says he is -- good morning. trump and to be genius and be a stable man like he says he is why can't he keep his big mouth shut and do his job he was elected to do? the weekly standard writing on wednesday night before washington was completely consumed by michael dell's west wing tell-all bloody copublished -- the notion that congress was concerned that president trump might be mentally unfit for office. the weekly standard goes on to refer to the article, washington's growing up session with the 25th amendment claiming more than a dozen lawmak

david: we are a long way from that. once he retires, it's over and i'm going to cry. boring.e was not goin president trump heads to walter center for his first presidential medical exam. we will have more on what i'm watching coming up next. alix: check out tv to watch us online and interact with us directly. go to tv on your terminal. check it out. ♪ david: here's what caught my eye today. we have the president going for his first official presence of physical. -- presidential physical. there's a rear admiral in the navy and they're always interested in the present, but he's not young man. i can say that because i'm not a young man and he doesn't appear to be in great shape. he says he needs to lose weight and we've heard about his eating habits. there's a lot of speculation on what this will show about him. alix: why do people care so much? i get if there's an underlying heart issue. i lost my might. [laughter] what i was saying was -- [laughter] david: we are curious about everything about the president number one. number 2 -- there is the question of succession. how healthy are they and what kind of shape t

the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, walter david counts, iii, to be united states district judge for the western district of texas. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, do hereby bring to a close debate on on the nomination of walter david counts iii of texas to be united states district judge for the western district of texas. mr. mcconnell: i ask that the reading of the names be waived rsm. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask that notwithstanding rule 22, that the motions ripen on january 8. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the committee on veterans' affairs be discharged from further consideration of s. 925 and the senate proceed to

the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of walter david counts iii of texas to be united states district judge for the western district of texas shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or to change their vote? if not, the yeas are 90, the nay is 1. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination -- the judiciary, walter david counts, iii, of texas, to be united states district judge for the western district of texas. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: mr. president, once more i am coming to the floor to talk about the basic rules of the senate and how we actually get on legislation. we have spent all of this week on four district court judicial nominations. the entire week. no legislation. because we can't get on legislation. in 2013, we were in a similar situation to this. that was the minority party

our studio tabl tonight, syndicated columnist s and "new yor times" columnist david brooks; tk he clitical report's amy walter; along with the chair of the american conservative union, mt sclapp, and karine-jean-pierre, a senior aerdvo moveon.org. welcome to all of you as we keep one eye or both eyes, i should s oay, what's goingin the capitol in the house chamber where the president is about to come in. mark shields i the president's first state of the union, he's been in office for a year, what are we looking for tonight? >> we're looking for the president to be presidential which he said nobody could be presidential like him. it's a ceremony of state. t this is somethit donald trump is totally unfamiliar with never having been in congress, never been a person in washington. it will be interesting to see how he fits into this, what americans have come to expect about a major ceremony i national life. >> woodruff: david, what are you looking for. 37one queer o year of trump whs human years, he's done this recently well, hs bring up town trump and gets put away. i expect he will be reasonably p i will be look