the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. cole: i would like to yield 90 seconds to the gentleman from arkansas. mr. womack: i rise in opposition to h.res. 6. i appreciate mr. mcgovern and the new majority leadership including process budget reform to include house budget committee members eliminating term limits for them and i hope there are other things that we did as a joint bipartisan committee trying to get across the finish line. perhaps we could work on some of those. for the few bright spots that h.res. 6 has, they no way make up for the shortcomings. it does not rise to fiscal responsibility. the gephardt rule that has been spoken about, increasing the debt limit by increasing without separate debate. he package replaces the cut-go with the pay-go rule was in place when the democrats passed many programs. it added to our country's debt burden. pay-go does not encourage fiscal discipline. h.res. 6 reduces the passage of income tax increases from a 3/5 's. the first step that the democrats take in this process is surre

the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. cole: thank you, madam speaker. i have an additional speaker on the way, i hope, but right now i don't have anything additional to add personally. so madam speaker, i'll reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: thank you, madam speaker. i yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from maryland, my good friend, mr. sarbanes, a member of the energy and commerce committee and oversight and reform. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for two minutes. mr. sarbanes: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, i rise in support of the rules package being put forward by the democratic majority and in particular, i want to applaud the decision to establish a select committee on the modernization of congress and i want to thank chairman mcgovern. i want to thank speaker pelosi and all those who made this a priority. we know that the best motives of members on both sides of the aisle are too often frus

xers wh oklahoma city! >> hubie: now, by them trying to go the length of the floor, give the coaching staff of philadelphia credit. they double teamed in the back, the side in that double team, but jimmy butler comes from the other side. watch to the left of your screen now. watch. here he comes. left his man. came down, and how about that finish? talk about a big time play. remember, he was 3 for 15 before they isolated him on a post-up, and now the steal. >> mark: seemingly in the last several minutes, jimmy butler has made every big play for the philadelphia 76ers. five points in the last eight seconds and they have a 2-point lead here with 6.9 to go. >> hubie: still plenty of time here. now you go wt y bt on the side out of bounds plays. who are you going to? right now you're only down two points. the big thing right now for philadelphia is do not allow this guy to make a pass to the corner, which is closest to the basket or inside post from out of bounds. you got take -- now, redick is going to take aw

the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. cole: thank you, madam speaker. i have an additional speaker on the way, i hope, but right now i don't have anything additional to add personally. so madam speaker, i'll reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: thank you, madam speaker. i yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from maryland, my good friend, mr. sarbanes, a member of the energy and commerce committee and oversight and reform. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for two minutes. mr. sarbanes: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, i rise in support of the rules package being put forward by the democratic majority and in particular, i want to applaud the decision to establish a select committee on the modernization of congress and i want to thank chairman mcgovern. i want to thank speaker pelosi and all those who made this a priority. we know that the best motives of members on both sides of the aisle are too often frus

the gentleman from oklahoma has 16 minutes remaining. mr. raskin: thank you very much for your patience. our beloved colleagues across the aisle have asked us to come back to the negotiating table and to compromise. madam speaker, we have compromised. the bills that we started out passing were bills that were overwhelmingly or unanimously passed by the republicans in committee or on the floor. so we're passing their bills to reopen the government. the very first order of business is to reopen the government. i am going to be prepared to close in a moment if they are prepared to close, we have no more speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. cole: i'm prepared to close whenever my friend is. mr. raskin: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: thank you very much, madam speaker. i thank my friend again for the time. i thank him for participating in the debate. i congratulate him on being close to finishing his first rule. madam speaker, in closing, i want to respond to

we were hoping to graduate 1500 out of oklahoma city this year. right now we're not graduating or training anybo tdy. t's a unique thing we've got here in oklahoma city is the impact of the shut dow >> woodruff: that's something people are certainly going to pay attention to. playersero, new done sun, a popular city. but how are you being affected. >> we're quite bit small than oklahoma city at 27,000 people but we are very densely populated into five and-a-half huuare mile area and we're the urbafor a much larger metro area in south connecticut. we host four major coast guan institutionsthe coast guard is being severely impacted by hey'reut down because not part of the dod, they're part of homeland security. so their funding has been cut off. the coast guard academy has over a thousand cadets. they are continuing operations. but theil 300tary personnel and the 2550 seville gen personnel -- 250 civilian personnel are being affected. some work without pay. we host the coastuard rnd center in new london. we host the interna patrol and we have a work

let me say to my friend from oklahoma, mr. cole, that i think he's one of the best members of this chamber. and i admire him and i think that he is absolutely right when he says that the appropriations committee did its work. and that goes for republicans and democrats. people worked together and they moved appropriation bills forward. o i have no fault -- i have no blame on the appropriators. why i do -- who i do blame is leadership. that at the last minute, when the president decided to have a temper tantrum and threaten to shut the government down, the republican leadership was complicit, basically, and said, we'll go along with this. and here we are. by the way, so i want -- i can't wait to get this over with so we can get on to other business. by the way, we're going to bring up the disaster appropriations bill next week. we have a notice out asking for amendments. i think the deadline is on friday at noon. i can't recall the last time a disaster appropriations bill ever solicited amendments. we're going to do that. but i

the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. kell: i rise as designee of the republican leader and thank chairman mcgovern for yielding 30 minutes and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cole: i want to welcome my good friend mr. mcgovern and congratulate him on being named chairman of the rules committee. he and i have been on opposite sides of the dais in the rules committee for many years, i know him as a passionate person. he and his staff have already been great to work with and i look forward to working with him in our new roles in this congress. however it is unfortunate i rise to oppose the first rule he puts frt. i know the gentleman cares deeply about the institution and wants a more open and fair process. he's call for more open amendments and debate time. it's a surprise that this resolution prvidse for limited debate in some instances, closed rules in what the democrats in the past have so fondly referred to as martial law. i understand there are justi

hayor holt, you mention in oklahoma city yo a community stepping up. atve us a little more of a sense of what's being done to reach out, whether it's the training of air traffic controllers or the other firld workers who are awe -- federal workers w are affected. >> as i mentioned we've got landlords in town who are at this poinout geney working with the people living in, with their plents, theeople live -- tenants, people living in their apartments. what i've seen of the generous offers they say we can only do this so long so we're ceainly at a point where generous landlords run out of fds and resources. we at the city, we're worki with our utility customers, obviously who are affected. i even had a gentleman reach out to me this aeek, hen irs employee still working but he parks in one of our parkng garages down an town and he didl like he could cover the parking. we are working with that and trying to delay some of those costs. we're trying to pitch in and certainly are happy to do that. but at some point people's unility to do that will out. >> wood

jimmy's a legend in the department of corrections of oklahoma. he's a tough guy. he wouldn't want to be messed with, for sure. good guy. good heart. but if you cross him, he's going come and he's going to be strong. >> that man is 74-2 in the boxing ring in the penitentiary behind the fence. >> 74-2? >> 74-2 is his record. >> maxwell has spent most of his adult life behind bars, did not earn his reputation solely through fighting. >> he's got a history of getting out of lockup, escaping from several facilities in the state of oklahoma. during that time, he got a heck of a reputation of not being able to be held. >> and just 14 hours earlier, he fled an oklahoma state prison 60 miles outside of tulsa. he was apprehended on the outskirts of town and suffered a black eye and a shoulder injury in the process. >> due to his being an escape risk, we will be using handcuffs, leg irons, and a chain around his belly with a box and a padlock. >> we're going to have him black boxed. this is a system, actually it was invented by inmates in prison who have learned how to compr

this storm has already dropped at least four inches of snow in oklahoma, just south and west of oklahoma. and schools are already closing for a second day in that same area, it's called chattanooga, oklahoma. but either way, this low pressure system, now we have to focus in on the rain part of it. it's smothering mississippi, about to head into new orleans and atlanta also finds themselves in a flash flood watch. the rain, for you atlanta and north georgia, going to hit tomorrow morning, when everybody is in their drive time. down through the panhandle of florida, you get the strong storms, and right here in the northeast, by saturday, david, we get an inch or two. >> but as you mentioned, rough drive in the morning. be careful out there. ginger, thank you. >>> in the meantime, next, to the american man held in moscow's most infamous dungeon. tonight, he's now been formally charged with being a spy. a russian lawyer working for paul whelan, a former u.s. marine, says he will fight the charges. but this question tonight, is this all an effort by the russians to get an exchange for someone

and today, i'm in tulsa, oklahoma. i'm here to meet the son of a remarkably successful businessman and epic hoarder. file this under 80 years of grit and true metal and 40 acres of scrap metal. >> my name is john hemphill. in february 2016, my father passed away. he left me a thriving company that's a testament to his business acumen. he also left me a 3 million-pound headache that says a lot about my dad, too. >> i meet john in the lobby of hemphill corporation. and this was your dad. >> yeah, this is dad. he started the business back in the '50s. and i'm running it now. come on. i'll show you. >> as john drives me around the company, i come to understand the "jekyll and hyde" nature of his strange inheritance. these look like cell towers. >> yeah, these are guide towers for wireless communication. and that's our main business now. >> but his dad built that business while indulging his industrial-strength urge for collecting. big stuff -- iron, scrap metal, machinery... things you can't squirrel away in a closet. take

it's in between oklahoma city and the dallas fort worthea. that's where we have our winter weather advisories. the warm airf ahead it still in the 80s. 84 in orlando. we'll talk about the weekend forecast coming up. all this mess haso go throu the east eventually. >> thanks, bill. >>> you may see morers labra next time you're at the airport. the tsa is looking to employ morefloppy eared dogs for airport screenings because th r canines with pointy ears scare children. they're training breeds like labs and golden rerievers becahey're viewed as less intimidated. however they will not be retiring their pointy eared dogs. > still ahead, a miraculous rescue on a florida road. how first responders found a woman just in the nick of time after she flipped her car into that watery ditch. % ofems don't get enough of that's why megared advanced 4in1 packs more omega-3 power into just one small softgel. it supports four vital areas of your body. your heart... your brain... your eyes... and your joint give your body the omega-3s it's missing. megared advan

in oklahoma, at least four people died in weather-related crashes. slick roads caused a 21-car pileup in tulsa last night that sent at least two people to the hospital. and in wichita falls, texas, icy roads caused cars to veer out of control and flip over. up to six inches of snow has fallen in shamrock, texas, making some roads too dangerous to navigate. one good samaritan pulled a vehicle out of a ditch, and almost caused another accident. officials are urging people to stay off the roads. tracy terrill with the oklahoma department of transportation says his crews started spreading salt on the roads on new year's day in preparation for the storm. how quick do the conditions change? if somebody thinks, "oh, i already drove that road, i'm okay?" >> in the beginning of storms, when there are spotty showers, they can change pretty quickly, within a half a mile or a mile. >> reporter: that quick? >> yeah. >> reporter: more than four inches of snow fell here in lawton, oklahoma, and the state has about 220,000 tons of salt mix that they're ready to depl

fast-forward, christmas 2018 in oklahoma. kelly says no hard feelings. just love and happiness. >> i just feel so ur of kelly and her two moms over thanksgiving. kelly says who raised her. she says they've always been best friend, and the process has made their bond even stronger. . >>> in the weather department, we had the wind. we didn't have so much the rain. we had a 10th of an inch to a quarter of an inch. there is more on the way, and more wind, too, which is not necessarily good news. high-def doppler shows widely scattered showers from mendocino to north, and specifically in the bay area. you can see up around sonoma and lake counties, there's still some showers that are unwinding. but most of the action is slowly marching to the east, and will dry up tonight. still a little line of showers extending from around union city down to the santa cruz mountains. in general, the tendency will be in the next 12 hours, for things to ease up. but the low pressure, a deep jet over california will continue to bring moisture in from out in the eastern pacific

oklahoma city. a 21-car houston, flash flood alerts across several gulf states tonight. as i mentioned, the system is on the move. so, let's get right to ginger zee, tracking it all for us. hi, ginger. >> reporter: hi, david. this storm has already dropped at least four inches of snow in oklahoma, just south and southwest of oklahoma city. and schools are already closing for a second day in that same are area. this low pressure system, now we have to focus in on the rain part of it. it's smothering mississippi, about to head into new orleans and atlanta finds themselves in a flash flood watch. the rain, for you atlanta and north georgia, going to hit tomorrow morning. down through the panhane o t asou mentioned, ruch driv, ank you. ne toe american moscow's most infamous dungeon. tonight, he's now been formally charged with being a spy. a but this question tonight, is this all an effort by the russians to get an exchange for someone here? abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz again

winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings in oklahoma and central texas. this narrow band of heavy snow is still going to fall during the day today in twen oklahoma city. then those flash flood watches and this evening, especially central louisiana right through the southeast. ll in the 80s. 84 in orlando. we'll talk about the weekend forecast coming up. all this mess has to go through the east eventually. >> thanks, bill. >>> you may see more labradors next time you're at the airport. the tsa is employ more floppy eared dogs for airport screenings because th r canines with pointy ears scare children. they'r andera golden retrievers because they're viewed as less intimidated. however they will not be retiring their pointy eared dogs. >>> still aea florida road. how first responders found a woman just in the nick of time afterhe car into that watery ditch. % of us don't get enough of them? that's why megared advanced 4in1 packs more omega-3 power into just one small softgel. it supports four vital areas of your body. your heart... your brain... your eyes...

the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. cole: i would like to yield 90 seconds to the gentleman from arkansas. mr. womack: i rise in opposition to h.res. 6. i appreciate mr. mcgovern and the new majority leadership including process budget reform to include house budget committee members eliminating term limits for them and i hope there are other things that we did as a joint bipartisan committee trying to get across the finish line. perhaps we could work on some of those. for the few bright spots that h.res. 6 has, they no way make up for the shortcomings. it does not rise to fiscal responsibility. the gephardt rule that has been spoken about, increasing the debt limit by increasing without separate debate. he package replaces the cut-go with the pay-go rule was in place when the democrats passed many programs. it added to our country's debt burden. pay-go does not encourage fiscal discipline. h.res. 6 reduces the passage of income tax increases from a 3/5 's. the first step that the democrats take in this process is s

in oklahoma slippery roads caused dozens of crashes including a 21-car pileup last night. ice and snow are forecast to create more problems across the southern plains today. >>> and a high school senior in florida claims that she's being unfairly punished after showing a big improvement in the second time that she took the college entrance exam. the testing service doesn't believe she did it on her own. jericka duncan reports. >> reporter: 18-year-old kamilah campbell of miami thought she did she could to improve her s.a.t. score from 900 to 1200, but then she received a letter from the testing company saying her score was invalid. >> they tell you that you need to practice and work and study to do better, but then when you do better they question it. >> reporter: the educational testing service which oversees testing for college entrance exams told campbell that her score is under review because of discrepancies on her answer key. >> because it improved for over 300 points, so they're saying i improved basically too much and that's skeptical for them. >> reporter: campbel

she's talking about her um able roots growing up in oklahoma and how that formed hi life for this fight. when she turned up to the event to the audience to take questions, it was the first thing on voters ease mind.

i grew up in oklahoma. big 12. we've got a few oklahoma people here. i grew up in a family. my daddy sold stuff. he sold carpeting, he sold paint, he sold housewares. i have three older brothers. they all went off and joined the military. they carry their veterans' cards today proudly. [applause] >> i was what used to be known as the late in life baby. my mama always called me the surprise. i was about 30 before it hit me what that meant. it worked out. for a long time, it was just my mama, my daddy, and me. when i was in middle school, my daddy had a heart attack, and my mom and i thought that he was going to die. he did not. he was in the hospital for a while, and then came home but he could not work. so the bills piled up. we lost our family's station wagon and at night my mama would tuck me into bed and i would hear him talk, and i learned words like mortgage and foreclosure. heavy words for a kid. one day i walked into my folks' bedroom and laid out on the bed was the dress. some of you know the dress. it is the one that only comes out for weddings, funerals, and gradua

oklahoma city had that rain yesterday. it will be a slow melt there. you notice howilthe temperatures are, 50s all the way to buffalo. >>> it doesn't look like it's going to be a warm weekend ahead. details ahead. >> we'll take it. thanks, bill theinning streak for the uconn women's basketball steam has come to an end. number 8 baylor handed the top-ranked huskies their first regular season loss after 126 consecutive winsk dating bac over four years. uconn had their only lead at 2-0 when crystal danger field scored in the opening minute. baylor's ka lanny brown had 17 points 22 rebounds leading her team t a 58-57 victory thursdea. >> still breaking news out of texas. three children found dead and a person if interest now in custody. those details next. ying outside ...not hurting inside. thldks to you, st. jude cn's research hospital is changing how the world treats and defeats childhood cancer. we freely share our science to help find cures and save kids with cancer everywhere. and no family because all a family should worry about is helping their chi

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i thank my colleague from oklahoma. i rise in opposition to title 3 of the democrats' rules package which paves the way for speaker pelosi to union latrl -- june laterally take legal action on behalf of the entire house in the ongoing court cases about the constitutionality of the affordable care act and any future court cases as she fits. that's a big blank check. i object to the vote on the grounds of pure commonsense. the authority we're voting on today was already given to the speaker last week under title 1 of the democrat's rules package. you condition look it up. it's right there beginning on page 30. you'll find it after the provisions to make it easier for house democrats to increase taxes and to set up automatic debt limit increases. not to mention speaker pelosi see has already filed three motions toth court to intervene in the case since last week's vote. moreover, democrat attorneys general from intervening states are already defending the law in the case and the judge's ruling has already been stayed and a

yeah, so today will be the big melt in areas of texas and oklahoma that did see that snow. that storm is moving east. now it's a rain event. the flooding hasn't been that bad, knock on wood. 8 million people affected, still under flash flood watches. hopefully that will drop during the day today. let's break down the mesh. the heavy rain sweeps through georgia, south carolina, north carolina. by 5:00 p.m. atlanta you are done. the worst for you is early today. charlotte the worst is the middle of the day. raleigh right around the evening rush hour. we'll take this mess up through southern new england as we go through saturday morning. we're waking up at 8:00 a.m. with rain from d.c. to yesterday. it will be a slow melt there. you notice how mild the temperatures are, 50s all the way to buffalo. >>> it doesn't look like it's going to be a warm weekend ahead. details ahead. >> we'll take it. thanks, bill. the winning streak for the uconn women's basketball steam has come to an end. number 8 baylor handed the top-ranked huskies their first regular season loss after 126 consecu

i grew up in oklahoma. big 12. e've got a few oklahoma people here. i grew up in a family. my daddy sold stuff. he sold carpeting, he sold paint, he sold housewares. i have three older brothers. they all went off and joined the military. they carry their veterans' cards today proudly. [applause] >> i was what used to be known as the late in life baby. my mama always called me the surprise. i was about 30 before it hit me what that meant. it worked out. for a long time, it was just my mama, my daddy, and me. when i was in middle school, my daddy had a heart attack, and my mom and i thought that he was going to die. he did not. he was in the hospital for a while, and then came home but he could not work. so the bills piled up. we lost our family's station wagon and at night my mama would tuck me into bed and i would hear him talk, and i learned words like mortgage and foreclosure. heavy words for a kid. one day i walked into my folks' bedroom and laid out on the bed was the dress. some of you know the dress. it is the one that only comes out for weddings, funerals, and gradua

the oklahoma city taco bell had to lock themselves in a bathroom to call 911. thankfully nobody was hurt. jillian: finally the you will, family woken up by the middle of the night by exploding refrigerator. 4 month old whirlpool appliance leaving a hole in the wall and damaging several homes. whirlpool says it's looking into i have never had a refridge explode. rob: i have so many questions. jillian: i had a candle exemployed once. i walked out of the room two seconds and it literally exploded and caught on fire and went everywhere in my bathroom. it cut my foot when i walked back. in chards of glass. there is a story for the day. happy new year. jillian: true story. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ so wake me up when it's over ♪ when i'm wiser and i'm older ♪ all this time i was finding myself. ainsley: oh, yeah, we woke up this morning with an alarm clock. the first time in about a week and a half. steve: it kind of hurt, too. welcome, everybody, it a wednesday. it's going to feel like a monday to you. it is january 2nd. y 2 k plus 19. brian: 201

i think oklahoma city, maybe an inch or two. not a huge ordeal. there's that rfainfall forecast. eventually we're going to see l all of that mess heading into the east. it looks like the weekend forecast is hit and miss for areas of the northeast. one day is going to be nice and one day is going to be ugly. >>> former president barack obama can now officially add billboard charting artist to his resume. he's featured in the 44 remix to the hamilton broadway musical hit song "one last time" where he delivered george washington's farewell address. obama's collaboration arrived at number 22 on this week's hot r&b songs. the song also features christopher jackson and beb bebe wynans. divine influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite objects of my heart and the happy reward as i trust about mutual cares, labors and dangers. >> reminds you how incredible that show is. lin-manuel miranda released it last month aiming to raise money for various nonprofit charities. >>> still ahead, hbo and the creators of "game of thrones" were pulled into president trump's first c

host: that was denise in oklahoma. the president this morning holders can, h1-b rest assured changes are coming which will bring simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a path to citizenship. we want to encourage talented and highly skilled people to in thecareer options united states. let's hear from david in arlington, virginia. you have been furloughed. what do you do? with hiringrk to stopwhich we have doing at this point in time. host: what could be the fallout of that? caller: we are not going to hit our numbers to bring in border patrol agents and possibly customs officers would be one of the impacts. one of the solutions that has been proposed that instead of the wall, we hire border patrol agent. that is a thorough and lengthy process that is getting shorter all the time, but we want to make sure we hire the right people. that is becoming more difficult to recruit if we are shutdown. who wants to do a job where you are going to be laid off for three weeks every once in a while? up the pointring that i

he has a vision for oklahoma to be a top 10 state. mr. hern: terning the state around. the lieutenant governor is likewise a business owner and has been an advocate of the republican party an conned serve tiff agenda in our state for -- conservative agenda in ur state for well. state superintendent, another business owner, is beginning her second term in the role and will continue to work hard for oklahoma students. a new day is dawning in oklahoma with the leadership of the governor, the lieutenant governor, commissioner, and the superintendent. i congratulate them on this accomplishment and with celebration enjoy this week. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? ms. kaptur: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: madam speaker, i rise today to highlight yet another grim economic headline, another broken promise on jobs and trade from president trump to the peo

gentlemen thank you very much indeed for joining us josh if i could start with you there in oklahoma and let's take a look at a u.s. perspective of this initially my pump has trip mostly about the trump administration's strategy towards iran tell us more about that strategy and then we'll dissect it and see just how realistic it is. well this trip comes on the heels of the trump announcement that is that the united states be calling out of syria and i think pump a wants to reassure allies and that the united states is very much in the middle east it's reinvigorating his talk was america force for good and reinvigorating its role in the middle east so in one to reassure saudi arabia in particular in the other gulf countries egypt that it's in the middle east that it's in the in reinvigorating its role as it wants to counter iran and in many ways the speech in cairo was a love letter to saudi arabia and to allies both israel saudi arabia other gulf countries that america would work closely with them and hopes to build a military alliance to counter iran and its easier monism aligned po

i grew up in oklahoma, all three and my brothers live in oklahoma and one of my brothers is a democrat. we are working on it. here is the deal. i love all 3 of my brothers and what i believe is whatever else is going on, the noise and the nonsense, the craziness, we've got to stay focused on what matters to us and what matters is that everybody gets a fighting chance to build something. what matters to us is people get a chance to get an education without getting crushed by student loan debt. what matters to us is that people get access to healthcare. it is real and it is there in rural hospitals and communities all across the country. i think when we talk i have to tell you i have been talking about corruption for a little while now. i got this bill together. i am so into this. here's the deal. other kids. and watch every day. those chances are denied, 2 young people. they are denied immigrants and people in the lb gt q community, denied to native americans, over and over and over, rocky path gets rockier and rockier. we need to fight for an america where it is just a level playing fi

in oklahoma, at least four people died in weather-related crashes. slick roads caused a 21-car pileup in tulsa last night that september sent at least two people to the hospital. and in wichita falls, texas, icy roads caused cars to veer out of control and flip over. up to six inches of snow has fallen in shamrock, texas, making some roads too dangerous to navigate. one good samaritan pulled a vehicle out of a ditch and almost causedal urgin people to stay off the roads. tracy terrell with the oklahoma department of transportation says his crew started spreading salt on the roads on new year's day in preparation for the storm. how quickly do conditions change? >> in the beginning of the storm there's spotty showers. they can change pretty quickly. within a half-mile or mile. >> reporter: that quick. >> yeah. >>> to moscow now. bail has been denied for a former u.s. marine who is jailed there on charges of espionage. the family of paul whelan insist the charges are bogus and was only in troirussia to attend a wedding. >> reporter: paul whelan is expec

>> even, because that one, oklahoma? >> jimmy: that's the one, yeah. >> never would have saw that one coming. >> jimmy: are there enough film critics in oklahoma to form a circle? >> i'm sure there are about eight. >> jimmy: there are probably. >> at least, at least. >> jimmy: well, congratulations. >> thank you. >> jimmy: do you run out of speeches? do you run out of things to say? >> i hope not. i hope to continue to be able to do work that receives accolades, but i just say a prayer and just make, please, just don't let me flub or say something silly. >> jimmy: do you plan it out beforehand? do you write something down before you go to the golden globes? >> i don't, i feel like i'm jinxing the whole thing. >> jimmy: i think that's true. there's nothing more embarrassing than getting home that night. >> and looking at that paper and going, yeah. >> jimmy: yeah, it's preparing for failure, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. and there's always someone you forget. >> jimmy: yes, you have to remember everyone's name. >> or you get names

oklahoma city ended up with four inches of snow. that's more snow than they've had combined for the last three winters. so that storm is now on the move. we do have the flood threat in areas of the southeast. 10 million people are possibly going to be affected by thissed in flash flood watches. it includes the atlanta area. the heaviest rain and biggest impacts is now. we're watching the heaviest rain move over the region. there's also been a little squall line in southeast portions of alabama. that's a new tornado warning. we can get some gusty strong winds and an isolated tornado or two. at least i'll check on this to make sure it's not on the ground. also i notice the snow is finally stopping in oklahoma city, but it will be a cleanup day. here's how the travel impacts are going to play out today. worst at the airport today in atlanta early in the day. afternoon should be just fine. heaviest rain charlotte to raleigh. d.c. it looks like around 5:00 p.m. some light rain begins for you. clearing out saturday. if you have travel pla

. >> elizabeth ann herring is born june 22, 1949 in oklahoma city, oklahoma. she's the youngest of four and the only girl in donald and pauline herring's family. >> they always saw themselves as middle class people. for them the distinction was they used good english. and they didn't say "ain't." >> but her middle class upbringing is threatened when she's just 12 years old. >> my daddy had a heart attack. and when that happened it just turned our life upside down. she was out of work a long time. the medical bills pile up. we lost the family station wagon. right on the edge of losing our home. when it was my mother who pulls on her best dress, dries her eyes. puts on her high heels and walks to the sears and gets a minimum wage job. my mother saved our family. she saved our house. >> the family gets by, but there isn't enough money to fulfill her dream of going to college. and that is not the only hurdle. >> my mother's message to me always was find a good provider, get married. my mother thought i was a pretty iffy case on marriage. >> it is the middle of the

gentlemen thank you very much indeed for joining us george if i could start with you there in oklahoma and let's take a look at a u.s. perspective of this initially my pump has trip mostly about the trump administration's strategy towards iran tell us more about that strategy and then we'll dissect it and see just how realistic it is. well this trip comes on the heels of the trump announcement that is that the united states to be calling out of syria and i think pump a wants to reassure allies and that the united states is very much in the middle east it's reinvigorating his talk was america force for good and reinvigorating its role in the middle east so in one to reassure saudi arabia in particular in the other gulf countries egypt that it's in the middle east that it's in the in reinvigorating its role as it wants to counter iran and in many ways the speech in cairo was a love letter to saudi arabia and to allies both israel saudi arabia other gulf countries that america would work closely with them and hopes to build a military alliance to counter iran and its easier monism aligned

let me give you some examples just from my state oklahoma. the technology company in tulsa that will have to begin furloughing employees because one of the contract-- they're a contractor for the federal work force. for those folks that are selling their cattle right now that have a relationship with farm services, they can't cash that check because they can't get a second co-signer for the check and that definitely affects them. we have a federal worker that contacted us and says that she is a contractor and as of a couple of days from now, she is know the going to be able to pay for her son's tuition to get back to college because it would be too far of a stretch. the food banks in my state have begun stocking up and reaching out to federal employees, and if they don't get a check many of them will need assistance for the first time ever. we have a family that is in the norman area, south of oklahoma city that typically handles the contract for housing for those students that are coming to f.a.a. and to the academy. well, obviously those ac

let me give you some examples just from my state in oklahoma. a technology company in tulsa that will have to begin furloughing employees because one of their contractors -- they're a contractor for the federal workforce. for those folks that are selling their cattle right now that have a relationship with farm services, they can't cash that check because they can't get a second cosigner for the check and it definitely affects them. we have a federal worker that contacted us and said she's a contractor and as of a couple of days from now, she's not going to be able to pay for the tuition for her son's tuition to be able to get back to college because it will be too far of a stretch. the food banks in my state have already started stocking up and reaching out to federal employees that if they don't get a check starting tomorrow, they're going to be stretched to be able to get a check and will need additional assistance, many of them for the first time ever. we have a family that's in the norman area south of oklahoma city that typically handles t

president, before i offer the u.c., i see my colleague from oklahoma is here. i just want to tell one last story. for some reason, of all the ones yesterday, this was the one that really just stuck with me. there were others that might have been more dire, but this one sort of stuck with me because i think it exemplifies a spirit that i see in so many of our federal workers. an employee of the national park service who has been with the park service for about ten years, his job is to physically maintain the space around the white house -- grounds keeping, trash removal. anything, as he says, he can do to make those grounds around the white house look really fantastic. and he describes why he loves his job. and it wasn't sort of the tasks that he does. he said i want school children visiting washington, d.c. and i want international visitors visiting washington, d.c., when they come to the white house, to be able to look at this and see it and feel impressed with the united states of america. and it makes me feel proud when i see the reaction on people's faces a

this is the team's first time to ever win in oklahoma city. the w wizards haveon three of four games and are 16-24 on the season. they're climbing back from that tough >>art. slow and steady. >> this is the way to go. >>> a new season of "america's got talent" this time the champions edition. >> there's sure to be out tgeous stuff stage. ♪ >> i can't watch some of these. that looks too dangerous. some of the most memorable fan favorites will perform in front of the judges. this year, there is a new host. "brooklyn 99" star terry cruise. >> hever is all o the place. >> he is having golden buzzer anxiety, he says. >> i like to look at it as an exhibiti exhibition. it's truly a competition. these guys are going against each iother. an like, how do you pick? >> how do you pick? "america's got talent" here on nbc 4 at 8:00. >> who was -- oh, tyra banks. >>> close your eyes and make a choice. wake-up weather on the cold side. a lot cloudierda than yest as well. tracking a chance of rain today and tomorrow and a better chance of snow this we ek >>>

i told you i grew up in oklahoma. all three of my brothers still live in oklahoma, and one of my three brothers is a democrat. [laughter] >> we are working on it. here is the deal. , love all three of my brothers and what i believe is that, whatever else is going on, the noise and the nonsense and the wind and the craziness, we have and what matters to us is that everybody gets a fighting chance to build something. is thatters to us people get a chance to get an education without getting crushed my student loan debt. is thatters to us people get access to health care. that they can afford, and it's real, and it's there in rural hospitals and communities all across this country. talk -- iat when we have to tell you. i have been talking about corruption for a little while now. i am so into this. here's the deal. you don't have to persuade people. you have to go out and say let me show you the 45 pieces of .vidence democrats, republicans come an -- there are some signed on a different direction, it they know our governme

i'm not vegas good or nothing but i'm good for oklahoma. it's more about the way you talk to people, your personality and how good you are with people than it is about dancing. and i have the gift of gab that i do. >> but lopez's gift for gab has gotten her into trouble again. she's on her way back to segregation for threatening an officer. >> all right. >> hello. >> know who i am? >> yep, sergeant collette. >> mm-hmm. why are you coming in here? >> because she called me stupid. >> what did you do? >> i told her i'd beat her ass if she called me stupid again. >> oh, you didn't. really? >> yes, i did. i won't let an inmate call me stupid. why would i let a d.o. call me stupid? >> okay. at least you're honest about it. >> you got room for her? >> oh, yeah, we got room at the inn. you going to threaten my staff, that's a half a step away from hitting my staff. i wouldn't be surprised if they do put a charge of threatening a public official, which is a state offense in this state. >> though it's unlikely criminal charges will follow, the normal

the oklahoma city thunder are building momentum towards the playoffs they've won their fourth game in a row russell westbrook made sure the new orleans pelicans never really got a call in oklahoma city setting up stephen adams for the dunk here westbrook unself school twenty three as he posted his fifteenth triple double of the season that's the best in the n.b.a. so far thunder winning one hundred twenty one one hundred and sixteen tiger woods has got his twenty nineteen season underway at torrey pines near san diego the fourteen time major champion opened his account with a solid round of seventy in the farmers insurance open and of course he knows unlike some trails leader john rom eight going into the second round he's a ten on the par. the west indies bowled out england for just seventy seven as they took control of the first test in barbados the hosts that ended their first innings two hundred eighty nine all out before ripping through england with the ball much to the delight of their fans the tourists lasted just three and a half hours key more roche took five wickets for just

remember i told you i grew up in oklahoma? all three of my brothers to live in oklahoma. and one of my three brothers is a democrat. >> [ laughter ] >> we are working on it. good. but here's the deal. i love all three of my brothers. if what i believe is that whatever else is going on, the noise and nonsense in the wind and the craziness, we've got to stay focused on what matters to us. and what matters to us is that everybody gets a fighting chance to build something. what matters to us is that people get a chance to get an education without getting crushed by student loan debt. what matters to us is that people get access to healthcare but they can afford, and it's real, and it's fair in rural hospitals and communities all across this country. i think that when we talk, i have to tell you, i have been talking about corruption for a little while now. i got this bill together. you are nodding. i am so into this. but here's the deal, you don't have to persuade people. let me show you the 45 pieces of evidence of corruption. democrats, republicans, and independents get it.