Confirmed secretary of the department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. This in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. I will keep it short. I know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Starting with the Emergency Management agency, which has to do with deal with hurricanes, wild fires, and now covid, amongst many other responsibilities. More security is a huge issue. Hes done a pretty good job of establishing the out of control, illegal entry we are experiencing were experiencing over a year ago. The department is concerned about cybersecurity, election security, the security of our Critical Infrastructure. As we just witnessed, some of the protests have sprung into riots, was a protec
Billxt on the presidency, clinton accepts his partys president ial nomination at the 1992 Democratic National convention in new york city. In 55 minutes, george hwb acce and then theation u. S. House of representative representative and house curator use a selection of artifacts to tell the history of africanamericans in congress. [cheers] govenor clinton governor richards. Chairman brown. Mayor dinkins, our great host. [applause] my fellow delegates and my fellow americans. I am so proud of al gore. [applause] he said he came here tonight because he always wanted to do the warmup for elvis. [laughter] well, i ran for president this year for one reason and one reason only. I wanted to come back to this convention and finish that speech i started four years ago. [applause] last night, mario cuomo taught us how a real nominating speech should be given. [cheers] he also made it clear why we have to steer our ship of state on a new course. Tonight i want to talk with you about my hope for
4 00 oclock on wall street, nasdaq up 300 and s p higher by 67. Wild fires raging up the west coast this morning, several people now dead, homes destroyed and evacuations underway. Many areas bathe in orange glow of fire. Almost open for business, new York City Restaurants can allow Indoor Dining at the end of the month but there are strict rules to follow. In the next hour a Restaurant Owner and lady gagas father joe is here to talk about the state of the Restaurant Industry and whether his daughter will take a seat inside. Sky high technology, we are introducing you today to what some are calling the smartest and best drone yet, Android Industries Palmer Luckey is here 8 30 eastern with exclusive announcement and back to grid iron this morning. Fox sports is back and bringing nfl along with it. We have a preview of games to expect. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets trading mix, the dax index is higher by 43, we are waiting the European Central banks decision out
Today. Im laura garcia, vianey is in for michael. But were bracing for this hot one today. Yes, we are. And i love that sunset posted yesterday. Because of the radar this morning. A surge of tropical moisture and the rain is just off the coast and our coast air areas might see light showers but once that clears out, we are left with a high heat ramping up today. We have excess ive heat warnings in effect as we look at temperatures today. It is just painful to say it. 109 degrees today in antioch. Well talk about all of this heat in the forecast and also our records for today, some of those records may fall. Well talk about that in a few minutes. Vianey, how is it looking this morning for the commute . It is quiet so far. But there is one overnight crash that were monitoring closely as the traffic continues to recover. This is an overnight crash along westbound 85 near the expressway, all lanes are now open but at one point we did have a couple of lanes closed which means we have slowin
A landmark in the fight for racial justice. This after a day of tense antiracism brownlees fueled by clashes in portland between protesters and federal agents deployed by President Trump. And in Sports Events are ahead in the game that could feed down when the italian title picture on all those gold has put you say why no law against some doria. Welcome to the news hour from the beaches of spain to the streets of melbourne coronavirus cases are surging on almost every continent the global death toll is racing toward 650000 with more than a 3rd of fatalities in just 2 countries the United States and brazil or they and india account for nearly half of all confirmed infections in the world and the virus is also spreading faster its taken just 4 days for the global numbers of cases to jump from 15 to 16000000 over the past week 37 countries have reported record spikes in daily infections including me. Since once praised for its taming their outbreaks like australia and israel here in europ