Im going to leave and you could have it out with them just allowed me to introduce the number of prominent members of big business the Construction Labor Workforce International union of operating engineers Jim Callaghan north america Building Trades union. Sure mcgarvie is a lot of friends of mine laborers International Union of north America Terry osullivan and to sharply criticize the World Health Organization announcing his administration would suspend funding had the w. H. O. Done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out chinas lack of transparency ironically President Trump is on the record praising china for its transparency in dealing with the virus having what was described as a friendly phone conversation with president xi at the end of march and subsequently tweeting we are working closely together much respect once again president tran prepares to be ignoring the principle of the separation of powers legal e
Along with dirty jobs host mike rowe participated in a discussion on the 2020 outlook at an American Petroleum substitu Institute Conference in washington, d. C. This is 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our future of energy pan panelistist, general president of Labor International union of north America Terry osullivan. President and ceo of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council Karen Kerrigan, president of Petroleum Equipment and Services Association leslie byer. Skills raid advocate and television host, mike rowe. And our panel moderator, api Senior Vice President of Global Industry services, debra phillips. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Im Deborah Phillips and i run a part of api that mike and megan have mentioned earlier today but not many know much about. Our 120 employees, and more than 7,000 volunteers worldwide developed standards and programs that drive safety, environmental performance, sustainability, and Energy Efficiency throughout the oil and gas in
Washington, d. C. Reporter the big breakthrough on capitol hill. Senate leaders say they have reached the bipartisan long term budget deal. The budget deal does not have everything democrats want. It does not have everything republicans want but it has a great deal of what the American People want. Our armed forces will have more resources they need to keep america safe. Reporter in 2011 as part of the budget control act, spending limits are put in place for domestic and defense spending. The Senate Package lifts those by nearly 400 billion for the next two years. You funds the government through march 23rd and includes money for Disaster Relief, a four your extension of the Child Health Insurance program. It does not include a d. A. C. A. Fix or anything related to Border Security. The program that protects immigrants who are about to the u. S. Legally illegally as children expires march 5. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell promised to allow debate on d. A. C. A. If the governmen
A fishing boat got in trouble and a coast guard went in to get it. See how rocky the seas are and the coast guard ship actually overturned. So far everyone is okay but the rescue is going on right now. Well stay on top of in this morning. Take a look now at waverly, virginia, where a state of emergency was declared. 53 reported tornadoes in just the last 48 hours stretching from texas up to virginia and at least eight weatherrelated deaths and more than 70,000 people without power this morning. We have full Team Coverage tracking it all and we begin with abcs gio benitez in lancaster, pennsylvania. Good morning to you, gio. Reporter amy, good morning to you. The rain is still coming down and there is just so much debris all over the place. This house and barn just completely destroyed. And were seeing damage like this all across the east. Overnight, a tornado emergency. Twisters touching down along the east coast, state of emergency issued in virginia after a farming town of waverly. E
The speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, asked as an attempt to postpone the state of the union. As it turns out, he still wants to come a week from tonight to deliver it as originally planned. The white house sent a new letter recently to the sergeant at arms here on capitol hill asking for a walk through the head every tuesday night speech. We dont know if the walkthrough is going to happen yet, but that does follow a trumpet tweet from this weekend where he said this. Nancy, i am still thinking about the state of the union speech. There are so many options, including doing it as per your written offer, security is no problem. My written acceptance, i will get back to you soon. In every way to see if the lucy pulls her invitation to speak to a joint session of congress altogether. I tried to ask her about this today and she said she just wants people to get paid. Presumably talking about furloughed federal workers. She also said there is one thing that has happened before democrats ar