Gop is centered on the fate of congresswoman greene but also republican congresswoman liz cheney. Two lawmakers with starkly different values. Cheney is battling to hold on to her leadership post after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump for inciting that deadly attack on the capitol so lets start on the hill with cnn Congressional Correspondent jessica dean. Jessica, a lot of moving parts for you today, so lets start with congresswoman greene. How majority leader steny hoyer had a call with minority leader Kevin Mccarthy specifically about her. It sounds like no Common Ground was found, so where does everything stand . Right. So as a direct result of that call youre talking about, brooke, which happened just a little bit earlier today, democrats decided to move ahead with their plan to act, to remove representative Marjorie Taylor greene from her committee assignment, so you talked about that house rules meeting thats happening right now as we speak. Thats step one. Then t
More than 6000 cases for the same time yesterday. 5500 deaths and our state alone and in the bay area it has surpassed 20,000 in the bay area has seen 537 deaths. East bay officials monitoring an outbreak in concord. 13 residents have died of suspected or confirmed coronavirus infections. Officials have not said when the residents have died. So far more than 2200 Nursing Homes in california have died from covid19. The government Top Health Officials on capitol hill testifying before congress about the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony fauci along with the head of the cdc and fda officials and giving lawmakers an update. He remains cautiously optimistic that a vaccine will be ready and is concerned about the number of spikes as test continue to be positive and reopen. We are seeing a disturbing surge of infections. One of the things is an increase of community spread. Im quite concerned about that. Right now the next couple of weeks will be critical and our in our ability to address those urging
The low clouds and fog are not going anywhere, they do retreat back to the coastal fog near the coast later. Sunny, breezy for some, not as windy though like it was yesterday. Warm to hot inlets, temperatures anywhere near average. It should be 84 checking in. At 7 00 in the morning, on tuesday. It is mostly good but there is a crowd at the bay bridge which you probably already know if you drive every day, there will be a crowd for you if youre driving to San Francisco, how it ever the producer looking pretty go. Basically vallejo to the macarthur mesa 18 minutes, but then you see a lot of slow traffic here at the toll plaza. This usually last until about 8 30 or so, maybe a little shy of that but let after that it looks okay. No problems in the east bay commute. Southbay commute, sunny weather there and traffic is moving well. 7 01 thats good back to the headlines. California seeing some troubling new numbers as they relate to covid19. As the state is becoming open. Governor governor
Killed in this incident. Our photographer saw several bullet holes in the house and the two women who died at 37 anshot and they are expected to survive and it happened last night. Police have not released any information about a suspect or motive. This is the citys tenth and 11th homicide of the year. The brother george floyd testified as ktvu allie rasmus explains the meetings focus was to examine the issues of Police Brutality and accountability, alley. Everyone agreed there needs to be changes but what they disagreed on was how to do that. Enough is enough. The people marching are telling you enough is enough. Felonious floyd adverbs changes in the weight communities are being treated like police. Hold them accountable and teach them what it means to treat people with empathy and respect and teach them what georges secretary of state is promising an investigation necessary forces and deadly into widespread voting problems. This after people had to wait in line for hours to cast the
Night the governor activated the National Guard and about 500 stores are trying to get the situation under control. Here is another clip from last night when a group of the demonstrators torched a City Police Department precinct that officers had abandoned it. That is part of the destruction that was done throughout the downtown area. This was all sparked by the death of george floyd, pl a uffed black man who Police Officer kneeled on his neck. Also, a cnn reporter was live on air and then he was arrested along with his crew. That has caused a lot of controversy between cnn this morning and the governor in minnesota. The crew included the correspondent omar jimenez, handcuffed and detained. After 5 am, they have been released by police say they were being detained because they were told to move and they did not. A clear violation of their First Amendment rights according to cnn, who called the governor of minnesota, who apologized for all of this and cleared it up with the state Police