Im ken brunhuber, this is ccn newsroo newsroom. Jobless benefits that 12 million struggling americans have come to rely on are now expiring thanks to President Trump. The president has allowed the protections to lapse rather than sign the latest covid leaf bi r bill into law. And is doubling down on the last minute efforts to increase the payment amounts. And among those urging him to sign it is joe biden. Funding to keep the government running is also tied up in the bill. To he ove overt a shutdown needs to be signed by monday. And the moratorium eviction ends in less than a week. But with all that, the president is continuing his holiday vacation in florida. Jeremy diamond is traveling with the president. Reporter while he only appeared to be digging in his heels further, the president end zoning once again saturday that he wants to see the stimulus checks to americans more than tripled from 600 to 2,000 tweeting i simply want to get our great people 2,000 rather than the measly 600
This is cnn newsroom. The economic toll of the coronavirus has been staggering. Now millions of americans have just lost Unemployment Benefits and may soon lose eviction protection. President trump refuses to sign the 900 billion Coronavirus Relief bill. The deadline passed three hours ago. It also means that government funding runs out monday. Without more action from congress, a Government Shutdown will happen at midnight monday night. And that moratorium on evictions expires at the end of the month. Despite the white house giving its blessing to the deal that passed Congress Days ago, mr. Trump now says it doesnt give americans enough money. He tweeted saturday demanding congress raise the 600 in direct payments to 2,000, and also blaming china. Jeremy diamond is traveling with the president and has the latest from florida. Reporter President Trump on saturday appeared to only dig in his heels further on his objections to this Coronavirus Relief bill. The president insisting once ag
There are no charges being filed so far against the driver and it feels appears to have been just an accident. The city of oakland continues to have problems with the side shows. Kron 4 is a grant lodes explains what site shows are and where the most recent shows are happening. This one happened in the porto oakland. You will hear several gunshots and people are saying bad language. We would try to leap that out. Beep that out. Here is a again. You can see him standing on a roof of this cars shooting apparently a woman who was she and a another car might have been mandan and another person this aggressive behavior at one point you heard her yelling that this is my car. It does not appear there were any injuries and that follows a another slide show on september 14th on 98 and macarthur. They responded to this and there were able to wrest the driver that was backing up into a Police Cruiser tried to get a way. You have to side shows on opposite sides. You can see how this one ended with
7 00 in the evening here in washington. It is 4 00 out west. You are in the cnn newsroom and im jim sciutto in today for poppy harlow. Donald trump is facing a social media backlash over his controversial tweet about the Fatal Shooting of the cousin of nba star dwayne wade. Nykea aldridge was pushing her baby stroller down a chicago street when several men started shooting at each other. Aldridge was caught in the crossfire. To be clear, police say she was not the intended target. Early this morning, trump tweeted, quote, dwayne wades
cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in chicago. Just what ive been saying, africanamericans will vote trump, exclamation point. He deleted it, and retweeted it, correcting her misspelled name. Later he tweeted, my condolences to dwayne wade and his family. Reporter jim, we saw donald trump today here try to course correct a little bit from his earlier tweet earlier this morning. He received a lot of criticism over the tone of that tweet, a lo
Lewis was all talk and no action, news came out that he plans to spend Martin Luther king day tomorrow visiting the new Smithsonian Museum focused on africanamerican history and culture. John lewis is the one who introduced the bill to get that museum built in 1988. Eugene, you touch on this. I want to push forward on it as well. Facts do matter. Trump called lewis District Crime i hridden which does incl major part of the city of atlanta. No one is defining there is crime in the city. To try to define an entire city in 140 characters of less is a massive overgeneralization. What will happen when he is in office saying these type of things . Well, if he continues this,
he can expect to be criticized increasingly but more than that, people really would like to see what his solutions to the problems he arises are. He had a meeting with talk show host, steve harvey, and his Hud Secretary nominee friday saying they would focus on some of the challenges in inner cities such as housing. If y