News writer thomas frank discusses how clean and the army corps of engineers are responding. At 9 50, representative danny davis of illinois on the pandemic in the state. Host good morning, this is washington journal for april 3. We are showing you footage from d. C. Terryton , Cherry Blossom festival last year. We want to know how you are responding to the covid19 outbreak, particularly in positive ways. Maybe there is a search of volunteerism in your community, or assisting others who are desperate and needy during this time. Tell us your story on two lines this morning. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones, and 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to tweet us, it is 202 7488003. Make sure you put your name, city, and state if you text on that line. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Even in these dire times, there are several positive stories in the papers across the United States. Just a couple
Television news, talking about the role agencies provider. The other thing that fs virus . Guest because of the disaster is really not relevant to fema. Whether it is a virus, a pandemic, hurricane, and , it is sort of agnostic when it comes been what we think of as natural disasters. Deal with any sort of disaster. That is the design of fema. It is this allpurpose agency. Host is a power that is currently being applied to covid19 from fema . Guest they have got about 1200 people out of a workforce of 14,000 assigned to covid19. Actually, fema has had some staffing issues in the past. They are in relatively decent shape right now. Toyou go back a year ago, when we had these massive floods in the great plains and upper midwest, fema was stretched a lot more thinly and they have done an ok job in the last year adding staff. They are ok, for now. The question will be, what happens in the coming months when the spring flood season arrives and you start getting all of these communities in m
That have won every election theyve been in are the women. More before the votes are cast in iowa. Winter storm warning. A dangerous system begins its crosscountry march. Al has new information on the timing and where the snow and ice is headed. All that, plus, tough questions. How on earth did a delta flight dump fuel over multiple schools in los angeles . My head was hurting first. But then my eye itched. How the kids are doing and the investigation ahead. The afterlife. Duchess meghans first appearance in public since leaving the royal family. And who is the g. O. A. T. . The greatest of all time. Ken jennings takes the title on jeopardy s ultimate showdown. Today, wednesday, january 15th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio a 1a in rockefeller plaz. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. We want to get right to what is going to be a very big day in politics. After
U. S. House is debating articles of impeachment against donald trump prior to a landmark vote it spits it later today the president himself has accused the democratic leadership of pressuring Party Members to vote a certain way and they have been plenty of sound bites coming from the house floor already. This is a moment that youll read about in your history books he sought to elevate himself as a dictator a king but we are not him arent monarchy we are the United States of america i want my daughter to be able to tell her children grandma did the right thing because in america no one is above the law now one of the democrat witnesses not one was able to establish that the president committed bribery treason or high crimes and misdemeanors since taken Office Nearly 3 years ago President Trump has consistently and intentionally divided this country when the president withheld military aid to vulnerable new ukraine he sought to sabotage our elections after all the drama the majority is n
Captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with a historic moment for the american presidency. Last night the u. S. House of representatives voted to impeach President Trump, making him only the third u. S. President ever to be impeached. The vote on two charges was mostly along party lines. Mr. Trump is accused of abusing his power and obstructing congress in a scheme to get ukraine to dig up dirt on his political rival, joe biden. As the house debate his impeachment yesterday, President Trump held a rally in michigan where he blasted democrats. Take a listen. You are the ones obstructing justice. You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic for your own selfish gain. Reporter the president went on to defend himself saying he did not do anything wrong. Debra alfarone is on capitol hill. Thats the next phase now in this impeachment process . Reporter well, anne