Declaring himself a president ial candidate. To discourage abortion, he says everyone who has a baby should get 1 million. He claimed Harriet Tubman never freed the slaves but had them work for other white people. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 20th. Thank you for joining us on this monday. We begin with the debate over coronavirus funding taking center stage as the National Death toll surpasses 140,000. Overnight the bahamas announced it is no longer welcoming american visitors. Starting wednesday its borders will be closed to travelers from the u. S. As confirmed cases of covid19 across this country continue to surge. Today people can visit the statue of liberty again as new york city enters phase 4 of reopening, but no one will be allowed to go inside. Abcs Megan Tevrizian has the latest. Reporter the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb. Nearly 64,000 new cases reported. Numbers rising in 80 of states across the u. S. , prompting Los Angeles Mayor
Tracy and westbound 580 and i checked in with chp and no accidents on 580 but its busy working your way at least beyond that grant line and hefty drive times and going from 205 to 680 and traffic light from the dublin interchange. Its getting a bit busy. Im anne makovec live at the muse desk and Congress Returns from summer break today for a hot debate over the next Coronavirus Relief bill. Were talking money for businesses, schools, and the unemployed. Democrats and republicans have been very far apart on the issue now for several weeks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still wants the 3 trillion heros act to happen. That is something the house passed more than two months ago, but republicans had been working on their own much less expensive bill right now. We dont know exactly what that will look like taking a live look right now at the white house where Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy are set to meet with President Trump and the treasury s
President trump also made news in this impromptu get together which we werent exactly expecting on a monday morning, saying the coronavirus briefings are making a comeback starting tomorrow from the Briefing Room at 5 00 p. M. Start our coverage with chad pergram who covers capitol hill. Chad, that meet meeting in the oval office set the table for next few weeks negotiations. What are we looking for . Reporter a lot of negotiations will be with republicans, make no mistake on that. Republicans are all over the map on this by there is major disagreements how to do another bill. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said they will be about kids and jobs. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said he will take control to write the bill in his office. There is lot of questions whether he can finish a bill at all. Mitch mcconnell is confident they can. Listen. Begin the process of socializing what weve been discussing with the administration over last two weeks with our members. Were looking fo
Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. The email address has been provided to your staff. First, consideration of the interior environment appropriations bill, fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize ms. Mccowan to present the bill. Good morning. I want to thank Ranking Member, for his strong collaboration of partnership throughout this entire process. He has been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, he borders with the great state of ohio, lake erie and in minnesota, we border on lake superior. Id like to thank all members of our subcommittee for all contributions and especially the way in which continue our tradition of nonpartisan work, to Work Together on issues that affect Indian Country. Im also grateful for the leadership
Oaeland Police Station was damaged in a fire was set at the end of the county courthouse, lets go to kron fours reyna harvey she has the latest on that from oakland reyna. Dorian james a lot happening last night and like you mentioned all these protests that we saw were all in solidarity with Portland Oregon but were going to show you oaklands protest from yesterday now you can see things started peaceful. Police say about 700 people came out to this protest you could see people walking down the streets here a pretty Diverse Group of people chanting things like black lives matter and briana taylors see they have signs as well as the protests progressed into the night you can see some things started to escalate were going to show you that. You can see some people within that crowd started vandalizing several locations is street sign the hour toppling over here. Now before they knocked over this i said this is an online full assembly and chemicals will be deployed, so they not this over