Unfolded, here are some of the highlights from todays news conference. The white house today pledged immediate help for individuals and Small Businesses. This came on a date when we learned that 6. 6 million more americans wild unemployment claims last week. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin is said people who have their banks direct deposit information already on file with the irs will get direct payments within two weeks as part of the stimulus bill. Im pleased to report that within two weeks the first payments will be direct deposit into taxpayers accounts. As the president said, he authorized me to say that anybody who has Social Security recipients will not need to file a new tax return and will have that. The secretary said there will be a website for people who dont have direct deposit on file, and they can provide information in order to get their payment. On the medical front President Trump said today that he has again invoked the defense production act to ensure that manufact
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Out of that agreement can this conference reach its target target of course being to limit the expected global temperature rise to two degree or less. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us. Twenty fifteen marked a breakthrough in the global fight against Climate Change nearly two hundred nations signed the Paris Climate Accord to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions worldwide starting in two thousand and twenty now those emissions are considered a major cause of Climate Change so far one hundred sixty eight nations have ratified the accord now its time to hash out the details of a Climate Conference in the german city a bomb fiji is chairing the conference like other island nations in the south pacific. Has already been hit by rising sea levels fiji is not in a position to host such a large and costly conference itself some twenty three thousand people from one hundred ninety five countries are attending so germany has agreed to host now the meeting in bonn starts today and it will
Really transformation and a mitigating effects of Climate Change in rich countries having posed on the world. Universal violence was the mood today. They do not have the choice of imposing their own tragedy next on the other countries in the world and so we have but one obsession action we only have one horrors and horizon the planning and that is now thank you. For watching our lives National Coverage of the Climate Conference in bomb that was are you actually mentioned a man while macro im calling on europe to take more leadership in the fight against Climate Change in light of the u. S. s departure from the climate accord but we can go now to bonn where our reporter japanese Christopher Spring gate is standing by for the latest so we just heard mark wrong speak prior to that miracle spoke christopher share with us your impressions. Well it seems to me that. The german chancellor was a little bit hampered by the fact that she is in the middle of negotiations for her next government w
In about 1 4 of the states. You can see that on the map, all the states in pink, red orange and purple have closed and results are beginning to come in. In fact, the Associated Press has called races in kentucky where Mitch Mcconnell is declared the victor and the two South Carolina senate races, and in West Virginia all going to the g. O. P. We have cameras at the headquarters for Mitch Mcconnell and Allison Grimes and you see rand paul talking to supporters at the mcconnell headquarters and what it looks like over at the Allison Grimes headquarters in kentucky. Later on tonight as their speeches get underway, well certainly be there so you can hear what they have to say. Our colleague, steve scully, will be out all night at the desk looking at the details of the votes as they come in. Lets see what he has for us. Susan, you mentioned West Virginia. Thats a pickup for the democrats where senator Jay Rockefeller is retiring, First Time Since 1942 a republican has won in the senate race