Live now to the floor of the United States senate. They are back from their summer recess and our live coverage picks up right here right now on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black , will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal and sovereign god, the earth in its fullness belongs to you. Teach us to live by your prece precepts and follow your plans. Guide our lawmakers in the challenging decisions they face. May they build up rather than tear down using their powers to keep dreams from becoming nightmares. Give them the wisdom to know that history will judge them by whether they act with courage or cowardess. Lord, lead our senators in their efforts to guide our citizens to the better angels of our nature. May our lawmakers make the commitment to stand for right, though the heavens fall. And, lord, we pray for those affected by Hurricane Harvey and for those bracing for hurricane irma. We pray in your merci
Yesterday 81 degrees. Today will be cooler. So note that. But not, not that cooler. 65 degrees. The that is where we should be in april. It looks like a Beautiful Day shaping up. It is already pretty out there ben franklin bridge showing blue skies. We have a few clouds out. You can see several of them taking a look at kutztown right new and see temperature of 46 degrees. Still a beautiful looking start to the day. We have storm scan three showing some of those high clouds, just expect to see though, and some sun today and then later on we will get some cloud that are lower and start to mean businesses specially overnight. Our temperature right now 56 degrees in philadelphia a52 trenton. Fiftysix in wilmington. Comfortable start to the day. We have conditions today that will be cooler then yesterday but still very nice day temperatures are at ease nal normals today. Monday, gets soggy. So lets not the get ahead of ourselves. We have temperatures today by noon at 61. By 3 00 p. M. Our h
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Inability to answer questio questions. Why it took 10 years to acknowledge default ignition switches. Lawmaker cite the documents that showed gm executives decided that fixing the problem posed what they call, yo an unape unae costin crease even though the replacement part parts casts a car. Our committee reviewed more than 200,000 pages of documents, we found that soon as cobalt hit the road in 2004, drivers began to complain to engag general mos that a cars system did not work properly. When switch for cobalt was built in 2002, gm knew that switch did not meet its specification for, to. Tork . Yes. Lou she then did not offer many other answers but she vowed to be fully transparent in future, when Committee Found unsatisfactory, some annoying. We have answers well be transparent. With you, with our regulators with our customers. Why in the world, would a company with the ste the stel ar reputation of General Motors purchase a part that did not meet its own specifications. I would like
World. This is new day. Its wednesday, july 1st. July. 6 00 here in new york. Alisyn is off. Erica hill with me this morning. Great to have you here. Always good to be here. So im really glad youre here, because i have a question. Maybe someone can answer this question. Here it is. Whats the plan . Seriously, whats the plan . The u. S. Is hovering near an alltime high in coronavirus cases. More than 44,000 new cases just yesterday. Dr. Anthony fauci is warning that number could reach 100,000 if we dont take action. So, where is that federal action . Whats the plan . This morning, infections are up in 37 states. All the states you see there in red. Look at this. Look at whats happened in just the last month. All the states in deep red, well over half the country, those states have seen jumps of more than 50 in cases since june 1st. What a month. So, whats the plan . The president has said next to nothing about this. Hes not even acknowledged this huge jump in cases. Overnight, he vowed