Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
Under control a new poll ways if the public is satisfied with the governments response. And the buddhist think of the bragging rights on the line on friday. Face capital city rivals in the bundesliga take a look ahead at the local dog. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us lawmakers in the u. S. Congress have moved to block president Donald Trumps order to withdraw all u. S. Troops from germany its a rare instance of the democratic and republican parties working together these days to pass legislation a final version of the annual defense bill which still needs to be voted on by. Support for the continued presence of u. S. Forces in germany and it would require an Impact Assessment before any troops are pulled out in july the pentagon announced it would withdraw about a 3rd of the 36000. 00 u. S. Troops based here in germany. Well Stefan Siemens is standing by for us in washington how likely is it that u. S. Troops will not be droll withdrawing from germany no. I think the lik
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
When you can soon line up with one. We begin with mike tobin at pfizers factory up in michigan. Reporter we saw that historic first shipment leave here yesterday carrying doses of the vaccine. The followup today is more trucks, more boxes nilled with vaccine leaving the pfizer plant in michigan. Yesterday, 189 boxes left here. That works out to little more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today, 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine ship from here. Within hours of the first shipment leaving here, ups landed its first plane with 38,000 doses of vaccine at its World Distribution facility in louisville, kentucky, where the doses are sorted. Planes and trucks take it from there. It is humbling, you know, being part of this vaccine process. Its going to take a lot of lives. Reporter three kentucky hospitals got 975 doses of vaccine each as the priority has been to get the vaccine to Health Care Workers. Dr. Jason smith got the First Vaccination in kentucky. The vaccine is going to 636 di
Who is Deputy Editor and Senior Pentagon correspondent for defense news here with us to talk about the efforts to pass the Defense Authorization bill. Aaron, the bill sets programs and policies for the pentagon. How important is it for pentagon operations and for the funding that those programs require . So the national Defense Authorization act, essentially, its the defense policy bill. This is seen on the hill and its one of the mustpass bills and this is how much well pay members of the military and this is how many plane, how many ships and how many guns were going to buy and this is how we want to invest and it can include policy, and regarding some movements in some cases and overseas exercises and things like that. It is very much the bill that sets the next year of the military and in some cases the next five years of the military planning. It is seen in the pent fwon as something they need to get done every year and it is done as a point of pride they get done every year and i