More people expressing concern tonight after a cancer causing chemical was found on the a climb as high school in west oakland. Thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne officials revealed yesterday they found trace amounts of the toxic chemical try coral ethylene and ground water under the high school campus. That chemical is commonly called tce the school was closed yesterday and again today. The concern is a chemical maybe vaporizing and coming up from the ground into the school building. District Officials Say theyll Start Testing the air tomorrow and continue those tests through next week Environmental Health officials will also test the soil around that school another concern is that the high school is in the area already known to have to see we showed you this map yesterday the school is less than half a mile away from the lane metal finisher site which is currently labeled as hazardous. The state has been cleaning up that site since 2007 and tca is among the
Troops. How many more sparks can this powder keg take. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. It is official, secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with the president of ukraine this week in kiev. Arriving after the top diplomat there, bill taylor who testified in the impeachment inquiry was encouraged to leave his post. And as we learn new details about the white house efforts to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine to at least in part push ukraine to commence an investigation that might help President Trump political has admitted in emails obtained by the New York Times mulvaney asked about with holding the aid nearly a month before that now Infamous Trump ukraine conversation and only to be cautioned by one to say expect congress to become unhinged and a known meeting with top Security Officials trying to convince him to release the aid arguing it was in the best interest of the United States, ome only to be rebuffed b
The suspect in the stabbing attack appeared before a judge a short time ago and ordered to stay behind bars. Mike pompeo is traveled to travel this week as the impeachment continues to grip washington. Nee details about President Trumps decision to freeze ukraine aid and how his top policy officials pleaded with him to release the money. I will talk with jaime raskin and new york mayor, bill de blasio and our analysts and correspondents are standing by. First, our reporter is at the scene of the stabbing steen in new york. Reporter we talked to several here and they are telling us they are terrified what is happening in their community and across the country and including new york. Lots more details coming out about the suspect and a lot of people concerned about what theyre hearing from authorities where he is linked to certain groups, and talked with antisemitic words and now he is facing five federal hate crimes. Tonight, the man accused of going on a stabbing rampage during a hanuk
Talking specific points to House Republicans in that audience tonight, then this could be a tough crowd for President Biden, the House Speaker Mike Johnsons asked all all the Members Of Congress to be civil, but manu caught up with Marjorie Taylor greene or oyoun earlier and she didnt she didnt make any civility promises. What do you think is going to happen well, certainly weve seen over the last several years House Republicans going out and attacking the president as he is giving the state of the Union Address and certainly House Republicans have struggled with decorum over the last several months. Youve seen since the beginning of this new congress. So we heard from republicans today at votes who made no such promises. That they were going to sit there quietly. Heres Marjorie Taylor greene earlier that you mentioned talking to manu while if hes a liar, he should be called out. Thats important to do and people really care about that. So you might call them out today. Its on the flori
We also have with the cnn business and politics correspondent, Vanessa Yurkevich. Migrant issue is affecting how they cast their ballots while Immigration Top of mind, especially for Republican Voters here in texas. And weve heard that from voters here this morning who are Casting Ballots in the republican primary, where one of the Polling Locations in el paso, texas, one of many border communities have been affected by the ongoing immigration debate. We know the Republican Party intact x is also finds itself in the midst of a civil war. And this election day will really be an interesting test of the influence that donald trump has on texas republicans. Hes been very involved in actually somewhat lowerlevel races here in texas. Hes been endorsing candidates for State House Races and that sort of thing. So it is really interesting to see this tension that is going on between the donald trump wing of the Republican Party and what would would have been the old bush wing of the Republican