good morning and welcome to your new day i m alex mar quart. i m amara walker. ten secret service agents exchanged text messages around the date of the insurrection. where the investigation why they weren t saved goes from here. the white house is saying that president joe biden s covid symptoms have improved, but he is taking additional medication to help fight off the virus. the latest on his condition and the questions over why we haven t heard directly from the president s doctor. also, mother nature cranking up the heat. more than 85 million of us are under heat alerts today. and it s only going to get hotter tomorrow. when we ll finally start to cool down. and no one matched all of the winning numbers in last night s mega millions drawing. the astronomical jackpot now on the table in tuesday s drawing. it is saturday, july 23rd. thank you so much for waking up with us. very flnice to be back with you amara. good to be with you, alex. january 6th committe
firing eight surface to surface missiles and according to a statement from south korea the firing response is to demonstrate to north korea that they have the capability to immediately strike with precision if needed. this is one of the key things the u.s. feels is important to do when north korea does this. there s been these responses before and continuing with them to send a message to north korea. is north korean leader even listening? does he care? we may get a better sense because this week lloyd austin goes to asia and in singapore expected to meet with the chinese counter part to talk about china and taiwan but coming to north korea china may be the one voice that the north koreans listen to. austin would be expected to make the case that north korea needs to stop with the missile launches because the ultimate goal is to develop a ballistic missile that some day potentially could strike the united states, the u.s. is determined not to let that happen. pamela? do we
get started today. we are now just hours away from the house taking its final vote on president biden s landmark $1.9 trillion covid relief legislation. the final passage tomorrow expected along party lines. of course doubtful any republicans will support it. the president says he ll sign the bill into law as soon as it gets into his desk. stimulus checks will be in the hands of needy americans in the next few weeks. and queen elizabeth saying she s saddened at meghan and harry bombshell accusations. we are likely hours away from president biden s massive covid relief bill passing. that means $1,400 checks to struggling americans, billions of dollars for vaccines and covid testing. as biden once said to the former president barack obama, this is a big eff ing dealing. this is the key piece of legislation they knew they wanted to they didn t have to scale down the scope and size. it remains a $1.9 trillion investment. it did lose some pieces. it lost the $15 minimum wage.
The bbc news at one. A man has been shot dead by police in a pre planned operation near the m62 motorway in huddersfield. He has been named as yasser yaqub. West Yorkshire Police say an officers gun was fired and five people have been arrested. They also say the operation was not related to terrorism. The independent Police Complaints commission has sent investigators to the scene. Well our correspondent danny savage is at ainley top in west yorkshire. It is only in the last few minutes yasser yaqub has been named locally as the man shot dead here last night. We understand he is in his late 20s. He was here last night in one of those vehicles were the shots we re one of those vehicles were the shots were fired. The scene behind me, screens have been put up around the vehicles involved in last nights incident. What is happening is specialist officers are now on site trying to establish the exact sequence trying to establish the exact sequence of events that led to his death. It was abou
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