Thatresponsible for licensing, monitoring, and sending people out to make sure that deforestation wasnt happen bg. He hically upended all of those institutions. Woodruff all that and mores on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by life wellplanned. Learn more at raymondjames. Com. Learn more at consumercellular. Tv babbel. A Language Program that teaches reallife conversations in a n s language, linish, french, german, italian, and more. And with the ongoing support of these institutions ts program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff this has been a day of courtroom drama as cusers of Jeffrey Epstein pursue their quest for justice. The financier was facing federar seficking charges when he died by suicide this month in jail. Today, 16 women spen f2. 5 hours ineral courtroom in new york city, telling of abuse at epsteins hands. Some spoke afte
I nigel, thank you. Well, the top story tonight on gb news is that we can exclusively reveal 80 migrants are currently being housed at a former raf base in essex. Housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than a month after the first group of migrants arrived there, the wethersfield base near braintree in essex is meant to house up to 1700 people. The home office says therell be a gradual increase in the numbers, but sources suggest the pace will be significantly slower than was first envisioned. The site has had problems with disease amongst the first group of arrivals and there are problems with the utilities not working properly and gb news can reveal 550 people have crossed the engush 550 people have crossed the English Channel in ten small boats over the last 24 hours. That brings the number of migrants whove made the journey this year to more than 17,500 uk border force say theyre on red alert during an extremely busy time
[laughter] pretty good. Announcer host good morning, it is saturday, august 19. President joe biden met yesterday with the leaders of japan and south korea. They merged with Security Cooperation, threat from china and north korea, the war in ukraine, and immigration at the southern border are all issues that have jaw drawn the white house recent attention. Our attention for you this morning, what do you think is the top policy issues facing the United States. Republicans, we want you to call us at 202 7488001. Democrats, your line is 202 7488000. Independents, we want you to dial a set 202 7488002. You can also send us a text message at 202 7488003. Please include your name and where you live. You can find us on facebook. Com cspan and on x and instagram cspanwj. Lets start off by hearing a little more from President Biden coming out again with the talks with leaders of japan and south korea. He announced a plan to deepen Security Cooperation between the three to counter north korea an
Seth meyers. Tonight ewan mcgregor. Star of girls5eva, actress and musician Sara Bareilles. Comedian James Acaster featuring the 8g band with aric improta [ cheers and applause and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. We hope youre all doing well, and now if you dont mind, were going to get to the news President Biden released his Budget Proposal for 2025 yesterday, which includes nearly 900 million in funding for technology to detect fentanyl at the border, because the drugsniffing dog they got now has had it [ laughter ] i cant sniff more of this stuff angry tiktok users are reportedly calling congressional offices ahead of the weeks vote on a bipartisan bill that would ban the platform well, its more mature than what angry facebook users did [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause the white house announced yesterday that housing secretary marcia fudge is stepping down. Said mike pence, theres no need to curse. [ laughter ] republican senator ted cruz ho
Graders. But could a spike in covid cases disrupt the start of the new school year . Im justine waldman. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at a time can wane. Here we go. Families enrolled at hoover elementary. Were excited to see some of the upgrades on the campus. The school had a fresh coat of paint. Theres a new playground. And the school year also started in antioch today, several east Bay School Districts and San Francisco start School Next Week as more bay area children get ready to head back to school. Medical experts say the return of indoor classes. Coupled with the recent uptick in covid cases nationwide might result in more children getting the virus for us to assist reports and how experts say, although we are in a lot better shape than in years past covid19 is still a virus to take seriously. The American Academy of pediatrics says 15. 6 million children have contracted covid19 since the beginning of the pandemic 2020. Now as students go back to school, medical exper