Funding for the u. S. Postal service. Members of the House Rules Committee met on friday to consider the bill called the delivering for america act introduced by oversight and reform chair carolyn maloney. It provides 25 billion in funding to the Postal Service and returns Service Levels to those at the beginning of 2020. The rules committee voted to send this legislation to the house floor for debate. The rules committee will come to order. We are here today because this president has thrown our democracy further into chaos. We are just weeks away from early voting in some states. The Record Number of ballots are expected to be asked by mail. Are expected to be cast by mail. Sorting machines are disappearing. Delivery has been slowed. The postalle, service is still badly in need of Additional Resources. The house acted to provide more but nothinghs ago has been done. , this isy this clearly an assault on democracy. These actions call into question whether legal ballots will be counted
Brown in hong kong outlines the possible reasons behind the recent spike in cases. Up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks weve had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that its complacency hong kong that its guard down after social distancing rules were relaxed several weeks ago that meant that people returned enthusiastically to bars restaurants and of course to the beaches medical experts offer a different view they point to hong kongs existing quarantine arrangements which exempt from quarantine people like pilots and crew mariners sailors as well as the drivers of lorries bring essential Food Supplies into hong kong now the Hong Kong Government argues that if they were to place that category of workers into the current quarantine restrictions it would effectively put hong kongs food supply of risk and theyre not prepare
In getting your citizen tree where masks masks are important as part of the physical distance physical distancing is the most important but practically when youre living your life and trying to open up the country youre going to come into contact with people and for that reason we know that masks are really important georgias governor is urging people in his state to weather but he refuses to back down on his ban on local authorities making masks mandatory and public. Many well intentioned and well informed georgians want to mask manda and while we all agree that wearing a mask is effective im confident the georgians dont need a mandate to do the right thing our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett has more on why its become such a contentious issue. Well this is a country that is really founded on revolution its also unique system of government its not a federal system but instead its one that has strong states rights so in many ways the United States is like 50 countries all jo
Backseat. Do we know, is there Department Policy on that at all . From the backseat of a moving vehicle at that. I did ask the chief that very question. Is this policy, is it appropriate. He did not quite answer he said there is multiple investigations going on, that there are rules that govern when a Police Officer can discharge his firearm and that he was not going to weigh in. I can tell you that is what the victims family wants to know, was that appropriate policy and if not, will that officer be held accountable . Afterwards he asked did he point a gun at us, all right, joe, thanks for the update. San Francisco Health officials have unveiled a preliminary School Reopening plan, if conditions allow for a safe return to the classroom. The Health Department outlined the practices needed to save the resume in person instructions. Some guidelines include using masks during school. Practicing social distancing, frequent handwashing, keeping students in small cohorts and staggering sched
Restrictions in europe. A lot from attacks on civilians with nowhere to go syria and russia accused of committing war crimes in rebel held areas. So an accidental missile strike by the iranian navy on one of its own boats is killed 19 sailors it happened in the jasc a region on the gulf of oman where Iranian Naval exercises were taking place as a port vessel was hit when it got too close to a target there are regular exercises held in the region near the busy strait of hormuz if more of this lets bring in our correspondents embedded robbie who study by in tehran as a details were sketchy but we get a little more information now. Thats exactly right we know that this incident took place ringback in the gulf of oman in the waters close to the strategic strait of hormuz earlier yesterday approximately 24 hours ago weve been hearing murmurs since early this morning late last night early this morning about some sort of incident during a naval exercise but details have been unclear now about