Congressman clark held a News Conference about this weeks legislative agenda in congress. Hes the chair of the Democratic Caucus and she is the vice chair. Good morning everyone. We had a very emotional caucus call today. It was dedicated, largely, to remembrance is and reflections on the life and legacy of john robert lewis. Our dearly to parted colleague and civil rights hero and icon. He was a friend to everyone. A friend to truth and justice here in america and throughout the world. We had to special presentations. Professor meacham as well as don porter. Professor meacham of course is working on a biography of the life journey of john lewis. Don porter is the documentarian who produced the recently released documentary, john lewis, good trouble. John lewis always would council us, Council Young people, Council Others to never give up, never give in, never get out, keep the faith, keep our eyes on the price and continue the countrys long necessary and majestic march towards a more
Announcer building a better bay area for a safe secure future. This is abc7 news. The coronavirus pandemic continuing to hurt bay area workers. Tonight were tackling unemployment. The new relief bill some workers say cant come soon enough, and the red tape some Restaurant Owners are running into as they try to reopen. Good evening, and thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Taking a look at where california stands right now with the coronavirus, the number of confirmed cases in the state is down significantly with more than 8200 cases over there were over 10,000 cases yesterday. The seven day Positivity Rate went down to 7. 8 which is under the states threshold of 8. Santa cruz county was added saturday to the states watch list. That means in cases dont drop in three days it will have to roll back its reopening. Tonight bart board dufty. They said they failed to comply with the health orders. The pandemic including the economy, a big part of that is record numbers of unemp
During the summer months, reach out to your elected officials with cspans congressional directory. It contains all of the Contact Information you need to stay in touch with members of congress, federal agencies, and state governors. Online today at cspanstore. Org. John lewis, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and a 17 term georgia congressman died july 17 at the age of 80. Widely respected across the political spectrum, he was awarded the medal of freedom by president barack obama in 2011. He is being widely eulogized and we thought it would be appropriate to reair the 2012 interview he gave this program about his memoir, across that bridge so you can hear congressman john lewis in his own voice. Brian congressman john lewis, why did you name your book across that bridge . Rep. Lewis well, during the past few years, ive been crossing bridges, rivers, mini bridges, bridges of understanding, building bridges, trying to bring people together to create what i like to call the beloved c
The democrats are playing for november 3rd. And were playing for the good of the people. Lou President Trump doing exactly what he should do, calling out exactly what he and the American People have witnessed and experienced over the past four years at the hands of the party of hate. No president has achieved more in his first term in office than has president donald trump. No prime president has been attd as viciously, nor had to contend with the massive effort to subvert and overthousand his presidency. No one overthrow his presidency. No one since president abraham lincoln. The radical left have attacked President Trump on his handling of the china virus at every turn. Theyve done absolutely nothing to help him and his administration fight the virus and the consequences. Nor the Chinese Communist party that unleashed the contagion on an unsuspecting world. In fact, the radical dems instead have embraced the chinese policies and embraced the communist chinese themselves. Those dems h
Million to 4 million, a jump that once took months, the outbreak reaches a critical stage with 4. 2 million americans infected california and florida have surpassed new york now in california, there are over 450,000 cases. While florida struggles as cases stop 423,000 and texas was hit with a onetwo punch dealing with covid and a hurricane. Reporter this morning. The state of florida is in a state of crisis. It just topped new york for the second most number of coronavirus cases in the country. And that as Hurricane Season is underway right now something florida is waiting for and texas is experiencing right now, a double whammy in texas, the seasons first hurricane, leaving flooding and fear in its wake, as texans cope with the coronavirus crisis. We know this is a whole walkway to the pier was gone reporter a rocky road ahead for storm victims and First Responders getting people to shelters your whole intake system changes. In the past, you could file people in a single line and proc