secretary is leading a bipartisan trip to the border today amid new information obtained by nbc news the humanitarian emergency at the border is only escalating. welcome to friday. it s meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. president biden left the white house a short time ago. he spoke to reporters about china, russia and vaccines. he is about to land in atlanta where he will visit with asian community leaders today amid the fallout over the atlanta spa shootings. his first stop is cdc headquarters coming as the administration announced a loosening of guidance for schools due to promising data about transmission rates in the classroom. in new published guidelines, the cdc calls for three feet of social distancing in schools as long as masks are worn and community transmission in general is not high. this could pave the way for more kids back in the classroom. obviously, three feet cuts the amount of space you need to find to see how big of a classroom you need. the whit
school in person. federal health officials now say students need to remain only 3 feet apart as opposed to 6 feet as long as everyone is wearing a mask. that is a major policy change of interest to so many parents and so many kids who are eager to close the laptop on telelearning and get back to the classroom. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. the president s visit to atlanta was originally scheduled as part of the white house s help is here tour, touting that $2 trillion rescue plan, and although the main focus of the trip has turned to the aftermath of that deadly shooting rampage, the president and vice president will meet later this afternoon with asian american community leaders to discuss the escalating threats and violence against asian americans since the start of the pandemic. we re also learning a lot more today about the victims of those shootings, not only their names and their ages, but their stories. like delainie yan who went to the spa for mas
Citations. The nature of the complaint is confidential. Meantime, First Responders are Contracting Construction workers with helping rescue their colleagues who were trapped today. You can hear and see the chaos in this cell phone video taken moments after the partial collapse during the cement pour from the second floor. I was on the third floor. I was walking that way. Reporter construction workers knee deep in cement, others dangling from the rebar. Everybody was worried about the coworkers. Reporter as oakland Fire Fighters arrived, those coworkers also sprung into action, putting up a ladder and putting down pieces of plywood on the now still wet cement which was nearly impossible to move through. Its kind of like quick sand. Reporter oakland fire says 15 to 20 construction workers initially were trapped. Everyone got out. It was a very great rescue between us and them. Reporter First Responders transported 12 construction workers to area hospitals for minor injuries. The general
That death toll could rise. You see the devastation stretches for blocks just by the very narrow look. Take a look on the left side. What appears to be maybe a playground structure or a backyard swing set, appears to be somewhat okay. Firefighters working on a possible cause for the valley fire. Well bring alex savidge back to mornings on 2. He will bring us the latest information from there. Its wednesday, september 16th. Im gasia mikaelian. Im dave clark. We need to talk about weather and traffic. It will affect us all but especially the fire victims. Steve, you moved outside . Reporter im up here. Good news bad news. Maybe not bad news. I shouldnt say that. But i would not be surprised if about. 50 or. 75 falls in mendocino county, lake county. Might be something they could use. Our system is increasing clouds. We have light rain north bay. Its clear right here. But the heaviest rain by far will be from about santa rosa north. But our front will make it eventually all the way down t
The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond past 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, since the Clean Air Act was enacted into law more than 40 years ago, weve seen tremendous progress in cleaning up our air and protecting thousands of communities around the country. Unfortunately, Many Americans are still living in communities where poor air quality puts them and their loved ones health at risk. Thats why im proud to support the e. P. A. Standard ground level for air pollution. Wh we work outdoors or simply want our children to play outside, the ozone pollution standards bring us one step closer to cleaner, healthier communities for everyone to enjoy. This proposal would lower the current st