Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a nation divided, struggling to stand. Today marks one month since an angry insurrectionist mob stormed the u. S. Capitol. The broken glass and busted doors is been repaired. The political fractures remain. A few republicans voted to revogs the Committee Assignments of georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, a freshman lawmaker who has traffics in the same Conspiracy Theories and racist tropes that drove the january 6th rioters. Greene has shown support for executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has behaved so towards her coworkers that one asked to have her office moved away from greene. When given the chance to deal with greene privately ended up giving her a standing ovation. Neck Week Senate Republicans will get their own chance to show they learned something from the events of january 6th when they begin the second Impeachment Trial for former president donald trump. Ill keep my expectations low. President joe biden to h
Thoughts, i know you have a few. Guest im kind of obsessed with looking at this list. I take the bullet for the team. Im always interested and talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up on to kill a mockingbird was a prime example. And we know why the handmaids tale was there this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. This was a book that was written in 1978. He was an english professor and lost his job and was separated from his wife and got in a forward e. , line 1975 van and rode what he called the blue highways. This was before gps and before google maps here he got the map of the country and all the backroads were colored blue. Those were the road he chose to take and so, he went to 38 of the 50 states and just kind of learning america, learning a lot about himself it was a Remarkable Book on the bestseller list in for 40 or 45 weeks were some like that. That. He has written other books in that he he is best kn
Breaking overnight, one person known dead and at least two others injured after more than a dozen tornados tore across the upper midwest. Western minnesota was hit especially hard. Several homes there have been destroyed or damaged. Forecasters say a system off the coast of North Carolina is likely to become Tropical Storm fay. Its expected to move up the coast today and tomorrow. Turning now to a very different kind of summertime threat that may be lurking right in your own backyard. Its a story we report practically every summer. Its sad that we have to report it with so many parents now distracted with working from home, the government is sounding a new alarm about swimming pools. Heres abcs diane macedo. Reporter ashley considers herself lucky. With camps closing because of covid19, this pennsylvania mother of two managed to buy an aboveground pool. Im pretty sure we got the last aboveground pool available in north america. Reporter according to industry estimates, pool sales have
Latest salacious details on the case against britains sun newspaper. Early today starts right now glad youre with us this morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. A lot of questions about safely moving forward as the coronavirus spreads rapidly across the country at least five states have reached single day records of new cases. The Top Health Official in tulsa say President Trumps rally likely contributed to a spike in cases in oklahoma a few days before the event. The city recorded 89 cases in one day. Between monday and tuesday, tulsa reported nearly 500 cases. The ivy league canceled all sports for the fall semester due to coronavirus concerns. A decision whether fall sports could be played in the spring will be made at another date Stanford University is cutting a third of their varsity sports and ohio state suspended teamworkouts after their last round of covid testing renewed concern about dire shortages of protective gear doctors in houston are already reusing n95 masks
Disappears while swimming and boating on a lake with her son. And alaska life saver. How a Grocery Store owner kept his neighbors supplied after the pandemic shut down the remote towns only ferry service. Nice guy. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We dont want the guidance from cdc to be a reason why schools dont open. Its not a matter of if schools should reopen. Its simply a matter of how. The cdc set to release some new safety guidelines for reopening schools. After President Trump threatened to cut Education Funding if schools dont reopen in the fall. Threaten me, threaten me, threaten me. How many times have we been through this. Notably absent wednesday was dr. Anthony fauci who frequently speaks out on the rising cases. Hes become the face of that task force and opines on things he has no evidence of data for. The body cam footage in the death of george floyd. Floyd said he couldnt breathe 20 times. Some severe storms rolling through minnesota. Rooft