Day. We ask your blessing upon those throughout our country who are suffering so much more each day. Keep safe the firefighters out west. Keep safe those who are responding to the destruction of Hurricane Sally on the gulf coast. Listen to the cries of those who have lost so much as a result of these natural covid rs even as the pandemic weeks its havoc in our communities. Here in the capitol impel with your spirit the members of congress who, more than any others, have the opportunity to address our nations needs. Give them the wisdom and ourage to do so working as a united force for good in these times. Lord, have mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker thank you, father. Pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from michigan, ms. Slotkin. Ms. Slotkin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and
The end of last year but were nothing if not adaptable and we know that many of you watching right now probably could not have physically gotten to grow rich books tonight that you can join us virtually. Again, i will reiterate on what was said that you should treat this as if you were in the bookstore. In the bookstore for reading, youll buy books so please do that. It would be great if they were debbies books but really buy a lot of books because were here in a bookstore, you dont just buy one, you buy a lot of books so i imagine with this crowd debbie needs no introduction but i will just briefly say, i think was great is if you look ather body of work , you see two very there is strong themes. The theme of social justice and the theme of defining america and to get to who gets to defineamerica. Used on this and picture books freedom summer and hes done in belgrade county books and she did it in the interesting intersection of middle grade and why a with the 60s trilogy and got so m
The simultaneous listing could bring evaluation of 225 billion dollars and may raise more than aramcos record sale. Day twot lady headlines of the republican convention. The theme is the land of opportunity as Melania Trump makes the case for her husband winning four more years. Working news at the moment. We are getting confirmation that the u. S. Business will be charged in a generic drug pricefixing probe. This coming from the department of justice, saying the Pharmaceuticals Company was charged for its role in a saying teslas u. S. U. S. Mers tevas consumers were charged 350 million. It was charged for conspiracy including landmark and glen tech. Nd apple it is falling more than 4 in postmarket trading. Teva pharmaceuticals being charged with conspiring to raise prices for generic drugs. This is after years of pricefixing in the generic drug market. The doj saying it is the seventh company to be charged with generic drug pricefixing. Teva was charged for pricefixing. You can see th
Smollett haynes. And im frank somerville. We julie. And im frank umpire is. Soms frank somerville. Classes will be empty, defraud of the usual travel on the first day of school. There is currently no formal plan in place regarding what the day will look like for students and teachers. One teacher said its like being asked to play the super bowl with no game plan. Teacher and students share that anxiety about the unknown. Im definitely nervous and dont know what to expect. It could either go well, or really bad, think. It has been pretty stressful. I mean, its very hard to know how the year is going to look. Reporter students will be behind screens from home as the district kicks off what is being called the strong start program, but one middle School Teacher said theyll have only 30 minutes of instruction dale the first week with the future being unknown. The teachers and School District district are trying to line out myriad issues. Two sticking points, the unions desire to have subst
A planned shut off next week, but could you lose power anyway. Equipment just doesnt have enough time to cool down when it is that hot for that amount of time. The equipment cant cool down and that is what causes power outages. And thousands of homes are still under threat from the lake fire burning in southern california. This is in lake hughes just north of l. A. And so far 11,000 acres have burned and it is only 5 contained. It started wednesday afternoon and just exploded in size burning parts of the forest that havent seen a fire since 1968. Scattered thunderstorms yesterday helped a little bit, but that could change because they are expecting that triple digit heat over the next few days. You can stay on top of the weather anytime with our abc news app. And it is free to download. Make sure that you are enabling your push alerts so you can get things sent to your phone as soon as it happens. Today Governor Newsom will have another update on the states response to the pandemic. Du