Taking a vote of conscience on the former president. As for greene, she was given a Standing Ovation by some. Were live following all of it on capitol hill. Also where does the covid Relief Bill Stand and President Bidens first major Foreign Policy speech comes later today. Lets go to our colleague lauren fox on the hill. Good morning to you, lauren. The republican Leader Punting and punting on punishing Marjorie Taylor greene. Where do things stand this morning . Well, exactly. Hes essentially telling House Democrats to move ahead with their resolution. They will bring to the floor this afternoon. It will force every single republican member to Make A Stand On Whether or not they think that their colleague should be able to stay on the committees that she serves on. Thats the Education Committee and the budget committee. This is really an unprecedented move that democrats are going toward because they are arguing in traditional times, when there is a controversial member, it is up to
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this full Committee Nomination hearing will come to order. This morning the committee will consider four nominations the key transportation positions within our jurisdiction. Nominees before us today are eric soskin, the nominee to be Inspector General for the department of transportation. Robert primus who is been nominated to be a member of the Surface Transportation Board. Sarah feinberg, nominated to be director of the amtrak board of directors, and chris coons was been nominated to be a direct of the amtrak board of directors. The Inspector General for the part of transportation overseas critical audits and investigations of dots programs with the end goal of ensuring that our National Transportation system is safe, efficient, and effective for the american people. Eric soskin the numbered for the some portable. Mr. Soskin is a senior trial counsel in the federal Programs Branch at the u. S. Department of justice where he h has s
Headlines for more of those stories of course you can go to our t. V. Dot com our web site and get much more there as well now stay tuned for more great programming right here on a hearty international. Hello from rhode island Home Sweet Home where we are still hunkered down dust star of that virus and if you think you are at wits end with staycation imagine how the airlines feel in a Statement United Airlines explains the obvious the reality is that united simply cannot continue at our current payroll level past october 1 and environment where travel demand is so depressed and involuntary furloughs come as a last resort. After months of company wide cost cutting and Capital Raising united is talking about cutting as many as 36000. 00 jobs American Airlines could layoff as many as 25000. 00 thats almost a 3rd of its pilots flight attendants mechanics and airport workers Virgin Atlantic has filed for bankruptcy southwest has a little breathing room after more than a quarter of its workf
Coverage in the l a new lightning complex fires have now burned more than 46,000 acres overnight. These fires have destroyed at least 50 structures threatening dozens more theres 0 containment. The flames are and solano napa and sonoma counties right now and cal fire has hundreds of personnel on the scene trying to protect as many homes as possible. Mandatory evacuations have been issued for several neighborhoods. Well go over some of them right now this includes rockville road. Sassoon valley road Gordon Valley road Wooden Valley road clayton road. A man casts corner shelton lane northwest Browns Valley road. Also west of blue ridge road to 5 05 and north of cherry glen road. The highway one 28 and it is important also know that 80 is shut between fairfield and vacaville between cherry glen road and air base parkway weve covered that a few times here well get more information on that to you as soon as new information comes in. Now tonight, there are multiple evacuation orders also in
Flames move in and destroy homes good evening, everybody, im pam moore, im Jonathan Mccall in tonight for ken wayne we have Live Team Coverage of the fires that are burning across the bay area. Right now fire crews are battling hundreds of wildfires across california all of it happening right in the middle of a blistering heat wave now in its 6th day were going to begin in the north bay and the latest on the l a new complex fire. You can see on your map it shows the areas being affected the flames burning in napa sonoma and solano counties so far the fire has scorched more than 124,000 acres. The blaze has tripled in size since this morning, according to cal fire. 4 people have been hurt 105 structures destroyed. And Officials Say that 25,000 more structures now being threatened kron fours noelle bellow kicks off our Live Team Coverage tonight in fairfield with the very latest on the firefight there noelle thats right jonathan, you know tonight today has really been hectic for a lot of