President donald trump is focusing on healthcare this afternoon. Earlier this morning, he met with ceos of the nations Top Insurance Company and as weijia jiang reports, President Donald Trump is asking them what they want to see in his proposed replacement for obamacare. You are the biggest of the big. Reporter President Donald Trump met with ceos of Major Insurance Companies working to replace obamacare. The new plan will be great for the patients, the people, and hopefully for the companies. Reporter the president has released few details on how he plans to replace the Affordable Care act but says he will tackle during his upcoming joint address to congress on tuesday. Im going to have a speech on tuesday night and were going to be speaking very specifically about a very complicated subject. Reporter while the fight while the white house finalizes the president s speech, there are growing calls for an independent investigation into claims Trump Campaign officials had ties to russian
Celebration of the First Amendment. Vice president pence holding tonight. Its being held at the white house but is in honor of the nations governor. On todays developments, these are a few days for President Trump tonight. He is hosting is big social event here. Its on the first joint address to congress where he lays out the legislative agenda on wednesday. He is expected to sign a revised version of his executive order on immigration. Theres a lot goingon. Hanging over all of it are these ongoing investigations by the fbi with two congressional committees. Whether or not the Trump Campaign were in contact with russia. The fbi is investigating already but now, the Top Republican on capitol hill comes and its calling for an independent special prosecutor to investigate. Here is how he explained why President Trump should be open to it. This is a man who i trust understands that businesses run on truth and government needs to on truth. I want to make it clear, i want investigation becau
accountable to people to be at the front . and tomorrow, governor walker and others will head up to capitol hill to share the ideas with the members of congress. garrett, thank you. it s now new orleans police that identifying the suspect the driver of the pickup truck that careened into a mardi gras parade crowd last night. identified as nelson rizzuto. he was booked on multiple charges in the crash. injured 28 people. outside the justicecenter in new orleans right now where he is being held . hello, eric. he is set to make his first court appearance in the next few hours. it comes as authorities just confirmed to us that his blood-alcohol content was almost 3 times the legal limit. he is now facing charges for being behind the wheel of a
parades. thousands of people in the streets. with this crash comes into question, why were cars allowed to be so close to the parade last night? some people in the area say they have been raising that question for years.concerned that something like this might happen. the city is now saying it s looking into the incident. rizzuto faces several charges including one felony that brings a sentence of up to five years. he was curled up in the fetal position. on another note, what a difference one day makes. many areas did a chill after the unseasonably warm weather. we have had it last few days. in the pacific northwest, they are about to see somerain. severe thunderstorms are also in the forecast. and by midweek , matt adam was live in the fox weather center with more details andit s getting close here in new york . it s down to the high-30s. it s