Discovered. Theres an army facility there where this originated. You will remember last week we told you about live anthrax samples that had been sent out fee ya via fedex to laboratories in nine different states. Now a sample is found that had been irradiated in 2008. Think know they have one live batch and theyre checking to make sure a shipment from that batch sent to australia doesnt also contain live anthrax. Both the army, the department of defense and the cdc now working to make sure no one becomes sick as a result of these samples that have been discovered. Thats the latest from the live desk. Back to youlert right now. The right lanes in both directions on the arlington Memorial Bridge are shut down. Theres also new weight and pedestrian restrictions. Megan mcgrath is live with more on why these lane closures are happening and the impact this will have for drivers out there. Megan . Reporter barbara engineers have been taking a close look at the Memorial Bridge since a routine
From a racist miami police chief in the 1960s, the president said he had actually taken it from frank rizzo. Rizzo, we should note, is an alltogether different racist, one who once ran on a Campaign Slogan vote white. This afternoon more policy changes that seem a direct result of the protests following the Police Killing of george floyd, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo today signing into law a package of ten policing reform bills. In a moment were going to talk with republican senator tim scott of South Carolina. He is leading the effort for policing reform for senate republicans. But first as Cnns Kaitlan Collins reports for us now, President Trump is digging in his heels about how he is handling the current unrest even after he was politely confronted on the divisive language he used. Reporter as Public Opinion shifts and calls for Police Reform grow, President Trump has remained an outlier in the National Conversation following George Floyds death. You always have a bad apple no mat
Transition, so you have the head of the landing team for the National Security council. He basically, learns that flynn is planning to have a conversation with kislayak, the Russian Ambassador and hes concerned and basically wants to provide him with information. He wants him to know that his conversation with kislayak, would probably be intercepted by the fbi here in the u. S. , which is monitoring ambassadors like kislayak and other ambassadors and overseas, when kislayak finishes his meeting with a foreign official, he sends it to moscow. So he wanted him to be aware. He was so concerned, and according to reporting and was concerned that flynn didnt quite understand the role kislayak plays, that they actually drew up or requested intelligence documents or kind of a profile of kislayak . The cia when they go and have meetings with those people, the american has an idea of what theyre getting into. This is a document thats prepared and its updated regularly, so what happened in this c
Ambassador. That is why you had the head of trumps Transition Team, his National Security Transition Team Marshall Billingsley ask the Obama White House to provide a classified cia profile to read ahead of his conversations with the ambassador. One thing that isnt clear is whether flynn read that document. Now i should mention that there is some bush pushback to this storyline. Several officials who worked on the trump transition are telling my colleagues that theyre calling this revisionist history say iing im sure everybody is telling the fbi they warned flynn against talking or about talking so its important to take some of this with a grain of salt. Theres one more interesting tidbit that my colleague was able to confirm and that is that a former u. S. Official says the Obama White House was troubled about the handling of classified information. Some highly sensitive documents were copied and removed from a secure room in the transition headquarters in washington. Because of that o
Emmanuel macron, the frontrunner in the French Election, now confirming what his team is calling a massive coordinated hacking operation. Senior members have warned Michael Flynn about the risk of his contacts with russias ambassador. Unlike a lot of other ambassadors, you actually had a very receptive trump team when it came to the russians. The overall effort of leaking to go and try to smear the president. Nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. 13 men are deciding the future of American Health care. There is not one woman at the table to represent more than half the population of this country. This house bill would be devastating for women. Women would be denied coverage because of situations that are unique to them. Its an effort to kill off planned parenthood. If the bill pass the today, thousands of americans would die. The senate is looking forward to getting it. I think were going to have some really great health care. Good morning. Happy saturday to you. Im