Book of World Records. And see the fantastic colors and shimmering palaces in the amazing world of ice and snow. All that and much more on cbs this morning saturday, january 11th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We also have some great guests for you here in studio 57 this morning. Shes the queen of the tennis court, and shell represent the u. S. At the olympics in russia. Well ask Billie Jean King about the fight for gay rights here and in russia. Plus the ultimate food fanatic. Lees first culinary job was at a chinese takeout place. Now he runs two of the the world owes most famous wine and Food Festival. Compared to bob jillen at 19 hes already opened for the rolling stones. Jake bugg will sing from his new album. A chemical league in the elk river, a main source of fresh water prompted the do not use warning in nine counties. That means no drinking showering, doing the dishes or washing the clothes and no word yet on when the water might be safe again. Na
Be done and a lot of discipline to be maintained. Breakthrough in brussels as theres been agreement on the brexit withdrawal bill as the uk drops clauses in the controversial internal market bill. This means that both sides have agreed rules for trade across the border in Northern Ireland after brexit for issues including Border Control posts the archbishop of canterbury and the uks chief rabbi talk about coping with death having each lost a child themselves. The fightback has begun. The first person in the uk to be given a Coronavirus Vaccine outside of a Clinical Trial is a 90 year old woman. Margaret keennan received the historicjab at University Hospital in coventryjust after half six this morning. That was just the start, hundreds of other patients have been given the jab in the past few hours as the biggest Vaccination Campaign in the history of the nhs gets under way. Borisjohnson has thanked Health Workers and scientists but urged people to remain cautious. The uk has an initia
Republican senators who announced yesterday that they will join senator josh hawley in objecting to certification. Now, although the chances of Congress Actually overturning the election are vanishingly small, even once biden is sworn in congress will be a tough crowd for his agenda. At best the senate will be tied 50 50 and thats only if georgias voters on tuesday send not one, but two democrats to the senate. Something they havent done in 20 years. And in the house, even with another term as speaker for nancy pelosi, she will preside over one of the slimmest house majorities in decades. Joining me now House Majority leader steny hoyer of maryland and House Majority whip jim clyburn of South Carolina. This is a big day, weve got twothirds of the House Democratic leadership here. Gentlemen, thank you very much for being here. Leader hoyer, let me start with you and ask you were looking at, what, 140 Republican House members who are set to challenge the Electoral College votes from cert
My heart started to beat faster and i thought where have you been . Where have all of you ben . They stood by and watched this president destroy important parts of our democracy and done nothing. Am i glad he said it today and should it go down in history as an Important Senate speech . Yes. But for gosh sakes, they would not even vote to have witnesses in an impeachment trial. This is really not a moment to celebrate Mitch Mcconnell, but im glad he found it in his intestinal fortitude to state the obvious. You cant overthrow an election because you have a serial liar in the white house. You cant do it. Does mcconnells words keep the cruzholly game, and 211, from growing . Does he shrink the group . Im not sure if it affects the final vote much, but this is as impassioned as Mitch Mcconnell gets, right . He took great care to write. He has had a long and accomplished career. This is clearly one of the thing thats he will be a member for. He is adept, cold blooded, at the end of the day
Pennsylvania avenue and comes in front of the white house. The president traditionally will get out of the limousine to a reviewing stand and then spend about the next three, four hours there as every marching band from every Military Branch and high School Across america goes by in front of that reviewing stand. There you see hillary clinton. Bill clinton coming out front there. That will not happen this year. They had the reviewing stand set up. Took it down when it became clear that coronavirus was not going to allow that parade to transpire. Sandra, i spent two years on a flat bed truck that was leading the procession of that parade. It is quite amazing, as we see former president obama and Michelle Obama come out. Really is extraordinary to have that perspective, as the president makes his way up president avenue with throngs of cheering crowd, none of which will happen this year. Sandra chief Justice John Roberts doing the swearing in. We watch many of the former president s and