chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. rick: good morning, the town of rolling fork has about 1,750 people so imagine a small town like that everybody knows everybody, and now you re going to have everybody who knows somebody if you weren t yourself impacted by the storm. it s going to be a really rough day for people as the sun comes up just exactly one hour from now. this year has been a really active tornado season. we ve had 282 tornadoes. typically so far in the season we would have 174 tornadoes, and you get a look at that. this is just your statistical averages. march right there, we are headed into our what is generally really active months of april and may and june. doesn t mean that ll be the case this year but certainly that trend has been the case. all of this has been those storm s that have been coming across california, have made their way across parts of the south where its been really warm, above average temperatures for a long time, and those temps are still re
crime, terrorism and other threats to their safety while safeguarding our civil rights. they do so at great personal sacrifice and risk to themselves. just before midnight, mr. trump posting on his social media platform that he is encouraging the release of documents his own lawyers could make public ahead of the court s disclosure. the house of representatives is expected to pass a $430 legislation, including new climate and clean energy investments and some controls on drug prices. a minimum tax on large corporations. i will speak to john podesta, former senior white house advisor on the state of the biden presidency three months before voters are heading to the polls. i will be joined by deborah tyce on the efforts by the biden administration to free her son from the assad regime. we begin with former president trump and the justice department. joining me now, ken dilanian, phil rucker, paul charlton and michael beschloss. welcome all. ken, give us the latest this is
at $2,000 and extend expiring health care subsidies for three years. jessica dean is live on capitol hill with more on all of this, jessica, what is happening? reporter: well we have the senate in session now, fredricka. they are doing a couple of nomination votes to get everybody here and everybody moving and in the meantime behind the scenes the democrats are waiting on final rulings from the senate parliamentarian because remember they re using the specialized budget process in order to move this legislation forward. it requires the support of only democrats but they also have to pass the test of the senate parliamentarian who is looking over every provision and making sure that it fits within this budget process. so they re waiting on final rules from her. they re also waiting for the congressional budget office to see just how much some they re going to score this and how much it will cost and how much it will effect the deficit. so they re waiting on a couple of thi
vicious cycle. rachel: yeah, you have people on fixed incomes. do i heat my home? do i get my groceries? do i pay my prescription bills as you said? it s just an incredible so obviously, you re looking for people to donate more to the food bank. we ll put that, your website up, of course but what other things are you asking your leaders in new york to do or maybe even our president to do to help alleviate this crisis for americans? that s an excellent question and thank you for asking it. rachel: of course. in the current budget that was proposed by governor hochul there s a reduction in funding for the hunger prevention nutrition assistance program with $22 million and we re also looking at cuts to the free and reduced school meals program. this simply is not the right time to implement those kind of cuts. you know, last september, the white house hosted a conference on hunger health and nutrition and a lot of recommendations were made in terms of snap benefits, in terms of outr
costs, raise taxes on large companies and reduce the deficit. it s more than a year in the making. speaker pelosi is speaking about its impact on american families this morning. it makes a difference at the kitchen table and at the boardroom table. corporations and the wealthy will have to pay their fair share. joining me now is california congresswoman loloftgrin. let me ask you about the bill. are you in your office? are you in proxy? i m in washington. we will be voting on this bill in a few hours. i think it s a terrific step forward for america. when you think about members of your family who are off medicare, their prescription bills are going to be capped at