languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
[cheers and applause]. greg: happy thursday everybody. as evidence piles up from shady overseas companies, one thing is for sure. like being president old joe doesn t know a single thing about it. even when slapped in the face with a poll that shows 70% of americans and 40% of democrats believe he acted illegally or unethically with his family s business dealsings. a new york post reporter the nerve to ask him about it. why you interacted with so many of your son and brother s business associates? i will not comment. i did not. that s a bunch of lies. those are lies! greg: lies! they are lies! just a bunch of lies from lying liars. sounds like a kid accused of stealing a twinkie out of somebody s lunch box or like me when i see judge jeanine walking down the hall. that came from the new york post the paper banned from facebook and twitter for reporting the story about hunter s laptop. the dems wanted to drag the old man into the oval office. this is what h
particularly for students and even more so for younger students. let me explain. we ve been talking about this idea for some time. it s now official from the cdc. but they re specifically saying for all students, elementary school students, they can maintain just three feet apart when mask use is universal regardless of what is happening with community transmission. that s for elementary school students. so that s going to be a big deal. but they also say, kate, that for middle school and high school students, they should still maintain at least six feet apart if the community tr transmission in their community is high. so making a difference between older and younger students. for all elementary schools, regardless where you live in the country, guidance is now going to be three feet. but if you happen to live in a community where community transmission is high still, at about 41% roughly of counties in the united states do have high transmission, if you live in one of those
full force, and masks are hard to spolt. americans are tired of more than a year of restrictions. the tsa reports that friday is the busiest travel day since the pandemic started. and the embattled governor of new york losing more support as he struggles to stay in office. even new york s two senators, both democrats, calling for andrew cuomo to resign. another come has come forward with accusations of sexual harassment. cuomo is quickly running out of support among all the series allegations. hi, he did, and you mngsed the two big names in new york politics. major leader chuck schumer and gillibrand adding their names to the list of the politics calling for the governor to resign. the latest coming from a reporter named jessica bakeman. she had been a new york capital beat worker, and covering the beat here, and he wrote a piece where she describes it was like covering cuomo, and she writes, andrew cuomo s hands had been on my body, my arms, shoulders, the small of my back
Derrick. Reporter well, you will find that the garage is indeed open. But youll also find more cars than usual at this hour a lot of motorists came back to find back that their cars were part of a crime scene. This happened at 7 00 last night. Montgomery county police and Metro Transit Police responded to a call here at wheaton garage for shots fired when they got to the garage, an adult male had been shot. That person died. Now, there was a search of the garage and the Westfield Plaza which is adjacent to the metro garage. They did take two people into custody, people theyre calling persons of interest. And a short time after that Montgomery County police said they need not worry about a gunman on the loose. We do not know the name of the victim. At the height of the investigation trains were passing by wheaton station, part of Georgia Avenue was closed. Indeed the garage was closed. All of that has returned to normal. Again, were awaiting the identity of that Fatal Shooting that happ