Martha raddatz is here with all the latest. Good morning. Good morning, george. The president s speech will lay out a strategy to destroy isis, far beyond what hes proposed in the past. A complicated, longterm and Urgent Mission that could likely mean air strikes in syria. Day after day, the brutality of isis stuns the world. This week, images of the horrific execution of a second american reporter. And over the weekend, a mass grave discovered. 15 bodies, each shot in the head, and vows from the terrorist group in iraq and syria that america should be on guard. Americans should be very concerned. This in many respects represents the most significant threat that the country has seen since september 11th. Reporter a threat by a Jihadist Group that the president says cannot be merely contained, it must be destroyed. Were going to degrade and ultimately defeat isil, the same way we went after al qaeda. Reporter meaning hunting down the leaders with drones and manned aircrafts and relentle
Going to bed tonight and reaching over to try to touch their out of habit where their wife or husband was is gone. Learning to live with it . Come on. Were dying with it. Deaths are increasing in more than half the country and more than 223,000 americans have died. Biden says anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president. Overnight more than 71,000 new cases were reported, that is the fourth worst day since the pandemic began. More than 41,000 people are hospitalized, thats the most in two months. Eight states are reporting record hospitalizations. Joining us now to talk about this and so much more we have former democratic president ial candidate and former south bend, indiana mayor, pete buttigieg, he is a can you remember gat su bidenharris campaign. Nice to be here. Scale of one to ten, ten being the highest, what number do you give former vp biden for last night . Of course i will give him a ten because he is my pick for president but also because what he
Housing urban affairs will come to order. Welcome to the three witnesses in person and our fourth witness online, and thank you for that. Climate change is, here the country knows that it is here for ohio teachers, and students forced to work in schools without air conditioning in 90 plus degree heat. For more and more days at both ends of the school year. It is here for ohio cities and towns like the one mr. Florida comes from, the draw their Drinking Water from lake erie and face higher and higher qassem harmful algae blooms. It is here for ohio farmers, many of whom lost an entire growing season in 2019 because of extreme rain and will who suit will soon be forced to learn to grow crops better suited to arkansas van to ohio. It is here for neighbors and kentucky who watched their homes and communities washed away in the devastating floods this week. The kind that scientists warn are becoming more common. We. Have seen these pictures, probably all of us in this room. The flooding cou
[inaudible] the committee on banking Housing Urban Affairs will come to order. Welcome to the three witnesses in person and our fourth witness online, and thank you for that. Climate change is, here the country knows that it is here for ohio teachers, and students forced to work in schools without air conditioning in 90 plus degree heat. For more and more days at both ends of the school year. It is here for ohio cities and towns like the one mr. Florida comes from, the draw their Drinking Water from lake erie and face higher and higher qassem harmful algae blooms. It is here for ohio farmers, many of whom lost an entire growing season in 2019 because of extreme rain and will who suit will soon be forced to learn to grow crops better suited to arkansas van to ohio. It is here for neighbors and kentucky who watched their homes and communities washed away in the devastating floods this week. The kind that scientists warn are becoming more common. We. Have seen these pictures, probably all
Democrats. It includes west and northwest suburbs such as schomberg, bloomingdale, elgin, streamwood and a small portion of chicago. A couple of quick notes before we begin tonight. We are being streamed live on our web site wttw. Com and you can join a live chat. Give a question for the candidates you can ask if there and note the format tonight. Tonight. This is not a formal debate part of the candidates will not give opening or closing statements. Their answers will not beat timed and they will not necessarily be asked the same questions. I will use fairness as my guide to move the discussion along and we asked the candidates to stay on topic and not give campaign speeches. Now joining us us tonight seated in the order that they appear on the ballot are Tammy Duckworth, democrat who is the former director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs and former United States assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs. Ms. Duckworth previously ran for conversate 2006 and she also serve