Patience along with that mask. New Text Messages shedding light on the events leading up to the death of Ahmaud Arbery as lawyers for the men accused of murdering the unarmed jogger speak out. Attorney Benjamin Crump joining us live this morning. Severe storms striking the northeast and south. High winds damaging this building. Flash flooding leaving cars stranded and the tropical system strengthening in the atlantic. Our weather team tracking it all. And virtual graduation for the class of 2020. High high hopes the starstudded event and oprahs commencement speech. New way forward. The class of 2020, bravo. And the celebration isnt over yet. The preview of tonights graduation special featuring more big names airing tonight right here on abc. Tonight right here on abc. Hello, good morning, happy saturday. I am very happy to note that the whole team is back together, all three of us in the studio once again, although we are doing our as you can see here our part to social distance. Eva d
Hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the spiral downwards depending on who you believe in the media the civil unrest in america is the result of systematic racism this explains protests and rioting but does it the commanding heights controlling the Financial System the media and the Business World are loath to admit it its the economy stupid for them race always trumps class. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Jason Nichols in l. The cut city is a professor of africanamerican studies and in new york we cross to Margaret Kimberly she is the editor and senior columnist at the black gender report as well as the author of the book prejudicial black america and the president s all right cross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets 1st go to margaret here in my introduction i said that race always trumps class and if you look at Mainstream Media particularly the liberal media tha
Journal is dr. Joseph kvedar, the president elect of the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Kvedar, thank you for being with us. Tell us the mission of your association and the members you serve. Guest i am delighted to be on with you this morning for such an important topic at such an important time. The ata was formed almost i think 27 years ago, and really the mission is to both educate and advocate, really, for a new model of care delivery, which is enabled by communications technologies. Im sure we will talk about what that means. The members are from a variety of sectors. Folkse a robust group of who supply technologies and services to the industry. We have a number of quite a few Health Care Provider organizations like my own Partners Health care, mass general at womens in boston. Some of the health plans and folks at the payment industry as well. Thatis largely the groups encumber our membership. Kvedar, joining us this morning to talk about telemedicine, telehealth, use of
Reporter before they left the diamond princess, and before they got on the flight this morning, they were screened. The number of new cases on board the ship continues to rise. So, the evacuation of these passengers follows a recommendation by the u. S. Government that american passengers and crew members leave back at your life juliette, it is not exactly known what time these passengers will arrive at Travis Air Force base , but we are estimating about 11 00 p. M. Arrival. What an ordeal, i cant even imagine them being confined to their own state rooms on the cruise ship, let alone now what is going to happen. Will they have to then be in quarantine for the next two weeks . What happens . Reporter yeah, this ordeal for them is not yet over, they will be on u. S. Land, finally, but once they reach the military base year they will be under federal quarantine for another two weeks, before they can return home and of course, they will make sure that they are showing no signs of the coron
10 of the 12 bills have passed through the house floor, the Appropriations Bills. We were frustrated early on. Everybody knew this day was coming when we had to get a budget agreement and get the bills written. The fiscal year has already started. In the spring, we set some caps. The senate did not do that and it was not until late in the season that we got the budget agreement. Now we at least have topline numbers we can work with, but there is a new problem, a new old problem, Donald Trumps wall. The republicans in the senate have included a 5 billion item for that wall and have included money to backfill the defense accounts that were raided earlier to pay for the wall, so it really messes things up. It does not just mess those particular bills up, it misses all of them up because there is an allocation problem. If you remove that kind of money from the up line numbers to accommodate trumps wall, you mess everybody elses appropriation up. Hhs, bysed up labor, the nature of the domes