Solicitor during the george h. W. Bush administration. He was asked about safety, the minimum wage and protections for lgbtq workers among other topics. Good morning. Good morning. Should. Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia to serve as United States secretary of of labor. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome secretary chao, secretary, good to see you, and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. There are so many of them i will the scalias are especially productive family, apparently, so it wont come any of your allotted time for your statement, and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings are a not necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more
To thels pass their hats people of las vegas, my fellow americans. My wife karen and i are honored to be with you for this las vegas unity prayer walk. We are grateful to each of you and we are grateful for the inspiration of your former 30 fire chief, kevin chapman. Inspiration of your former deputy fire chief, kevin chapman. Kevin, thank you for loving the people of this community the way you do. [applause] v. P. Pence President Trump personally asked us to be here, to stand with you, to pray with you for strength, comfort and healing in the wake of seven unday nights terrific attack. In america we mourn with those who mourn. We grieve with those who grive. Today i stand before you to say we are with you. Today we are all vegas strong. [applause] v. P. Pence as the president often says when one part of america hurts, well hurt. When one part of america struggles, we will struggle. When one part of america cries out for help, we always come together to answer that call. Five days ago,
The country. I want americans to understand people have turned to their as hard as this week is going spirituality and the pope had a to be there is a light at the beautiful message to those on end of the tunnel if everyone the front lines. Does their part for the next 30 days. They are our real heroes. Sandra there was a bit of they are putting their lives on confusion in new york city the line for us and let them live their lives. Im with you. After multiple covid19 patients were transferred to the greatest gift god can give the hospital ship comfort from us is faith but maybe the second in line is the gift of human reason. In these very difficult times we have to use our intelligence the Javits Center by mistake. And to be respectful of the we begin with David Lee Miller fact that doctors have a gift live in new york city this morning. Hey, david lee. And they are telling us very specific things that we can do the good news this morning to help save peoples lives. Is that there is l
Lemon in las vegas. Cnn tonight starts right now. Anderson, thank you very much. Our breaking news, of course, this worst massacre in modern american history. Were going to take you now to the press conference happening. Lets listen in. I want to emphasize we believe paddock is solely responsible for this heinous act. We are aware of the rumors outside of the media and also on social media that there was more than one assailant. We have no information or evidence to support that theory or that rumor. We believe it was only one shooter and that was Stephen Paddock. We are doing a thorough investigation and only want to provide what is accurate to you. We will only give information that we have vetted and know to be true. I will not be speaking and answering questions on issues that we do not have the facts yet. The latest estimate on the number of injured still stands at 527, which the sheriff put out earlier this afternoon. We have 59 that are deceased. Our homicide detectives are work
To say. You look at the weapon obtaining and the tannerite available, do you think this was accomplished on his own . At face value, you have to make the assumption he had to have help at some point. Investigators are trying to figure out whether something set the gunman off. They are looking at what might have happened in the shooters life around this time last year. Thats when he started stockp e stockpiling more than 30 guns in what police were alleging was a secret life. He had close to 50 firearms and didnt stop there. According to investigators, 50 pounds of explosives were found in his car and he may have been planning to use them. There was evidence he had an escape plan and they tell us a note found in his room was not a suicide letter, but they wont reveal what was written. As for the shooters girlfriend, police say she is cooperating. Her lawyer maintains she had no idea about her lovers deadly plot. At this moment, 172 victims are still being treated in the hospital. The de