Him about the cuts he made to the Postal Services funding. Fox news Congressional Correspondent has the latest from capitol hill. Reporter President Trump is standing by his belief that mailing voting would lead to voter fraud in the upcoming election. This is democrats saying he is trying to sabotage the election by making cuts and defunding the Postal Service that would slow the flow of mail. This is a claim the president denies. Its not a political issue. We cannot have millions and millions of ballots sent all over the place, sent to people who are dead, sent to dogs, cats. Reporter the postmaster general is set to testify on friday. Meanwhile, House Democrats are calling for the fbi to investigate whether he or the board of governors have committed any crimes by slowing down the mail. It is one of the most undemocratic things i have ever heard of. You are opposed to people voting by mail, disenfranchising them. Reporter nancy pelosi is bringing back the house from their august rec
Today and always. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. City. Striking in support of the protesters, workers in belarus during the public outcry over disputed elections. More stories emerge about torture by police. Politics and the post office. How male has become a hot button issue mail has become a hot button issue. 75 years since the surrender of japan in world war ii. We look at how the past resonates today. For all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome. The scene in belarus this evening is a tense one nearly a week after disputed elections that gave longtime ruler Alexander Lukashenko and overwhelming victory. Anger on the streets has boiled over. Police have arrested thousands. Firsthand accounts of torture are widespread. Unions are walking off the job to show their solidarity with protesters. Reporter the Oppositi
On the covid19 monitoring list. I dont think a waiver is appropriate given the rate of transmission and the number of cases. Reporter david howard is a parent of School Age Children in mill valley. He is planning to protest along with the Teachers Association tonight. You get a bunch of kids in a classroom with stagnant air. Thats a petrie dish to spread the virus. Reporter a marin county spokesperson said no ma ridge county schools have applied for the waiver yet because a specific application will not be dribbled until this friday. The California Department of Public Health recommends that schools within jurisdictions with 14day case rates, more than two times the threshold to be on the county monitoring, should not be considered for a waiver to reopen in person instruction. California state epidemiologist dr. Erica they need to be consulting with their local communities which may include staff, parent organizations, we want this to be a close contact in the community. In an email, t
They finally discussed how that waiver works and what it means for the bay area. State superintendent tony thurman. So good to have you with us again. Thank you, kristen. Thanks for having me on. Our timing could not be better because, you know, the state just issued the guidelines for that waiver process last night. Literally, we are all just diving into the details now. And before we get into which schools should or should not apply for a waiver based on that, whats the idea behind the waiver . Why give an exception to Elementary Schools . The department of Public Health put out this guidance and the notion is you could create small centers of students on campus and that really provides for support for parents that have to go to work and students do better with inperson instruction. Our schools struggle with space demand, so its hard to maintain physical distance but if you can accommodate safely that you can some students on campus in small numbers, that does create an important opt
A paltry one trillion dollars,. Only in this day and age can one trillion seem cheap. Democrats want 3 trillion. Well follow battle back and forth. In texas where were seeing a spike in cases but some are finding positive signs that the spikes are not quite as high as they use to do so be. Also that, and the vaccine push right now that has some promising implications for texas. To silicon valley, what is going on there. A lot of tech ceos on wednesday will be on capitol hill. Lets just say the environment might match the weather, hot and getting even more heated. So lets get to it with chad pergram with republicans with their own coronavirus bill, that also tackles that sticky subject of those jobless benefits. Courtesy of uncle sam. Chad, where do we stand on all of this. Reporter neil, they released their plan yesterday, about five or six distinct proposals. Frankly republicans are in a pickle. There is a lot of disagreement, there is a lot of disowe nance on the republican side of t