several major diseases, including cancer. bill: aishah hasnie has a closer look at the study, should we panic? no, but you should pay attention, everybody should. watch the story and then talk about it with your friends and family. it s an important one. first of its kind study, u.s. geological survey tested tap water from homes and private wells and homes that use public water systems, like city water, probably what you use at home. and they found the pfas are in nearly half of the tests. that s a lot. these are chemicals that stay in your body and the environment for many years, they don t degrade. they are in the rain, they might be on your pots and pans if you obviously wash them with water and definitely could be in your drinking water. they could cause cancer. it s connected to kidney and testicular issues, high blood pressure, low birth weight in babies. the biggest culprit, guys, is foam that is used to help fight fires in big warehouses and companies and the wors
a stark difference from antony blinken. she s back at her hotel and followed a dinner with the chinese central bank. this is the most busy day that the secretary had in beijing today which culminated with china s new vice-premier. it was supposed to last for three hours and went more than five hours. in the opening remarks, the secretary pointed to a record number of bilateral trade for the reason for not decoupling and added this. i also believe that the united states and china should seek a relationship of healthy economic competition that is not winner take all, but with a fair set of rules would benefit both. and the trade deficit heavily favors china. the readout from the secretary says that she raised concerns and it was a candid, constructed and comprehensive meeting. the new vice-premier took appointed approach in the beginning of the meeting and even mentioning quotes some airships happened causing difficulty in the relationship. authorized by president xi jinp
trail. griff. hey, happy 4th, bryan and gillian. voters in those states are getting a healthy dose of old glory, gop candidates for the parades. ron desantis marched today in a parade in wolfboro, new hampshire, and another one in merrimac, he ll be joined by tim scott, doug burgum. only in america could the son of a single mother rise from poverty to be a candidate of president. america is the land of opportunity, not oppression. fire that burned in independence hall, 56 men pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to establish a new nation conceived in liberty. meanwhile out in the hawkeye state. mike pence taking part in urbandale, and francis suarez busy in cedar rapids, iowa, running a 5k race this morning and then making pancakes, noticeably absent from the trail today, former president and front-runner, donald trump, who leads in fox news latest polling among gop primary voters with 56%. desantis trailing by 34%, and single digits down there. we ll next s
white house deals with the fallout over that cocaine found inside the west wing on sunday. secret service officials expect to wrap up their investigation in ex week, but are downplaying expectations of those findings. and the white house is trying to pivot attention off the probe and onto today s jobs report with what they say is bidenomics working for the american people. correspondent mark meredith is following it all, joins us live from the north lawn with the latest. good evening mark. reporter: bret, good evening to you. tonight top white house aides say they do not believe national security was compromised after someone brought drugs into the west wing but tonight the white house says they re still looking into this. like the secret service and the rest of us, trying to figure out how those drugs ended up here in the first place. mr. president, any update on the cocaine. president biden once again ignored reporters questions about cocaine found in the white house.
and triubutes pour in for hong kong born pop singer coco lee who s died at the age of 48. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin injenin in the occupied west bank, where thousands of people have attended a funeral procession for 12 palestinians, who were killed during israel s two day military operation. these are the images, taken by the bbc, from inside a refugee camp injenin where, as you can see, palestinians have been returning to, widespread destruction in their homes. the city ofjenin lies in the west bank which israeli forces captured and occupied back in 1967. previously, it was ruled byjordan. thousands of palestinians live in thejenin refugee camp which was set up after the first israeli palestinian conflict in 19118. our international editor jeremy bowen reports from inside the camp and a warning you may find some images in his report distressing. with the israelis gone, the palestinians ofjenin were able to bury their dead. they processed out of the r