From Independence Square in kiev. At least 18 people have been killed including 2 Police Officers. Heres mcdonald. Kiev is burning. Flaming tires, fireworks. Security force push in to the center. To drive out the protestors. Opposition leader once World Champion boxer tonight in the fight of his life. Hes calling the heart of the city an island of freedom. S today it was a sea of anger. Demonstrators found themself with brick and clashed with column of police. Back by water cannon they claim advantage on roof top. Beat the men in uniform. Sometimes we saw mercy. Sometimes beruit force. On both sides they suffered casualties. At least 13 are dead. We were there week ago. Disciplined determined uprising. Fortification pretty impressiv impressive. Still reinforcing it. Sand bag. Packed with ice. Frontline has moved now. But its clear they were read ready. Home made shield. Through here a wall of tire ready for them to start. The police just over there attack. This is a giant but divided c
Airlines, what have you. Theres two things that happen. Once a commission interests itself in a particular area, puts a sign out that says open for business, which is basically what we did when we did the open Internet Order, right . What happens . Firms realize, oh, i dont get to make money looking at customers and making investments, i make money by going to the regulators and getting them to favor me and disfavor others. The phrase economists use for this is rent seeking. And thats what it does, it opens up rent seeking. For 30 years we never had any complaints about interconnection. Since 2010 weve had a number of complaints. Why . Open for business. The second thing that happens, and this is, i think, the most dangerous part of it, is even though the commissioners may say, well, we want to limit how much we regulate, okay . That wont happen. They will be under constant pressure to expand the regulatory writ. And weve seen this happen now. Level iii, for example, in 2010 said lets
Veto the entire bill. Lawmakers began voting just before midnight, sending it to the senate for its consideration. Brian mooar has all the action on capitol hill. Tonight, the republican majority will vote to shut the government down saturday night fireworks on the floor of the u. S. House. You can yell all you want. With a Government Shutdown looming on tuesday, republicans passed a spending package doomed to fail because it mandates a oneyear delay in obama care. Why are we doing this . Number one, this is a program that is too expensive to afford. Well give a stark choice to the president of the United States and the senate. Democrats say its no choice the all. The senate wont take it up, the president wont sign it, House Republicans are shutting down the government. And because of that, not all republicans are on board. We cant let the government shut down. A contentious day. This is a fiveminute vote. Wrapped up with a series of latenight votes. The rules are suspended, the bill i
Near normal. Then cooler inland in the mid80s today. So a few degrees cooler compared to yesterday. This evening the patchy, low clouds will return once again around 7 9 00. We will drop down to the low 70s before sunset. And then we have a cooling trend in store for us. Ill tell you more about that with our next forecast. Kira. Francis, thank you. Barts two largest unions and management return to the negotiating table today in a last minute bid to avoid a strike tomorrow morning. The two sides negotiated all day yesterday. Key issues included wages, pension, worker safety and healthcare costs. Both sides say they are working to avoid a strike. We are not at impasse. Our team is prepared to negotiate and get a contract. We are not at impasse. We will go as long as as we need to go if we need to if it looks like we can get something done and get an agreement. Both sides plan to return to the bargaining table in just a few hours. Barts current contract expires at midnight tonight. San Fr
But it is warned the worst is yet to come. At least 47 states have plans to partially open by this sunday despite concerns that loosening restrictions may fuel a second wave of infection. More than 76,000 americans have now died during the pandemic. Lets go to cnns chief white house correspondent. He has more. Jim, this is the second positive test this week . Reporter thats right and given the newseum wearing a mask. The aide to the Vice President and valpersonal assistant to th president. It was revealed that katie miller tested positive on the same day that the president is hearing devastating new unemployment numbers. For the second day the white house is confirming a staffer has coronavirus. This time katie miller. She is a wonderful young woman. She tested good for a long time. Today she tested positive. She hasnt come into contact for me. But that the west wing has become a hot spot for coronavirus is real. Miller comes a day after the president announced a person too. A good per