those secret service text messages that the committee wants to see. plus, 17 members of congress arrested at a rally for abortion rights. we ll speak with one of them. congresswoman sara jacobs. this morning 100 million americans are waking up to heat alerts and oppressive temperatures. the scorching conditions will be felt from coast to coast with some regions seeing triple digits. in dallas temperatures could reach 107 degrees by this afternoon. it will reach 100 in memphis. and new york could see 94 degrees. meanwhile, as the chances of passing climate action in congress look increasingly dim, a white house official tells nbc news president biden will announce executive action today. the president will deliver remarks at a former coal-fired power plant in massachusetts where he ll announce actions on the wind industry as well as funding to protect low income communities grappling with extreme heat. across the atlanta, european nations without the infrastructure to gr
about our children or us. stand for against us. because we re not going nowhere. dozens of devastated and furious members of the uvalde community lashed out at the school board, demanding new leadership and the firing of the school district s police chief. the contentious meeting came after the release of a damning report and dramatic police body cam video. meanwhile on capitol hill, two trump white house officials will testify in thursday s prime time hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump, during the insurrection. and over in the senate, joe manchin is trying to save face. he s now claiming that he has not written off any key parts of president biden s domestic jaebd. we ll have the latest on where the negotiations stand. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, july 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we start with the latest on the january 6th in
And a romcom with a diference boy meets girl, and girl falls into a coma in the big sick. Well get film critic james kings thoughts on this and the other releases in the film review. Good evening. In the past few minutes, the government has announced that an independent review will be carried out into Building Regulations and fire safety, because of the Grenfell Tower fire. The fire in west london, which killed 80 people, raised serious questions about about the fire safety of high rise buildings and led to the widespread testing of cladding, like that used on Grenfell Tower, on other buildings across the country. Also in the past few minutes it has been confirmed that 82 buildings have failed those new fire tests for cladding. That includes these in salford. 47 of them are in local Authority Control run by housing associations. All the details of the findings of those particular tests have only just been released, just in the last few minutes. So our correspondents arejust reading few
John roberts start us off tonight. Busy day tonight. We wouldnt have it any other way. Late today, the Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen appeared at the white house and pointed to a dramatic increase in the number of people crossing the border illegally. More than 50,000 a month for the past three months. 400 increase in the number of socalled family units. But the new Administration Practice of criminally prosecuting people who come across the border illegally has created a very large political problem for the white house. With a storm of outrage growing over the separation of children from illegal immigrants, President Trump today laid the blame squarely on the democrats. I say it very strongly. It is the democrats fault. They are obstructionist. And they are obstructing. Democrats outraged at the Zero Tolerance policy at the border were people who cross illegally are held for criminal
prosecution and separated from any children they may have brought with them. Even some r
the offer by senator joe manchin to pass a skinny bill, lowering prescription drug pricing and including a two-year funding extension for insurance subsidies under the affordable care act. it means climate change funding will be likely excluded. one lawmakers lamented that president biden s agenda went from a full loaf to half a loaf to a piece of toast. he said a piece of toast is better than nothing. do you get a sense of a lot of what we re seeing, particularly on the house side, is largely symbolic because the numbers in the senate aren t there for a lot of these measures? reporter: very likely on the gun bill. it s not even clear that will get a vote on the house of representatives. that would require pretty much unanimous support in the democratic caucus. speaker pelosi said it it had great support in the caucus but she didn t say it would come to the floor. of course in the senate it would require 60 votes. you saw how difficult it was for the senate to get 60 votes with