Increasing pressure on schools all across the United States to reopen with the president tweeting that he may actually cut off funding to schools that dont reopen. Vice president pence says the cdc will be changing its School Reopening guidelines after the president publicly criticized them as too tough and too expensive. Lets begin with the breaking news out of california right now. Cnns nick watt is in los angeles for us. Nick, i understand the governor Just Announced some very disturbing new numbers. Reporter he did, wolf. And they are the number of people in the hospital with covid19. You cant argue with it. Its a fact. You cant just say it was more testing. And in the past two weeks the number of people in the hospital here in california is up 44 . Here in l. A. County they just told us they are concerned death rates will rise as well. And they are telling School Districts here, listen, its going to be prudent of you to get a learning Distance Plan in place just in case. And thats
A lack of access to ukrainian prisoners of war. I met accusations from president zalinski of not doing enough to help with mock out to the world. This is our international. Im Rachel Blevins and these are the top stories. This our, the Chinese Communist party is 20th. Congress will soon be kicking off and beijing, the countrys top politicians are going to discuss the most important issues for the country and to decide its domestic and foreign policies for the next 5 years. Lou thousands of delegates will gather in the Chinese Capital for a summit, described by some as a turning point in chinese politics. Amid the countries growing role on the world arena, as well as escalating tensions between beijing and washington local journalists, you want tells us about the importance of the event. The press conference for the congress to be held here. It says afternoon. In addition, i want to share with you that according to the press center, to 2500 journalists are covering the event, including
The airport is seeking to scale the project to focus solely on the 24 street overpass. Because the obligation for the grant is rapidly approaching, the airport is that high risk of losing these critical federal funds. Mister secretary, this project is important to the city of phoenix into sky harbors future growth. Will your Department Support our efforts to extend the period of eligibility for the grant and work with the airport on this modified project . So it does not lose these critical federal funds . Our goal, of course, is for every grant recipient to succeed when funds are awarded. In this case, it was 2019 funding. I believe the issue here had to do with meeting the obligations deadline, with the proposed change in scope they had. But well be happy to follow up and engage or staff to explore anything we can do to be supportive in the context. Really appreciate working closely with you to make sure we retain those critically important federal funds. Arizona is one of the fastes
Rise today to discuss American National security and the decisions that we must make to keep this nation safe. The senate will vote today on whether to expand nato by admitting sweden and finland. I intend to vote no, and i encourage my colleagues to do the same, and i want to say a word or two as to why. Finland and sweden want to expand nato because it is in their National Security interests to do so, and fair enough. The question that should properly be before us, however, is is it in the United States interests to do so . Because thats what American Foreign policy is supposed to be about, i thought. Its about american security, protecting american workers, defending american jobs, securing american prosperity. And i fear that some in this town have lost sight of that. They think American Foreign policy is about creating a liberal world order or nationbuilding overseas. With all due respect, theyre wrong. Our Foreign Policy should be about protecting the United States, our freedoms,
The airport is seeking to scale the project to focus solely on the 24 street overpass. Because the obligation for the grant is rapidly approaching, the airport is that high risk of losing these critical federal funds. Mister secretary, this project is important to the city of phoenix into sky harbors future growth. Will your Department Support our efforts to extend the period of eligibility for the grant and work with the airport on this modified project . So it does not lose these critical federal funds . Our goal, of course, is for every grant recipient to succeed when funds are awarded. In this case, it was 2019 funding. I believe the issue here had to do with meeting the obligations deadline, with the proposed change in scope they had. But well be happy to follow up and engage or staff to explore anything we can do to be supportive in the context. Really appreciate working closely with you to make sure we retain those critically important federal funds. Arizona is one of the fastes