All sides in the negotiations on an additional coronavirus release package spoke with reporters on the current state of the talks. First up, Senate Republican leaders. [indistinct chatter] senator mcconnell good afternoon. It will not surprise any of you to know that we spent the lunch with secretary mnuchin and mark meadows discussing their discussions with the speaker and the democratic leader, which will resume this afternoon. As all of you have already written, the pattern is they meet and then mnuchin and meadows come by my office and they talk about what transpired. I think they have said theres not a lot of movement yet. But a feeling that seems to have been expressed that we would like to get an outcome. I certainly hope we can. The coronavirus is certainly not over. It is still an enormous problem still affecting communities all across the country. And i think the American People would like to see us working together and getting an outcome, like we did in march and april. Than
Could help isaias finally starting to weaken but not before it left a path of destruction. Gabe gutierrez joins us with the latest on the damage reporter the building behind me partially collapsed ap at the height of this storm, millions of people without power. Isaias is drenching the northeast. A tornado right outside my window it was crazie crazy the. The wind is intense and sand start blowing and hitting you in the face the tree actually up from out of the sidewalk and it came down on this hosz house. The fast moving storm as a hurricane with winds of 85 Miles Per Hour firefighters waded through chest deep water multiple report of tornados left a tail of destruction at least two people were in thile home park in new york city a tree fell killing a man. And we heard like whats surprising many people is how quickly this storm swept through. After a rise in coronavirus cases in the south and the midwest, the death toll is starting to catch up the u. S. Has surpassed 158,000 deaths rep
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Speech has been on display all over 2020 so far but that hasnt stopped efforts on both the right and the left of the political spectrum here in the United States in their attempts to tear down our freedoms of speech and expression when its used against their own beliefs or agendas take this week where both republican and democrat media organizations politicians and keyboard warriors have been hyperventilating over recent scandal involving d n. B. C. News google ads and the federalist according to a very conservative vehicle the National Review on tuesday this week google threatened to ban the right wing political news website from the federalists from generating advertising revenue on the companys platform in response to posts in the federalist comments section that allegedly violated googles policies regarding dangerous or derogatory come. Tend and this supposed that attack on free speech or advertising dollars came after n. B. C. News referred the company to complaints against the be