pothole pete buttigieg. he has been utterly mia and in two years he aimlessly presided over multiple airline fiasco and chaos america shipping ports and supply chain nightmare that s still ongoing and a disaster in east palestine, ohio, a train wreck followed by a controlled chemical burn that released all these dangerous chemicals into the air, the soil, the water. we have dead fish and dead animal and sick people. pothole pete, he s nowhere to be found and same with joe. he did nothing about a toxic fire so huge that it could be seen on pittsburgh s weather radar. now, ultimately pothole pete was shamed into making a statement. last week he declared that east palestine was getsing more than enough attention. you decide. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing. obviously, they have levels of severity. where all of that points us to is a need to raise the bar on rail safety.
to martha s vineyard in massachusetts and even to the doorstep of the vice president s residence in d.c. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. but gets begin with jeremy diamond live at the white house on the very late night and early morning negotiations to avert this rail strike. what are you learning about the deal, jeremy? 20 hours of negotiations between the union leaders. the railway companies and also involved the white house and the labor secretary marty walsh. president biden was being kept updated throughout the day yesterday. the negotiations began at 9:00 a.m. yesterday and they ended at 5:00 a.m. today with this tentative agreement that is now going up to the union s membership for a vote. that is expected to pass. because these union leaders say they would have not have struck the deal if they didn t believe it had the support of the membership. let s get into the details. a 24% wage increase over five years from 2020 through 2024. an immedia
putin meets. ukraine is turning the tide in the war and taking key territory. first, 20 hours that matter a whole lot, very lot to your life. the biden white house has a deal in place to avert a major rail strike. the 20 hours of negotiations included a call from president biden, who reportfully sided with union real workers. amtrak is scrambling to get back on the rails trains its canceled as it anticipated the strike. the president holding a rose garden event to savor the moment. it would have meant shortages of key goods and price spikes on everything from gas to key groceries and more. every good you need, is delivered on a rail where it needs to go. today is a win, i mean this sincerely, a win for america. straight to the white house. k walk us through how this happened. reporter: it s not only a big win for president biden but a big relief for the white house, who thought economic consequences would look severe. had they not gone to the deadline on friday. that
Pothole pete buttigieg. he has been utterly mia and in two years he aimlessly presided over multiple airline fiasco and chaos america shipping ports and supply chain nightmare that s still ongoing and a disaster in east palestine, ohio, a train wreck followed by a controlled chemical burn that released all these dangerous chemicals into the air, the soil, the water. we have dead fish and dead animal and sick people. pothole pete, he s nowhere to be found and same with joe. he did nothing about a toxic fire so huge that it could be seen on pittsburgh s weather radar. now, ultimately pothole pete was shamed into making a statement. last week he declared that east palestine was getsing more than enough attention. you decide. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a
. so as we come on the air, we re getting new details in the colorado mass shooting. the police now saying the number of people killed remains at five. an additional 17 people were shot inside that nightclub. the suspect also still in the hospital is charged with multiple counts of murder and officials are also moving to file hate crimes charges saying he targeted the lbgtq + community. more than a dozen victims are in the hospital with our teams standing by with the latest. and to politics, with the newest wrinkle of kevin mccarthy becoming speaker and what one congressman is saying now, and spoiler alert, it is not a done deal. and plus, why officials are downplaying comments about president biden after he said today he would be talking about avoiding a potential supply chain nightmare.