Tonight another round of rain what they dont need. Its going from bad to worth, torrential rains. Devastation and a rising death toll. Now spilling over the banks. In houston, getting slammed. Jonathan martin is in the houston suburb of rosenberg. Yes, it is raining adane y again and again, this is an area under a mandatory evacuation. You can understand why. The river is well above the flood stage. This is the rain and flooding. Many of the people 75 homes here people in 75 homes have been told to get out of here. Police went door to door last night and came back as it started to rain to tell people to get out of the area. There were about 50 to 60 homes, and they were told if they can evacuate, some of them decided to leave, some decided to stay. I can tell you in the last half hour as more rain came down Law Enforcement went back to some people reminding them of the danger. We see more and more people. A lot of people seem to be taking it seriously. Not here but across the houston a
[ ] ] we begin with breaking news from the white house. Bow biden, a son of joe biden has died. He had cancer. He was 46, and served as the attorneygeneral of della mere. He was hospitalized at the walt ereed center. His full name Joseph Robert bowe biden the third. He won a bronze guard during his service. He suffered a mild stroke in 2010. And just last year he underwent surgery at a Cancer Hospital in texas. The Vice President read a statement reading our washington correspondent libby casey joining us live by phone. Reaction starting to pour in. Absolutely. This is devastating on many levels. Beau was seen as a rising star of the democratic party, and there was hope for this man of the future a young man, 46 years old, with a political heritage with his father and carving out his own past. He served as attorneygeneral and when joe biden became the Vice President many thought he would slide into the senate seat. He decided not to and stayed on as the attorneygeneral and ran for anot
Republicans that would say they would join democrats. Speaker boehner said it is not true and its open to interpretation if it went on floor. A lot on capitol hill think it would be true and the president offering that challenge. Where you see the both sides now, toure, they are staking out positions, president obama says he will not negotiate on a grand bargain or large scale compromise until the government is funded and debt limit is raised and Speaker Boehner saying thats not a position to have. Take a listen to what he said on the house floor. The president s refusal to negotiate is hurting our economy and putting our country at risk. American people expect when their leaders have differences, were in a time of crisis, that well sit down and at least have a conversation. Really, mr. President , its time to have that conversation before our economy is put further at risk. So here we are on monday, toure and back to where we started last week. Both sides holding firm in their positio
Says the killers will face justice. And a cry for help from farmers in el salvador, facing the force drought in decades. Russian president , Vladimir Putin is offering a plan to end the conflict in eastern ukraine. He says his proposal could be approved on friday, and the two sides hold talk about possible ceasefire. Vladimir putin spoke on the phone with ukrainian president. The russian leader said he and poroshenko have very similar views on how to end the war which has killed at least 3,000 people. Translator aiming tend to the bloodshed and stabilize the situation in ukraine southeast, i believe the warring parties could be immediately agree upon an implement the following. Firstly they should end the active operations by the armed forces and armed units of this militia in the areas of donetsk and luhansk. In just a moment well be talking to Harry Fawcett in east ukraine, first lets go to peter sharpe in moscow. Peter talk us through what we know about this sevenpoint plan that put
Switching gears, as we head into the holiday weekend, a new record for coronavirus cases in the u. S. On wednesday, more than 50,000 cases were reported in a span of 24 hours for the very first time. According to the new york times, that is the fifth record in the past eight days. In all, there have been nearly 2. 7 million cases and more than 129,000 americans have lost their lives from coronavirus. To stop the spread, the governor of california has reimposed a lockdown in a total of 19 counties closing bars and other businesses for the next three weeks. And pennsylvania has joined at least a dozen other states mandating face masks must be warn in public. In all, at least 19 states have put their reopening plans on pause or started to roll them back. I promise that will impact the economy. Texas is one of the states thats been reversing course as cases and hospitalizations hit another alltime high yesterday. My colleague david gura is in houston. David, were the hospitals ready for th