Encouraging news in the development of two experimental vaccines for covid19. Both hitting important milestones. And delivering conflict. As we rely even more on delivery apps like grubhub and doordash, what was once a love affair is now a war with restaurants and the cities they serve. Well go inside the booming business that some call a financial bust. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We cant stay locked down for such a considerable period of time that you might do irreparable damage and have unintended consequences. Reporter this memorial day weekend will look very different, and officials want it that way. New restrictions at beaches and restaurants are in place with the hopes of preventing the additional spread of the coronavirus. Were not bothering anybody else. Were not going to be around anybody else. Its just us. Reporter President Trump declared places of worship essential places saying he wants them to open immediately.
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Joined by jason dick Deputy Editor at roll call newspaper. R and alana treene. Last weeks impeachment inquiry involved several current and former members of the Trump Administration testified behind closed doors, is that going to continue again this week and if so who is on the docket for the investigative committees . Alayna it will continue and i imagine it will extend beyond. Right now we are seeing the schedule for this week. The house committees investigating the president and ukraine and annie and propriety potentially and any impropriety, they are ramping this up quickly and moving fast. They scheduled on sundays this week, two people a day to come in and testify behind closed doors. People from the nsc, people from omb, the office of management and budget. Technically acting omb director which is a semicabinet position. We have im looking forward to tomorrows testimony by bill replaced the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine between Text Messages and past testimony weve seen lay
Your unfiltered view of 308 ticks. Of politics. Each week when congress is in session we like to take time to look at the week ahead in washington. Joined by jason dick Deputy Editor at roll call newspaper and alana treene. Last weeks impeachment inquiry involved several current and former members of the Trump Administration testified behind closed doors, is that going to continue again this week and if so who is on the docket for the investigative committees . Alayna it will continue and i imagine it will extend beyond. Right now we are seeing the schedule for this week. The house committees investigating the president and ukraine and annie and propriety potentially and any impropriety, they are ramping this up quickly and moving fast. They scheduled on sundays this week, two people a day to come in and testify behind closed doors. People from the nsc, people from omb, the office of management and budget. Technically acting omb director which is a semicabinet position. We have im look
Has real questions about whats going on at metro and how not only how its managed, but frankly, whether the people who serve metro in all capacity have the competence to do so. We are not waiting for the ntsbs final report to work on making the system safer. Work is already underway on 14 early actions to improve safety, Emergency Response and the suspects state of good repair. The National Transportation safety board officials were also there, but they had no new information or details about the incident to offer as their investigation is still going on. They did say, however, they expect to have a final report sometime next year. Just hours before that hearing got started metro announced they are looking to hire a fire officer to work in that nerve center for the rail system. That person will be a fulltime liaison to fire and rescue crews coordinating communication between metro and the first responders. There is new information from Court Documents in the case of the lyon sisters. T