Todays washington journal because the houses is about to gavel and for the day. Live coverage beginning in a minute on cspan. We will see you tomorrow morning back here on the washington journal. A communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , june 25, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Green, for five minutes.
i don t drink coffee at all. tastes like a puddle. i can t do it. that s because you re not drinking it correctly. you have to prepare it a certain way and with creamers. that s not coffee anymore. no. all right. at least 23 people are dead after russia unleashed a deadly attack on ukrainian civilians. our cnn team is live at the scene where rescue efforts are continue this morning. more than 50,000 people have left sudan after fighting broke out there just a couple weeks ago, including hundreds of americans. one of them shares her story. millions are facing the threat of severe storms. where we could see those storms fire up today. we begin in ukraine, where the death toll from a russian strike on an apartment building is expected to rise. the attack killed almost two dozen people, including five children, and is believed to be the deadliest strike on civilians since january. it targeted more than ten apartment buildings and other civilian targets. but ukra
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. European leaders told greece it has just one more day to come up with new proposals in order to get bailout loans and prevent a banking collapse. This weekend the e. U. Will hold and emergency summit and is telling greece and agreement must be reached by then. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras addressed the European Parliament today and his government gave the e. U. What he said described as the brought outlines of a new plan, but the details are still to come. John is live in athens for us this morning. Good morning to you john, the Prime Minister was criticized by many european leaders during the meeting of the e. U. Parliament. How are the greek people reacting to what he had to say . Well, theres reaction in the political system, first of all the Party Leaders here have asked for an emergency second cross party meeting. That would be the second in three days. Mr. Tsipras spent seven hours in conference with the other Party Leaders mond
Firefighters have been battling back to back fires in the brentwood area. Jackie ward is there. Reporter those firings started within a half hour of each other. That means its been an extra exhausting day for dozens of bay area fifths. And they are firefighters, and their busy season is barely getting started. After july 4, calfire expect their days to get intense, but three fires back to back to back, lead them to think something is up. Were looking into it. It could be human caused intentional, or accidental. Reporter calfire says 250 acres were on fire at one point. Now two fires are completely contained and the third is at 80 . The problem is the terrain, its steep, theres limited access. There are some good roads as far as dirt looks, but its steep for the bulldozer to cut the line. Reporter 25 minutes away in brentwood at the aquatic park, you can still smell the smoke. People say theyre used to it at this time of year. You can see the smoke in the area. When you see dee diablo,
Now President Trump is calling for a reversal. Mola lenghi reports from washington. Reporter President Trump is reversing the pentagons policy regarding transgender people in the military. In a series of tweets this morning, the president said, the government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. He cited, quote, the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Ash carter lifted it last year saying it was the right thing to do. Americans who can serve should be afforded the opportunity to do so. Reporter since october transgender people have gotten medical care but recently there was a delay on allowing people to enlist. The president s statement contravenes the doctrines of the military. Well review it. Reporter the pentagon referred questions to the white house. The pentagon wont release numbers but there are between 2500 and 7,000 Transgender Service members in the active duty milita