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Transcripts For WCAU Early Today 20170623

Early today starts right now. Americans are waking up to a Seismic Shift out of washington. Republicans long awaited Health Care Bill with met with years and protests and headlines say it all. Blood money screams one, cuts taxes, guts medicaid says another. And while republicans control congress, Many Americans are clamoring for change. Our latest poll finds 43 say democrats can do a better job on health care than republicans who just got 26 of the poll. That is a 17 point difference. In fact just 16 of americans think the Gop Health Bill is a good idea. 48 say its bad. That as major Health Groups come out against the plan. President trump tweeted his support of the Health Care Bill saying that he looks forward to making it, quote, really special. But hes not the only one speaking out on it. From president obama calls the plan a massive transfer of womenth. He says if there is a chance you might get sick, get old or start a family, do you harm. There is dissent among a handful of republicans who could doom the bill. Kasie hunt reports. Reporter wheelchair bound protesters, 43 arrested and dragged from a Senate Office building. I worked all my life, but i cant keep my daughter alive without medicaid. Reporter all happening just as a draft of the bill was finally made public. The draft senate bill would repeal the mandate to buy insurance, but keeps protection for people with preexisting conditions and creates a new fund to support the individual insurance market, it keeps the expansion of medicaid through 25020, but then phases it out. It also ties medicaid funding to inflation which means a dramatic reduction over time. Fewer people will qualify for tax credits to help them buy insurance. But the senate provisions are more generous than the house version and it defunds planned parenthood. These cuts are blood money. People will die. Lets be very clear. Senate republicans are paying for tax cuts for the wealthy with american lives. Reporter the bill written in secret to try to get 50 of 52 republicans to vote yes. Within an hour of its release, cause for concern. At this point, it looks like were keeping obamacare, not repealing it. Reporter republicans want to have a vote next week. It doesnt get better over time. Reporter four conservative republicans publicly oppose the draft. The intention is not to take down the bill, the intention is to make it better. Reporter their version at odds with moderates. Ill do my best to push back as hard as thelt puy will push their side. Reporter for a president who said he wanted more heart and promised he wouldnt cut medicaid . This bill covers fewer, charges them more, and gives them a poorer product for that coverage. And the president wasted no time reacting to the four gop senators who on coucould block from a win. They are four friends of mine and i think that they will probably get there. Well have to see. Health care is a very difficult situation. A vote on the bill is expected by the end of next week. Now to that Severe Weather that left a path of destruction as what was trochpical storm ciy now depression terrified stranded vacationers. Very scary to be laying in bed and the house just shaking all around you. The storm spun off a tornado which hit fairfield, alabama with 120mileperhour winds tryitr destroying buildings and spending debris flying that nearly impaled a woman. Fortunately there were no serious injuries from the storm. A liquor store there was demolished, but you oddly enough, two shelves were amazingly left standing right there relative ofly undamaged. In pennsylvania, the storm unleashed massive flooding and led to one mans death after he was sucked into a drain pipe. The floodwaters even knocked train cars off their tracks. The aclu is calling for an investigation after releasing a dash cam video of a 22yearold plan being arrested wouldby mina police. They call it a textbook case of Excessive Force and a warning here, the video is disturbing. And the text was overlaid by the aclu. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. Get the [ bleep ] out of the car. The aclu claims the arrest happened after an off duty officer called another officer to say the suspect was driving aggressively, that the driver accelerated at the officers car. The driver was counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. Law enforcement say the video viewed in a vaking im shows only a short vegment of the incident that is the basis of the criminal charges. They added that it would be inappropriate to comment further on a pending case. In ohio, an emotional goodbye for otto warmbier, mourners turning out to pay respect to the american student who died just days after being released by north korea. Now a community is rallying around his family. Katie beck has more. Reporter finally home, and laid to rest. A last goodbye to otto warmbier, his hometown of wyoming, ohio feeling the loss like small towns do. Didnt have to have otto in your home to feel like youve lost a piece of your family. Reporter where that wraping every post and tree with the high school colors, the school where he gave this graduation speech four years ago. I wish that there was a way to to know that you were in the good old days before you actually left them. Reporter today the site of his funeral. His brother and sister speaking, his tan jacket on display. I beg for forgive fls. Reporter the warmbier on trial in north korea, imprisoned for 17 months for allegedly stealing a poster and sent home in a coma. Warm i his cause of death still a mystery. North koreans need to be held for account for that. Reporter remembering his spirit and that smile just before his arrest. He was going to set the world on fire, which is why the slos so profound. Reporter a loss shared deep within a community. Each ribbon is like arms wrapping around the warmbiers. Reporter a loss hitting close home. Katie beck, nbc news, wyoming, ohio. Bill cosby it seems is ready to hit the road. Less than one week after the Sexual Assault trial resulted in a hung jury, his Team Announced that hes announcing a town hall style speaking tour, to educate young people will miss behavior and Sexual Assault. 130s pers cosby has repeatedly denied any and all sexual allegations levied against him. It was a is sticky situation georgia. She veered into fresh wet concrete to avoid and on coming truck. And it ended up getting stuck in the quickly drying cement, so now shes blaming the county for negligence. There are no cones indicating that you have wet concrete. There is protocol that they have to follow to see to it that incidents like this dont occur. Construction workers had to use a jackhammer to remove her car. 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Quote, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. Why the game . I dont know that it was a game. Reporter no games and no regrets his spokesperson says about the original tweet which set off a 41 day stretch unlike any other in a modern presidency. The tweet may 12th led james comey to give his memos he says to a friend that following monday to share publicly hoping that would trigger a special counsel. It did. May 17th. And now according to a former intelligence official, an investigation into whether the president tried to obstruct justice in his conversations with comey. Tapes could have helped prove it. Or not. Lordy i hope there are tapes. Reporter the president and his team letting the question dangle for days. You will be very disappointed when you hear the answer. The president has nothing further on that. When hes ready to make that announcement, well let you know. 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Right now dry in the philadelphia area. See the rain moving our way. Some heavy downpours expected this morning. Strongest storms possible this afternoon, and, again, tonight and tomorrow. Right now well stay dry for the next couple of hours. Those showers, some will arrive in time for the morning commute. Coming along with that wet weather. Steamy conditions. Humidity so high. Temperat

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