government. and the boys of summer are back. it is opening weekend for major league baseball, but of course not without the risks amidst this pandemic. games are already being cancelled due to covid. we ll look at the challenges to keep fans and really everybody safe. also on the eve of another milestone achievement in space. i ll talk to a nasa engineer who is the lead on getting a helicopter to fly on mars. how cool is that? but we do want to begin with breaking news out of the state of florida where governor ron desantis has declared a state of emergency in response to a significant leak from a large pond of toxic wastewater in manatee county. sam brock is joining us. you ve got 300 homes that have been ordered to evacuate and officials are warning up to 600 million gallons of wastewater could actually flow out of this pond. how are officials there responding so far? reporter: with urgency. we saw governor ron desantis hold a press conference this morning and tell
stand up and say guys and gals, can we all get together and talk? i ll do it. let s have a conversation about how do we move past this? i still want to go to the games and i still want to vote and be able to trust the vote and go to atlanta and denver and all these places. i am looking for who is the person that is going to say okay, you have a problem, corporations, you have a problem over here. can we get together? the power to convene is good. if you just say i m going to refuse to participate in everything, you will have 30% support on either side. yes, that s what i ve been thinking. bill: i love it. dana: all right. gop lawmakers are slamming the companies and boycotting the law and accusing them of hypocrisy. they re not wrong. major league baseball, they re pulling the july 17th game from the state saying it opposes restrictions to the ballot box. georgia governor is accusing them of caving to cancel culture. people should be scared to death it is going to come
days of early voting which is two days fewer than voting. they both allow no excuse voting by mail, but they also both require a valid i.d. to vote by mail and in person. sandra: we got you covered from all angles. you are governor bryan camp will be joining us in just a bit but first, brian carrington reporting from cobb county, georgia, as we kick things off this afternoon. hi, steve. this battle that has gotten so much attention across the nation has been a boon for fund-raising. the clothing company patagonia announcing a short time ago that they will be getting $1 million to political groups inside georgia who oppose the voting law and want to see it overturned. this comes after georgia-based corporations and their ceos have come out strongly against this voting law and its restricted against american values. it s discouraging to find a bunch of corporate ceos getting in the middle of politics. my advice to corporate america stay out of politics. i ll pick sides in
them wintry in scotland. as we head towards the end of the week it is going to turn much milder. all the details later. good morning. it s monday, the 12th of february. israel says two hostages have been rescued during a raid by special forces in the city of rafah in southern gaza. more than 20 people are reported to have been killed by israeli air strikes, with dozens more injured. israel has been warning that it intends to start a ground offensive to destroy hamas battalions in the city. our correspondent barbara plett usher is injerusalem. barbara, what more do we know? well, these two hostages have been rescued. they are two older men. fernando simon marmon, 60, and louis harve, 70. an israeli military spokesman said they came from a kibbutz where there had been captured in the october the 7th attacks. they were found in a residential building in rafah on the second floor. the military said they had been watching it for quite a long time and this operation was a joint ope
could go out of business as the government scales back its energy support this weekend. good morning from manchester, where i will speak to businesses facing a huge increase in their bills. good morning, a wet start across england and wales in particular. we have coastal gales through the english channel. in scotland and northern ireland, cloud with showers. temperatures lower than yesterday. good morning it s friday the 31st march. our top story. donald trump will become the first us president in history to face criminal charges after a grand jury voted to indict him over a payment made to a former porn star. stormy daniels claimed she had an affair with him and was given a hush payment during the 2016 presidential election campaign. mr trump says he has been the victim of a witch hunt. our correspondent john sudworth reports. the masssed ranks of the media say it all. donald trump s provided plenty of big moments in american politics, but few bigger than this his own immi