Department is doing the search and rescue, the miamidade police department is thankful as to what the cause is about right now we are focused on the search and rescue, when that moment comes, we will be in charge of the investigation, we are holding the traffic scenes right now, once the transition comes we will be a part of that investigation. With other partners and very similar to the bridge, there will be other assets coming once they stop the search and rescue component. As well there will probably be federal resources involved in the investigation as well. If you don t mind, dresser people watching so we can be clear, not necessarily from the collapse but the structure, regarding efforts under the rubble, can you see at all whether anyone has been located, continuing what you may have found at this point. In combination to our numbers this morning, 35 victims were polled by the structure from fire rescue, two victims were pulled from the rubble, a total of 11 patience that were t
Exactly 100 years ago. Abby philip, thank you very much for your reporting. We turn now to texas, where state democratic lawmakers are calling on congress to do something, this after they successfully delayed a vote on a restrictive voting bill, that state republicans were poised to make a law, and as republican governor greg abbott threatens their paychecks. Ed lavandera is live in dallas, how are state lawmakers responding to the funding threat? reporter: well, i think they re waiting to see what the governor is going to do and there s real question, even republicans and democrats, questioning whether or not this is a real threat, or just kind of a shot across the bow, and see what exactly greg abbott is going to do but essentially the move would defund the legislative branch of state government, and it s not just hurting lawmakers and clearly there s a feeling among some republicans of anger toward the democrats that walked out of the legislative session in the last hour and a half
Core republicans too. Because of who votes about democrats. In his lair down in maralago, the infamous retiree is living in an alternate reality appearing to genuinely believe that he won the election last year and somehow any day now he s going to return in triumph to the white house. Trump s delusion isn t fading with time. Instead it s metastasizing. Statelevel republicans use it to discredit the election in the eyes of their voters and as an excuse to put laws in place to try to ensure that republicans can never lose elections again. The washington post reports that like a mango mcbeth trump is focused on the lie that the election was stolen and thinks bogus antidemocratic fraud are going to prove it. He s plotting similar magical recounts in pennsylvania and georgia and he s taking his cues from mike lindell, the former drug addict and mypillow salesman who told daily beast he s started the belief that trump could be reinstated in august. A pennsylvania state senator who recently
others on this set today may be concerned. but i think most americans, despite what tim scott said in the response about joe biden tearing america apart with his policies, they don t agree with that assessment. they haven t agreed with that assessment over the first 99 days of this administration. and if you look at the flash polls last night out by several organizations, they didn t agree with that assessment last night. this address getting great initial reaction from once again the overwhelming majority of americans. as so much of his legislation both passed and proposed has overwhelming support from so many americans. these are initial polls, president biden s address to congress, in the latest cbs u.gov poll, 85% of viewers approved of the president s speech, 15% disapproved. the cnn/ssrs poll, 71% said that the president s speech made them feel optimistic. in that cbs poll, 78% felt optimistic about america after listening to the president s speech. 13% felt pessimist
lot of debt very quickly. back in the bill clinton years, we started seeing those deficits being paired down and turned into surpluses. this president is confident that these initiatives will lead to economic booms that might have the same effect. we shall see. we re going to peter doocy at the white house with what we can expect in a bit of a different setting tonight, right? yes, neil. socially distanced this evening. we can expect to see president biden trying to appeal to american families who might be watching and might not normally pay attention to what happens here by offering them $1.8 trillion in now taxpayer-funded stuff. so we have a graphic to show you how it breaks down. trillion in investment and $800 billion in tax cuts for american families. $200 billion for universal preschool, $109 billion for two years of free community college and $225 billion for free child care. officials here insist this is only going to get paid for with new taxes on the ultra wealth