Have called on americans to unite, after the former president was the target of a failed assassination attempt at the weekend. The fbi said the suspected gunman 20 year old thomas crooks acted alone. Mr trump has arrived in milwaukee for the republican national convention, as our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports. Little more than 2a hours after an attempt on his life, for donald trump the show must go on. He arrived in milwaukee, where he ll be confirmed as the presidential candidate for the republican party later this week. The bloodied and defiant images of him are likely to define an election that was already turbulent. For president biden who is under huge scrutiny over his ability to run took the moment to call on americans to settle their differences by voting, not by violence. We can t allow this violence to be normalised. You know, the political record of this country has gotten very heated. It s time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility to do th
Money into minority communities. Peter ducey starts us off tonight. Good evening. Today president biden used the greenwood vict of tulsa as an example of the kind of place where federal help never came in and matched the need after thousands of black americans were left homeless and hundreds were left dead. But he s now promising to change that. I come here to help fill the silence because in silence wounds deepen. To help heal president biden wants to use taxpayer dollars to make it easier for minorities to get mortgages and small business loans. The white house explains the federal government is the largest consumer of goods in the world buying everything from software to elevator services to financial and asset management. Federal procurement is one of our most powerful tools to advance equity and build wealth in underserved communities but critics argue this is the wrong approach. When we re talking about making more grants available for small and disadvantaged businesses and commu
Them safe. In minutes, president biden will hit the road for cleveland. Reporting about the case he is going to make there that his economic plan is working. First, heartbreak in silicon valley. Nine families changed forever. This morning, we know their names and we know some of their stories as well. We will share some of the stories. We are live at the house where authorities say the shooter, samuel cassidy, lived. It s a home that was on fire around the same time of that shooting. What could change this time around, if anything? for years, lawmakers have not been able to agree on a way to regulate purchase and use of guns in this country. Now, we are learning about some quiet bipartisanship that s apparently happening on this exact issue. We will dig into that. We start on the ground with our team in san jose. Roughly this time yesterday, we were talking about america s latest mass shooting. Nbc s lindsey reiser at there. Jake ward is ten miles away at the shooter s house. Nine more
The ongoing surge of illegal immigration at our southern border. Good evening, william. Reporter: yeah, i used to work in san diego and covered several of these things. Ate appears that the boat broke up as it tried to negotiate the rocky coast near point loma south of san diego. And frequently these mexican fishing boat drivers don t want to actually beach their boats on u. S. Soil. They ll try to drop people off basically in the water. And this is not an area like miami beach or even coronado, it s very, very rocky, and it could have lost power, the waves could have knocked them into it, unfamiliar area for one of these drivers. So maritime smuggling off san diego not uncommon especially in these kind of boats which are like a coastal fishing boat. They re open bow, outboard motor, a little longer than an suv, and sometimes they smuggle drugs, sometimes people. And here s one being chased by the coast guard in 2019. Now, typically they take off south of tijuana, they go around the co
this protest took place in finland, which has more than 70,000 confirmed cases, and where 800 people have died since the pandemic began. there were also anti lockdown protests in london. they came despite a fall in infections and a fast paced vaccine programme. and german police used pepper spray during ugly clashes in the northern city of kassel, another city where demonstrators are angry about covid linked restrictions. 0ur berlin correspondent, damian mcguinness is following developments. anti restrictions, demonstrations in germany have become a common sight over the past year and we saw the high point last summer we are, strangely, the lockdown measures were relatively light and the pandemic was seen as quite undercontrolled here in germany but what we ve seen over the past few months is quite a change in mood across the country stop these particular demonstrations are a complete mix of people, so you have all sorts of people from far right groups to just people who don