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right now. good evening from new york. i m chris has. good to have you here on the holiday weekend. i hope you are getting to where you need go and you are tucked in with us here. today, they have done the deed. s have done the deed. some don t have the respect or courage to stick around, to show their face. republicans have success bli filibustered the creation for an in, and attempted to overthrow a free and fair election while we all watched on television. and republicans did it with the health of a key accomplice. the senate rules. here is the vote cally. let s see if we can figure it out. 54 yeas, in the sus its, you need 60 votes. not even 60% of the senators bother to stick around, and hence the absences, two democrats were absence. nine republicans were absent, including senator pat toomey who missed the vote due to a family commitment. i get it, you are hours away from the memorial day weekend. you have commitments. right now, frankly, i would love to be with ....
locals were treated to a dawn chorus featuring pauline black, lead singer of the ska revival band the selecter. coventry through and through. # riverflows.# i ve lived in coventry for very many years and to even be in a city that is coventry city of culture was good, but to be asked to perform at the opening ceremony, ijust thought, wow! it was fantastic, it was brilliant, and to have it in spon end, it was brilliant as well. the colours, lovely, and i m glad it stayed dry for them, not pouring down with rain. action. i m singing the river song, i am the river, as you can see, with all this wonderful kind of blue make up and all this flowing veil. because there is a river that runs underneath the city. and, of course, that is kind of, the life spring, the well of everything, that s the reason why they settled, because there was a river. its like miss haversham! i know this area and i know the people round here, or some of the people round here, and to have them actually ....
hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the queen has welcomed the us presidentjoe biden at windsor castle. the g7 summit concludes with member states agreeing to deliver more than a billion coronavirus vaccinations to poorer countries and raise a hundred billion dollars to help them cut carbon emissions. but there is also being a continuing row over the northern ireland protocol. doctors confirm denmark s christian eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest during a match at the european championship. and a sterling effort from england as they beat croatia i o in their opening game of the european championship at wembley. we ll be back at the top of the hour with more news. now on bbc news, we re in coventry as the city s streets are transformed into a giant stage and the celebrations finally begin for the covid delayed year, as uk city of culture 2021. good morning, happy saturday! this is rachel new. i hope you ve had some caffeine in you already, because today is going to be ....
streets are transformed into a giant stage and the celebrations finally begin for the covid delayed year as uk city of culture 2021. radio jingle: bbc cwr! good morning, happy saturday! this is rachel new. i hope you ve had some caffeine in you already, because today is going to be a very big day. the start of a summer weekend in coventry, but this is no ordinary saturday. today, the whole city will be become a giant stage, to mark the start of a big year. ..as the uk city of culture. stay with us all day, because we re going to make sure that you do not miss a moment of this. cove ntry. it s been a long time coming. coventry won the honour back in 2017. cove ntry! ..way before covid forced artistic directorjustine themen to change all her plans. you see the track? it s down here. because we can t be bringing audiences together in large numbers, or even participants, we have had to think very differently. for a start, what is about to take place on these streets has had ....
day, the push to vaccinate. where the one-shot vaccine is being given out, and how many travelers are taking authorities up on the offer. and tonight the million dollar winner, the call from the governor, the woman who could not believe it. the college scholarship given out. and tonight the newest state to reveal $15 million to be spread out among ten mericans who get fully vaccinated. and with the memorial day weekend just about here, the severe weather threats as we come on the air tonight. dangerous winds, hail and possible tornadoes from texas to illinois. it will all move east. storms set to hit tomorrow just as millions hit the road for the holiday. rob marciano standing by to time this all out. also as we come on the air tonight, all eyes on the senate. the vote tonight will there be a 9/11-style commission looking into how the attack on the capitol happened? the mother of the officer brian sicknick, who later died, going from office to office today askin ....