A major heat wave in store for the Pacific Northwest and growing Fire Concerns for the droughtstricken southwest. Lets get to meteorologist chad myers. Chad . John, a remarkable heat wave about to occur in the northwest. Also, British Columbia as well. Hundreds of record highs will be broken without a doubt. To the east there will be some severe weather. But this remarkable heat wave across the west is going to happen thursday, friday, saturday, and into sunday and then at the same time were going to get almost 10 inches of rain in parts of missouri. One side across the country to the other. Seattle has only been over 100 degrees three times in history. The forecast is for three times again by monday. New day continues right now. Im Brianna Keilar alongside john berman on this new day. Combatting crime, President Biden taking action to address a surge in big city violence. Democrats strategizing their next move after Senate Republicans knocked down, even debating, an election reform bi
capitol hill where if you didn t happen to already be watching the news this morning, you missed a huge surprise that caused a huge spectacle. at 10:04 a.m., the house oversight committee gavelled in to debate ahead of a vote to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress for refusing to comply with a gop subpoena for closed door testimony. at 10:09, hunter biden escorted by secret service and flanked by his lawyers just showed up to the committee room offering himself up for public testimony. but instead of taking him up on that offer, republicans got angry and democrats got exasperated. yes, i m looking at you, hunter biden, as i m speaking to you. you are not above the law at all. i believe that hunter biden should be held completely in contempt. i think he should be hauled off to jail right now. let s vote. let s take a vote. who wants to hear from hunter right now today? anyone? come on. who wants to hear from hunter? no one. mr. biden doesn t make the rules, we make
let s now get down to business and starting in the uk. how attractive is the uk as a place to do business? later today we ll find out when the ons releases its latest data on the level of foreign direct investment into the uk in 2021. a recent survey conducted by the accountancy firm pwc suggests britain was the third most important place in the world for businesses to invest, behind the us and china. but the head of the cbi is not so optimistic. in a speech today tony danker will call on the government to not shy away from hard decisions that can reverse the uk s trajectory of falling investment. he will urge the government to seize green growth opportunities. lets get the view of chris southworth, secretary general of international chamber of commerce uk. good to see you. obviously we are talking about investment in the uk from overseas, that is one thing and tony danker calling on the government to invest more, that is another thing. if we talk about the uk at the moment,
engaging in military exercises. which north korean some publicly stated, repeatedly that they find provocative and they see as kind of a rehearsal for an invasion of north korea. just hours before, we saw this latest missile strike, we had a statement from north korea. condemning united states redeployment of an aircraft carrier. that specifically the u.s. has ronald reagan near the korean peninsula. and the north korean s call this, their statements are typically have the sort of awkward phrasing. they called it a considerably huge negative splash and regional security. and they said that they were defending themselves with missile tests, which they have been doing since the beginning of the year. and, again increasing frequency. they told us a righteous reaction to these intimidating military drills. so you know, this really has seen this year a big increase in the pace and in the tone of these missile tests. and again, in the tit-for-tat sort of answers by the united state
ron desantis slimming punished for something that hasn t even happened. yet can desantis take that page straight out of the authoritarian playbook? all of that and more is coming up, so let s get started. good morning to you on this very busy sunday. i am katie fang. senate democrats are on the brink of a spending bill intended to lower health care costs, tackle climate change and bring down the deficit. here s a live, look right now, at the chamber. floor lawmakers going on more than seven hours now, applauding through a pile of amendments in what is known as vote-a-rama. the measure advance on a party line vote of 51 to 50, with vice president kamala harris casting the tie breaking vote, and overcoming unanimous republican opposition. the azar 50, the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative with the motion to proceed being a great. too. while democrats are trying to push ahead with democrat domestic priorities, for pr