morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. we are still here and we will never quit we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i ll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colle
today secretary mayorkas during a budget request hearing reaffirms the border is control contrary to raúl ortiz has said. do you disagree with the head border patrol agent when he said the border is not secured. congressman i have testified to that issue. so you disagree with your chief of border patrol? i respectfully do in that regard. mayorkas wants an increase in the dhs budget $800 million for new technology and hiring 1400 more people to help secure the border but here s how republicans responded to that proposal. we could give you money to hire a thousand new board earth agents. nobody wants to work are. mr. secretary this budgeted proposal is an insult to americans. you failed in your jobs. those calls are nothing new for mayorkas. he s faced calls to be impeached. mayorkas had said by their standards then no administration has ever had operational control. ranking member and democrat benny thompson came to his defense. under this definition again
what authorities just revealed. the record heat wave in the northeast. the heat index, the feel-like reading topping 100 degrees in new york city, philadelphia to washington. and in boston tonight, the sixth day of record temperatures above 95 degrees. at this hour, the threat of storms and flooding. ginger zee tracking it all. president biden and the major bipartisan victory tonight. signing the $280 billion bill increasing microchip production here in the u.s. chips used in cars, cell phones, computers. and we hear from an american manufacturer ready to go. mary bruce at the white house. the major headline on monkeypox. the outbreak here in the u.s. the government now planning to turn one vaccine shot into five shots, able to reach more people. steve osunsami at the cdc. the war in ukraine, and tonight, the explosion rocking a russian air base in crimea. were the ukrainians behind it? here in the u.s., the case making national headlines tonight. the alarming image