Their injuries as we learn new details about the investigation into why a Gunman Opened Fire at a Light Rail Yard in san jose, with victims ranging from 29 to 63. The gunman, whom we will not be naming here, took his own Life Yesterday and has been identified as employee of the Santa Clara Transportation authority. Theres a numbness i imagine some of us are feeling about this because theres a sameness to this. Anywhere, usa. It feels like this happens over and over and over and over again, rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Begs the damn question, what the hell is going on in the united states of america . The u. S. Flag lowered to halfstaff to honor those who lost their lives, as President Biden renews his call for congress to act on Gun Safety, saying the families of those killed will never be whole again. Our team of reporters is following all of the latebreaking developments in san jose. I want to go first to lindsey reiser. Whats the latest on the investigation . Stephanie, were
The pay for this. it s not real. they have an illusion to take money committed to other spending. and i m not hearing about the green infrastructure, the importance when we make these investments and we re talking about moving our buses to electric, our school buses to electric, our mass transit to electric, that we re bringing down our carbon footprint and whether or not they put enough money in to do this. the third one is notice who gets left behind, the women. infrastructure is about helping people get to work and helping businesses thrive because they ve got workers. rebuild roads and bridges to do that. we invest in broadband to do that. we need to invest in childcare to do that. millions of women are out of the workplace right now and one out of four says the reason i can t get childcare. we were in a crisis before the pandemic hit, it only got worse
Committee along congress bipartisan. that was part of what the president initially asked us to look at as infrastructure. we don t consider that physical infrastructure, but we do think it s part of the package that the president should be able to distinguish as part of his infrastructure. so what we are looking at today is a $928 billion package over eight years. it sticks to the core infrastructure features we talked to initially. it s a serious effort to try to reach a bipartisan agreement. the president said to me and us in february that he was really agnostic as to whether we passed a bunch of small bills or one large bill. and we heard him say inaction is not an option for him. we now passed two of the smaller and actually surface transportation hasn t gone out of the full senate yet. but it is a major anchor to this piece of legislation. so i think that shows there s a
President calling for congress to take some action. the white house is not getting heavily involved though at this point in congressional negotiations. part of that is because they do not want to upset the balance. senator chris murphy, who s been taking the lead on this for years, he s been trying to strike between republicans and democrats. while there s optimism on the hill around things like infrastructure, police reform, we re not hearing optimism about gun reform legislation. at least not in the coming months. so the white house has been trying to do things behind the scenes. there are executive actions the president passed back in april. he has the head of the atf he nominated that faces a really difficult fight in congress to get nominated. essentially the president is increasingly finding himself in the same place he was last time he was in the white house as vice president with a congress deadlocked over this issue of gun reform. sahil, you have new reporting, this is the o
The events that lindsey described there. jake, we need to leave it there. we re going to washington, d.c., where the republicans from west virginia shelly capito is explaining the republican counterproposal infrastructure package. let s list an in. to try to reach somewhere near the trillion dollars over an eight-year period of time that would include our baseline spending. we have achieved that goal with this counteroffer. but we also i think have done something that has stayed true to what our believes are when we very first started this endeavor and that is sticking to core, physical infrastructure. what is the definition of infrastructure? and we have stayed within the boundaries of our original plan. i think that s what the american people think of when they think of infrastructure and that s certainly what we do too. but there s a couple of bits of good news that i think happened