is the pandemic and president biden spoke earlier today at a press conference and talked about the need to continuing to wear masks, social and physical distance, wash your hands and the important thing about getting a vaccine. meanwhile, we continue to learn new details from the justice department investigation into florida congressman matt gaetz for potential sex crimes. gaetz is reportedly accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. new york times reports that they are focused on gaetz and another florida politician, jeel greenberg indicted for sex trafficking a minor over alleged involvement with multiple women who were recruited online for sex and received cash payment as cording to people close to the investigation and text messages and payment receipts from the man that have been reviewed by the new york times. gaetz has denied the allegations that he paid for sex or had a relationship with a 17-year-old calling the allegation against him tot
mccarthy and perhaps not surprisingly he is refusing to cooperate. he says the probe is an abuse of power and he calls it illegitimate. a jarring 180 from this comment that mccarthy made last may. would you be willing to testify about your conversation with donald trump on january 6th if you were asked by an outside commission sure. next question. so even with that, i doubt the committee ever really believed mccarthy would answer anything. what is significant, though, is if you really look at this letter sent by the committee chair bennie thompson, the committee meticulously lays out this road map for what they re investigating and really what they found already. what was trump doing during the hours of the insurrection, what did trump do after to shape or maybe change the story. this letter cites an interview that mccarthy gave to cbs during the insurrection where mccarthy admitted to speaking with trump, asking trump to tell the rioters to stop. in a cnn exclusive
the question. that is why the small group of us, and we are only small, but we ve taken a step of saying we don t have to wait. if we wait for the bishops to do it it could be a long long time. catholics can do it for themselves now. we have a responsibility to educate ourselves and a responsibility to support those bishops when we can, because we have just held a very successful one, with over a0 international speakers over a week, and every speech and talk can be heard if you just click on our website. it wasn t difficult, it was a lot of work, but it wasn t difficult. people are ripe for reform, and what they have to remember is that we are the catholics that haven t walked away because we are actually the church s get out ofjail free card. we need to be heard. let s ta ke let s take a look at the weather. the thug lingered, it was clip treacherous on the road, sure ci m we are into autumn. i know treacherous on the road, sure ci m we are into autumn. i know it s a weekend
family to return their land to its natural state. and studying the effects of long covid in children and young people. specialist centres are due to open across england this week. a number of conservative mps have joined those calling for the government to provide urgent support to businesses struggling with soaring gas prices. the leaders of industries with heavy energy consumption say spiralling costs are threatening their future. ministers insist they re in regular contact with business groups to explore possible solutions. our business correspondent katie prescott reports. cement, glass, steel, chemicals. the industries with the heaviest energy consumption in the uk. to keep the furnaces burning, they re crying out for support. absolutely right now. gas prices are at an unprecedented level. and the businesses that manufacture the goods that we need are trying to operate under these unprecedented conditions. they are backed by some conservative mps representing industrial
were spared. the tampa bay area, i think things are good. leon county is doing well. we re still assessing what is all going on on the ground in the places that had the initial impact. as i mentioned, the storm is now into georgia bearing down on savannah, which is under both a hurricane warning and a tornado watch. after that, it s expected to push into south carolina, slamming the area between columbia and charleston. this is what idalia looks like when it came ashore along keaton beach. that s one of several coastal florida towns that got the worst of it. areas that have never seen a hurricane like this. the town of perry is another, and that is where this unbelievable video was shot. 100 miles per hour winds flipping a gas station awning right onto its side. right now roughly 275,000 people are without power across florida, more than 90,000 already in georgia, and that s where we begin in georgia. nbc s lindsey reiser joins me now from savannah, lindsey, what s the bi