Fast that its a challenge to count every single one of them. Those numbers are staggering really. I have said this before. But every one of those numbers represents one of our fellow americans, every one of them someones friend, someones family member, someones loved one. The president says he a activate ed the National Guard in new york and california, washington state. Hes also approved disaster declarations for washington. With california expected to be approved soon. He says hes instructed fema to supply four large federal medical stations with 1,000 beds for new york, 8 medical stations with 2,000 beds for california and 3 medical stations with 1,000 beds for washington. Fema administrator say iing thi. We have medical supplies enroute to these states including respirators, gloves, masks, qualities already delivered to washington, new york and california. That as more states are ordering people to hunker down. To stay where they are. Louisiana, delaware, telling residents to stay
Remembering those who fought for freedom at home and abroad. Im Shannon Bream live in the nations capital. The u. S. Led coalition launched more airstrikes last night hoping to take out top leaders. Our middle east bureau has more this morning. Hello, connor. Reporter he would be a major coup for the u. S. Led coalition, but it isnt clear what the health of the Islamic State is right now. Theres been rumors about the entire arab world. The pentagon has confirmed it launched a series of airstrikes targeting a gathering of senior isis leaders, but arab media reported that he was in this group and either injured or killed but the pentagon can confirm that he was present or killed. There are reports on twitter according to islamic groups that he was injured, but there are just a lot of rumors swirling around the middle east. Its not true and whats not. Meanwhile the violence in iraq and syria showing no signs of ledding up a series of bombs in iraq killed 43 people. The syrian kurds contin
Head into that lunch. The clicking of those shutters would indicate you probably have a shot of the president coming down the hallway. There he is. With actually John Barrasso and mitch mcconnell. So theyre heading in to this luncheon with republican senators. We also saw several Top White House staffers here on capitol hill, john kelly, the chief of staff, gary cohen, whos been a key part of the tax reform talks. Mark short, his legislative director. And Sarah Huckabee sanders, who to my knowledge is a relatively rare presence up here on capitol hill, so all of them coming to try to hammer out these final details. I would say the president s role in this is typically one of cheerleader. I mean, he and the white house often say hes here to crack a deal. Im not sure i would necessarily characterize it that way behind the scenes. Although i would say Mitch Mcconnells office is attempting today to do that in public. They put out a statement. Its unrelated or rather legislatively policywis
why are things stalling? reporter: the investigations that found for 421 days, a year and two months, the fbi, usa olympic committee and usa gymnastics all failed to actor even warn michigan state university where dr. nasser works that he was sexually abusing athletes. and there are also profiles in coward yes, sdes because peo look the other way and put medals and money above morals. reporter: the senator jerry maran says the organizations knowingly concealed reports of the abuse. was that a mastiff cover-up of usoj and usoc, and for that matter even the fbi? whether it was a criminal your suppo cover upremai coverup remains to be proven.
would be thrilled. he s talking about some of these backstops that perhaps lawmakers should be considering just in case some of the rosier economic projections don t come to pass. is that something we are likely to see in a finished bill? senator jim langford, bob corker of course, jeff flake of arizona, todd rounds in indiana and i believe jerry maran in kansas. i had langford on my radio show this morning talking about the backstop, the trigger. he s very optimistic those four or five senators will have their concerns met. he did not want to talk about steve johnson who cares about the pass-through language, although i ve seen some indication that s moving along pretty well, and nobody has spoken to senator mccain or senator collins who had unique concerns of their owns. senator collins on the