South Lake Tahoe. The supreme court refuses to block the new Texas Law banning abortions of about six weeks. What others fear it will lead to. This is today in the bay. Good Thursday Morning to you. Thank you for joining us and starting your day with us. I am marcus washington. I am Kris Sanchez in for Laura Garcia this morning. We want to take you to the breaking news on the east coast. Devastating flooding affecting millions of people, in Fact Flash Flooding in areas that never had a Flash Flood before. These images on the screen are from pennsylvania, and there are rescues under way at the ground level. This is new video also showing the rain at its heaviest point. Can you see the water sweeping away trash bags, and swept away cars, too. We now know there are at least eight confirmed deaths because of the storm, including a toddler. Those rains coming down hard and fast in less than 24 hours, all remanence of Hurricane Ida as its making its way north. One man rescued outside new Yor
President biden good morning, everyone. It is a good morning. We are prepared to celebrate independence day. Todays Jobs News brought a something else to celebrate. We learned that in june, our economy created 850,000 jobs. Wages went up for american workers. Since taking office, our recovery has created 600,000 jobs per month. We have now created over 3 million jobs since taking office, more jobs than have ever been created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history thanks to the work of our team. This is progress pulling our economy out the worst crisis in 100 years given in part by progress on vaccinations and other elements of the american Rescue Plan. Today, the u. S. Is the only major advanced economy where the oecd projections of future outputs are higher today than they were in january of 2020 before the pandemic hit. And america was ranked first in the Bloomberg Covid Resilience ranking. It is a direct result of the american Rescue Plan, and at the time peopl
Republican who faced heat. Are republican voters interested in anything than the politics of trump . Spencer cox joins me to discuss. Plus, fullstop . President Biden Set to meet and Mitch Mcconnell not open to compromise. 100 of my focus is on stopping this new administration. Where do things stand on Bidens Agenda . Ill speak to the House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn in minutes. Hello and happy Mothers Day. Im Jake Tapper in washington where the state of our union is grateful that falling Space Junk decided to spare us. President biden is trying to turn bad news into momentum. The White House says a disappointing Jobs Report is a clear sign that congress needs to move forward and quickly on bidens 4 Trillion infrastructure and families plans. This week the president will host a group of republican senators for negotiations, even as the Jobs News has some Republican Governors undoing a key part of bidens covid response package. Those extra 300 federal unemployment benefits. Many republic
House republicans prepare to say youre fired to r for telling the truth about the former president and the u. S. Capitol attacks. Liz cheney is not the only republican who faced heat. Are republican voters interested in anything other than the politics of trump . Utahs republican Governor Spencer Cox joins me to discuss. Plus, full stop . President Biden Set to meet and Mitch Mcconnell says hes not open to compromise. 100 of my focus is on stopping this new administration. Where do things stand on Bidens Agenda . Ill speak to the House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn in moments. Hello and happy Mothers Day. Im Jake Tapper in washington where the state of our union is grateful that falling Space Junk decided to spare us. This week President Biden is trying to turn bad news into momentum. The White House says a disappointing Jobs Report is a clear sign that congress needs to move forward and quickly on bidens 4 Trillion infrastructure and families plans. This week the president will host a gro
that is how long the senate clerks were reading that 628-page bill. that s how long it ultimately took them. they finished in the middle of the night. and at the end, senator chris van hollen, a democrat from maryland, rose to ask for some consent to go ahead and restart this debate, beginning at 9:00 a.m. today in the u.s. senate. i want to tell you why that is significant. he argues they are going to have three hours of debate. and that s important because, remember, the whole reason that senator ron johnson wanted the reading of that bill was he was arguing he wanted to delay this process. in the end, instead of having 20 hours of debate because there wasn t a republican there to object at the end of this process, they are now just going to have three hours of debate. then they will start at noon with this vote-a-rama. this is a very well known process up here on capitol hill. it s an exhausting process because what it means is one amendment after another about one amendme