Joe biden both taking time to honor those veterans who served our country. President elect biden left wilmington to stop by the philadelphia Korean War Memorial at penns landing to lay a wreath there. This is a personal day. His late son beau biden served in the National Guard in iraq. The president laid a a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. This is the first appearance since Hemant Lakhani shun was called. The biden called on the president to concede. I think it is an embarassment quite frankly. The only thing that, how can i say this, tactfully, i think it will not help the president s legacy. Reporter even though President Trump is biding his time, World Leaders are not waiting. Biden had a roundrobin ever calls with leaders around the world congratulating him on his win and recognizing him as the incoming leader of the free world. Biden also says he is looking forward to speaking with Top Republicans and says he thinks silence on their side is because they are quote, mildl
Judicial nominations tan politics of americas highest court comes out tuesday. Ilia, welcome, good to see you again. Good to be on. Paul what is in your view Justice Ginsburgs main legacy . Well, hes a legal giant as Justice Scalia put it in writing about her times magazine as most influential people years ago. Her pioneering legacy litigation strategy, achieving so much to turn back sex discrimination, patience, professionalism, her niceness, universally liked and famously the wonderful relationship with Justice Scalia. The last 10, 15 years shes mostly been known for her descents, famous majority opinions probably the one requiring the Virginia Military institute to allow women coo cadets. You know she wears a particular one that she will be passionate about the majority. Paul one of the things i mentioned even in the last 10, 15 years she was in the majority. He wrote the opinion in scaling the u. S. And she was with the majority in the mcdonald case where they overturned what were
Basis. Keep you abreast of that. Barreling down, albeit barreling down slowly on Grady Trimble in gulf part mississippi. Reporter neil, sally is moving extremely slowly at two miles an hour. That is slower than most humans walk. You can see here it is starting to rain. The wind is picking up. Were in pascagoula, mississippi. The water is lapping over the side. The storm makes landfall tomorrow, is that tomorrowsurge continues. That the water pushed up. In area. Along beach boulevard there are many house us. Theyre not boarded up for the most part from what weve seen. Sternly a risk of flooding, with all of the oak trees, 85 mileperhour winds are nothing to mess around with either. Because the storm is moving so slowly well see several days worth of rain. You could see flash flooding on top of a potential for storm surge. I want to point out the pier in the background there. A light moment as people prepare for this very serious storm. We saw people gathered there we werent sure what th
Is about 2 away from record territory. Blake burman at the white house. Edward lawrence in washington. We start with blake, with the latest from the president. Reporter the white house is acknowledging that it might take some time to get federal Unemployment Benefits out the door going forward. The executive order from the president 300 from the federal post, the states matching 100 if they are able to. Some state governors mentioned they cant. In any event the white house is working on this issue. In the interim, they are hoping that democrats return to the negotiating table. I cant pinpoint a timeline other than were working around the clock. We urge democrats on the hill to come back. Secretary mnuchin is willing to review any proposal because the American People deserve better than the games and partisanship they have seen from nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer and their democrat colleagues. Reporter now the president also took action suspending some collection of payroll taxes and de
Im jamie colby, just northeast of bellingham, washington, near the canadian border. Beautiful isnt it . The woman im about to meet is the heir of a controversial relic that, according to family lore, connects her and her ancestors to jesse james and his notorious gang from the 1860s and 70s. My name is sandy mills, and i inherited a very old picture from my grandmother, isabelle. She said it was the infamous outlaw, jesse james. I believed it, but it didnt seem like anybody else really did. Sandy. Hi. Im jamie. So nice to meet you, and i cant wait to hear your story. Sandy explains that her roots go back to missouri, where her grandmother, isabelle, shared with her the family legend that their forebears occasionally aided jesse james. The outlaw jesse james. Yes, maam. She would tell me the stories as i was growing up, how they would give them horses and food and shelter, just protect them. To prove it, grandma isabelle shows sandy this picture, known as a tintype. Its an early form of