Blasting a Spending Proposal as reckless and irresponsible. Mark meredith is live in delaware where President Biden is spending the Holiday Weekend. President biden unveiled his Budget Proposal on Friday Afternoon of a Holiday Weekend and the timing is certainly unusual. There is 20th mixed reaction. Democrats democrats thrilled to see democrats thrilled as he was coming of the White House and republicans warning about the 6 Billion Spending Plan. This is a lot of money and it takes a lot of time to go through everything but highlights include money to address the upper Structure Proposal under Debate Funding to boost Safety Net Programs and the cdc in Gun Violence as well. Its memorial Day Weekend we thought it will would mean for the pentagon additional 735 Billion in proposed Spending Money that would go to not only raise the payfor u. S. Troops that money to counter china on the pacific money to buy more Fighter Jets and Address Security challenges in space. The president says what
Hitting the roads. What one u. S. Airline is doing to stop passengers from fighting onboard its planes. Good morning, it is saturday, may 29. We kick off memorial weekend. Im kendis gibson. Im lindsey reiser. No matter how miserable i am on a plane, stuck in the middle seat, i would never get violent or angry. We will have to put our minds, you know, ourselves in the minds of people who do that. You got off an airplane last night. Exactly. We do have a team of reporters all over the place covering the very latest for us. Including travel. We are looking at some of the different scenes all over the country, including hartford right now that is dealing with some rain. But we are going to begin on Capitol Hill. Congress now out of session for memorial Day Weekend but the fallout to senate republicans blocking the creation of the January 6th commission continues this morning. Msnbcs Amanda Golden is there with more. Amanda, Senator Schumer says he might bring the bill back to the floor. Ho
Understand no evacuations have been issued at this time. And were still following this fire getting all the latest updates as soon as they come into our newsroom, we will bring them to you. Were still working to figure out exactly how this fire started and if any property is damaged at the moment. But the fire could be impacted by the hot weather out. There are cheap. Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joining us now with details. Yeah. The second day of temperatures over a 100 degrees. Of course you get all that evaporation get the builtup even really kind of primed already in our drought to see the spot fires. Breaking out. So this is not shocking to see this fire popping up or similar fires to this. Not extreme fire danger, but still you get that Afternoon Breeze. Youre looking at those winds right now out of dishes 17 look toward fairfield over 20 mile an hour winds that is going to blow that fire along through that very dry brush make for some very dangerous fire conditions to fight th
Very high. According to lawrence, it was 111 degrees there earlier today. This is a live look at the fire thats burning southbound lanes of i 6, 80 was shut down for about 2 hours. But they opened back up just before we got on the air at 9 oclock. We have not received update on the acreage that has burned so far. But the smoke was clearly visible earlier. It appears to have dissipated. No evacuation orders we are continuing to follow this and we will bring you updates as they come into the newsroom. Meantime, in the south bay. Firefighters were busy responding to small Brush Fires in San Jose fire officials worried about the Drought Stress Presentation out there. But first, gayle ong, she is live for us San Jose with the very latest kale. Yeah. The 3 small Brush Fires. They responded to today. One of them was close to last Nights Fire that actually destroyed 2 cars and sent one person to the hospital. San Jose Firefighters quickly doused the flames of this Brush Fire that ignited on th
You, Craig Melvin here. An image meant to inspire Confidence And Unity on a shaken global stage. That Family Photo of america and our allies standing shoulder to shoulder, the first day of the G7 Summit in the United Kingdom just got under way. Right now, President Biden meeting with his counterparts there. Like any family, there are differences. But there are also some key issues of agreement this morning. Of course, we cant forget the big meeting on the horizon. President biden and russian president vladimir putin, reporters just asking President Biden about it this morning. Mr. President , whats your message to putin . Back here at home, were following big developments on Capitol Hill, a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, new hurdles with Police Reform talks and a sharp focus on Voting Rights. And theres a big new revelation related to the former president s tenure. The new york times Thursday Headline reads, hunting Leaks Trump officials focused on democrats in congress. Nbc has no