Joining us backtoback special episodes of the whole story begin now welcome to the whole story. I m anderson cooper. We have just two months to go before election day. The polls show a tight race between vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump with many voters still undecided. We re going to take the next two hours to examine five key issues for both campaigns. The economy, reproductive rights, immigration, foreign affairs and the state of democracy. First, cnn s audie cornish takes a look at harris s record on these policies during her time as a prosecutor, a senator, and as vice president she begins with the number one issue for most american voters, the economy one day after president joe biden announced his decision to drop out of the race and endorsed his vice president kamala harris, addressed a campaign. Staff at the wilmington, delaware headquarters building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency in her first interview as candidate,
Sometimes great challenge is right under your nose i hanako montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn you are in the cnn and newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news from the middle east where the israeli defense forces say they have located, quote, a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip, seen an international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us now, live from jerusalem with the latest on this, nic reminding everyone details now very scant. But what are you learning yeah, i have to say as well, this is unusual for the idf to put out this sort of statement to say that they ve located bodies during a combat operation. They don t normally sort of comment on things as actually happening and unfolding and that s what they so as precisely happening at the moment. They re saying that they are working to extract an identify the bodies in this ongoing operation and that asking for people to refrain from speculation, which appears to perhaps indica
Charlie hebdo back in january, 2015. We have the latest from the courtyard in a few moments time. Its been exactly a month since a catastrophic explosion in the port of beirut killed nearly 200 people and destroyed entire neighborhoods in the lebanese capitol. One month after rescue teams are digging through the debris. One search team says it has detected signs of life upped the rubble of a collapsed building. Workers are cuesing bulldozers and bare hands to try to reach a otential survivor. Prompted by signs of heartbeat, workers dig through the rubble of this collapsed building on one of the worsthit streets in the august 4 explosion. Using a sensor, a search and rescue team said they detected what could be the pulse of 18 to 19 beats per minute. Efforts were halted on thursday night, though. The building deemed too unstable for rescuers to contitinue witht heavy machinery. [speaking foreign language] the explosion has devastated the country which was already grappling with the fina
As we know it. Today hououse is meetingg under r exceptional and unprecedented circumstances. Adorned with a sea of n no sitting signs, the capacity of the chamber has been slashed from 650 to just 50. Hazard tape on the floor reminds those present to keep their distance. For the first time in their 700 year history, mps are being asked to do their jobs remotely. Easter recessm comes amid growing anger at the official response to covid119 with bliststering accounts off government in action in the early days of the outbreak. One key charge, a failure to foresee shortages of personal protective equipment for frontline workers. With Prime Minister Boris Johnson still recovering from thee virus, it fell to his healh minister to tell the british that the u. K. Is taking part in an eu procurement scheme. Although the European Commission says that isnt true. When we did receive an invitation in the department of health, as it came to the department of health, it was put up to me to be asked a
In custody. Were expecting a News Conference to take place sometime in the next 15 to 30 minutes. Well keep you updated on this breaking story right up until the nbc nightly news at 7 00. We have more breaking news tonight. A local couple found dead while vacationing in the dominican republic. Wlets get straight toendy rieger. Shes got everything wenow at is point on the story. Whats the latest . We know the couple is from Prince Georges county. They are cynthia day and her fiancee 63yearold Edward Holmes. They got to the resort may 25th. They were staying on the southeast coast of the island. The newspaper today is reporting their bodies showed no signs of violence. Investigators have not determined a cause of death. The couples family says theyve been in contact with the u. S. Embassy in the dr and are baffled, not sure, dont know what happened. According to the dominican today, the Hotel Director says they were scheduled to leave yesterday. We are still working this story and gettin