What action will be taken to help cities stop the bloodshed. And crime was top of mind for New York City voters who cast their ballots for the mayor. When all said and done, will a former Police Officer come out on top . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early, the show that shuts down all the fire alarms, i think were good this morning. Unlike yesterday. I am kasie hunt, this wednesday, june 23rd. Well start with the news. Democrats say they will keep fighting after Senate Republicans on a sweeping new Voting Rights action in laws in red states. Democratic governor joe manchin voted to debate, after receiving assurances that his compromise would be considered. At the end, the vote was split 50 50, short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the republican filibuster. Heres what will we heard on the senate floor yesterday. Theres no widespread effort to stop voters from casting a ballot. And theres no design to hand states constitutional authorities over to
Buts. Lawmakers are struggling to come to any sort of agreement. And President Biden wont rule out democrats acting alone to bring relief to millions of americans. This, as Johnson Johnson says its Covid Vaccine is 66 effect against moderate december but 85 effective against severe disease. Lets start with the latest on the Sprawling Investigation on the attack on the u. S. Capitol. Jessica sh insider is working the story for us. The manhunt for whoever planted those bombs is clearly intensifying. Reporter it is, wolf. The fbi does have new clues, but the suspect is still out there. Theres concern from Law Enforcement tonight that he or she might be plotting even more bombings out there. Now this comes as were getting a glimpse inside the Capitol Insurrection from a Police Officers perspective. But a warning here, this video is graphic and quite disturbing. A major mystery mounts tonight. Who planted the two pipe bombs blocks away from the capitol near the republican and Democratic Nat
As we learn more about that unfolding situation today. But first, we want to turn or attention to a major change underway in america. Today workers in our Energy Industry are wondering where the Biden White House is leaving them. They spent decades Building Energy independence in this country. Thats been great news for workers and not such great news for other big Energy Providers like venezuela or russia or the middle east. We were building our own enormous energy supply. That shifted. The global power dynamic in a way that has not been seen since the advent of the automobile. Now its changing. Executive orders are it sheing down new leases for fracking on federal land. As you know, the xl pipeline is a casualty here. Heres what some of those workers are saying as they react to this. You prepare for these large projects. When one gets the rug yanked out from under it, you have nothing the next year or two years. I cant believe that all this in one day, that a mans stroke of a pen can
3,000 u. S. Troops to europe as the threat of a russian invasion looms over ukraine. Hello, welcome to America Reports for a wednesday, john roberts in washington. Sandra, good to be back with you. Sandra great to see you. Welcome back. Sandra smith in new york. Additional forces are deploying to poland, germany and romania, all of which are nato members, on top of the 8500 troops already on high alert and ready for deployment if needed. John the pentagon says the u. S. Is committed to defending nato allies as tensions rise, and new Satellite Images reveal the extent of russias military activity in the region. Sandra steve live in kyiv, what is putin doing now . Whats he doing now and whats he going to do, the question many World Leaders are asking themselves. Putin kept quiet about ukraine for a month, he broke the silence yesterday in classic passion. Twisted it around saying the u. S. Was trying to drag russia into war in ukraine, not mentioning the massive buildup of Russian Forces
New jersey, new york, all over. The Philadelphia Police officers were there out in force. They were there for if funeral of wilbert mora. It was officiated by cardinal dolan. Mayor adams, a former nypd officer he was and his Police Commissioners and said we have your backs to the Police Officers of this city. They pledged a partnership to make this city safe once again. This execution devastates a family, rocks the soul of a department, touches heart of a nation. Tests the faith of this city. The nypd stands tall. We always do. We are going to give you the resources to fight this senseless violence. Its New Yorkers Tag killers, and we will not lose. Martha a heart breaking jump in the number of officers killed in the line of duty. Last year, the defund the Police Movement and at that point you had many of these same officers that were out there today, back then they turned their backs on mayor Bill De Blasio in protest because they felt like they didnt have support from the mayor in th