Debate 2022 campaign fights. President biden on the road to get a firsthand look at ida s wrath. He s just landed in new jersey where he was met at the airport by the democratic governor phil murphy. The president will see the damage from the flooding. We know at least 52 people died across six northeast states. First stop is in new jersey in a town submerged last week. And queens nearly a dozen people were killed after being trapped in flooded basements. The presidential visit follows new federal disaster decl declarations for both states, freeing up money needed for repairs and rebuilding. Let s get to athena jones joining us live frommanville, new jersey. You can see behind you, athena, there is a lot of rebuilding and hurt ahead. Absolutely. This is what the president is coming to see firsthand. Damage like this. The reason is house is being cleared out is because the water line reached over nine feet. Far above my head. They had to evacuate in the quickly rising flood waters last
The disaster declaration. That s something that some local state officials had really been hoping for. We re also live in texas, the state where two controversies are colliding over restrictions on voting and abortion. In just two hours from now, the governor is expected to sign into law a plan opponents say would strip voting rights away from a lot of people, even with no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020. The law will ban drivethrough and 24hour voting, requires i. D. For mailin voting and adds criminal penalties for election workers. We take you to the state live. Plus in washington, the attorney general taking aim at a different new law in texas, one that bans most abortions. He says the justice department is urgently looking at ways to challenge that law. We want to start in the northeast here at the white house and in new jersey. President biden just heading to the region as we mentioned, he talked with reporters. Shannon pettypiece is with us and rehema el pice. He talked abo
diamond outside the white house. how does he plan, i know it takes all of us to get there, what is the plan? listen, the white house was on a call with us and described multiple path ways to meet this target by 2030. they say that it is an ambitious target. they believe that it is achievable. and now the president s national climate task force over the coming weeks and months is going to be looking sector by sector at specific, putting forward specific recommendations for how to actually meet this target. but what we heard from president biden today was talking about the idea that this is not just a u.s. effort but this must be an international effort. it is the return of u.s. leadership on this issue of climate change after four years of denial from former president trump. you heard president biden talk about this next decade by which he wants to meet this target. as the decisive decade. listen. no nation can sol of this crisis on our own as you all know fully understand
telling reporters their pain and their loss has not diminished. i think about my brother over and over again. i have no choice. you all have no choice. you see him every day on somebody s tv, somebody s t-shirt and it s pain that we re feeling every day. my brother said i can t breathe multiple times. but the officer sat on his neck with a smirk on his face. my brother screamed, tell my kids i love them if his soul left his body. i can t stop thinking about that. and now just this weekend there s a new video emerging of another man also in police custody, telling officers i can t breathe. police body camera footage from fresno, california. this was taken in 2017, three years before floyd s death. wa watch. please. i can t breathe. knock it off. knock it off. joseph, can you breathe? yes. all right. i can t breathe. get his feet down first. then we can work on his arms. joseph, are you okay? joseph, are you all right? are you all right? joseph? that m
the 3 million people today but the warning remains to never let the guard down. we should never let vaccine go to waste. i know the idea of relaxing mask wearing and getting back to activities is appealing. but we re not there. pope francis second day in iraq began with a historic private visit in najal. the poem is heading to mosul to pray in a church destroyed by isis. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states around around the world. you were in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. and tonight help is on the way, finally, for american families. the divided senate finally passing president biden s number one priority, a massive $19.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. most of that money going to millions of individual bank accounts, $1,400 per person, including children and households that qualify. in nation has suffered too much for much too long. and everything in this package is designed to relieve the suffering and to meet t