Police officer with a Flag Pole and now trying to be released from jail. The voting Rights Bill facing an uphill battle. Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is vowing to block it on tuesday. Congress democratic Sheila Lee responding. We passed bills in the senate without Mitch Mcconnell. Miracles do happen. One time tropical Storm Claudette damaging homes in alabama and warnings of flash floods. What is turning out to be a very busy sunday june 20th. Im kendis gibson. Thanks for waking up with us. To the astronauts up there in the space station. You see a couple of them getting ready for a Space Walk including Sean Kanesberry as well as the french astronaut. Theyre going to do a cool Space Walk. Cameras popped up the cameras in the last few minutes. Tough week for them. They have been prepping for this. Apparently install new solar Array Gear to key Keep Power up on the iss. This is going on for the next six to seven hours. Its a critical thing. Nasa said you put up the Solar Array
coasts. out west a rain system soaked northern california. more than 12 inches since thursday. washington state, relentless rain triggered flooding and mudslides. but it s not over. more rain could fall until tuesday. let s get over to meteorologist bill karins. bill what has this forecast been about? a parade of storms. right off the coast, strong winds on the oregon coast, 60 miles per hour gust, could do damage there. we ve already picked up two inches of rain over the weekend, san francisco was great, northern california got nailed. we did not get much of anything around l.a. and san diego areas. up in the northwest we re still getting hammered and it s still pouring. we ve picked up two to four inches. look at this storm, cranks up strongest winds coming on shore now in areas of coastal oregon. as far as the rain goes much of it will be along i-5 corridor snow levels in the mountains pretty high out there. this storm the latest in line and the last in line. we do expec
happened. we are in richmond, virginia, where the clock is ticking on robert echlt lee s statue. americans continue marching across america. it is a sign momentum remains. where does the global movement go next. hovering over it all. coronavirus. cases are spiking buy the tens of thousands. what is the rapid rise telling us? we begin at west point military academy. the united states promere military institution where president trump arrived this morning and gave the commence men speech for the 2020 graduating class in a socially distanced outdoor ceremony. for four long years you have honed your skills, trained your mind and body, overcome over obstacle and earned your place of pride in the long gray line. i would like to welcome senator tammy duckworth of illinois. she earned a purple heart in the iraq war while serving in the u.s. army. she is also a member of the armed services committee and a is your about for joe biden s presidential campaign. i want to get you
an apparent joke lead for frightening jokes for passenger. a man on board reportedly said i have ebola after she sneezed. hazmat crews checked and eventually cleared the aircraft. witnesses say the man who made the comment later said he was joking. no word whether he ll be charged. in texas a sheriff deputy who displayed ebola-like symptoms tested negative for the virus. he s been discharged from the hospital. michael had got into the apartment where thomas eric duncan was staying and duncan became ill. the first person to die of ebola in the u.s. he scummed to the virus wednesday in dallas. let s go live to dallas and sara day lot of. good morning. there s a lot of questions about the care mr. duncan received. whether his life could have been extended or received if he would have been diagnosed earlier. what is the hospital saying? good morning, jose. the hospital speaking out to this high level of scrutiny they re undergoing right now as to the care of mr. duncan. they
white house and we should not gloss over the fact that this was something that was genuinely brought about by grassroots activism. by some very, very aggressive very canny grassroots activism. the president yes it is really there s an old adage in politics, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. and this is it s very similar to don t ask, don t tell. where we saw activists chain themselves to the white house. they weren t quiet. they didn t just kind of allow, you know, get in line. they were very loud. and they didn t just attack the people who they were most diametrically opposed to. i talked with one of the founders of united we dream last night and we ll talk to her again after the speech but she talked about this decision that they came to when they realized that they were banging their head against a brick wall when it came to talking to republicans like john boehner and the other house republicans who, inarguably, were the most responsible for their pligh