in new york, the city issued the first ever, first ever flash flood emergency. those are subway tunnels you re looking at there last night. they saw rainfall in just five hours, enough to fill 50,000 olympic size swimming pools, record rainfall in central park and happening right now in bridgeport, pennsylvania, water rescues underway. we ve seen live on our air in the last hour residents being pulled from their homes in those inflatable rescue boats there. still people in need and still people s whose lives are in danger. let s begin with the storm chaser. he s ray likener. you were following this during the worst of it overnight. tell us what you saw then and what you re seeing this morning. are you there? hello. bad connection there. we re going to come back to you, ray, when you have a better connection so we could hear what you ve seen. i do want to go to evan mcmorris santoro in queens, new york, which saw some of the most devastating effects of the storm overnight
florida. donald j. trump ain t going anywhere. i have spoken at cpac, but that was a time when we talked about issues and what we intended to do. this looks like a whole different day. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. it s a busy night below that dome. you re looking live at capitol hill. new this morning, president biden s $1.9 trillion rescue bill is moving through the senate. the house passed it overnight. no republicans voted for it. the path includes 1400 direct checks to people making less than $75,000 annually. that s direct aid, increase in the tax child credit, funding for schools and more money for vaccine distribution. and unemployment benefits, help for small businesses, some of those programs will lapse soon. there s still significant disagreement between the parties on how much to spend and where that money should go. time for bold and decisive action is now. this american rescue plan act will crush the virus, ret
war i, world war ii, and the vietnam war, combined. all from this one contagion, this botched, terribly mishandled pandemic. before the moment of silence and the candlelighting at the portico, president biden gave what basically amounted to a national eulogy for all those lost. he addressed the bulk of his remarks to americans who personally have lost someone they loved to covid, bringing to bear what s become sort of his emotional trademark in his political life, his empathy for people who are hurting. we often hear of people described as ordinary americans. there s no such thing. there s nothing ordinary about them. the people we lost were extraordinary. they spanned generations. born in america, emigrated to america. but just like that, so many of them took their final breath alone in america. as a nation, we can t accept such a cruel fate. while we re fighting this pandemic for so long, we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. we have to resist viewing each life a
racist? chris rufo is here with some disturbing lesson plans that are poisoning four and 5-year-olds. we have the video. and hillary clinton s agatha christie turn, and barack and the boss come apart to come it s painful. reparations. yes yes, that addition. raymond arroyo expands it all in seen and unseen. but first, mighty joe manchin. that is the focus of tonight s angle. democrats want americans to think that they represent the vanguard against all extremists, and that they only go to political war when they need to defeat alleged radicals like donald trump. the truth is the democratic party has become a haven for far left fanatics, and like all fanatics, they demand complete and total conformity of thought on all of their pet issues, from the minimum wage to immigration amnesty, to things like transgender rights. get in mind, or risk getting smeared. such has been the experience of west virginia senator joe manchin. now that he has decided to make the obvious choice to
saying this. we have all got to do our part and pitch in to end this virus. we still need you to social distance, wear a mask and get yourself and your loved ones vaccinated. the only way out is through, and the only way through is together. there is simply nothing more important than getting the resources that we need to vaccinate people in this country as quickly as possible. we are not going get our economy back in shape and millions of people back to work and our schools and businesses fully reopened until until, as he says, we beat this virus. and that is where i want to begin. joining me now, someone who has been following the deadly pandemic since the very beginning. dr. peter hotez. doctor, thank you for joining us on this. you and i have actually spoke together on a couple various grim milestones that we have reached throughout this pandemic because there have been a few of them. and this is the worst. half a million lives now lost, unnecessarily so, from this pand