Mask forever. President biden: that was true at the time. I thought there were people that would understand that getting vaccinated makes a gigantic difference. What happened a new variant came along. They didn t get vaccinated. It was spread more rapidly and people more people were getting sick. Bill: a lot of what he says there is true. A lot of it can be debated as well and we ll talk to jerome adams in a moment on that. The moment he is talking about is this facebook clip he posted in mid may where he said you have two options. You can mask it or get vaxed. Dana: peter doocy asks good questions. The president i think likes peter doocy and will take his questions but he seems to spar with him more off mic. If you take peter doocy s questions, take it from the podium. It was a good answer. Instead of the audio being bad, just take peter s question. Bill: we should make a calendar to let you know where we were in the month of may. Now 2 1/2 months later with the variant that came out
Among nats fans they they don t pay the way they should. But we ll take it, charles schwabber. He is on the injured list and probably will be for a couple more weeks. That s as seen by the sox as an effort to match what the yankees have done, picking up gal low and rizzo. But the big trade not official yet, but rumors the nats are close to sending max scherzer and tray turner both of them to an already loaded dodgers team. That s going to be tough. Going to be very tough. We ll see what happens. Hopefully the red sox will do better than last night. But the red sox, it was the red sox and the yankees last night, lost by a combined like 271, something like that. So better days ahead. Let s hope. Yeah, let s hope. Let s get to the headlines this morning. Faced with a surging number of coronavirus cases, president biden has announced sweeping new requirements for millions of federal workers. Under the new policy, federal government employees and members of the military will have to sign fo
New daily covid cases hit a six month high as more than half a million people in england and wales are pinged by the nhs app and told to self isolate. A long awaited report calls for a tax on sugar and salt to try to encourage healthy eating but prime minister appears to pour cold water on the idea. And coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel, team gb s women s football side name three captains who will rotate the leadership as they head for the tokyo olympics. Good evening. At least 65 people have been killed in germany after record rainfall triggered flash flooding the worst in living memory. Many are still missing. As rivers burst their banks homes, roads, cars were all swept away. Thousands have had to leave their homes. The german chacellor anglea merkel said she was shocked by the disaster, calling it a tragedy for the nation belgium has also been badly affected at least 8 have died including a 15 year old girl who was swept away. Residents in liege have been ord
The dc police chief says you cannot cobble violent one coddle violent criminals. Plus representative jackson how it impacts congress in the next year s midterms but we begin with christina on the st. Louis circuit attorney now under fire after three murder cases were recently dismissed because prosecutors were unprepared or unresponsive. Reporter: st. Louis district attorney was reelected by a landslide last year. Now there are calls for her to resign over how her office has mismanaged these murder cases. Missouri lawmakers are not holding back their frustration. This prosecutor and so many others across the country whether san francisco, washington dc, they care more about woke liberal defunding the fully strategies and they do about making sure murderers are locked up permanently. Reporter: the governor ways in to say the distinction of the st. Louis circuit attorney s office and willing to take violent crime seriously has cost st. Louis families justice and st. Louis police say the
The first lady also shot and the images just in tonight, she has now been brought to the u. S. , air lifted to florida. The ambassador to the u. S. Saying they re hoping american doctors can save her. The heartbreaking toll tonight. At least 18 more victims found in surfside, florida. Now a recovery operation. Te mayor breaking down today as she said searchers have been working for days, as if the victims were their own loved ones. The coronavirus here in the u. S. And news tonight on the highly transmissible delta variant, now the dominant strain here in the u. S. What they re now seeing from missouri to utah to kentucky. And the images from new york city tonight, honoring front line workers. Two federal agents and a police officer shot and wounded in chicago. And late today, chicago s mayor facetoface with president biden, amid growing pleas for help. The horrific shooting on the highway in houston. A teenager shot in the head coming home from a baseball game with his father and brot