15 billiondollar boost in military spending. Though trump proposed steep cuts to medical research, lawmakers increased the budget for the National Institutes of health by 2 billion. Theres money for opioid abuse, Summer School spell grants and cash for Transit Systems. By most accounts this is very much a middle of the road proposal that lawmakers on both sides can that agree to. None as they call them poison pills involved in this particular compromise. Members of the house and the senate do have to vote on this by friday in order to keep things running at least through september and then we start the process all over again. Live on capitol hill, im Melanie Alnwick fox5 local newsily. All right, melanie, thank you very much. 4 31 is the time right now. We now know more about a u. S. Service member killed saturday outside mosul. 25yearold weston lee a paratrooper from fort bragg was killed by an ied patrol p lee was from bluffing ton georgia. Hes been posthumously awarded several award
Their planes parked within side of each other and took time to speak to media on plane while clinton fending off questions about classified server. I take classification seriously. The fact i couldnt remember certain meetings, whether or not had occurred doesnt in any way affect the commitment that i had and still have to the treatment of classified materials. John just a short time ago, mrs. Clinton took questions from the media aboard to florida. Trump goes to virginia and North Carolina. John, good morning, to you, you can imagine the Donald Trump Campaign is over the moon about the new poll numbers, they had been predicting and donald trump is starting to close the gap. When you take a look at the numbers, among likely voters, ahead 2 points, 45 to 43. Likely voters, say, yeah, we are going to go out to the polls. If you look at the broader range, registered voters, Hillary Clinton still leads about 3 points there, but that is a big difference from the numbers at the end of july wh
As we begin with russia at the center of a cyber war and a ceasefire. It is presently 11 00 a. M. In moscow. We are still monitoring, waiting for new reaction coming from that nation, this after the United States slapped russia with unprecedented new sanctions, all punishment for its alleged meddling in the u. S. Election. It is 10 00 a. M. In syria now and the world is holding its breath as a fragile nationwide ceasefire appears to be hold in. Russia and turkey brokered the truce. We will get more on that in a moment. First of the sanctions, russia vowing to respond in kind. Moscow denies hacking the dnc. The Democratic National committee or trying to influence the u. S. Election. Mr. Obama is not convinced. He is expelling 35 Russian Diplomats from the u. S. , imposing sanctions on russian intelligence and three russian companies. The u. S. Is closing two russian compounds if maryland and new york. Cnns athena jones has details on what other punishment the u. S. Has in store. Reporte
New reaction. This of course after the United States slapped russia with unprecedented new sanctions, punishment for its alleged interference in the 2016 election. In syria, its 9 00 a. M. , and we are keeping a close eye on a nationwide ceasefire. Russia and turkey brokered the truce. Is he far it appears to be holding. More on that in a moment. First lets talk about the u. S. President barack obama, who did promise that he would sfon to russia about this alleged hacking in the u. S. Election. He has done that, unveiling a range of any sanctions which are all partly requiring three dozen diplomats to leave the United States. The sanctions are punish hent for russias meddling in the 2016 president ial election. U. S. Intelligence agencies say russia hacked into computers at the Democratic National committee. They released a trove of damaging information about Hillary Clinton and her top aides. Cnns jim sciutto has more now on how the United States is responding to this. Reporter presid
Chicago. And the marchs, neil, from a downtown park. Were blocks away in chicago. You can see live pictures of these thousands that have massed. Fair to say brought all the people that dont like donald trump and their policies together, whether its immigration, taxes, whatever. Theyre all here with their own messages to send. Were blocks from where the first significant protests took place. No riots here today. The other interesting piece is as i observe these protesters, a lot of them are not only dont like trump, they dont like hillary clinton, they dont like rahm emanuel, republicans or democrats. Many of them, a lot of them have that message. I leave you can a live picture of the protests that marched down washington street here in chicago. Thousands marking may day in a way that, well, they havent for years in chicago. Neil . It all started there. Jeff block in chicago to washington where protesters are taking protests to a certain president. What do you have for us there . Theyre