Well show you her husbands emotional plea and the latest on the investigation. And shooting for the stars. Ahead of the first astronaut launch from u. S. Soil in nearly a decade, we talk to the current commander of the International Space station. Its a big deal, but first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We dont want to be a national embarrassment. You have a 90some odd degree day yesterday, okay . Its memorial day weekend. The beaches are open. President trump back on the golf course this memorial day crowds packed beaches alarm something of the nations top Health Officials. We need to be Wearing Masks in public when we cannot social distance. Its critically important. The president s weekend golf game is the focus of a new ad from the biden campaign. That campaign ad reads the death toll is still rising. The president is playing golf. The white house is banning travel from brazil as the south American Country continues to get hammered by the health crisis. Because
We will come to order. Todays hearing will focus on the reauthorization of the fast act, the nations current surface transportation bill that expires on september 30. We will hear the priorities of key Public Transportation stakeholders. A longterm reauthorization bill is critical to providing the certainty of stability that transit agencies, cities andos d to make responsible transportation lighting decisions. Public transportation plays a key role in our nations economy there are over 400 30,000 workers employed and Public Transportation in the United States. Transit provides approximately 33 million trips every day. Taking Many Americans to and from work, school and medical appointments. Not just in big urban cities, but also small areas. We have found ourselves with yet another reauthorization where the Highway Trust Fund is a most significant issue that needs to be addressed. In order to advance a comprehensive longterm reauthorization bill. While this committee does not have juri
Prime ministers response to public criticism on top short his holiday to face the countrys unprecedented bushfire has to volunteer firefighters battling a blaze near sydney have been killed crews are working to contain more than 100 fires fuge by record temperatures and high winds. Hello and welcome good to have you with us. There is no letup in mass protests in india against a new contentious citizenship law despite a police ban knowledge gatherings at least 3 people were killed on thursday in clashes with police bringing the death toll to 9 since protests spread across the country the thousands have been arrested the controversial new law offers an easier path to indian citizenship for non muslim migrants from neighboring countries indias home minister has scored a crisis meeting to discuss the un wrist now for the very latest let me draw in correspondent shes based in mumbai welcome gonna tell us what the latest situation is like in india who have the kind of people who are coming o
A 1000 demonstrators have been arrested. And the British Parliament is due to vote on the Prime Ministers plan to take on. Morris johnson. Is expected to pass because in fact election victory. The discussions have been long and intense but now Russia Ukraine and they have reached a tentative. Russian gas. Australias Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologized for going on holiday as the nation contends a massive bushfire emergency marson pay tribute to the 2 volunteer firefighters killed while deployed to name 3 others the seriously injured the men were among thousands of firefighters battling to contain some 150 days is raging across the state of New South Wales. Crews struggling to tame wild bushfires in South Australia rule teams are doing their best to contain the threat in multiple locations but its perilous work especially for those on the ground. On thursday to volunteer firefighters were killed battling flames just south of sydney and road wire and jeffery keeping died after a
Up californias economy and while we usually think of in terms of uber and lift drivers, other industries will be affected. Although a lot of the attention has been onworkers, it is to make sure that all workers know and the misclassification stops. Truckers and musicians and genders they all have to be reclassified as employees under the new law. If you are a truck driver , a janitor and you are working for the company, you are doing the basic work for that company, you are there employee and you deserve anything that any of us at any other job gets. If this becomes law, employers will have a lot of work to do. Making sure to get the infrastructure in place to create Workers Compensation and make sure the taxes are correct and all that is work that employers need to do between now and 2020. The walk will take first legitimate first, 2020 but uber says they will not have to make any changes. The chief legal officer said that the drivers will remain independent contractors and several pr