pelosi says this shouldn t impact the panel s ability to get the work done. we have a bipartisan quorum. we can proceed. reporter: now on the other side of the capitol the senate is set to vote soon on whether to begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. a vote is expected to fail because republicans want to see the final text first, and later this hour we re going to talk about all of this with connecticut senator richard blumenthal hand massachusetts congresswoman katherine clark. as president biden heads to ohio to make another push for his build back better agenda, the white house announced that ukraine s president will visit the white house for a meeting on august 30th. meantime, a new study suggests the one-shot johnson & johnson vaccine may be less effective against the delta variant of the coronavirus and that people who got the shot may need a booster. and we are hearing from the nation s highest ranking military officer about what a new book has to s
speaker nancy pelosi announcing the formation of a select committee to investigate. this morning with great solemnity and sadness i m announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6 insurrection. again, january 6th was one of the darkest days in our nation s history. i ve said it now three times. it is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all. speaker pelosi s announcement follows months now of public and brazen obstruction by senate republicans including voting against the establishment of an independent bipartisan commission. last month only six gop senators voted alongside all of the democrats in favor of it falling short of the 60-vote threshold. the select committee follows months of white washing of the horrors of january 6 by republicans including calling it a peaceful protest and likening the insurrectionists to everyday touri
iam in i am in stroud, where it is snowing. it may not be real but it is probably as close as many of us will get to a white christmas. a cloudy and damp day, murky in the west, rain crossing the north of the country. tonight and tomorrow the wind becomes a feature. details later. good morning. it s wednesday, the 20th of december. junior doctors in england are about to start a three day strike in a dispute over pay. they ll walk out from seven o clock this morning, after five weeks of negotiations failed to reach an agreement. this time of year is traditionally one of the nhs s most busy periods. our health correspondent sharon barbour has the details. hospitals across england, already struggling with the pressures that winter brings, are bracing themselves, as tens of thousands ofjunior doctors walk out for three days. whose nhs? our nhs! dr greenhaus, a surgical registrar. he s already qualified to undertake major knee and hip surgery. every time that i go and see a patien
coast, and we are still following breaking news out of the state of maine. a police source says that at least 22 people were killed in shootings in the city of lewiston, the second largest city in the state. law enforcement officials say some 50 to 60 people were wounded in multiple locations, including a bowling alley and a bar and grill. residents in lewiston, auburn, and lisbon are being urged not to go out, and shelter in place. that is approximately 50,000 people on relative lockdown. earlier this evening, police released photos of a man carrying an ar-15 style rifle. law enforcement says they are currently searching for him. his name is robert card. he is a person of interest in connection with the shootings. they say he should be considered armed and dangerous. it is reported he is still at large. tonight, the community is justifiably on edge, as this urgent manhunt continues. the police stormed the building when we alerted them to the fact that one of the back doors
or you could barely see or hear he was isolated from the world. i find that terrifying that devry now if if i mean that i see but only the know but there he was nearly blind and couldn t hear much what was in fact a kind of isolationism let me down and these are let me go. with thanks to his zest for life and positive attitude he compensated for that with friendships and a core base sas he often said now i am very a lot more than that but he tried to take every day as it came living day to day that wasn t a problem for him you know what though they were alive. that s a comfort to me and i m happy for him. i thought.
old man a fourth is now facing the first charges of the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the u.s. election so was the collusion between team trump and moscow. kenya s president who wins last week s repeat election by a landslide electoral commission says the vote was free and fair despite street violence and an opposition boycott will bring you the latest f