Antony blinken visits qatar. The latest on the still growing Death Toll from last Weeks Hurricane Ida as President Biden will visit New York and new Jersey Today. And expanded Unemployment Benefits have expired for Millions Of Americans. What does it mean for the economic recovery . Well look into that, but we begin this morning with a consequential week for democrats as congress returns to washington this week. Democrats will begin the process of the most significant expansion of this countrys social Safety Net in over half a century. The New York times reports this morning that congressional committees are set to meet this week to devise legislation that would touch virtually every americans life from conception to age to imfirmty. The proposed legislation, a cradle to grave waving of a social Safety Net frayed by decades of expanding income inequality, stagnating wealth and depleted governmental resources capped by the worst public Health Crisis in a century. The pandemic loosened t
An eye on that stop with you so if you keep pictures of the president , thats what were watching. But were going to start today with the Republican Partys full embrace of Extremist Policy views that completely ignore the views and priorities of a majority of texans. Today its Voting Restrictions, fueled by fears of voter fraud, even though texas investigated the 2020 Election Result and found no fraud. No fraud in any of the measures they today banned. But facts be damned. Governor abbott this afternoon signed into Law A Restrictive Voting Bill that democrats in the statehouse held up for weeks. Many of them fleeing to washington, d. C. , to rally support for federal legislation. The Voting Restriction Law now set to take effect in texas, Targets Ballot Access measures disproportionately used and needed by voters of color. Procedures particularly popular in Harris County, thats home to the democratic stronghold of houston. The new law will also make it much more difficult for disabled
Electricity. And tensions are rising. Less than ten miles from where we are right now, police say a man was shot and killed, who was trying to get gasoline. A Texas Judge has issued a temporary Restraining Order against the states largest antiabortion group. The most pernicious thing about the Texas Law, it sort of creates a vigilante system. It just seems i know this sounds ridiculous, almost unamerican. Hi, everyone. Thanks for being with me. Im Amara Walker in atlanta in for pamela brown. You are in the cnn newsroom. East coast, West Coast, gulf coast. The nation reels from a devastating week of extreme weather and the reality of a climate in crisis. The Death Toll has climbed to at least 50 in the northeast from idas record rainfall. New York Officials blame illegal Basement Apartments for most of the Citys Inhome deaths. In New Jersey, searchers are looking for two College Students who were swept away into a storm drain. Receding floodwaters left their empty car hanging above the
People from kabul is going to be hard and painful No Matter when it started, when it began. It would have been true if we had started a month ago or a month from now. There is no way to evacuate this many people without Pain And Loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. Its just a fact. New polling from nbc News Today finds that only one in four americans approve of the president s handling of the afghanistan crisis. With three in five americans of the mind that our nations longest war was ultimately not worth it. And political insiders are questioning just how much of a hit the president has taken on Capitol Hill over afghanistan, even as as even some democratic allies have condemned his response at a time when his party needs all his capital to move forward on voter protections. As the civil Rights Community prepares this week for the national voting Rights March that Martin Luther King iii and i as president of national Action Network will lead to Capitol Hill this coming
Stunning, surreal images of building after building after building just pancaked and the number of casualties, Tens Of Thousands and you really got a sense for a damage that the quake like this did in 2010, it was a 7. 0, and now this, a 7. 2. Already, i have reached out to some contacts that i have in the capital, portauprince. They say it doesnt appear it was damaged excessively. Greta Van Susteren was a reporter in the wake of 2010, set up a childrens home there and i texted her immediately, is the home okay . She says that things are doing well, but obviously, to the west, 125 kilometers west as you can see on our map, a different story. Were hoping that theres no sort of repercussions here with the Tsunami Or Anything of that sort. Ryan has everything we need so far. Can you bring us up to speed . Yeah, absolutely. Haiti a country that cant catch a break. This quake had a magnitude of 7. 2, it occurred five miles off the haitian coastline, about 90 miles from the capital of haiti.