Rally tonight, people are already gathering and its only 12 00, he is looking to tip the scales in a race that could determine whether republicans take back the senate. That rally is said to start eight hours from now. But as i mentioned, already drawing the crowd, welcome back, everybody, i am sandra smith in new york, hi, john. Im John Roberts in washington, this is america reports. The former president on the Campaign Trail after the Marathon News Conference where he took three dozen questions for the benefit of an hour. Meanwhile Vice President harris will rally in Battleground Arizona later on today with tim walz as she pled to Flight Inflation on day one trend, despite pledging to do that, three and half years ago. As part of the Biden Harris Administration. Sandra we will see what charlie gasparino has to say about that and moments, Hillary Vaughn on deck. So first lets start with Bill Melugin live and bozeman where the crowds are growing, bill. Sandra, good afternoon to you. Th
Brian mole died after his cruiser was swept away in floodwaters. Stephanie gosk has more on the impact of this storm. Half the town is currently under water. Reporter: in the light of day, the storm damage on display, the danger far from over. Water kept rising. In new york, boats carried people to safety. We lost everything. Reporter: similar scenes in pennsylvania and new jersey where tornados also touched down. This neighborhood outside philadelphia ripped apart. Ida was no longer a hurricane when it hit the northeast but it was no less a punishing storm. Dropping so much rain so quickly, new york city was overwhelmed. More than 3 inches in central park in one hour, smashing the previous record. Waterfalls gushed into subway tunnels. In queens, passengers had to jump on their seats, the bus driving through a river that used to be a seat. Rescue crews worked to get to everyone but couldn t get to everyone. They got stuck in the back. Reporter: a mother and son drowned in their baseme
Freeze on evictions after the previous ban expired. And as kids get ready to return to the classroom, the fight playing out over vaccine mandates. We ll ask the head of one of the nation s largest teachers unions about it. We ve got to start with several breaking developments on the coronavirus pandemic, including a potential gamechanger to increase vaccinations. The new york times reporting the fda is accelerating its timetable to fully approve the pfizer vaccine by early next month. The fda responding, saying the application for full authorization is moving forward as rapidly as possible, but offered no comment on specific timing. Cases, of course, have increased sixfold nationwide over the last month, to an average of more than 85,000 a day. Levels not seen since midfebruary. And hospitalizations in the south continue to break pandemic records. At the same time, vaccine requirements are increasing. That s good news. New york state becoming the first major u. S. City to require proof
Stuck about how to pay for it. Democrats want to finance the infrastructure plans by expanding the enforcement powers of the irs so that the agency can collect an additional $100 billion in unpaid taxes. Republicans are not onboard with that plan. Believe it or not. Which would involve making rich people actually pay their fair share of taxes. Senate majority leader chuck schumer says the senate will hold the vote on the bipartisan bill on wednesday. Meaning that for the first time in a long time it could actually be infrastructure week in washington. Your former president used to promise those regularly. Meanwhile, senate democrats appear to be better poised to push forward the larger $3. 5 trillion bill without republican support. In contrast to the bipartisan plan, this plan focuses on the country s human infrastructure. And party priorities like subsidized kid childcare. Elder careo care. Universal prekay and litany of climate initiatives. Needing the support of all 50 democrat sen
the announcement came from buckingham palace noon today local time, 7:00 a.m. eastern time, and it came in a tweet from buckingham palace. we re showing that to you i believe now, along with a picture of prince philip in his younger years addressed in his military uniform. the statement saying it is with deep sorrow her imagine industry the queen announced the death of her beloved husband, duke of edinburgh, prince philip, has passed away peacefully this morning. we will mourn his loss. this is a man who s been on the front stage for more than 70 years. he retired at 96. he was known for very robust health, carrying out engagements to his retirement in 2017. in fact, driving in the years beyond that. but in the past few weeks, as you probably know, he hasn t been in the best of health. he was admitted to the hospital back in february and stayed for a month, only released a couple weeks ago, march 16th. that month-long stay was his longest ever known hospital stay in all of th