Resume on Unemployment Benefits that expired last friday and talks on the on a larger package. Live coverage here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, to whom we must give an account for all our powers and privileges, guide the members of this body so that they will be faithful stewards of your will. Lord, open their minds and hearts to know and do your bidding, teaching them to rely on your strength and to serve you with honor. Help them to discover in their daily work the joy of a partnership with you. Use them to bring good news to the marginalized, to comfort the brokenhearted, and to announce that captives will be released and the shackled will be freed. May our senators depend upon the power of your prevailing providence for you are the author and finisher of our faith. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for whic
Market thats such a long name that it covered two lines in the tele prompter baseball is back as the mlb kicks off its season and so does Sports Betting well talk to the ceo of fan dual power lunch starts right now rolls right off your tongue thanks opinion as jobless claims rise for the first time in four months, republicans and democrats are pushing to come to an agreement on phase four as Unemployment Benefits are about to expire. Lets get the latest Details Senate gop leadership and the white house say they have reached a fundamental agreement on the next relief package but we still havent seen any of those bills yet and its not clear when we will treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin was back on capitol hill to continue the negotiations with Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. He told cnbc hes made one concession to Senate Republicans and thats abandoning the administrations request for a payroll tax cut. One of the issues i think about the payroll tax cut is people get that mone
Prevent antigovernment protests and on nearing a civil rights leader john lewis lies in state in the u. S. Capital. And in sport cats are has officially expressed an interest in staging a future Olympic Games the 2022 world cup hosts hope to bring the olympics to the middle east for the 1st time. We begin the news hour in israel where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned it is quote playing with fire hes accuse the Lebanese Armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of shane bauer farms has denies its fighters tried to penetrate the border or engaged in any confrontation the United Nations is urging both sides to show restraint harry full set has more. Smoke plumes over southern lebanon after what the Israeli Military referred to as a security incident it said a cell of hezbollah fighters trying to infiltrate israeli controlled territory Israeli Soldiers tracked them and repelled them with machine gun tank and artillery fire in tel aviv where theyd ru
The plug on an interview that wildly claims dr anthony was responsible for the nations coded 19 outbreak were going to discuss all that and more coming up all right its time to boost your news i. Have the latest oh good 1000 numbers worldwide cases almost at 16300000 with about 650000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most cases the u. S. Still leading the way followed down by brazil and india right here in this country the u. S. Cases topping 4200000 with about 147000 reported deaths so as cases continue to search president Trumps National security adviser Robert Obrien has now tested positive for the virus the white house saying there is no risk of exposure to the president or Vice President mike pence argues john hardy is joining us from miami for more on how the president is responding to this outbreak. President trump is actually scheduled to tour a facility where theyre working on a vaccine for cobra 19 its called the bio press a process Innovation Center at fujifilm d
And globally cases now topping 4900000 with 325000 reported deaths now here in the United States alone the number of cases now 1500000 with 92000 deaths now take a closer look at what at what is happening in the nation the c. D. C. Has set guidelines for reopening america only to be shelved by the white house claiming that the guidelines were too specific as a result the c. D. C. Quietly releases a revised shorter version of the guidelines on its website and said now this as all 50 states are in the process of reopening just in time for memorial day and turning over to a state that is gaining some headlines now florida which has thus far been devastated with 2096 deaths while on monday the state started reopening for businesses part of the phase one approach to a new normal but its not without controversy as the Governors Administration is being accused of suppressing critical covert 19 data arties john hardy has more now from miami. Safe smart step by step thats the name of the state