Killed 59 people yesterday and sickened over 500 others . Do you think the nation with demand action . If we had an outbreak every day that had over 100,000 people a ,ear killed and injured congress would be in a frenzy. We found two minutes for a moment of silence and we moved on. Gun violence is a Public Health hazard. Bit as important as every other disease or outbreak. Ours is the only developed country in the world that cannot protect our families from death and injury from guns on a massive scale. Of frustration in congress and another School Shooting in my district, i sat down with my constituents to go through, what are the things that we can do that would make a difference . We understood that you cannot completely solved evil people. Theres not a statute thats foolproof. Are built withs efforts to try to make things better. Lets stop dealing with gun violence as a political issue and think about it as the Public Health epidemic that it is. Its already claiming over 12,000 liv
Make his statement at 11 30 eastern. We will be carrying that live. We had a joint News Conference from the f ei. Bloombergs International Economics correspondent in washington in washington today. The press conference will go ahead later on. Questions on this event. It is not clear that it was the majority with being targeted in any way. Accounts would suggest that in fact he was not being targeted. No, it does not appear this was a deliberate attempt to shoot him. Came to the baseball field and began firing indiscriminately. Was on secondtive base. Congressional republicans practicing for the annual charity game against democrats, that was scheduled to take place the baseballt at stadium in washington. A number of people. Because he is the number three Ranking Member of Health Leadership Representatives Police has a Capitol Hill Police detail with him. Those officers opened fire on the gunmen paired at least one was hit. Alexandria Police Responded within three minutes to the call an
The first 100 days. Talk about taxation route representation. New data shows d. C. Residents pay more to the federal government than anywhere else in the country. Its not even close. Well tell you why. And later, a busy weekend for the dc sports fans. And the behind the scenes team at the Verizon Center. Well have the latest from the caps and wizards play off requests. Good day at 9a starts now. We like to think that every day is a good day. We just claim it this time of the morning. At 9 00 oclock thanks for staying with us its monday. It is Easter Monday ate april 17th im chenevey alongside holly and wisdom. Maureen has the morning off. Its an easter tradition at the white house. Today tens of thousands of kids will pack the south lawn to roll some easter eggs with President Trump and. Well take you there live. You miss it, dont you holly. Tradition for many, many years. Youve been out there . Well, erin, i think i might have what . Give or take. Give or take the last time i counsel.
Two candidates coming up. We are waiting for Morgan Stanley and by crop. There were programs. Since weve seen mixed reports from the big banks. We are also watching tech names on the docket like ibm. Features syndicate again at the opening of trading. Expecting a 30point rally for the dow industrials this morning. Nasdaq also stnger up 18 points. In europe stocks are edged higher as well. You see the cac quarante up a third of a percent. Ft 100 runflat breakeven. Mix performances to report. The asian indices look like this. Shanghai composite down almost 1 . A drive through delay. Police praising the actions of mcdonalds workers in pennsylvania because that led to the end of the manhunt of the alleged facebook killer. Mark zuckerberg making his first comments on the case. But he had to say coming out. The case of marketing gone wrong. Apologize apologizing after an analyst at congratulating customers who quote survived the boston marathon. All of the stories coming up a germanic talk a
It was the one and only time democratic senator tim kaine and republican governor mike pence will go head to head. Sharie Johnson their debate took place at a Small University in southern virginia. Scott mclean was there and has a look at the highlights. After a debate that became far more heated than most would have anticipated tim kaine you are Donald Trumps apprentice mike pence i think were still on my time . Kaine isnt this a discussion . It appears republican Vice President al candidate mike pence was able to carve out a slightly t opposition according to a cnn orc instant poll, 48 of voters who watched the debate think pence gave a better performance than democratic candidate tim kaine, who earned a 42 favorable rating among those polled this is in stark contrast to how their running mates polled after their first debate last week. Running mates that they both seemed to have to constantly defend. Mike pence we have a tax code, senator, that actually is designed to encourage entr