a lot of people. it was just a profound changed in with the sea of u.s. government looks like for one, and what it feels like to be in washington d.c.. i think it s fair to say there is relief on all sides when the fencing finally came down in july but as of right now, as of this hour, these are live images we re seeing here. it s going back up. nobody expects this time that it ll be up for months on end again, but it is going up as of tonight, because of a saturday event, an event planned for this weekend in which trump supporters once again are saying they will converge on the capitol, this time their event is led by a former trump campaign official, and their convergence on the capital this weekend is explicitly organized around them celebrating the attack on the capital, celebrating the january 6th attack, and denouncing the arrest and prosecution of the people who participated in it. so as of right now, we re watching these images as the fence gets moved into place and p
i mean, that s never going to be normal. it shouldn t be normal. but to be able to, you know, to be on that plane, land it, get passengers off, put passengers on and take off, a thought for all of those pilots and copilots and flight attendants and everybody on those planes who are helping people get to freedom tonight. so thank you for telling us about that. exactly. and you have to believe that this has got to be volunteers. you couldn t put somebody in this circumstance, and tell them it s part of their job. these are people that must have volunteered for this, despite those dangers in this absolutely unprecedented and intense situation there. the fact that this may happen on a daily basis going forward makes it more remarkable. i m glad you pointed that out. we ll see you on friday, being friday eve tonight. thanks rachel. president biden striking back at republicans, calling out their efforts for all intents and purposes to extend the coronavirus, which we re going
that s the civil rights act that had been filibusters by segregationist for 54 straight days. but in the end, their efforts to stop it failed. they signed. it in the civil rights act of 1964 banned segregation. in public facilities, also in private facilities to which the public had access. and the segregationist at the time, screamed bloody murder. it s unconstitutional, you can t tell private entities what s to do. actually yes, yes you can. in the summer of 1964, president johnson made that law of the land. then the following summer. july 1965, lbj, actually went out on the road this time for an unusual signing ceremony. he went to missouri. two presidential s librarian to sign into law the bill that created medicare. and medicaid. he went to truman s presidential library, because it had been president truman her first proposed the u.s. government should commit to providing health coverage to all elderly people in the country. truman could not get it done while he was pr
normal. it should not be normal. but to be able to, to be on that plane landed, get past, and take off. a thought for all of those pilots and co-pilots, inflate attendants and everybody on those planes who s helping people get to freedom tonight. thank you for telling us about that. exactly. you have to believe that this is got to be volunteers. you win you couldn t put somebody in this circumstance. and tell him it s part of their job as people who must have volunteer for. this despite those dangers. in it s absolutely unprecedented and intense situation there. the fact that this may happen on a daily basis going forward, is gonna make it all the more remarkable. i m glad you pointed that. out have yourself a great evening and we ll see you the big friday tonight. thanks rachel. thank. sally president biden striking back at republicans, he s calling out their efforts to for our own ten zip persistence, extend the coronavirus pandemic. which we are going to get to lat
range to the other. the dixie fire is about a hour northwest of the camp fire. remember when the camp fire burned multiple towns to ground in 2018 and that felt like the worst it could get? dixie is, has already burned 1,400 square miles of land. dixie has destroyed nearly 600 homes. it is only about half contained at the moment, and the second largest fire in california history. the caldor fire just outside of lake tahoe has destroyed more homes and at least 622 homes and counting. it is raging right now towards even more populated areas, and only 25% of the caldor fire is contained. both of those fires have multiple evacuation warnings in place, but the fire season is just unrelenting and merciless. the firefighters are working in inhumane conditions for weeks on end and fighting unprecedented fire after unpres dencedented resources, human and otherwise, so far no end in sight. in the northeast, we have watched all day as the death toll has climbed, from the floods, that le