roads and bridges and rail lines and utilities, a plan he says will transform the united states. i m proposing a plan for the nation that rewards work, not just rewards wealth. it s not a plan that tinkers around the edges it s a once in a generation investment in america unlike anything we ve seen or done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago in fact, the largest american jobs investment since world war ii it s big, yes. it s bold, yes and we can get it done. biden says it will cost over $2 trillion among his plans to pay for it a corporate tax hike from the current 21% to 28%. keep in mind he just siped his $1.9 trillion covid relief act into law without republican support. the plan biden introduced today is part one he says he ll announce part two helping the nation s families, education and health care and the like in a matter of weeks. today he invited republicans to work with him on both. the division for the moment shouldn t
a member of his campaign team told local media, villavicencio was about to get into a car when a man stepped forward and shot him in the head. his death was confirmed on social media by current president guillermo lasso. ecuador s presidential election is scheduled to take place on 20 august. wildfires are raging across the us state of hawaii. officials there say that at least six people have died and many are injured, with some in a critical condition. these are the scenes out in maui and the big island that locals are calling apocalyptic. locals are calling apocalyptic . the historic town of lahaina was one of the hardest hit, with reports that it s now mostly reduced to ash. crews there and across the islands are engaged in search and rescue, with evacuations under way for more than 13,000 people. but as residents try to escape, some are finding that many of the major roads are blocked and too dangerous to use. lieutenant governor sylvia luke, who s serving as acting go
a rebellion against the leadership of president vladimir putin. that mutiny came to a halt when wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin told his troops to stand down, just hundreds of kilometres away from russia s capital, moscow. the whereabouts of prigozhin were unknown until today. belarus s leader aleksandr lu kashenko announced that the wagner chief was flown to the capital of minsk, where he has started his exile. lukashenko discussed his interactions with prigozhin while speaking earlier. translation: al first round of talks lasted about translation: al first round of talks lasted about 30 translation: al first round of talks lasted about 30 minutes. talks lasted about 30 minutes and we talk mostly in swear words. almost only swear words. later it occurred to me that there were ten times more swear words than normal words. he said i m not asking for a lot, let them hand me over, i also need to meet putin. you know putin as well as i do. the strength of vladimir putin s gri
top of the hour now in the cnn newsroom, i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. in the next half hour, president joe biden is going to lay out his plan and proposals to the budget. and we will also talk to alan shaw about the toxic spill and the pressing questions that the residents there in east palestine want answers to. and then a dozen of deadly missile barrages across ukraine. we want the begin there. russia reportedly launched a barrage of missiles by land and sea and air and multiple of them across the country and most of them hit lviv. they came down and set homes on fire. they terrified the people in kyiv, and most of them happened overnight. ivan watson is on the ground there this morning, and what do we know? well, erica and jim, this is not the first time that russia has aimed dozens of missiles aimed at the power grid, but the commander of the armed forces has described this attack as massive and it is targeting critical infrastructure and as you pointed out
save hundreds a year over t-mobile, at&t and verizon. talk to our switch squad at your local xfinity store today. top of the hour in the cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. this morning, just incredible new details from the memphis police chief describing what the nation will see today when her department releases videos of the violent january 7th arrest of 29-year-old tyre nichols. he died just days later from injuries he sustained during the police stop. some of the emmages including from police body cameras described, including by the police chief as appalling, horrific and inhumane. five memphis police officers have been fired and charged with a number of felonies, including second-degree murder. and in an exclusive interview this morning, with cnn s don lemon, the police chief walked through what led up to that traffic stop, the beating of tyre nichols and about the ongoing investigations into the officers responsible. the charges, these five off