Athletic Stage News Today

for a musical extravaganza. welcome to the programme. we start in the us, where a landmark bill which includes billions of dollars to fight climate change, has been approved by the us senate. well look more at that bill in a moment. first, lets go to kentucky, because presidentjoe biden is there. hes set to meet families hit by the flooding a week ago that killed at least 37 people. were expecting to hear from him shortly. we will bring you more on that as and when we get it. now lets ...

family, maybe a country, maybe a democracy. the toll, the human misery. but the question for a texas jury today is what it should cost conspiracy theorist alex jones. we now have our answer. nearly $50,. now, recall jones was already ordered to pay more than $4 million this whats called compensatory damages just yesterday. that to the parents of a beautiful 6-year-old child, a little boy killed in the 2012 attack. but today, they added $45.2 million on top of that, awarded him punitive...

look, weve all been waiting to see what lies might cost, eventually. we know what they might cost a family, maybe a country, maybe a democracy. the toll, the human misery. but the question for a texas jury today is what it should cost conspiracy theorist alex jones. we now have our answer. nearly $50 million. now, recall jones was already ordered to pay more than $4 million this whats called compensatory damages just yesterday. that to the parents of a beautiful 6-year-old child, a lit...

Vladimir putin has said that he finds openly gay people disgusting, and shes a professional athlete. you have to remember that not too many years ago, the russians were -- the russian national team was banned from competition from the olympics, the largest athletic stage. so, you know, he has an american athlete who hes accusing of using marijuana, when his own teams were expelled from the olympics because of drug use. it all comes together in brittney griner, and thats not going to make it any ...

Finds openly gay people disgusting, and shes a professional athlete. you have to remember that not too many years ago, the russians were -- the russian national team was banned from competition from the olympics, the largest athletic stage. so, you know, he has an american athlete who hes accusing of using marijuana, when his own teams were expelled from the olympics because of drug use. it all comes together in brittney griner, and thats not going to make it any easier for her, at all. >> its a...

>> you know, the olympics are a thorny issue, and the role in this, lets talk about the people who train for years to get to the ultimate -- their ultimate athletic stage. and that is the olympics. do you really want to force those olympians to not go to russia? i think something has to happen where the international olympic committee and russia have to come to some sort of agreement to allow, or i should say at least to not have gay and lesbian olympians not be harassed or arrested for who they...

One-night show that they put on that is worth nothing to them. it is an amazing waste of energy to get this pathetic rating it gets, now they are risking this type of controversy. >> you know, the olympics are a thorny issue, and the role in this, lets talk about the people who train for years to get to the ultimate -- their ultimate athletic stage. and that is the olympics. do you really want to force those olympians to not go to russia? i think something has to happen where the international o...

but is it true, is hosting the games actually bad business? and deep-fried controversy. chicago the latest city to block chi chick-fil-a from coming to town. >> chick-fil-as values are not chicagos values. boston, jim henson, and now rahm emanuel joining the list against chick fill a. and now rick santorum is standing by chick-fil-a. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning. thank you so much for joining us this morning. im carol costello. we begin with new details from the colo...