Wind down the expansion of Medicaid but the Senate version would do it over a longer period of time the impact of these proposals on the deficit and the insurance markets won t be clear until the Congressional Budget Office delivers its estimate just days before the expected vote party leaders would need just about every Republican vote in order to pass the bill the Gulf Coast is taking a soaking from Tropical Storm Cindy c.b.s. News David Begnaud is in one hard hit say in the Biloxi area they ve gotten up to 11 inches of rain in some cases more than that the Biloxi river has overtopped its bank and so you ve got flooding throughout the area some people have lost power but Louisiana emergency services spokesman Mike Steele has no indication of any serious damage so far we definitely don t want to let our guard down and we re hoping that the public does looks like it s going to be another day or so before this fully moves out of the state officials in Florida are begging people to stay
The rest of the world is going to move on without us a Sierra Club official laments president Trump s decision to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris climate deal Mr Trump indicates a formal announcement will come later White House correspondent Major Garrett says the president s breaking the news to confidence in u.s. Allies this president believes that the goals set forward for the United States in the protocols for reducing green house gas emissions are simply too onerous on American industry will cost too many jobs and he s going to suggest I m told that there be a renegotiation of the contours the protocols the Paris climate court from the foreign desk in London c.b.s. Is Vicki Barker tells us and e.u. Official says both the European Union and China will reaffirm their commitment to the Paris climate deal regardless of the u.s. Decision America s g. 7 partners Canada France Germany Italy Japan and Britain already did so at the g. 7 Summit last weekend only Presiden
You re watching. General to Anchorage Alaska is news. Of the report with Rebecca. Good evening starting off our newscast today the countdown to a government shutdown is on this Thursday June 1st roughly 18000 state government workers. And workers could get layoff notice mean that 30 days will rain until they actually lose their job and less the political gridlock finally breaks down. Austin very ginger joins us from Juneau with the latest. Rebecca we ve known for a while the July 1st is the real deadline for lawmakers to reach a compromise that is when government would actually shut down if the budget is still not been passed but now officially but that s the only real deadline that remains the House of Representatives today gavel it out until Friday meaning that there s no way they can pass an operating budget before the layoff notices go out printing the notices putting them in envelopes and sending them to state employees all told it cost about $12000.00 the letters will be sent of
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C.b.s. News Jim Shelby president from son in law already under the f.b.i. Microscope over his contacts with Russian leaders reportedly approached the Russian ambassador with a proposal to set up a secret and secure communications channel between the Trump transition team in the Kremlin and the Washington Post reporter Jared Cohen or one of the Russians to provide the channel through their diplomatic facilities and what the post referred to as an apparent move to shield pre-inaugural discussions from monitoring more from correspondent Jeff again sources say the f.b.i. Is scrutinizing cushion or his contacts last year with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak a former intelligence official familiar with the investigation described as the director of everything both during the campaign and now in the White House that means any contacts he had with Russia would receive a thorough review at the g. 7 Summit in Sicily President Trump under pressure to sign on to that landmark climate agreement