We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
Conversation on race in america. Barack obama was asked about this in a 60 minutes interview yesterday. We will show you that, come back, get your thoughts on it. Here he is. Is that we have a criminal Justice System in which ,e ask often times very young often times not very well to go intoicers communities and just keep a lid on things. And we dont try to get at some of the underlying causes for chronic poverty. So if we are going to actually solve this problem, there are some specific things we can do to make sure that our contracts with Police Officers to completely insulate them when they do something wrong, putting money into budgets for training. More Police Officers effectively q. Week teaching Police Officers not to escalate, but to deescalate. But it is important for us not to let ourselves off the hook and think this is just a Police Problem because those shootings, that devaluation of life is part and parcel with a legacy of discrimination and jim crow and segregation that
Viciously hot wi the potential to be very dangerous. I go insidethe house. What happens when going inside isnt much better . Allen cassidy and his wife are in their 70fo years theyve been living at the charter house, which is a 55 d olderpartment community in silver spring. If it was on, you would hear it. And lately, their air conditioning unit hasnt been working. We were inside his apartment for about 15 minutes and we also started to sweat. Thats why a lot of people n downstairs othe second floor. We followed allen downstairs to the mezzanine. This is when we saw, an empty water jug and neighbors fanning a woman who had passed out it felt as though the air wasnt working on this levelf the building, either. She got too hot. D an drink. And were having to Work Together because the water bottle was out. She fated. She fainted. That woman was taken to the hospitaer montgcounty fire and rescue Officials Say the heat likely exacerbated this womans preexisting condition. On daike today thi
Odington, bowie. Croften, were going to see the storms coming tough with a vengeance, if youre just to ths of this line, that are you taking coverage now. We do have reports of tes on houses in gaithersburg, also in poolesville. A portion of Montgomery Co ty. These are pushing through the baltimore beltway. Just now exiting or getting ready to exit the eastern side of the d. C. Beltway. These warnings continue to push out in front of it. We will see annapolisn its wake. Bowie along 50. Heavy rain, damaging winds, Power Outages reported and trees are beingo talk about timing. Theres more storms and rain behind the line so well show talk about let the heat that was the main story today. Its not over yet. Building for the weekend. Well show you that coming up. Lets get to breaking news. The weather lauren is talking about caung mage. Erica gonzales is working that story at the live desk. We pick things up where lauren left them. Ea the h has made it a tough day for firefighters who have h
Both exited their vehicles. Thete was an argument t occurred on the scene of the arment and a gun was introduced into this argument and our complaintant was actually shot. Reporter at last check, the man who was in shot was in critical condition. D. C. Police advising should you see that car, you should not approach it. The occupants are deemed dangerous. Instead give them a call and let them handle it. Justin, thank you. Ni new thisng in the district, it appears police have cracked a series of Sexual Assault cases more than a deca old. 41yearold levi roughen was charged wth child sex abuse possibly dating back to 1999. Hes also charged withea brking into three different homes in theg middle of the and sexually assaultng someone a knife point. Those cases were between 2003 and 2007 in northwest d. C. For the first time an africanamerican woman is set to lead the Fire Department in Prince Georges County. Current fire chief Benjamin Barksdale announced his retirement tuesday and then cou