Different this year. Well stalk about that. It is typically packed with the new president s sporters but now virtually empty. Thousands of National Guard troops are on the ground protecting the capitol. Bill the sitting president will not attend the swearing in. That hasnt happened in 152 years. President trump leaving the white house earlier today and now heading to florida. He should touchdown in palm beach in 2 hours and 30 minutes. Thats right around the time where lady gaga should be singing the National Anthem at the capitol. We see inside st. Matthews cathedral where joe biden and his family are having morning prayers. Dana, you mentioned just how different this inauguration is. You think about this. During a pandemic and covid times, i over the six inaugurations ive covered every time we show up in the predawn hours there are tens of thousands of people on the national mall. Tens of thousands of others trying to go through security. No one is here today. In the assembly behind
The girl was eliminated but the next day the judges realized their mistake and moved her on in the spelling bee. The ugly a seasoned sky diver spins out of control hitting the ground 30 miles per hour. Luckily he does survive. He was attempting a new stunt but the parachute didnt cooperate. He did make it out alive with just a few bumps and bruises. Time for your brew on this question of the day responses. Earlier we told you about a recent report that found more companies turning to tracking devices to monitor employees habits and find out how theyre interacting with coworkers. We asked you is this fine or over the line. Here are responses. Betkaz letter tweeted so over the line employees should be judged on results, not how busy they are every second. Albert said track the bosses and see if they are running or ruining their business. John from virginia tweeted scrap the idea and take the money they were spending on the program and buy the employees a cup of coffee. Thanks to everyone
Obamacare among other initiativings. But then he put that flag tweet out there which raised plenty of eyebrows, in part because the Supreme Court has upheld the view even if you find the notion of burning a flag abhorrent, it is still protected under the First Amendment as part of free speech. So its a little unclear why he decided to just toss that out there, especially on a day when he was already making news. The Transition Team announced that donald trump had decided on georgia congressman tom price to be the next head of health and Human Services. This is someone whos been a vehement critic of obamacare. Obviously that fits in nicely with Donald Trumps promise on the campaign trail to repeal and replace obamacare. Its the kind of decision being cheered on by conservatives. Now, second on the list of staff announcements also in the health care vein is sema burm ma. Donald trump has chose be her to be administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. All this is an i
The newsroom. Here is what we know. A package containing nails and shrapnel blew up on Conveyor Belt around 12 30 this morning. A woman was treated for a concussion. No word yet on any connection to the boston bombings but the fbi is investigating. We, of course, will bring you the latest on that explosion as we know it meantime, back here live where we are standing right now. Neighbors say this is the exact location where that trip wire bomb went off on sunday. You can see a little bit of a divot here in the grass behind me as well as some blood, an erie reminder of the fear gripping this community. Take a look at this, this is the morning edition of the Austin American states men, we are going to stop it. That is the vow from Law Enforcement who said yesterday two things, one, that this individual, they believe is a serial bomber. And, two, that hes raised his game to a whole new level. He and his friend were riding a bicycle about a block from their house. It was so dark they couldn
In a time of historic distrust in government, the United States Postal Service has accomplished something extraordinary: it remains a universally beloved federal agency. Second only to the Parks Service in public favorability (a jaw-dropping 77% approval rating, per Gallup), USPS is arguably also th.