proposal coming up. bill: we begin with the d.c. senate council reversing course on its controversial crime overhaul. after president biden signaled that he would join republicans in blocking the measure. i m john roberts in washington, good monday to you. gillian: good monday to you, john, is it monday, tuesday, i don t know anymore. there are so many days. and they just keep going. john: it feels like one day leads into the next. gillian: we are almost at that point around here. can you believe it. all right, i m gillian turner and first sandra smith today, this is america reports, that crime bill has become a source of some conflict, democrats in washington over the last few days quite a few house dams are upset with the white house were not given them a heads up that the president plans to veto the bill. john: senior correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill and he has the latest on this about-face. chad. john, good afternoon, the d.c. city council is tr
off the week, and from the city council, resending a controversial criminal code that even president biden could not get behind. our far left politicians guarding to get the message from voters and running for cover to get tougher on crime? gillian: plus this, mexican cartels are wreaking havoc on both sides of the border, kidnapping americans and continuing to traffic offense and all into the u.s. senator john cornyn toward philip man toward the border last week. he will tell us about that. plus react to the first time for the americans kidnapped to mexico. it is time to start taking a stand against the counter terrorism that is going on. if we ever take a stand, this is actually defending our own border. no. he s making real-time money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market s doing, he s ready. and that s. how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company.
Independent filmmakers Jidi Guo and Philip Man join Eric and Cobus to discuss their new documentary about how a new generation is responding to China’s growing influence in Kenya. This is the first documentary produced by the Shanghai-based pair, who took 10 days of vacation time from their day jobs to shoot the film in Nairobi.
ali. mia, thanks very much. let s go to nbc s philip man that who is at houston s george brown convention center. it s been transformed into a shelter for flood victims. and you ve been talking to them, philip, for the last couple of hours. what are you hearing? well, in this place is a swelling. there was about 2,900 people two hours ago. that was the last official number we got from the red cross, but you can see over my shoulder there has been an influx within the last hour, hundreds and hundreds have come throughment the capacity is five thousand so i would imagine that they re pretty close to that number. we ll find out pretty soon. but one of those families who just came in within the hour, i want to bring them in, they were rescued by helicopter. ten year old son and two year old cute little daughter here. what was that like? you guys had to we just waefd them. i mean, we jous got out and there were some people walking from the rescue. i don t even know who was it, but w
yeah. i mean, until we can. and i m still worried about my brother because he s still over there and they were already rescuing women and children. okay. i ll let you go check on them. thank you so much for speaking with us. okay. no problem. i m glad you guys are all safe. again, one of the many stories that we see here of rescue, helicopters, swimming, however you can get out. people are getting out and a lot of them are coming right down here to downtown houston at the george r. brown convention center. you can get there, philip. the roads around the center are accessible so people can go in there and get food and clothes and things like that? yeah. you come in and get clothes. we might be able to see there are clothes that are right behind us. let me just see if we can swing around here. we ve got there we go. see, there s piles of clothes right there. they come and go. they come and go. every few minutes this thing is completely empty. wow. and then all of a sudd