We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid
You can also send us a text, that number 202 7488003. Please include your name or where you are from. Therwise on social media a very good thursday morning. You can start calling you now. To let you know where we are on capitol hill, the houses and at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, the senate is in at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. President trump headed to wisconsin to participate in a town hall and visit a shipbuilding firm. We do not know when that promised executive order on mound events and statues will on monuments and statues will come but the president had plenty to say at the white house yesterday. [video clip] we will have a strong executive order. We have the monuments act, which means 10 years in jail. We will have a strong executive order, i should have that by the end of the week. We will have a very powerful statement. We have arrested numerous people for what took place outside of washington. In addition, the fbi is investigating hundreds of people throughout the country for what they have
Clara county. Whats going to change this week and how long before other bay area counties make even more moves. And when will the lights be flipped back on at oracle park and the Oakland Coliseum . What the governor said today that has sports fans and local businesses feeling upbeat. Good monday evening. Thanks for joining us. Im janelle wang. And im raj mathai. The global race to find a vaccine appears to have one company out in front. A bostonarea company saying its seen promising results from its first test on humans. Keep in mind, though, there are more than 100 Companies Working on a cure, including several, janelle, here in the bay area. And theyre hoping to become household names when that vaccine becomes a reality. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney reports. I was so excited. Reporter that from a woman who received the vaccine in march. She could be speaking for moderna, the Massachusetts Biotech Company behind the vaccine. Moderna says its experimental vaccine was safe for all 45 p
Im going to welcome to the show its good to have you with us. After the 27 year old veterinarian was allegedly gang raped and mud by 4 men over the weekend this crowd gathered outside the Police Station where the accused men were being held and demanded. To face justice to form an image of a body and dumped it beneath a fly over in hyderabad city. Police say the man who helped the doctor there. And then gang raped by dragging her to a secluded place. Outrage over the brutal rape and murder is spilling onto social media with calls for justice even vigilante justice the hash tag hanged rapists was trending on twitter over the weekend. Has a user from hyderabad who said we believe the tallest statues came to have the Worlds Largest democracy too unfortunate that we failed to make our country safe for women and girls and then this from a fan account of bollywood star the shop attorney who says theres no better way to depict women in india and this. And the democrats one of nimish i gess we
Town hall hosted by cnn. It was held after the dnc rejected a push to allow for a debate focused on the Climate Crisis. We will host a roundtable discussion and hear highlights from last night town hall. Fort is about a new deal people who work. It is about justice for people whose communities have been destroyed. It is about Racial Justice on environmental issues. It is about worker justice. Amy then to india. Nearly 2 Million People in the northeast state of assam are at risk of beining rendered statels after inindia effectively stripd them of citizenship in what has been described as the biggest exercise and do some franchise meant in disenfranchisement in u. N. History. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Ten 2020 hopefuls took to the stage in new york city one by wednesday night for a climate one town hall hosted by cnn. In a sevenhour marathon, the candidate each discussed their climate plans, the f