Voices were heard around the capital and on the senate floor. A vote in favor of the motion to proceed will mean deep cuts to medicaid. Maybe even deeper than in the house bill. It will mean people with preexisting conditions will be left high and dry. President trump meeting with lebanese Prime Minister today. We move forward to truly Great Health Care for the american people. We look forward to that, this was a big step. There is still a lot of questions of what the final measure will look like. Senator mcconnell is open to ideas and amems, so expect several significant votes in the coming days. Channel 6 action news. While many eyes were on the senate the Russian Investigation also took center stage on capitol hill. President trumps soninlaw and senior adviser, Jared Kushner was on the hill for a second day of talks with top lawmakers, kushner faces questions for three hours about contact with the Trump Campaign and russian nationals. Yesterday kushner said he did not collude with r
Thigh fank you for coming to. Im an Education Research fellow here at the American Enterprise institute. Also those who are joining on live stream and for our friends watching on cspan. Our event today Charter Schools in the developing world. With a keynote from Liberian Education minister George Werner. We have a simple program. Were going to have a brief video. A pictures worth a thousand words. To root todays conversations about school unles in liberia. Then well turn it over to minister werner. Following that, we have a fantastic panel today. With seth andrew from democracy builders. Amy black from results for development. And alejandro caballer from the International Finance corporation. Ill introduce them in detail when the panel joins me up here. Well have about 45 minutes of q a time with some opportunity for the audience to join as well. For those following on social media, we have a hash tag for our event. Its developingworldcharters. You can comment and also send questions w
That the pentagon has a plan for a strike on north korea. North korea doubled down to strike the u. S. Territory of guam saying it will be in a position to do so by mid august. As it brushes off trumps comments as retaliation as a load of nonsense. Still the president s tough rhetoric was backed by stronger words by the defense secretary as he warned north korea to stop considering actions that would lead to the end of the regime and the destruction of its people. Promising it would lose any conflict that it initiates. How much would a war would an attack plunge us in to . The pentagon has prepared a specific strike plan for a preemptiv attack on north korea if it should be ordered. The Battle Tested b1 bomber. Seen here in a military video, training for such a mission. The b1, recently updated, has been a work horse in afghanistan and iraq. Since the end of may, the b1s have accelerated their training, conducted 11 practice runs, including one on monday. Six b1s are positioned in guam
The car and the child behind. They couldnt say if the driver was aware that he struck the pedestrian or the little boy. His family just hopes the driver will come forward and take responsibility and they say she scraped and bruised but doing better and that is what they are waiting to hear. It was horrible. It is just horrible. He will likely have to stay in the hospital for a commore day triaz observe couple more days are observation. Today a group of afternoon tenets delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures calling for fire and code inspections they have been stepped up in the wake of the ghost ship warehouse fire and the tenets say the inspections are unfairly targeted low income artists and musicians who live in warehouse. You are displaceing communities and hurting artists and these laws are well intentioned but they have negative consequences, in the last couple of weeks one space has been red tag and the people who live there could be evicted. And another warehouse learned th
A long time advocate for car sharing, ridesharing and Driverless Technology expects all vehicler develop towards follow the law. That includes ubers ceo. I think he should not be operating his driverless Vehicle Technology on our streets without that permit. 20 other companies have not had a problem getting the permits. Uber maintains that a permit is not needed since theres a human attendant in the drivers seat. The dmv rejected that argument in the driverless car registrations. Why do we have to rush it out there so fast . It seems like theyre pushing this through in a year from conceiving the idea of having Driverless Cars to having them actually operating. After the meeting today, the dmv announced its revoking the registration for the 16 cars. In response to that, uber says theyre stopping the program for now and released this statement that says, quote, we are now locking at where we can redeploy the cars but remain 100 committed to california and will be redoubling our efforts.