Can only help us in that cause. Now to the Us Open Tennis where the wimbledon Champion Barbora Krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second round by the romanian Qualifier Elena Gabriela ruse, beating the czech player 6 4, 7 5 to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time. Krejcikova who was knocked out of the quarterfinals at the olympics chose not to play any hard Court Warm up events going into the tournament, and withdrew from the tournament in toronto with a thigh injury. In the mens draw, fourth Seed Alexander Zverev is in action in the louis armstrong stadium. Hes taking on Alexandre Muller of france, the two have never met before. Zverev has taken the first two sets the second one a closer affair, went to a tie break. Zverev leads the third set 3 1. While the former semi finalist Grigor Dimitrov is through to the third round, the bulgarian ninth Seed Beat australian rinky Hiji Kata in straight sets. Cricket and England And Sri lanka are making their final prepa
Good morning. I am kasie hunt on this thursday, june 24th. Well start with the news. There appears to be a long awaited break threw on bipartisan infrastructure talks. Specifics of the deal, including how it will be paid for, have not been released, but lawmakers seemed optimistic as they left a closed door meeting with officials last night. Republicans and democrats have come together along with the white house, and weve agreed on a framework, and were going to be heading to the white house tomorrow. Meanwhile white house officials also met with House Speaker nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer yesterday. Democrats are considering two ways to pass their Infrastructure Priorities with or without republican support. We had a very good meeting we got into quite a bit of detail. Were all on the same page. Both tracks, the bipartisan track and the Budget Reconciliation Track are proceeding at pace, and we hope to have voting on both them in the house and the senate in july. The bottom line, the
List, quote, this decision has nothing to do with our view of the representable conduct of the houthis and the kidnapping of american citizens. Removing them from the terror list because that would somehow improve humanitarian consequences of a terrorist designation. How does this link to iran . We will investigate and is Breaking News on the Iran Nuclear Program as well. The Lincoln Project loses another cofounder, Jennifer Warren is leaving because of the grotesque and inappropriate behavior, her words, of cofounder jeff weaver. The project responds is actually leaving because he wouldnt pay for more money and give her a tv show. By the way republicans are pushing the congressional sergeant at arms to find nancy pelosi. Apparently say; 509 am at february 2nd she didnt fully clear the new Metal Detectors as some republicans are facing 5,000 fines themselves for skipping that same security measure. Kevin cork kicks us off with a 17 of the Biden Administration. This is a real storyline
You. He wants health and medical experts to be the guides. And the politics, follow the science. Hes guided as we all are by scientists and medical experts. We will follow the science. Many say that again. He does rely on the guidance of his health and medical experts. Jesse Turns Out Biden and the white house didnt mean any of that, what they really shouldve said is this. We will follow the science unless it hurts us politically. For example, the White House Press secretary is throwing the cdc under the bus for saying teachers can safely return to School Without being vaccinated, watch this. Vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for savory opening of schools. She spoke to this in her personal capacity, we are going to wait for the final guidance to come out. The white house said today that the cdc has yet to release official guidance while another expert, dr. Anthony fauci just said this. You cant have children going Back To School as we have in the past without necessarily ha
The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta