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Fast that its a challenge to count every single one of them. Those numbers are staggering really. I have said this before. But every one of those numbers represents one of our fellow americans, every one of them someones friend, someones family member, someones loved one. The president says he a activate ed the National Guard in new york and california, washington state. Hes also approved disaster declarations for washington. With california expected to be approved soon. He says hes instructed fema to supply four large federal medical stations with 1,000 beds for new york, 8 medical stations w...

Remembering those who fought for freedom at home and abroad. Im Shannon Bream live in the nations capital. The u. S. Led coalition launched more airstrikes last night hoping to take out top leaders. Our middle east bureau has more this morning. Hello, connor. Reporter he would be a major coup for the u. S. Led coalition, but it isnt clear what the health of the Islamic State is right now. Theres been rumors about the entire arab world. The pentagon has confirmed it launched a series of airstrikes targeting a gathering of senior isis leaders, but arab media reported that he was in this group an...

Head into that lunch. The clicking of those shutters would indicate you probably have a shot of the president coming down the hallway. There he is. With actually John Barrasso and mitch mcconnell. So theyre heading in to this luncheon with republican senators. We also saw several Top White House staffers here on capitol hill, john kelly, the chief of staff, gary cohen, whos been a key part of the tax reform talks. Mark short, his legislative director. And Sarah Huckabee sanders, who to my knowledge is a relatively rare presence up here on capitol hill, so all of them coming to try to hammer ou...

Why are things stalling? >> reporter: the investigations that found for 421 days, a year and two months, the fbi, usa olympic committee and usa gymnastics all failed to actor even warn michigan state university where dr. nasser works that he was sexually abusing athletes. >> and there are also profiles in coward yes, sdes because peo look the other way and put medals and money above morals. >> reporter: the senator jerry maran says the organizations knowingly concealed reports of the abuse. >> was that a mastiff cover-up of usoj and usoc, and for that matter even the fbi? >> whether it was a c...

Would be thrilled. >> he's talking about some of these backstops that perhaps lawmakers should be considering just in case some of the rosier economic projections don't come to pass. is that something we are likely to see in a finished bill? senator jim langford, bob corker of course, jeff flake of arizona, todd rounds in indiana and i believe jerry maran in kansas. i had langford on my radio show this morning talking about the backstop, the trigger. he's very optimistic those four or five senators will have their concerns met. he did not want to talk about steve johnson who cares about the pa...