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A major heat wave in store for the Pacific Northwest and growing Fire Concerns for the droughtstricken southwest. Lets get to meteorologist chad myers. Chad . John, a remarkable heat wave about to occur in the northwest. Also, British Columbia as well. Hundreds of record highs will be broken without a doubt. To the east there will be some severe weather. But this remarkable heat wave across the west is going to happen thursday, friday, saturday, and into sunday and then at the same time were going to get almost 10 inches of rain in parts of missouri. One side across the country to the other. Seattle has only been over 100 degrees three times in history. The forecast is for three times again by monday. New day continues right now. Im Brianna Keilar alongside john ....
jacob soberoff, and garrett we will start with you. we have a surge in migrant children. there is a scarcity of shelter beds. what will fema s assistance mean for the situation now at the border? well, fema is the federal government s emergency logistics experts. that s why they show up after hurricanes and natural disasters. their goal is to try to alleviate the overcrowding situation. the border patrol stations here and at hhs shelters that are limited in how much they can take. so they re hoping to expeditiously move the minors. while that s going on you talk about the political battle here. they re trying to lay all of this at the feet of the biden administration, and they give important context that i got from veronica escobar last night, look at what she told me. part of why ibristle at the terms that there is a crisis at the border is because they want to ignore what is causing it. the real crisis is what is happening in the northern triangle. and what happen ....
president biden, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, taking a victory lap after the nearly $2 trillion pandemic relief package officially became law. what you shepherded through the congress, not only meets the moment. it does even more. it is historical and they call it transformational. and it really is. all right. so in just a moment, we ll be speaking with andy, the white house senior adviser for covid response to talk about where things stand, what comes next, of course. the other major breaking news story that is developing this hour. we will be hearing from the family of george floyd, reacting to the minneapolis city council s approval of a $27 million settlement over his death as the client for floyd s murder continues. we want to begin this hour and this conversation with minnesota democratic senator tina smith. thank you. so for your time. we greatly appreciate you joining us on these two very important stories that we re dealing with. we ll start with what we ju ....
every single one voted against. against a bill backed by a majority of you, including many of the opposite s own republican constituents. against sending americans $1400 checks. against giving unemployed americans a $300 a week boost in support. against cutting child poverty in half. against saving tens of thousands of jobs. now that it is done, some of the opposers are becoming posers, like this. look at this tweet from senator roger wicker, mississippi. celebrating the money for restaurants, remember, he wanted to starve you. he voted against this money for you. fact. president biden owns this, good or bad. the first major legislative achievement of his presidency. this bill represents a historic, historic victory for the american people. i look forward to signing it later this week. everything in the american rescue plan addressed a real need. please focus on this. 61% of americans wanted this rescue. two thirds of the country think it will help our economy. amon ....
since suzie s got goals, she ll want a plan to reach them. so she ll get some help from fidelity, and she ll feel so good about her plan, she can focus on living it. that s the planning effect, from fidelity. two more juror were selected in the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin who is charged in the death of george floyd. that brings the total number of jurors selected to 5 with 14 needed, including two alternates. according to a pool reporter, one man appears to be caucasian in his 30s or 40s. another, a black man in his 30s or 40s. there are a black man, and a biracial woman. chauvin has pleaded not guilty to second degree intentional murder and man slatter in manslaughter. in floyd s death, which was captured on camera. meanwhile, the minnesota courts clear the way for the trial judge to reinstate a third degree murder charge. the judge would address the matter when court resumes in the morning. a reminder, don t miss full circle, our digit ....