In the day's other news. Former Trump White House counsel Pat Sip
alone has agreed to testify this week before the House committee
investigating the January 6th attack. Simple loan is believed to
be a crucial witness to what went on in the West Wing in the days
surrounding the capital siege. He's expected to appear on Friday
under subpoena.
For a closed door transcribed interview A new report out today from
Texas State University details a string of missed opportunities to
stop the elementary school massacre in You've Aldi, Texas in May.
Among them. A police officer armed with a rifle missed his chance
to shoot the gunman because he was waiting for his supervisor's permission.
The report also said that some of the 21 victims could have been
saved if they were given medical attention sooner.
President Biden spoke by phone today with the wife of US pro basketball
star Britney Griner, who is on trial in Russia for drug smuggling.
White House officials said he assured Sharell Griner that he's working
to secure her wife's release as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry now says that Griner can
appeal her sentence or ask for clemency once a verdict is delivered.
Our next court hearing is scheduled for tomorrow.
In Ukraine. Government officials say that a renewed Russian onslaught
on towns and cities in the east has left at least eight people dead
and dozens more wounded. Overnight. Russian missiles flattened a
university in heart Kiev.
Ukraine had forced Russian troops out of Ukraine's second largest
city earlier in the war.
The United Nations released a grim report today on the rise of world
hunger, calling it a looming catastrophe. It found that around 2.3
billion people faced moderate or severe difficulty getting enough
to eat in 2021.
The data was collected before the war in Ukraine, which has threatened
further starvation. At least 77 people have now died in monsoon rains
across Pakistan over the past three weeks.
The deluge has flooded huge swaths in the southwestern part of the
country, leaving shell shocked residents to pick up the pieces.
Yeah, We lost six members of our families. We lost our houses. We
lost everything. After a big struggle. We recovered bodies of our
loved ones.
Now we don't have food for our Children. We are out in the open sky
waiting for government aid.
Pakistan's minister for climate Change, said that this year's monsoon
rains have been nearly 90% heavier than average.
More than 400. Inmates in Nigeria are still at large. After a jail
break in the capital city. Explosions rang out late last night at
a maximum security prison in Abuja.
The Islamic state claimed responsibility. Around half of the nearly
900 prisoners who fled have now been captured.
On the pandemic, the FDA announced. US pharmacists can now prescribed
Paxil Ovid, the leading covid treatment pill directly to patients.
Meanwhile, overseas, Beijing and Shanghai ramped up their covid testing
again.
After a spike in new cases, some worry that China could re impose
restrictions just weeks after emerging from a strict lockdown.
Back in this country. President Biden touted his plan to rescue pensions
for millions of workers during a visit to Cleveland, Ohio. He said
that the American rescue plan will help underfunded multi employer
pensions remain solvent.
At least through 2051, so workers won't see their benefits cut despite
the economic crisis.
This fourth of July. Let's remember.
Who Who is the backbone of this country? It's you, the American worker.
I promised you I'd be the most pro labor Pro union pro worker president
history and there's another promise. I'm going to be keeping as well.
The White House said workers and retirees and some 200 multi employer
pension plans were at risk of not receiving the full benefits they
earned before the federal government took action.
And stocks climbed higher on Wall Street today is minutes from the
Federal Reserve's last policy meeting reaffirmed their commitment
to tackle inflation. The Dow Jones industrial Average gain 70 points
to close at 31,037.
The NASDAQ Rose 39 points and the S and P. 500 added 13.
Still to come on the news hour how abortion providers are adjusting
to their new reality post roe legal battles over past and future
elections. Heat up in Georgia and Arizona conservation has worked
to protect endangered species in Iraq.
Plus much more.
This is the PBS news hour from W. E to studios in Washington and
in the West from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona
State University.