and let's start across the pond. As usual,
ceremonies continue to unfold in England as the country mourns
its late queen king Charles and his siblings followed Queen
Elizabeth's coffin through the streets of Edinburgh to ST Giles
Cathedral for a service of thanksgiving. In the evening
the family held the vigil and the public were allowed
to pay their respects. Now, early in the
day, Charles addressed the british parliament for the first
time as king and tonight the queen's coffin will be
flown to London. That as events continue their in
the run up to her funeral on monday Shannon.
Well, the world of politics is waking up here
in the US and took I guess a fresh round
of subpoenas, if you would call them of course
is connected to the january 6th insurrection. So Ariel
Hickson is live in Washington, D. C.
To bring us the very latest drama unfolding in our
nation's capital. Ariel break it on down for us
all the drama for both of you guys. Now
you can say that the Justice Department has been pretty
busy this past week when it comes to its crim
investigation of the january 6th insurrection. Over 40 subpoenas
were issued to dozens of people from former President trump's
circle as well as low level officials. This is
the doj continued to examine trump's allies and efforts to
overturn the 2020 election. Some of the subpoenas asked
for documents while others asked for testimony before a grand
jury. The Department of Justice also sees at least
to tell some big names mentioned in the collection of
subpoenas include former new york city Police Commissioner Bernard kerik
, former trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and trump's former
deputy Chief of staff dan scavino. And timing is
everything here. As typically this is days before the
doj has its pre election quiet period of 60 days
in order to not interfere with the election. This
all comes as a Department of Justice is currently in
a legal battle with trump over the documents seized by
the FBI at his home in mar A Lago.
Just last month, some of those documents were labeled
top secret and just monday trump's legal team asked the
judge to continue blocking the doj from seeing those papers
. All right, So let's go back to the
january 6th select committee aerial they're set to meet and
decide how they're going to proceed with the hearings,
explain what's going on here. That's right. Well
, one big question is if they were actually gonna
formally require former president trump and Vice President Mike Pence
to appear before them and some background here, appearances
like this from the commander in chief are rare in
U. S. History but committee members do believe
that both trump and Pence would clearly be some key
witnesses to their investigation. So the committee plans to
meet in person today and determine how they can continue
their next round of hearings and finish there. Final
report before that december deadline. Oh, you got
to keep us posted on this one aerial. Hickson
live from Washington as always, we appreciate you.
All right. Meanwhile, twitter's former head of security
. Peter's acco is scheduled to testify before a Senate
panel later today. It's going to focus on security
and privacy problems that he allegedly uncovered while working at
twitter, Twitter said yesterday their payments to Zach,
oh did not breach any obligations under Elon musk's$44
billion takeover bid of the company friday must send a
third letter to call off the deal, but twitter
says they intend to close the transaction on the original
price and terms twitter shareholders gonna vote today on whether
to reject or approve musk's original takeover bid and I'm
excited about this next story. Listen up a new
pill is on the way that could be more effective
against lung cancer than chemotherapy. That's right. Drugmaker
Amgen says that ludicrous pill is reduced the progress of
the disease by 34% compared to chemo in a clinical
trial. Now the medication targets a mutated form of
the gene that occurs in about 13% of most common
lung cancers. Now is up to the FDA to
grant the drug full approval. That is really great
news there. Meanwhile, R kelly got his lead
attorney gonna deliver her closing arguments today in federal federal
jurors in Chicago this a day after a prosecutor told
them that weeks of evidence, proof That the singer
parlayed his fame to sexually abuse minors and record the
abuse all on video. R. Kelly faces several
charges including production of child pornography, enticing minor girls
for sex and obstruction of justice by rigging his 2008
child pornography trial in state court at which he was
later acquitted. Now in her closing argument, prosecutors
described Kelly as a secret sexual predator. Jurors also
expected to begin deliberating later today. Meanwhile, to
go ahead Shannon. That's right. I'll take this
story because this is interesting. The two major labor
disputes in the railroads and at the ports are threatening
America's already fragile supply chain. So over the weekend
negotiations continue between the country's largest freight railroad companies and
the majority of the unions representing around 115,000 workers.
Now they're trying to meet on friday, they're trying
to meet a deadline that's up on friday when the
cooling off period runs out and the workers could actually
strike. Now support workers on the west Coast have
been in negotiations for the new contract for quite some
time. The last one expired in june. Meanwhile
, big news with Jeff Bezos's rocket company, they
had their first launch failure monday. It carried only
science experiments, luckily the blue origin rocket was barely
a minute into the flight when yellow flames shot out
from around the single engine at the bottom. The
capsules emergency launch aboard system then had to kick in
lifting the craft off the top. It then parachuted
onto the desert floor. The rocket crashed back down
to earth with no injuries or damage reported. The
new Shepard rocket was the same kind used for launching
people on 10 minute rides to the edge of space
. The rocket grounded, pending the outcome of an 00:05:28.949 --> investigation.