Staff Shakeup, Alexa Health Care & Virginia's Big Win - Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Tuesday, April 9th, 2019!
Today, we're talking about who's in the hot seat and a staff shakeup on Capitol Hill today, and the historic baseball agreement with Cuba just cancelled.
Plus: ask Amazon's Alexa about your health care, celebrities plead guilty, and Virginia's big win.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Sources:
William Barr on Capitol Hill: AP, CBS News
Cuba Deal Cancelled: Reuters, Washington Post, NBC News
More Measles Cases: TIME, ABC News
Ikea Speakers: The Verge, TechCrunch
Ikea Sustainable: Ikea, Edie.net
NCAA Champs: CBS Sports, USA Today
Allison Mack Guilty: Variety
Beyonce Netflix Trailer: Rolling Stone, Quartz, YouTube
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is |
| 0:02.0 | today on Capitol Hill, and the historic baseball agreement with Cuba just cancelled. |
| 0:08.0 | Plus, ask Alexa about your health care. |
| 0:10.6 | Celebrity crimes and Virginia's Redemption Story |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:18.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:20.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:26.0 | You ready? |
| 0:27.0 | Let's do this. |
| 0:28.0 | President Trump seems to be cleaning house at the Department of Homeland |
| 0:34.4 | Security or DHS. More senior officials at the department are reportedly being |
| 0:38.7 | forced out. The department manages border security, presidential safety, natural disasters and more. The Department |
| 0:43.5 | Management Management and more. |
| 0:44.5 | The latest person to leave? |
| 0:46.0 | The White House announced Secret Service Director Randolph Tex Alice |
| 0:49.0 | will be leaving shortly. |
| 0:50.5 | Alice will be replaced next month by James Murray, another member of Secret Service. |
| 0:54.9 | This comes just days after Trump withdrew his nomination for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| 0:59.0 | Chief, and as we talked about yesterday, the head of the department, DHS Secretary Kirsten Nielsen, just |
| 1:04.3 | resigned. |
| 1:05.7 | And now sources told the New York Times, at least two to four more people are expected to leave |
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