Catching you up on the stories you need to know for Tuesday, June 21, 2022.. a gas tax break could be on the way, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down highly anticipated rulings this week, and Yellowstone National Park reopens its gates

Wake Up With Cheddar

Need2Know: Gas Tax Holiday, SCOTUS Watch, Yellowstone Reopens

there may be some less pain at the pump for a lot of americans out there. That's because pricing biden says he's considering a federal gas tax holiday. This would save americans more than 18 cents a gallon gas prices nationwide, averaging just under $5 a gallon. That according to Triple A. The president telling reporters monday that that decision could come by the end of the week. Hannah lawmakers in Israel will vote to dissolve parliament, paving the way for the country's fifth election in three years. The vote is expected to take place in the fall. The coalition government lost its majority earlier this year. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said it wasn't easy to disband the government, but he called it the right decision for Israel Foreign Minister. Yeah, lapis will take over from Bennett on an interim basis. Meanwhile, we're on scotty's watch. That's because the Supreme Court is expected to hand down some major opinions starting as early as today, at the top of the list. Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health Organization and that could undo decades old precedent in the roe versus wade decision that establishes a constitutional right to an abortion. No other high profile cases involving gun regulations in cities, immigration and a big one involving the E. P. A. Is regulation of greenhouse gasses from power plants. Meanwhile, the world, the politics waking up this morning, our aerial Hickson is live for us in our nation's capital, bringing us the biggest stories unfolding their aerial another day of what seems to be some major revelations from the january 6th committee today, yep. That is so right baker. The january 6th committee is set for its fourth public hearing today. So of course we have to break down what to watch out for. We're expecting the content in today's hearing to focus on efforts from former president trump and his team to pressure state level officials to go along with the scheme that would have state legislatures essentially throw away the votes of millions of americans and submit slates of trump electors to the Electoral College. We're expecting to hear from three live witnesses brad raffensperger the Georgia. Secretary of State, Gabriel Sterling, another Georgia state election official who oversaw the voting systems in 2020 And rusty bowers, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives. All three men receive public pressure and criticism from Trump and his allies in the period between election day and January six, we're expecting to hear about several specific examples of this pressure campaign and we already know of a few of them. including a phone call Four days before January six when Trump asked Rothenberger to quote, find more votes. Take a listen. So look, all I wanna do is this, I just want to find uh 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we want to say very specific there find 11,780 votes. The exact number needed to flip Georgia from biden to trump. Yeah, exactly. And adam shift one of the committee members telling the Los Angeles Times yesterday. The committee also going to release text messages showing Chief of staff. Mark Meadows wanted to send autographed maga hats to people conducting the audit in Georgia. Ariel. Are there any other instances of this pressure campaign that were also expected to hear about today? Yes, we know that Rusty Bowers, the Arizona house speaker, received a phone call from the president's attorney and former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani pressuring him to submit a slate of trump electors. Bowers also received an email from jenny thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice. Clarence thomas asking for the same things. So expect the committee to be interested in these examples and so much more like that. Yeah, it's gonna be definitely really interesting to watch Ariel Hickson live for us in Washington and of course cheddar gonna have coverage of that hearing starting at one p.m. Eastern time later today, Hannah elsewhere. Yellowstone National Park is set to partially reopen to visitors tomorrow. The world renowned park will accommodate fewer visitors for the time being, park officials say the reopening is much faster than originally expected but note it will take more time to restore road connections with some southern Montana communities. Record floods pounded the region last week, knocking out major Roads and forcing over 10,000 visitors out of the park and dub nation came out in full force to celebrate the Golden state warriors latest NBA title. Thousands of fans turned out to pay their respects to the newly crowned champions and the ensuing results was a montage of champagne showers, figurative fan flowers and of course festivities for hours. Love that rhyme. One fan took the goat claims quite literally on monday dressing as an actual goat in a curry jersey. Golden State capture the franchise's fourth championship in eight years thursday night by defeating the boston Celtics 103 to 90 in Game six. Well meanwhile, if you want to take your RV to Yellowstone, you have plenty of company. That's because RV production in North America hit an all time high last year with more than 600,000 vehicles produced. That's according to a report from the RV Industry Association, Sales of RVS Rose 19% last year compared to 2020 with April shipments topping 10% compared to 2021. Report from the RV Industry Association notes that Americans are using recreational vehicles as an alternative way of travel. Given the increased cost that we're seeing from airfare and hotels