To the country. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im carrie gracie. Austria is considering imposing border controls with italy, which has the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in europe. A train from venice was temporarily denied entry last night, because of two suspected cases on board. More than 200 cases have now been confirmed in italy and four people have died. Officials are yet to find the first carrier of the virus in the country and in an effort to control the outbreak, around 50,000 people across northern italy have been put into quarantine. Meanwhile in the uk there have been four new confirmed cases amongst Cruise Ship Passengers who were flown back to britain on saturday. Its been confirmed they caught the virus on the diamond princess liner injapan. Theyve now been transferred to specialist centres for treatment. It brings the total number of cases in the uk to 13. 0ur correspondent sean dilley reports. Around 50,000 people are confined to several towns in two no
Which specific areas of the country may have their guidelines relaxed. Debra and tony will talk to you about that. We have to open up. We cant say lets close. People dont want to close, john. I say it again and again. I want you to report it eventually. Steve, go ahead, steve. Mr. President , with xi, what do you want to talk to him about . Its his call. I think we will have a very fruitful and good call at 9 oclock. Talking about the virus . Yes, we will talk about the virus. In the back. Thank you, mr. President , the market rallied again. Over 4,000 points in the last 3 days. Yes, a record. Do you think that the economic fear has passed . No, but its come a long way. They think we are doing a good job in terms of running this whole situation having to do with the virus. I think they have feel that myself and the administration are doing a good job. Keeping people informed. There was a great fear. A lot of good things are happening. The mortality rate is nmy opinion, you will have to
In testing. 593 americans have now died. President trump declaring the time to act is now. President trump this shouldnt be a time for political agends but rather one for focus squairl on the needs of the American People. The country is facing the crisis in our Healthcare System and our economy. We have an obligation to get the details right. Theyve put us in a position where one senator out of 100, one, could keep us here until friday or saturday. And our constituents are saying act now. Sandra Fox Team Coverage this morning. Kristin fisher is tracking the federal response effort. We begin with Jonathan Serrie. He is reporting live from atlanta for us this morning. Good morning, jonathan. Good morning, sandra. Braerking news out of tokyo, the summer olympics will be delayed. They wont be held this year but no later than summer of 2021. Also, early this morning a new executive order took effect in florida requiring all air passengers arriving from the new york tristate area to quaranti
Israeli teens were found. Was it a revenge killing and whats to stop this all from spiraling further out of control . And the money lead. Facebook apologizing for those secret psychological experiments that sparked outrage, but some critics are asking, hey, when is facebook not messing with your head . Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and well start with breaking news and the department of Homeland Security about enhanced security measures for flights coming into the United States. Cnn chief National Secure theity correspondent jim sharer is here to explain. It will come quickly and passengers will notice this in the next days and theyre direct flights to the u. S. From the middle east and its enhanced security screening. Theres been concern about a number of months and the western bombmaker constantly updating their bombs to get past current security screening. There was a vulnerability discovered i am told by intelligence
Investigators in france have just called a News Conference which, by the way, is set to begin any minute now and well take there you live momentarily that we expect will officially confirm that the debris is in fact part of the planes wing and the very first discovery in this mysterious disappearance. Just to go back for a moment. This plane part in question washed up on this island. This is off the coast. You have africa off the coast of africa madagascar and a tiny island off of madagascar is reunion island. It was quickly confirmed as a flaperon belonging to a boeing 777, the very same model aircraft that was flight 370. That plane that vanished without a trace nearly 17 months ago now with 239 people on board. Cnns simon mosten is standing by live outside of the press conference in france and we have cnns will ripley in beijing on the angle, of course of all of these families who must be absolutely devastated Erin Mclaughlin is on reunion island where the debris was first found, ma