To america. Mark, what we can expect from the big event. Good afternoon, the coronavirus is not stopping President Trump from celebrating the fourth of july. The festivities wont get started for a few hours. The president was at mt. Rushmore. He praised miss predecessors like George Washington and abraham lincoln. He criticized those trying to tear down monuments and statues from the past. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders to deface our most sacred memorials. The American People are strong and proud and they will not allow our country and all of its values, history and culture, to be taken from them. That was last night. Lets talk about tonight. The president and first lady will be hosting friends, family and as well as First Responders, including doctors and nurses out to the south lawn this evening. Were told among the guests will be be the people trying to get through the coronavirus. And the flayovers on the National Mall and we should see an impressive col
Enough information to decide President Trumps impeachment while 44 say that the senate does need more witness testimony. So for more on how the president and team is responding for senate trial in preparing for tomorrow we turn to kevin corke who is standing by at the white house, hi, kevin. Nice to see you, kristin. This particular poll is for democrats, there are more democrats nationwide than republicans, so let me show you how the survey shakes out very interesting and its also important to note that it was actually taken before we heard all of the arguments with respect to the senate, both the democratic side and the republican side, i just want to share this number, i think this will interesting for your viewers, on impeachment 50 to 44, voters think the senate should convict and remove the president from office, democrats at an 81 clip believe so, republicans disagree at clip of 84 to 16, now what we have seen in the past, most of this is, of course, split along party lines, no
Christina coleman has been tracking it very literally since the first coronavirus cases we knew about in wuhan and now joins us from our west coast news room. Hi, leland. Health officials in oregon and Washington State are concerned about the possible Community Spread of the virus and the c. D. C. Warned here in the u. S. Clusters of the infections are likely in communities. There are four new presumptive positive cases since yesterday. Three unexplained. Health officials in washington believe one case was travel related, but the other may be that states first instance of Community Spread. A High School Student from everett, oregon may have the first spread case, too, and california may have a second instance, an older woman from Northern California with Chronic Health conditions. Now, globally, around 85,000 people have been diagnosed with this illness and theres been more than 2900 deaths, most of them in china. Major stock indexes around the globe posted another round of declines an
Good afternoon, the White House Briefing delayed 30 minutes and expecting to get an update on several months, but one of the things were expecting to hear a lot more about is the testing of the coronavirus and how thats being rolled out all over the country and also the need for the federal government to collect more medical skies that the hospitals need. As we heard in the last hour of neil cavutos show, the governor of new york says theres a need for ventilators and what they can do to work with companies that are private and allow factories to produce whatever supplies may be needed. Meantime, here at the white house we learned overnight that a staff, member of the vicepresident did test positive for the coronavirus, that person is not believed to have had any close contact with the president nor the vicepresident. Weve seen a number of states also enact those restrictions and not to leave home unless its essential. Now many are wondering what could happen with the potential federal
Gillian turner. Leland well see the president later in the show. And im leland vittert. One third of infections are in new york state alone. And keeping an eye on the next hot spot and detroit, and Steve Harrigan is in atlanta. And they are 1. 51 . Thats significantly lower than the world average that number will likely continue to change as more testing continues. As you mentioned new york hit hard and 40 of all cases in new york state about half in new york city. New york state has five times as many cases as the next highest state of new jersey and they are bracing for potential spikes in detroit with 900 cases up until now. Chicago where theyre warning there could be 40,000 hospitalizations next week alone and louisiana there are now 57 dead from the virus and they are warning that the jump in louisiana was 40 in one day. Here is the governor. We have cases on all, but nine of our 64 parishes now and nobody should think that they dont have the resident virus. The Novel Coronavirus