Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
Our country. This memorial day does come though in the context of a rolling national tragedy, with more than 97,000 dead from coronavirus. As captured by a striking front page of todays new york times, the newspaper paying tribute to some of the people who have died of the coronavirus, writing, they were not simply names on a list. They were us. In black and white the times listing 1,000 names, about 1 of the death toll, and a short line from their obituary. Also this morning, the head of the Wuhan Institute of virology is denying claims by the Trump Administration that the coronavirus leaked from its lab in the city where this Global Pandemic originated. The director calling the charge a pure fabrication. More on that in a moment. And nbc news has learned that the nba and disney are in talks for the league to restart play without fans this summer at walt Disney Resort in florida. We will have live reports with more on those stories just ahead. And later in our sunday spotlight, six fe
With the response. The comfort is expected to arrive by midnext month. Developing a plan, they will rate criminal counties, state and local leaders would died had to keep, increase or loosen policies. The house is expected to vote on the stimulus build tomorrow. They expects it will pass. 350 billion and five hub dolla lending longs. And sends direct payments of 1200 for people earning up to 2555 the dow gained 1300 points. The nasdaq rose. That index is up 17 since monday unfortunately back to the unemploy claims, the job hes claims hits a record of 3. 28 million for the night. This is expected. This is a medical crisis. Yet the latest pregnant shows a spike in last week allow. Each claim respects a worker whos been displaced from their job and they are earning money for a family. This shows the magnitude of the efforts to flatten the cover as we must. The virus cost him his restaurant job. Is unsustainable for my finances, looking for a job with the economic complications it will be
The monday night shooting that took the life of 30yearold matthew rios was certainly the most violent. His mother told us her son told him he was being followed. He came all the way down to landis and got in on the front. It was one more exit, he would have been home. Reporter the shooting at 680 and king road last night resulted with a bullet going through the car and a 12yearold girl hurt by the crashing glass. Today chp reports the girls mother pulled over when she saw a passenger in a white car brandishing a black firearm and that the white car waited for her to pull out before firing. It looks that this was an isolate and potentially targeted incident. Reporter meaning only interested in shooting at that one vehicle . That would be correct, yes. Reporter the officer also says the 1785 shooting last night may be a road rage incident. Its still being investigated. He said potentially valuable evidence, a bullet, was recovered. Drivers we talked to hope there is a breakthrough. I use
And the tourists still trying to evacuate. Also ahead, lawyers for donald trump just arriving for a high stakes hearing in the Election Interference Case. How much will trump be allowed to discuss publicly and could that trial begin as soon as january . It is 10 00 eastern, thanks for being with us on this friday, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york, and we begin with the staggering death toll from the wildfires in hawaii. Authorities on maui revealing overnight at least 55 people have died in those fires, and by one account, up to a thousand remain missing. Communications on the island remain difficult making it hard to confirm who is safe and mauis mayor says intense Search And Rescue efforts are still underway. Search in the interior of the buildings. Were waiting for fema to help with that search, as they are equipped to handle the Hazmat Conditions of the buildings that have been burned. Shelters on the island are full of residents who have now lost everything, along with touri