All safe. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 10th. Thank you for starting your week with us. And we do begin with schools ng a as coravirus cas millionaon be Holding Classes online today and tomorrow, while the building is disinfected following an outbreak among students and staff. In bigtime College Football, the power five conferences may be considering moving their season to the spring. Meantime, the pandemic has prompted some top ncaa players to call for the creation of a union. Abcs Andrew Dymburt has more. Reporter the u. S. Now surpassing 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Kansas city among nine cities warned by the White House Task force they are in danger of becoming new hot spots. Were seeing a lot of activity that has been against Public Health advice. House parties of up to hundreds of people, a lot of backyard parties. Reporter chicagos mayor threatening to shut down the lakefront, posting these images on social media after witnessing what she
Ready to pass a grim milestone. Border battle. How the Coronavirus Crisis is playing out in the southwest border closed because of a cdc Public Health order since march, the rapid expulsions of migrants. And concerns about minors housed in hotels. Well talk to the acting deputy secretary of homeland security. Social justice fight. Prince harry taking on systemic racism. This is up to every Single Person thats on the planet right now. The impact the prince is trying to make, and his comments first on gma. The fit ar dritoac dreams. Autism is not something that can be, you know a weakness, it can be a strength. Gearing up for todays competition. Good morning. The number of coronavirus cases in the u. S. Is approaching 5 million, far more than any other country. 26 states plus washington, d. C. , and puerto rico reporting daily increases in deaths even as the rise in cases in the u. S. This summer appears to be slowing. Now 18 states say hospitalizations are actually going down. So some e
being a great friend of this show. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for being with me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now a heart-felt tribute to queen elizabeth ii is under way in london. thousands pouring in to say a final farewell to their monarch. the last hour we saw the queen s eight grandchildren holding a vigil as she lies in state. the royal family also greeting world leaders as they arrive today ahead of the queen s funeral, which is monday. let s go straight to london right now. max foster, richard quest and anna stewart are following this historic event. max, to you first. this vigil, with the queen s grandchildren, was only about 15 minutes. wow, even with that brevity, you felt such love being exuded from these family members, from these young men and women who were paying the greatest homage to their grandmother. reporter: yeah. something they all wanted to do. outline, for william and harry, more practice at this sort of thing. for the
there s another storm in the eastern atlantic that could race to that name but here s where we are now. it forecast to get into the very warm waters of the caribbean and possibly take a right. i think this is a much more accurate forecast than the computers had any idea of yesterday. mod els were here and here. no idea. now we do have a cone and there are the there are the models today. a lot different. they look a lot more organized today. hurricane hunters are in the storm right now. that s a lot of possibility for u.s. landfall there. oh, sure. chad myers, thank you very much. the ukrainian president calling on russians to revolt as vladimir putin faces an uprising from his own people this morning, hours after putin shocked his people by announcing a draft. the russian leader continues to face major turmoil at home. his order has sparked angry protests across the country and let to more than 1,300 arrests. the move now causing some russians to leave. here you see
Down. What he says the league knew all along only on gma. So crazy in love and beyonce and jay z expecting twins. The superstar family growing by two. Fans crazy in love with the news. This photo of the big reveal breaking a huge social media record. Her message about motherhood this morning. Your loves got me looking so crazy right now and good morning, america. Could not miss it on twitter or instagram yesterday. Yes, she is set to have twins, blue ivy will be a big sister. Well have a lot about that later. We have a lot of breaking news to get to first. The president calling out australia and iran overnight. More on that in a moment. Yeah, the president s tweets continued through the morning. Very tough talk both iran and australia are re violent protests erupting at uc berkeley. The campus locked down as more than a thousand rallied against the appearance of a controversial editor from breitbart, Milo Yiannopoulos. They escalated and the speech was canceled and President Trump weig