Helicopter crash well bring you the latest. Mardi gras is in full swing kicking off celebrations around the world ahead of fat tuesday early today starts right now. Good morning. Im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. According to wall street, stocks are opening the moves come as investors are said to be watching the rapid rise of the chinaborn illness as it spreads to other countries outside of china as of now, there are more than 77,000 cases of the virus and the global death toll stands at over 2,000 china has reported more cases. In south korea, cases have surpassed 700 with eight deaths. Iran has raised its death toll to 12 and italy now has 219 cases including five deaths. One example of the extreme precautions. Fashion designer Georgio Armani held his she in an empty theater and italian officials have cut short their carnival as they try to stop the spread in europe. India says nomos dei to President Trump. Massive crowds greeted him he touched down just hours ago in the larges
Special consideration of the United States and the future. Its not going to be subject to the same budget control rules as the other expenditures. Last night steve corn aky show showed an interview about how you and he were gym buddies and turned marco rubio around on immigration and used the gym as a Hunting Ground to turn people over. Who are some of your targets that you might like to was Chuck Schumer lying . I go to the senate gym daily. He said that republicans go early and democrats go late. Yes. I tend to be thats why i try to be there first at 5 30. I go there every day for no obvious reason. A way to relieve stress. The first one there is an Orthopedic Surgeon from wyoming. We talk about these issues. And theres an opportunity there. Your guard is down when youre sweating and puffing and all the rest of this stuff. To talk about some of these issues. I have solved some big problems in the gym with my colleagues. I caught them at a vulnerable moment, you know. I think approach
Disease in virtually all of the countries around the world. I was just impressed as i walked through the poster sessions at aaic how many of the posters were researchers from korea, thailand, china, japan, et cetera, who were coming here to washington to share their knowledge and their perspective on the disease. Its a global disease, for sure. Its not affecting western countries. I want to throw one more question in here which is in terms of having a National Plan and harnessing all of the different groups working on this from the Research Community to big pharma to universities, government, et cetera. Three years ago, the Obama Administration released a National Plan to address alzheimers and the goal was struck me as exceedingly ambitious. By 2025, so in ten years to be able to prevent and effectively treat alzheimers disease. Does that strike you both as realistic . Ten years . The way we look at it its an aspirational goal. We absolutely want to be there by 2025, and i think the e
Longest day of light of the year. The summer solstice signaling the first night of summer. And cecily tynan enjoying the summer night with late word from accuweather. Cecily . And jim, it is officially summer, but it actually felt like summer for the past two days. Yesterday and today, both days, we reached a high of 91 degrees. Thats seven degrees above normal. And tonight, not only is it warm, its getting more muggy. Philadelphia, 79 degrees. Its still 80 in trenton. Cape may, 72. Reading, 78. And wilmington, 77 degrees. So a very warm night. And stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that weve got a ribbon of thunderstorms stretching from western new york state into the ohio valley and that system will be moving in as we head through the overnight hours. And it will be stalling across part of the region tomorrow. So thats going to bring us some unsettled weather. So the morning rush, it will be warm. It will be muggy at 6 00. 74 by 8 00. 77, and we will have some scattered thunders
Okawhoa ady . [ explosion ] nothing should get in the way of the things you love. Get americas fastest internet. Only from xfinity. We wan w y themer of 2016. Folks were enjoying Fairmount Park tonight as summer officially began at 6 43 and, yes, we marked the occasion with some very distinctly summerlike weather. We said good night sun after the longest day of light of the year. The summer solstice signaling the first night of summer. And cecily tyn enjoying the summer night with late word from accuweath. Cecily . And j, i is officially summer, but it actually felt like summer for the past two days. Yesaynd today, both days, we reached a high of 91 degrees. Thats seven degrees above normal. D tonight, not only is it warm, its getting more muggy. Philadelphia79es. Its still 80 in trenton. Cape may, 72. Reading, 78. And wilmington, 77 degrees. So a very warm night. And stormtraeri double scan showing that weve got a ribbon of thunderstorms stretching from western new york state into the