Our medical expert weighs in. A force for good. How a 6yearold has inspired a Movement Thanks to the savings in her piggy bank. And from the beatles to the boss to bon jovi and tony bennett, how the biggest names in music are trying to cheer us up during the coronavirus lockdown. Good thursday morning, everyone. We do begin with breaking news. Authorities declaring a disaster after severe storms overnight. Dramatic video from oklahoma shows one of several reported tornadoes. The storms also causing major destruction in texas. Across both states at least five people have been killed and dozens injured. Oh, my god. Right above j i. Reporter this morning a massive tornado caught on camera roaring through southern oklahoma slamming into a sheet metal business. The twister sending shrapnel hundreds of feet into the air. Golly. Its huge. Reporter witnesses say several vehicles were thrown into trees and this semi truck blown over. But look at that. That thing is getting larger and larger and
Bombshell accusations. A key government scientist claiming he was pushed out of his job in the middle of the pandemic because he pushed back against the antima lar i cant drug touted by President Trump. What the white house is saying this morning. Pets and covid. For the first time in the u. S. Two house cats testing positive for coronavirus and seven new tigers and lions infected at the bronx zoo. What the cdc is saying about animals and the virus. The count down to the nfl draft. Commissioner Roger Goodell joins us live this morning. And legends banding ther. From bon jovi to tony be nnnett and the boss himself, Bruce Springsteen. The star tstudded jersey for jersey benefit rocking out to raise moan for their home state. Good morning, america. Robin were seeing so many frontline workers support each other every single day. We really are. New york hit so hard by the pandemic. The nypd paying tribute to the Health Care Heros who volunteered to help out at new york city from all oefrp t
Desperate plight of people losing their Health Insurance, too. And back in the game. The nfl kicks off its first ever virtual draft today. Well show you the other ideas leagues are considering to get sports back on tv. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Deadly tornadoes breaking out across parts of the south. In la louisiana, texas, oklahom. Everything is gone. The trees are gone. Swish. 4. 4 million new filings for Unemployment Benefits. This is about six to seven times higher than we ever saw during the great recession. Thats raising the total layoffs since the virus hit to more than 26 million. In some sense, the numbers are telling us what we already see with our eyes. Protests to reopen are growing. Southern governors are already loosening their restrictions. We have to proceed in a cver careful, measured way. You dont believe there should be distancing . Of course. Carolyn goodman sounding off about reopening the city. Youre talking disease. Im talking
Has ordered people to wear face masks in public if they cannot social distance. One of the big focuses right now is on Contact Tracing, trying to identify who may have come in contact with an infected person. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes is live in San Francisco with this important part of the investigation and how it can help reduce infections. Chris . Good afternoon, liz. For people who are hearing this term for the first time, it simply means the ability of Public Health officials to track down every Single Person that a covid19 positive patient came into contact with. And you can imagine as cases have grown how complicated this task is. Well, today mayor london breed announced the citys ability to do widespread Contact Tracing investigations and how it will help reopen the economy. Have a listen. Our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if they are covid and get them into quarantine, or to basically give them the relief that they are not infeblged. It
But for donald trump he could do no right. What sense of what is driving this in the extreme media that you are a part of . First of all there is a bias against republicans in general and to be portrayed as dangerous and like donald trump he is stupid and dangerous according to the media. We just cannot break out of that. They feel if they did they would be ostracized by their colleagues within the white house correspondents cobol feel among themselves they laugh at him, they mocked him , that is the overriding theme. Many people just inherently cant think independently and in fact thats one reason like a few other people i dont want to be told what to read i want to go firsthand with what actually happened i dont have blinders on and to penetrate secrets and thats what i have done. Host excellent it is a fun read so explain what happened with writes previous and paul ryan and Chris Christie during the access holloway it on hollywood for the campaign. What did they do and are there any