The attacks earlier this month returned to several of the scenes later that same night. A Prosecutor Says cell phone records show he stopped by the restaurant where gunmen opened fire and went to the concert venue where 89 people were killed. He made the return visits even as police swarmed the area investigating. World war iii was trending on twittered to after Turkish Forces shut down a russian fighter jet near the syrian border. Vladimir putin called it a stab in the back. U. S. Defense officials now say the plane was in turkish airspace for a matter of seconds before turkish fighters took it down. A russian pilot died and another person was killed during a rescue attempt. Turkey says it warned ruf eed r many times before firing. Nato is meeting on the issue. President obama says his primary goal is to prevent an escalation of tensions between two countries. Virginias governor announced a new wideranging plan today to improve travel from stafford to the d. C. Line including the bott
Of this as soon as possible. Test, trace and isolate. Thats the hard part. Its easy for him to be a cheerleader and he should behind the scenes be pressing every single lever of government to speed a vaccine safely and effectively along. The press conferences suggesting by fall, i agree with dr. Kaplan, its much more about a Reelection Campaign than any matter of science. He also stressed, dr. Caplan, that testing is overrated. He didnt say that today, it was yesterday but he said testing is overrated. Its overrated in the white house. Its not overrated if youre doing actual medicine and trying to work your way out of this pandemic. Look, we have tests, just dont have enough of them. We could contact trace. We could isolate and quarantine people who were infected, and that is the way out. Im not saying to stop vaccine efforts. Im not saying to not press to cooperate but have we ever made 3 billion doses of anything and roll them out within a few months . Never. Its never happened. Its
Doable. I have very recently seen early data from a Clinical Trial with with a Coronavirus Vaccine and this data made me feel even more confident that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020. But the very same man, a former Top Executive at the Company Glaxosmithkline told the New York Times in a interview this morning the following frankly quote 12 to 18 months is a aggressive timeline. I dont think dr. Fauci was wrong when he reiterated that is the fast imtimeline likely. Well talk about this in a second but i want you to let you know where the numbers stand with this virus right now in the United States. Nationally the daily number of new cases on average is trending down and it is the same story when it comes to the rate of new deaths on average per day. But the death toll, of course, is still startling. More than 86,000 people have been killed in the United States. Yesterday alone nearly 1,800 people died. Lets get to it now. Jim acosta
President trump disagreeing with his own National Security adviser and japans Prime Minister on the subject of north koreas missile tests. President trump says hes not personally bothered by north koreas first small weapons launches. Prime minister abe and john bolton says north korea violated u. U. U. N. Security council resolutions. President trump bashing former Vice President joe biden, making headlines on the trade war with china. Joining us to talk about all this, samantha, Senior Adviser to the National Security adviser under president obama. Boris sanchez in tokyo and catherine rampell. Its great to have you all with us. Boris, lets go to you. Youre on the ground with the president. What has been the japanese Prime Ministers reaction to the president praising kim jongun and essentially dismissing these most recent rocket launches for which japan is in the firing line . Reporter john, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe was asked about the Short Range Ballistic Missile tests earl
Rick reichmuth standing by with the latest. Its going to be good. I dont get to work with you guys every day. Appreciate it. Todd going to be fun. We can Casey Stegall live in new orleans. Of course we begin with rob schmitt in louisiana wheres storm is expected to make landfall. Rob, good morning. Rob good morning, guys. Yeah we are in here in morgan city about 75 miles or so to the west of new orleans, and this is where we think the eye is going to come ashore when it eventually does come ashore. Right now this storm is moving at a snails pace. People are worried how much rain is going to fall a foot to 2foot of rain in southern louisiana here. As we take a look out here we are standing on a 20foot concrete levee of a sort which holds back the river here. You can see why this is needed because this river is way beyond its banks already. If we look out a little further you can see the morings out there and you can see how much water has come up above the banks of this river. If we loo