Indonesia says it plans to send them back out to sea. And australias Biggest Airline quantas is set to cut 6000 jobs saying it has to shrink to survive the pandemic. New coronavirus cases in the us have risen to their highest level in 2 months its now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infections and 121000 deaths research is that the university of washington are now predicting that nearly 180000 could die by october when about half of the 50 states are seeing a surge cases are rising in the states seen here in dark orange and going down in the grey estates shaded light orange a stable experts say large parts of the country are on the verge of becoming overwhelmed is mike hanna. Cases of the virus are peaking in at least 9 u. S. States most of them ones that dropped mitigating measures earlier than others like texas where the number of people being hospitalized has doubled in the past 2 weeks and people got complacent people got a little bit overly confident in our ability to manage
Test everyone showing symptoms. Also russians brave coronavirus fears and head to the polls for a controversial vote on constitutional reform if could allow president Vladimir Putin to stay in power for another 16 years. As welcome to the program its a big day today for one of europes largest ally and german flag carrier love tons of shelters gathered today to vote on a 9000000000 euro taxpayer rescue package the bailout would see the German Government take a significant stake in the airline supporters of the deal were boosted on wednesday when loved ones as largest single shareholder have until it revealed he would support the deal the deal could bring loved ones are back from the brink of bankruptcy. Full of tons of the corona virus pandemic has been a nightmare barely anyones flying barely anyones wanted to fly and the outlooks not much better lufthansa its main source of profit is its Business Class but with Video Conferencing getting ever more popular even thats facing an uncertai
Coronavirus fears and head to the polls for a controversial vote on constitutional reform it could allow president Vladimir Putin to stay in power for another 16 years. Im going to Office Welcome to the program its crunch time full of tons of shareholders of germanys flag carrier will begin voting soon on whether to accept a 9000000000 euro rescue package that would make the German Government the allens biggest stakeholder should shareholders reject the deal or could face insolvency is how the head of lufthansa supervisory board. Sized up the choice at the beginning of the virtual gathering. You know we dont have any more money. Were going to be living off reserves that we set aside during the good years. Soon we will have used most of those up. Without support and we face insolvency in the coming days. For more than joined by our financial correspondent chose to delineate and fun for chelsea we owed of money those were very very clear words from the companies because we bought cheese
Up to the top of lafayette park, but really it is a nation that awaits the next step from the president. He was out tweeting in the vicinity of 12 00 midnight on general powell. We will talk about that today. It was an eventful weekend and it continues right into this monday. Francine thank you, tom. We will have more on that and now we will get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika the u. S. City hit the hardest by coronavirus starts to reopen today. New york city will allow construction and manufacturing at wholesale trade to start operating again. Rios Retail Stores can offer instore pickup. If all goes well, new york and reexpand the can expand the reopening in two weeks. Theggressive proposal from minneapolis city council. Majority of its members say they do this they support disbanding the city police department. That comes as the state launched an investigation following the death of george floyd. One city councilmember says she wants to end poli
A forced lockdown that has traps the sick and healthy together. And russians are brave coronavirus spears and head to the polls for a controversial vote on constitutional reform it could allow president Vladimir Putin to stay in power for another 16 years. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program it is decision day for loved shareholders of the germany germanys flag carrier will begin voting soon on whether to accept a 9000000000 euro rescue package that would make the German Government the airlines biggest shareholder now should shareholders reject this deal less tons o. Could face insolvency heres how the head of live tons of Supervisory Board sized up the choice at the beginning of the virtual gathering. Yeah you can go to mir we dont have any more money. Were currently living off reserves that we set aside during the good years. Soon we will have used most of those up. Without support and we face insolvency in the coming days the absorbance. We dont have any more money meanwhile busin