Should prove its innovation and for this reason were proposing the by the end of the year creation of European Defense fund to actively stimulate research and innovation in this area. The lisbon treaty allows memberstates to, who wish to do so to make the capacity a further structure and high time to a veil ourselves of this ability. [applause] president , the final point which i wish to touch upon has to do with our collective responsibility and im calling on all of the european institutions and each of the memberstates to assume more responsibility. We need to do away with old spats where which could lead to failure because we can not survive without working together. Europe needs to be better explained and ive asked the commissioners over the coming weeks to visit National Parliaments in order to discuss the European Union and the commissioners have gone to National Parliaments more than 350 times and i would like for them to do that more now. Europe can only be built if it is under
5 a. M. Here on the east coast, and we are following two major stories. It is the beginning of another grim week as coronavirus cases continue to rise. Globally we know there are 2 Million People that have been diagnosed with coronavirus as you can see from the map. More than half a million cases are in the u. S. That means the u. S. Infection rate has now surpassed every other country in the world. As millions of americans cope with the sick or stay home orders, Severe Weather including a barrage of tornadoes have slammed 20 states. Its a double whammy. They are struggling without shelter, a home or at the very least a sleepless night. The sun will rise pretty soon and the new day will give us a bit of information on the damage from the storms. It was pretty rough. Its not over yet. From texas to georgia, which is where we are at cnn, more than half a Million People have lost electricity from the storms. The National Weather service says more than 30 tornadoes were reported in the pas
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront, breaking news. the u.s. and russia finally reach an agreement tonight on a resolution at the u.n. to rid syria of chemical women s. but it looks from that russia may have got when whatever it wanted. the agreement would not authorize the automatic use of force in syria violates the terms. according to cnn reporting. the u.n. security council has been called for a last-minute meeting to go over the resolution which is happening within the hour. obviously a significant development. outfront, the state department spokeswoman, jen, thank you for taking time in what sing a very busy week. thank you. the state department has called this it has been a marathon. they called it unprecedented, a breakthrough, historic. is there anything that enforces disarmame disarmament? i asked this because according to our cnn reporting, the automatic use of force of syria doesn t comply, something the united states said was crucial, is out. i
0 that open invitation. debate continues online at cnn.com/crossfire. join us tomorrow for another edition of cross fire. erin burnett outfront starts right now. breaking news, the u.s. and russia have a deal overseer just chemical women s. did russia get everything it wanted? the top spokesperson outfront. plus the international manhunt for the alleged terrorist known as the white widow. was she killed in the kenyan mall massacre? we take to you a major american bridge that now goes absolutely nowhere. it is a crazy and warped site and it is not the only one engineers say is unsafe. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront, breaking news. the u.s. and russia finally reach an agreement tonight on a resolution at the u.n. to rid syria of chemical women s. but it looks from that russia may have got when whatever it wanted. the agreement would not authorize the automatic use of force in syria violates the terms. according to cnn reporting. the u.n. securit