Average daily new cases now nearing 70,000. Thats the highest since this started. Total cases topping 8. 7 million. Death toll at 226,000, and the u. S. Leads the world in both categories. And with the coronavirus at its height the president of the United States is insisting with a straight face that its going away. Its ending, anyway. Were rounding the curve. What progress weve made on it, too. We understand it. We have the best testing in the world. Thats why we show so many cases because we do more testing than anybody else. But were doing great and, ooh, excuse me, here i am. Three more packed rallies for the president today even in light of new findings his pastoralies have led to spikes in the spread of coronavirus. Then theres mike pence. Hes the head of the White House Coronavirus task force. Hes still traveling and out on the trail as he was today even though at least five aides including his chief of staff and personal aide have tested positive for the coronavirus. Pence hims
Rhetoric. Reporter absolutely, michaela, thats right, and the white house reaction to John Boehners lawsuit was swift and harsh with press secretary john ernest calling it a political stunt, a new day for washington dysfunction when its headed for a courthouse. Its a constitutional collision between both ends of pennsylvania avenue. This isnt about me suing the president. What were talking about here are places where the president is basically rewriting law to make it fit his own needs. Reporter House Speaker john boehner made official what hes threatened for weeks, that hes filing a lawsuit against the president saying mr. Obamas executive actions to change the Health Care Law and other federal programs are evidence of a white house thats out of control. Really . Really . For what . Youre going to sue me for doing my job . Reporter just hours before House Republicans revealed their lawsuit bill the president was sharpening up his defense in texas. Ive got a better idea. Do something.
We dont just honor sacrifice. As grateful as the world is. We come to remember why america and our allies gave so much for the survival of liberty at this moment of maximum peril. We come to tell the story of the men and women who did it so that it remains sered into the memory of a future world. But it was here on these shores that the time was turned in that common struggle for freedom. What more powerful manifestation of americas commitment to human freedom than the sight of wave after wave after wave of young men boarding those boats to liberate people they had never met. We say it now as if it couldnt be any other way. The world had never seen anything like it. And when the war was won, we claimed no spoils of victory. We helped europe rebuild. We claimed no land other than the earth where we buried those who gave their lives under our flag and where we station those who still serve under it. But americas claim, our commitment to liberty, our claim to equality, our claim to freedo
Ana wind event. Breaking overnight at least nine fires now spreading rapidly erupting one right after the other already destroying dozens of homes. You can hear the roar of massive flames engulfing close to 10,000 acres in San Diego County. The governor declaring a state of emergency. Were doing evacuations. Reporter tens of thousands now fleeing. Their homes in jeopardy. Even lego land, a popular amusement park, is forced to close, along with the university campus, a Nuclear Power plant, and Camp Pendleton. One of the Largest Military bases partially evacuated. We have winds, low humidity down into the single digits. Reporter thousands of firefighters working around the clock. Stunted by 100 degree heat and wind gusts close to 50 miles per hour. The wind can change and all of a sudden it seems like were going to be safe and were not. We packed everything and were out of there. Reporter the winds producing terrifying fire whirls in some parts. The phenomenon caused by intersecting wind
Shaming their sons name. Well hear from them coming up, but heres a look at everything that happened overnight. We pray a blessing over here. Overnight in ferguson impassioned prayer, clergy and police hand in hand. God bless you. God bless you. Protesters now peace marchers lining the street. As others pause in solemn reflection, leaving roses as part of a makeshift memorial for Michael Brown jr. These sounds of calm now set the scene here in ferguson as Law Enforcement begins to pull back. Missouris governor ordering the National Guard to gradually draw down. As we see the folks getting calmer, fewer arrests, fewer problems here, that mission, were going to draw down off that, we dont need the same force strength. This as new information clarifies reports about officer Darren Wilsons condition after the shooting. Cnn was told officer wilson had a swollen face not a fractured eye socket and a new eyewitness Michael Brady said he saw the beginning of the tussle through his apartment wi