Written by Frederick Douglass and spoken by his descendants that remind us that there is no other holiday more symbolic of american patriotism than the 4th of july. But today, its being celebrated as other symbols of this nations past are toppling down. Were seeing the removal of confederate statues by protesters and by state leadership, mississippi, stripping the confederate symbol from its flag. And even the statue outside new yorks famed Natural Museum of history. You know the statue of Theodore Roosevelt on horseback flanked by an indigenous man and an african man. Thats coming down, too. Which may explain why donald trump chose the most graddious symbol of u. S. Imperialism on earth to issue an on brand starspangled spectacle complete with fireworks and military plyovers. It was trump ad predict flyovers. It was trump ad predictable way of throwing red meat to his becaus base. Lets talk truth here. Mt. Rushmore isnt exactly the innocent ode to our Founding Fathers as described in
Lets take a look at the numbers. The new total of positive reported tests since yesterday, 11,458. The previous high was set earlier this week on thursday. Thats about 1300 more cases than the previous high. Testing was also up. About 65,000 tests yesterday. But researchers look at that Positivity Rate and, again, yesterday they saw about 14 of all tests coming back as positive. Thats a number that troubles scientists when they want to see that number at 5 or lower generally. They reported 18 more deaths yesterday. Far down from the day before so thats a good trend, day over day, however, over the past couple weeks deaths and hospitalizations have also been trending up. So some concerning news in the state of florida, florida now at 190,000 total cases or a little more than that making it the third highest state in the nation for number of positive tests behind california and new york. There have been many democratic lawmakers here in florida calling for the government, governor to put
The new corporations that are adding to the pressure today. And now, the clevelands Baseball Team looks to get with the times, as well. And cheers the uk, even, apparently Prince William celebrating as pubs reopen across the country for the first time in months. It comes as the uk puts new travel restrictions in place on americans. Just for the record, its not even 11 00 in the uk, and theyre already drinking. I think it started at 6 00 a. M. There. Okay, sorry and were going to have some good live shots for you. Prince william is lit right now. On our independence day. On our independence day. Were the ones that celebrate this. Remember, we left yall on this day. A lot of people will be going here today. Oh, yes. This is myrtle beach, south carolina. Looks beautiful. Looks enticing. The beaches are expected to be jammed again today with residents and tourists. Yeah, that could mean trouble. Myrtle beach has become a coronavirus hot spot. As of thursday, the county where myrtle beach i
You. This decision, although expected by some, it was still shocking to a lot of white house aides, right . Reporter thats right, alex. Were learning this hour from sources close to the administration, according to Nbcs Carol Lee and Pete Williams that attorney general bill barr actually tried to convince the president not to offer this clemency to roger stone. The attorney general, in recent days, had called the prosecution of roger stone righteous and said that the sentence that roger stone had been given by the judge was in barrs view fair. The attorney general apparently unsuccessful in convincing the president not to go ahead and offer this commutation to his longtime friend, roger stone. But we know theres also opposition from other aides within the white house who were concerned about the political ramifications of the president offering this clemency, worried that there would be blowback from people who thought the president was intervening in the impartial, fair justice system
Problems, too. Im a believer in masks. I think theyre good, but i leave it up to the governors i do say this. Schools have to open young people have to go to school and theres problems when you dont go to school, too. And theres going to be a fu funding problem. When they dont open their school, were not going to fund them were not going to give them money if they dont go to school he also addressed tensions with dr. Fauci he said dont wear a mask he told me not to ban china. It would be a big mistake. I did it over and above his recommendation dr. Fauci then said you saved tens of thousands of lives more than that he said you saved tens of thousands of lives hes made some mistakes. I have a very good, i spoke to him yesterday at length. I have a very Good Relationship with him why would hes an alarmist. Thats okay. A little bit. Let me just, dr. Fausci at the beginning and again, i have great relationship with him. I spoke to him at length yesterday. In the beginning, he said this wil