What about the tests for the rest of the country. And anthony how it welcome to the program while authorities around the world take even more drastic measures to try to slow the spread of the corona virus the number of cases is rising a tally by Johns Hopkins University Counts more than one 156400 cases worldwide and of the 5800 deaths at the same time at least 73900 people have recovered from the virus and some good news the take away from south korea with 76 new coronavirus cases reported today the countrys seen a fold in numbers to double digits for the 1st time in over 3 weeks a sign its tough quarantine measures are working. Oh joining me now is the elfish a professor of Infectious Diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the World Health Organization global outbreak and Response Network professor south korea and china have seen the number of new cases for only those that offer some hope. Most most definitely it does there are there are huge lessons to learn there
Around the clock across the world this is our t. International from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program we will go to headline stories in a moment but some breaking news to bring you this hour from the u. S. State of florida were hearing a shooting has occurred in a naval base in pensacola its believed 5 people are being hospitalized with local reports citing official saying the gunman has been killed only occurred in the last few moments 3 medical helicopters several military were dispatched immediately of course to this scene its not that we must of base this 16 followers and military personnel were on site the base is currently on lockdown just after a. T. M. Local time there in pensacola any and all details all breaking news story here on our. We will bring it to you. A member of the un team migrant alternative for Germany Party has said extremists have threatened to assassinate her because of her political beliefs christina bomb urge the media and other
am while he. polls are now close in the seven states that actually had elections today. many results are still too early to call, but here are some of the primary races we are following closely at this hour. and california, we are awaiting a call in the mayoral race in los angeles, congresswoman karen bass running against rick caruso. a lifetime of businessman. turned democrat, a special recall election in san francisco lost his job as additional guitar any of that. city in south dakota nbc news projects that accompany republican governor christine all has one parent mary for governor. over and iowa democratic michael franken excuse me there, difference crane that from what we are seeing, defeated former congresswoman abby finkenauer. frank you will now look to updating and convince senator chuck grassley, come november. and in montana, ryan thank, you donald trump secretary of the interior, is leaning in his campaign for congress in close race though that we are watching
Dozen bills to repeal parts or all of president obamas Signature Health care law. But when pittinger faced the locals at a town hall monday, he found himself confronted by Tea Party Conservatives who demanded to know if hed vote against any federal spending bill to implement obama care, even if that means shutting down the entire federal government. Real quick easy question, this is what the tea party wants to know, will you vote with mike lee and meadows here to defund obama care . Yes or no. [ applause ] a thoughtful answer . I want yes or no. No. That answer, as you can see, did not go over well. The crowd began pushing back against pittenger who said even if it passed the house, it would never pass the Democratic Senate and would never be signed by president obama. That only enraged the crowd even more. Will you make a stand to get them back on board. Do you think hair harry reid is going to pass it. It doesnt matter. We need to shoe show the American People we stand for conservati
Still from the video which shows the murder of david haines. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office says it believes the video is authentic. The 44yearold father of two was abducted in syria in 2013. He was working with a french Relief Agency, a refugee camp. Haines is the third western hostage to be beheaded by isis in recent weeks. The first two were american journalists. British Prime Minister David Cameron called the beheading, quote, an act of pure evil and described this morning how the u. K. Will respond. The murder of david haines at the hands of isil will not lead britain to shirk our responsibility with our allies to deal with the threat that this organization poses. It must strengthen our resolve. For more on this story now, we go to Nbcs Kristen Welker at the white house. Kristen, Prime Minister cameron mentioned working with allies to destroy isis. What is president obamas response to this latest horrible video . Reporter well, here is the official response from the w