Blakes father telling cnn he believes the Police Officer who shot his son should be charged. Also tonight here in washington, d. C. , theres shock in congress as the director of National Intelligence says hes cutting off briefings on Election Security issues. Only wring updates goingforward. Saying just this month that china, russia and iran are looking to interfere in the u. S. Election. Only 66 days away. The cases of coronavirus nearing 6 million in this country. 1,000 yesterday alone. The reported death toll so far this saturday already well over 250. Lets begin with the breaking news this hour. President interrupt will go to kenosha, wisconsin this week, site of the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Jeremy diamond and sara sidner join us with more. Tell our viewers about what you learned about the president s decision to go ahead in a sensitive time and visit keno a kenosha. The president just spent the day touring hurricane damage in louisiana and texas. 9 press secretary confirmed
You can see a man with a gun being chased. As he goes to the ground he opens fire on the crowd around him. According to the milwaukee sentinel, police are still searching for the shooter. Police firing tear gas and using Armored Vehicles and tear gas. Leaving big parts of the cities downtown in flames. Meanwhile, jacob blake, the man whose shooting sparked all of this, is paralyzed and may never walk again. His mother, julia larson, said the violence had to stop. If jacob knew what was going on as far as that goes, the violence and the destruction, he would be very unpleased. So im really ask iing and encouraging everyone in wisconsin and abroad to take a moment and examine your hurts. Gabe gutierrez is in kenosha. What happened last night . Reporter hey there, stephanie. As you mentioned, there was a shooting here, not far from here, just down the street. Let me show you this car. Still smoldering. Burned out car. This is part of the violence weve been seeing the last three days. Step
Choosing not to wear masks while he down plays the virus, soon the president leaves for another rally in pittsburgh where hell likely celebrate Senate Republicans securing the votes needed to move forward on his Supreme Court nominee in the final six weeks of the election. Though their caucus has yet to agree on a new Coronavirus Relief bill, believe it or not, as new polling out of iowa, where trump won by ten points finds him tied with joe biden at 47 . The same in georgia. A state trump won by five points back in 2016, now trump and biden both tied apartment 47 there. Lets turn now to two of the top reporters in washington covering this, Senior Writer at politico, jake sherman on capitol hill. Pbs newshour correspondent yamiche alcindor. The president tweeting out that hell announce his Supreme Court pick on saturday. Retweeted an article about Rush Limbaugh saying they skip confirmation. Hes expecting a woman to be nominated by the president , what do your source say the next few w
Planned as well like biden today in georgia and trump in nebraska. So we will dig into why theyre going there. Joining us now, chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta and cnn political analyst, David Gregory. David, i cant tell you how happy we are to have you here having just recovered or still recovering yourself from a bout with covid. Well talk about that in a second. Sanjay, first i want to talk about the 42,000 davids out there right now, the ones who are hospitalized or battling this virus. Its getting worse. Appreciably worse across the country. Were seeing the hospitalization rates rise at an alarming level. And dr. Deborah birx, remember her . Shes still out there warning people to be careful. And you get the sense shes beginning to feel like people arent listening. She went to bismark, north dakota, and she was lecturing people there. But i actually think she would have been talking to a much wider audience there. She told them, quote, over the last 24 hours we were her