For the most part, things are rolling around nicely. You see mostly green behind me. Were taking a look at the Alexander Hamilton bridge where theyre in the process of clearing out an accident. Eastbound moving along nicely on the cross bounds. But lets head to the other side of the George Washington bridge. Smooth sailing into the tolls upper and lower levels. Lincoln in great shape, as well as the holland. Breaking news, theres five people hurt in a fire in an Apartment Fire in the bronx. This is. Happening on Andrews Avenue in Morris Heights. Today in new yorks Tracie Strahan is there. Reporter michael, were going to learn from the deputy chief himself. We have five injuries. One of your guys as well. Yeah, one firefighter hurt he was transported to north bebronx central. Reporter were going to show the viewers, fifth floor, anything you can tell us when this started after 2 15 or so . Yeah, we got the call around 2 30. And it didnt look as serious as it became, once we first got he
The number of reported coronavirus. Were following the safety guidelines from Health Officials as always. Sanjay and i are in separate studios without any crew around us. All of our guests are by remote as well. So its going to look a little different from our other town halls. As we said last week and before, were determined to keep reporting the story and bring you as much knowledge as we can and also answering as many questions as we can as well. We still have our social media scroll which youll see at the bottom of your screen. Please tweet us your questions with the cnntownhall. You can leave a comment on the facebook page. A lot of you sent questions. Well get to as many as we can. Its a cliche, but we are all in this together. Tonight well have reports from the country and around the world including europe and china where our correspondents are. We start in the u. S. Which is seeing a significant rise in cases. World Health Organization is now warning that the u. S. Could become
Night, the virus is making the timetable. Back to normalcy is not happening any time soon. I dont want to say that. But false hope of a return to normal any time soon is only proof of abnormal messaging. Were not going to do that here. The need is real, and so must be our determination. Our focus is on the front lines and it reveals that one nurse just lost his battle against this virus. We have his sister here tonight to tell his story of who he was and how it happened along with the doctor who is going to tell you about the unbelievable choices she is now forced to make in an emergency room. This problems not going away, is so neither can our resolve. Together as ever as one. Lets get after it. 82,000 cases. And more important than that number is the rate. It is climbing. It is excaccelerating still. How do you reconcile that with looking at where its spreading and moving to other places at the same time. And then the president saying tonight we need to start easing restrictions that
Scientists on the task force today, 100,000 to 240,000 people in this country will die in the weeks and months ahead. 100,000 to 240,000. And that is with current stay at home orders and social distancing efforts. That is certainly not good news. But when you compare it to the alternative, it just might be. On a chart called goals of Community Mitigation also presented by the task force, we saw estimates of what would happen without isolation and mitigation efforts. 1 Million People in this country could die, possibly many more than that. So let me make it clear. According to best estimates embraced by the nations top scientists, if we were not following stayathome orders or social distancing orders, a million or more of us would die in this country. As it is right now, 100,000 to 240,000 of us will likely die. This is where we are tonight in this pandemic. And as dr. Anthony fauci said during that presentation, models are only as good as the assumptions theyre based on. The question i
Life to changing the culture and laws on violence against women. He authored the violence against women act. He firmly believes women have a right to be heard and heard respectfully. Such claims should also be diligently viewed by an independent press. The claim, it did not happen. All of this, erin, comes as joe biden is preparing to run against President Trump in the general election, and more than a dozen women have levelled allegations against donald trump ranging from inappropriate behavior to Sexual Harassment to assault, and President Trump has denied these allegations. Erin . M. J. , thank you very much. And now more of our special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Tonight President Trump is at odds with his own plan for coronavirus testing. Youre confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day, is that well, were going to be there very soon. If you look at the numbers, it could be that were getting very close. I mean, i dont have the exact numbers. We would have had them