Congress and the white house, this as food prices are surging and schools are debating whether to open in the fall. Now the leading mods from the university of washington has once again raised its projections by 10,000 projected deaths to 147,000 people in this country dying from coronavirus. And thats just by august 4. In part, the modelers have upped the projected death toll because of relaxing social distancing measures happening all over the country. As cnns erica hill reports now, while the number of new cases is thankfully trending down nationwide, mayors of major cities, including washington, d. C. , are concerned about a surge in new infections and have in fact extended stayathome orders. Reporter shopping, restaura restaurants, the beach. Signs of precovid life returning as experts warn the virus could be here to say. This virus may become endemic in our communities and may never go away. Reporter californias State University system is sticking with Distance Learning this fall
United states and around the world. This is early start. Im christine romans. Im laura jarrett. Its friday, june 26th. 5 a. M. In new york. This morning a bleak new recordsetting but the fight against coronavirus back. Almost 40,000 new cases reported in the u. S. Today more than doubling where we were earlier this month and eclipsing, eclipsing the previous record from april 24th. 124,000 americans are now dead. The whole objective was to flatten the curve yet the u. S. Did the opposite. Several states hitting new alltime highs, many of them reopening early when patience was running out, but the virus remained a persistent big threat. Every epidemiologist was yelling as loud as we could three weeks after memorial day we have a peak and five weeks we begin to see a peak in tests. This is a consequence of our actions and a consequence of not having guidance from the federal government and the states to follow. 11 states, most notably texas, are hitting pause on reopening now. The Texas
Personal today as his brother heads to capitol hill. Cnn has learned President Trump as top advisors are working on initiatives for Police Reform which the president could unveil later this week. Trumps team are encouraging him to be more empathetic on the subject of racism but hes shown little interest in addressing racism. Some their jobs the right way because in his eyes they havent for years and years. Hes already met privately with former President Joe Biden on monday. Now his testimony is coming as democrats presented a bill on monday that would drastically alter policing in the united states. Meantime on the republican side a white house official including chief of staff mark meadows traveled up to capitol hill on tuesday to discuss their plans. We know that South Carolina senator tim scott is leading the way when it comes to some form reform legislation for policing on the republican side. Boris, thank you. Senator scott said the white house and the senate are on a separate tra
Believed to be connected to the attack and shooters separated muslims from nonmuslims and proceeded to kill as many as the nonmuslims as they could. Kenyas president called them an existential threat and vowed to continue to fight terrorism today on National Television saying quote, our forefathers bled and died for the nation, and well do everything to defend our way of life. Today, a survival of that horrific attack on campus told cnn how she hid when the attack started and stayed there for two days. And then me i decided to go into the wardrobe in the wardrobe. We have this wardrobe thats small, small rooms, and then i covered myself with the clothes, and then these people in our room and then they entered our room and other roommates who were hidden themselves under the bed, they told them to go out, and when they were outside, they told if you dont know how to read them in the muslim word whatever and then you lie down and then if you know you go to the other side. We are join fro
Cartoons that appeared in the french Charlie Hebdo magazine. Boris nemtsov as well as being a kremlin critic was of jewish heritage and spoke out against Charlie Hebdo attack. He was killed because of that and not because of his opposition. Critics say it was the kremlin that should bear responsibility for the killing of one of russias most prominent Opposition Leaders. Matthew chance cnn, moscow. Thank you for that. Lets talk about it. Bob baer joins me and former intelligence and security analyst and Christopher Dickey former editor of the daily beast beast and just remind our viewers of the significance of Boris Nemtsov and his, assassination. Hes was the first deputy Prime Minister under the yeltsin government. He was one of the sort of very rara of the liberalization of russian politics and he believed in democracy and a prowestern orientation for russia. So its true that over the last decade his star has dimmed and others have brightened and alexei who is now seen as the de facto