President to take timely action despite several early warnings. Officials are now debating how to carry out the new goal of rolling back social sdandistanc guidelines. Despite Health Concerns that such a move without widespread testing would step back any progress made from social distancing. The president was warned about the potential for a pandemic, but internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response. In short, trump was warned, by, quote, the very people in his government whose expertise and long experience might have guided him more quickly toward steps that would slow the virus and likely save lives. For instance, the times reporting by the third week in february, the administrations Top Health Experts concluded that should recommend mr. Trump a new approach that would include warning the American People of the risks and urging steps like social distancing and staying home from work. But the white house focused instead on messagin
Had right from the very beginning shut everything down it may have been a little bit different. There was at will of pushback about shutting things down back then. The president also has a easter message for everyone via twitter. In the meantime, he said hell make a decision fairly soon on when to reopen the country, are you hearing anything more specific from the white house . Reporter happy, easter, fred. When it comes the details about reopen the government or this decision, President Trump hasnt given a specific date, we know that there has been behind the scenes conversations with Administration Officials talking about may 1st, now President Trump said hes going to convene an opening our Country Council this week, to talk about this. There are two things to note here when were talk about President Trumps decision, its not President Trumps decision to make. President trump himself didnt issue any sort of National Stay at home order. In fact, he said that was the job of the governor
And governors on the east and west coast are working to put together their own plans for how to reopen. Cnn has the news on that. Reporter tonight, states across the country banding together to come up with their own coordinated plans to reopen the country in the region. Governors from california, washington and oregon announce their plan to Work Together on an approach to reopen their economy. This after governors from new york, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, delaware and pennsylvania announce their theyre forming a working group to do the same. Remember the federal government could have said i want to close down the economy. They didnt. Were going to leave it to the state. Now all of a sudden when its time to open the economy its back to the federal government as a responsibility. Texas governor says later this week he will release a str strategy for a slow reopening of businesses there. This is not a rush the gate everybody is able to reopen all at once. This
Coronavirus cases around the world. And the number of deaths here in the United States is now nearly 23,000. This is the most reported by any country at this point. Almost half of those deaths are in new york where there are more than 10,000 lives lost across the state. The Governor Cuomo did say he thinks the worst is hopefully over. Lets go to Shimon Prokupecz in hardhit new york city. And shimon, the death rate has been declining along with the number of hospitalizations. Tell us about that. Reporter and that is significant because that is what is letting the officials here really know that maybe perhaps we have turned a corner in all of this and that we continue to be heading in the right direction. And as you said, hospitalizations are down. The number of people the key data in all of this is the number of people that are in the intensive care unit, that number is down. People that are receiving intubations or need ventilators, those numbers continue to go down and those are all v
Reading white lives matter burnley was flown over the Etihad Stadium during last nights match against Manchester City. True gentlemen the three men stabbed to death in a reading park are remembered by at a vigil. Good morning. Today the heat starts to build, notjust by day but also by night, especially across england and wales, briefly across scotland, and wales, briefly across scotland, and Northern Ireland, you may well miss out on this miniature heatwave. But i will have all the details at 6 27am. Its tuesday, 23rd june. Our top story trips to cinemas, restaurants and pubs could soon be possible again in england as part of the governments easing of the lockdown for the leisure industry. Borisjohnson is expected to announce that the two metre social distancing requirement will be reduced to allow venues to reopen next month. There are currently no plans for similar changes in scotland and wales, while in Northern Ireland the distance has already been cut for schoolchildren. Our Polit