General suspends those controversial cutbacks until after the election and Congress Calls him to capitol hill demanding answers College Crisis notre dame, the latest university to suspend inperson classes just one week into the semester the spike in cases is very serious and we must take serious steps to address it. An entire Sorority House in oklahoma now quarantining. Just ahead what schools are trying to do to keep covid off campus state of emergency the National Guard mobilized in california with dozens of wildfires raging across the state. Evacuations underway overnight and a searing heat wave making everything worse all that plus just desserts. The Surprising New girl scout cookie thats already the toast of the town. Today, wednesday, august 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us couldnt you go for a french toast cookie got to wait
Includes 15 minutes for questions and answers. Please submit your questions in the question and answer function at any time during the top. We will do to respond to as many as possible for the final part of the program. Now, modern meter Major Generals. Some of our viewers have commented on our approach to the civil war in 50 objects. While the multi layered social and political history takes in the totality of the context of the war, it doesnt really consider the militarys history or the sequence. When you think about that . It is a fair enough comment, of course. The objects that we are discussing are all in some way related to new york history, so it relates to the soldiers who served, the leaders who helped or hindered the war effort. The relics they brought back from battle. Along the way, over the last seven weeks, we touched on battles, those who experienced, certainly the battle of new york city. Early on we dealt with a inaudible lot a lot indeed. We are doing okay. That is a
Of the last tools inour arsenal, we reach the point where. The cases have exploded in the washington region here in mayland, virginia and the District Of Columbia more than quadrupled just a couple of days experts on the White House Coronavirus task force say even if the number of cases drops over the warm summer months we could see a resurgence in the fall. Although by then Authorities Say they hope to be equipped with thsupplies d the knowledge needed to better manage another wave of cases in washington, im whitney wild cnn anchor chris cuomo has been diagnosed with the coronavirus the news came out earlier today in a memo to cnn employees. Its as though that hes feeling well and still plans to anchor his show from his home. The vast majority of cnn employees have been working from home for the past several weeks with acres broadcasting from small studios and home offices. As well work to curb the spread of the coronavirus the efrt to treat those already infected is getting harder ne
Home to at least now may 3rd happening today, the Santa Clara Convention center is going to be used as a makeshift hospital for coronavirus patients kron fours will tran is there live to take a look and how its going to be seup well. Daria you justheard the numbers of fatalities from im coronavirus and that put some strain on the hospital in a preemptive move. The city of santa cla they allowed people to go inside specifally and heres video the National Guard going inside last frid it is ready to go ey spent 12 hours side the Convention Center setting up 250 cots for men and women they will be separated the whole idea ju like shelter in place is to flatten the curve take the load off the hospitals they will start accepting patients who are positivfor coronavirus and that is important cause if you are next to each other in cots you dont have that 6 feet of distance apart from each other, but the good news is since they are positive for coronavirus they do not need to social distance, th
Mean thats good. 100 did people within a short period of time. This is going to be a rough 2 week period. As a nation. We face a difficult few weeks. Its so bring a number as that is we should be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much. I hope not and i think the more we push on the mitigation the less likelihood would be that number but as being realistic. We need to prepare ourselves that that is a possibility that that serve no magic bullet. Theres no magic vaccine or therapy. This just behaviors. Each of our behaviors translating into something that changes. The course of this viral pandemic. Thats the Coronavirus Task force and the president james as they are saying if everybody continues doing what were all doing through the end of may. Those are the low numbers, a 100 to 200,000 americans dying yeah that was a best Case Scenario as you mentioned if everybody did what they were supposed to do. We always talk about flattening the curve thats the death toll. If we flatten the