A little fresher today, of a second wave is what italy notably in the north and west. And every other country is now and thats because trying to strike. Of a weather front thats been meandering its way eastwards. And then, behind that, for friday, an unseasonally deep area of low pressure, which means rain, but also very windy weather. Hello to you. With the trees in full leaf, thats a concern. There are now at least 5 so, look lets look million confirmed cases of coronavirus across at the progress of this weather the globe, according front, which will give to the world health some rain, as you can see, organization. As it crosses of the 106,000 reported Northern Ireland and scotland. In the past 2a hours, not as much for england and wales, and it mayjust be more than two thirds are in just four countries a few sharp, but potentially the united states, russia, torrential downpours across southern and eastern saudi arabia and brazil. Parts through the morning before it clears the number
Vice president bidens president ial campaign has started vetting as a potential running mate for joe biden. So we had the governor of new mexico here last night. Tonight were going to be joined live by the governor of michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, who is also reportedly in contention for that slot. She is also reportedly being vetted by the Biden Campaign as a potential running mate. President trump of course was in Governor Whitmers state today. He was in michigan where he gave a sort of rambly, stream of consciousness, rallytype speech after he toured a ford factory. That was really strange. Then even though everybody in that factory is supposed to wear a mask at all times, the president told the press that they were not allowed to see him in a mask, and thats why he wasnt wearing one there, whereupon nonetheless we promptly got pictures of him in which he appears to be wearing a mask. This one comes from the twitter account of congresswoman jackie speier. You know, another day, anothe
Nears the grim toll of 100,000 deaths. Instead of setting a powerful example of how to protect others and yourself the president says he will not be caught on camera by wearing a mask. Let me start by showing this, the sevenday average, more states report an increase in cases. So when you look at that you can see the increase. You now have 17 states now showing an increase in the number of reported coronavirus cases. 12 saw a decrease. Now, if you compare that to a week ago, 9 states had an increase in the number of reported new cases. So that number of states with an increase has doubled in the past week. This is a pretty significant thing to say. The question is why . Is this the result of more testing . Or do we have a much bigger problem, a potential second wave coming across the country . These are serious questions tonight. And yet today the president was playing political games at best or being simply vain at worst. Trump at a ford manufacturing plant in michigan where according
Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, who is also reportedly in contention for that slot. She is also reportedly being vetted by the Biden Campaign as a potential running mate. President trump of course was in Governor Whitmers state today. He was in michigan. Where he gave a sort of rambling string of consciousness rallytype speech after he toured a ford factory. That was really strange. And then even though everybody in that factory is supposed to wear a mask at all times, the president told the press that they were not allowed to see him in a mask, and thats why he wasnt wearing one there. Whereupon, nevertheless, we promptly got pictures of him in which he appears to be wearing a mask. This one comes from the twitter account of congresswoman jackie spear, another day, another thrill, in terms of what it means to cover the surreal, surreal presidency of donald trump. Governor whitmer in michigan is contending not only with that nonsense, shes contending with a serious disaster right now in th