Joining us at 10, im ken way and im pam moore. The decision is what many parents and students had read assumed was going to happen, but the governor does stress this does not mean the end of the school year. We are preparing today to et our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through Distance Learning. And other mechanisms to ke sure that were educatingour kids but not doing so physically on school sites. State superintendent Tony Thurmond held a News Conference today via zoom the same platform that many students have now been using to learn through virtually kron fours noelle bellow listen in on that News Conference and she joins us now live from the newsroom was more details noel on the instruction thats going to be given out. Thats right while more specific guidance on distancelearning was being posted tonight for district leaders, the information given during the press conference still left some questions to b
Keep up the great work. You too. Coming up, Cynthia Erivo is going to perform live. Well be right back. Learnethe government is e naon re trowing afy. Deere to dock. Breaking new developments for those two cruise ships stranded at sea with more than 200 sick passengers on board now off the coast of florida. Breaking overnight, the mayor of los angeles now urges everyone to wear Face Coverings in public as the cdc weighs making a new recommendation nationwide. How to make your own, to avoid taking supplies away from those who need them most. As families all across the country face this disease, the emergency hitting close to home. Georges wife ali announcing shes tested positive. So what started was i had a real tightness in my chest. The latest on alis condition this morning and her message to the gma family. Good morning, america. Its great to have you with us on this thursday morning. We have a lot of headlines to get to including one thats affecting the gma family. And, george, we a
Avert a worst case scenario. And remote control. How zoom calls may be getting hacked and what the company says its doing about it. Oh, no, dont hack zoom, but first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Were going to have a couple of weeks, starting pretty much now, but especially a few days from now, that are going to be horrific. President trump says the National Stockpile of emergency medical supplies is almost depleted. With all due respect it seems like so much of this were making it up as we go along. When bullets start flying, everything becomes a fog and you have to play it by ear. The Labor Department says more than 6 million americans filed for unemployment last week. These are numbers we saw over the course of the entire great recession. This is like a flood, and the waters are still rising. Bloomberg news is reporting the u. S. Intelligence community concluded that china has been under reporting cases of the coronavirus. Seem to be a little bit on the late si
All the overnight developments right now on america this morning. Good thursday morning, everyone. Vice president mike pence says it could be memorial day before we get through the most challenging part of this National Coronavirus crisis. Nearly 1,000 americans have died in just the last 24 hours. Heres the map this morning showing the death tolls by state. New york is reporting more than 2,000 deaths. New jersey and michigan each have more than 300 followed by louisiana, washington and california with over 200 each. President trump says the Strategic National stockpile of ongo one we. Nlqpmsey 40in y five states have not yet issued a stay at home order or some kind of statewide close. They include arkansas, missouri, nebraska and the dakotas. Abcs ines de la cuetara begins our coverage. Reporter with more than 5,000 deaths reported from covid19 across the country, President Trump striking a grim tone. Difficult days are ahead for our nation. Were going to have a couple of weeks start
Baton rouge where louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards holds a briefing on the states response to the coronavirus operate. Outbreak. 95 of thes positive results that we announced today are from t ests conducted in commercial labs. The increase of cases appears to be less a sign of exponential growth over the last couple of days and more a sign of a logjam for commercial labs that have developed over a long period of time. Many of these tests were taken several days, if not longer ago. That theery good thing louisiana has been able to rapidly wrap up testing. Day,ct, depending on the we are somewhere between the third in the nation or fifth in the nation in terms of per capita testing. That said, the reason we have been able to wrap up is weve got more and more commercial labs that have come online. But, our different data systems have to be able to talk to one another and that is a part of the problem. A bigger part of the problem is with private testing, those labs have greatly exceede