Everywhere weve gone here, as is often the case with climate disasters in pakistan, the devastation is vast and the immediate need are very basic people, weve spoken to say that what they need right away is some form of shelter. Anything to put over their heads. They need food and they need medicine. Weve met children who have already begun to experience skin disease, the symptoms of dehydration, and most importantly right now the median challenge is to do something about the hunger people here are hungry and there is not enough food to go around. There really arent any aid organizations at the moment. Any of the places that weve visited, what we have seen is most of the help, whether theres a little help is being arranged, hes being arranged at the local level. There are no international, n g o z. And it is taking time for the government to mobilize any sort of National Rescue and relief response. And there is now mounting anger over those circumstances. What were seeing is there are
We have Fox Team Coverage coast to coast. We begin with christina coleman, live in los angeles with the latest there. Christina. Reporter here on the west coast there are two of the three states with the most cases of coronavirus in the u. S. , Washington State with 79 confirmed cases and 13 deaths and california with 6 confirmed case 69 confirmed cases and one death. The United States is one of the top 10 countries with the most cases of covid 19 in the world with the number of cases climbing in new york to 76, more than 2700 people are under some type of quarantine in the site new york. Florida making headlines for additional cases. The first east coast coronavirus deaths were there, two men there died who were in their 70s and traveled overseas. Floridas governor said he expects the federal government to provide the state with 27 million to deal with covid19, in addition to 500,000 to cover Lab Equipment and staffing costs. President trump signed an 8. 3 billion deal yesterday to fi
Former press secretary robert gibbs was asked about the misleading statement you can keep your insurance if you want to. Call a spade a spade he said. I dont recall significant discussions around some of the verbiage around this to be 100 percent honest with you. Do you believe it was a wrong move . Certainly. Ron barn yea call it had a singing indictment of the obama practices that led to it. He said incompetence and deception doomed the launch of the Affordable Care act as long as the president sticks with the team that failed the country and lied it is fair to assume he hasnt learned the most basic lessons from the launch. This week end fraught page story of the wall street journal on saturday and Washington Post on sunday it became quite clear, they didnt even try to de p fend it, politics instructs policy in the lead out and roll up. Politics trump. I spent the whole weekend wall street journal Washington Post i read a lot of stuff. Forbes. I was consuming everything i could possi
David cameron taking the lead. They published an oped in the New York Times. Western leaders are pressing russia to back off from the ukraine. Back to this oped whats the substance in this piece . Reporter it was long on lofty language about the need to confront isis but painfully short on how the u. S. And the u. K. Plan to do that, especially when it comes to military intervention. Many praised David Cameron for coming out swinging with words and actions to protect the british homeland. But the Prime Minister has yet to commit his country to military action. Yesterdays comments from president obama started tough on isis then seemed to walk his promised back. Manageable . Thats when you are closing a lane on the free way. Then you have got to go down the free way with three lanes instead of four. Reporter the politics continue. We were just two months away from the midterms. Even some democrats are distancing themselves from the president. Martha isis is one of the big topics at nato.
Terrorists. Isis releasing video today of what appears to be the gruesome execution of 31yearold Stephen Sotloff. This is just 13 days after another american, james foley, was beheaded by the same terrorists. Again today, we saw a masked executioner speaking in a british accent making a direct threat against the United States. Jim sciutto begins our coverage tonight. Reporter the image is haunting and familiar. An american in an orange jumpsuit on his knees. His killer all in black standing above him brandishing a knife. 13 days after american james foley was killed, a new video appears to show journalist Stephen Sotloff brutally beheaded by isis as well. The masked executioner who seems to be speaking with the same voice and accent as foleys killer made it clear the murder was directed at the United States. Just as your missiles will continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people. Reporter sotloff 31 grew up in south florida. He was freelanci