Tonight, the stark difference between red and blue states and why some states are far more successful at flattening the curve. Trump is treating lifesaving medical equipment as things he can give as favors to loyalists from a scathing editorial in the denver post accusing the president of playing politics amid a National Health crisis. Well talk with former colorado governor and Senate Candidate John Hickenlooper about the kons ver controversy that could hurt his states ability to keep residents alive and at the end of tonights show, this is an extremely difficult time but social distancing measures were following are working. An Important Message about sacrifices were making in tonights last word. We begin with the number of deaths linked to the coronavirus worldwide has passed 100,000. As of tonight, there are 1. 7 million reported cases of coronavirus around the globe. Here in the United States, were coming up on the half a million mark for known infections at 18,638 reported deaths
Nation for the next front in this war against covid19. As the white house releases or guidelines for safe reopening carefully, and in three separate phases. The Coronavirus Task force will come again in an hour from now for the friday update. So in the meantime we will break it all down. First of all, the first phase to see the reopening of gyms, restaurants, may be theaters, and sports venues, but with strict social distancing measures in place. Schools would stay closed, and highrisk individuals would stay home. To the other phases would then loosen restrictions more if cases continue to fall. But there are some critics that that of the plan including nancy pelosi, calling them vague and inconsistent. Here is more reaction from other democrats. I think what he has kind of done is punted coming he has decided that he does not have the right to make the call for the country. You have to know who has a illness, who is immune to the illness and who can get the illness before we can deter
Briefing room. Surgeon genrich ardeeral richar joins me. But first the numbers. The United States is now fast approaching 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. More than 54,000 americans have died. And at the current rate, the pandemics death toll will surpass that of the vietnam war this week. More than 26 million americans have filed for unemployment over the past five weeks. That means one in six American Workers have lost their jobs since this crisis began. And its against that backdrop that some states are now taking steps to open back up. In georgia, businesses like gyms, bowling alleys, nail salons and barber shops reopened on friday. And tomorrow restaurants and movie theaters will follow suit. In tennessee residents of some parts of the state will be able to sit down for meals in restaurants tomorrow as well. And in colorado, the states democratic governor jared polis is defending his plan to start a phased reopening this week. And its at this Inflection Point that the presid
The right wing media claims the press was taking President Trumps comments out of context, which we were not. Then this afternoon the president made their empty defenses of him even less rooted in fact when he claimed he had been sarcastic and he was posing the questions to journalists, quote, just to see what would happen, unquote, which is not remotely what happened. Simply put, its a baldfaced lie. The president wasnt even talking, posing the bizarre question about disinfectants to journalists, he was talking to an official of the department of Homeland Security who had been talking about how sunlight and disinfectants help to kill the coronavirus when it was in the air and on nonporous surfaces, not when it was in the human body. But dont take it from me. Take a look and listen for yourself. Ill ask a question that probably some of you are thinking of if youre totally into that world which i find to be very interests. So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, uh, whether its
Least to get america back to what it was or closer to what it was. Steve herrigan has the latest from atlanta. Steve . Reporter neil the count as of this morning about 12 states have pretty much fully reopened their economies with some restrictions, by the end of another week that number is expected to double so from florida beaches to texas restaurants people are getting back to business with restrictions, thats not the case in the beaches of Orange County, california. Judges upheld the governors order there to keep those beaches closed. The governor angered after crowds gathered on those beaches a week ago. In new jersey despite the fact that the state has had a single day record death toll from the virus higher than new yorks number, they have reopened their state parks and golf courses, but look at the economy in these reopened states shows some concerns. When you look at the metrics of hours worked, sales, traffic, restaurant res r visions, they all point to levels dramatically be