Stephanie ruhle. 8 million Coronavirus Infections and more than 158,000 deaths, but there are small signs of hope this morning with new infections down 11 the past week. However, thats not the case in a number of southern and mid western states, dealing with rising infections and packed emergency rooms. The governor of mississippi issuing a new mask mandate as the state is on track to become number one for coronavirus cases per capita. Students returning to school in ohio will also be required to wear masks. Governor mike dewine announced that yesterday. Banning together to increase Rapid Testing in their states as led by governor larry hogan, massachusetts, michigan, ohio, and virginia governors have teamed up to purchase millions of antigen tests. Theres still no National Testing strategy in place. And on capitol hill, lawmakers appear to be one step closer to an agreement over the next Coronavirus Relief bill. The two sides say theyre trying to reach a deal by the end of the week. A
Very far apart. We wont just keep on coming back every day if we cant get to a deal. Harris well, they are coming back today. Treasure secretary mnuchin said he and meadows chief of staff will meet with democrats to continue talk. President trump warned in a tweet. I notified my staff to continue working on an executive order. Meanwhile jobs numbers for last month out today. They beat expectations. The u. S. Added 1. 8 million jobs. The Unemployment Rate fell to 10. 2 . Down from 11. 1 in june. You are watching outnumbered on a fine friday. I am harris faulkner. Here today fox business anchor and a Fox News Contributor and executive director of serve america pac. And joining us fox news analyst Lawrence Jones. Good to see you. It looks like they are going to take the hammer and the nails and try one more time to put a deal together. Lauren, this is taking so long, the president is readying an eo. According to our reporter they had no plans to meet today until just a while ago. They are
Tonight, rookie of the year. Rg3 speaks in public for the First Time Since knee surgery. And hes taking home some hardware. Credit to the organization to show that the time has changed. Plus, light snow falls across the area. Will it be back tomorrow . Storm team 4 with a super sunday forecast. And the gun debate goes on with a new picture of the president and an ad that will hit the airwaves during the super bowl. Good evening, on the eve of the super bowl, Robert Griffin iii steals the spotlight. This is the first time anyone has seen griffin since his knee surgery earlier last month. Doctors cleared him to travel to new orleans for tonights nfl award show and he is not going home emptyhanded. Reporter carol, Robert Griffin iii was hoping to be here in new orleans playing in the super bowl, instead hes collecting yet another award. Hes the nfl offensive rookie of the year and he beat out some really good players andrew luck, Russell Wilson and, of course, his teammate alfred morris.
Well, good morning, welcome to mornings on 2. I am claudine wong. I am Eric Rasmussen in for mike mibach. We will go to rosemary and see what we can expect for the work week. The fog. And patchy drizzle out there. Sound familiar . It should. It is partly cloudy skies and there is a trend that we will continue as we get into the business week. I will have the extended forecast and the numbers for today coming up. Time is running out. This is a possible bart strike and it is a little under 17 hours. Bart and its unions have the rest of today to negotiate a deal and try to avoid a strike on monday morning. We have live coverage for you. We have more on the options in case there is a strike. We go to alex savidge who is in oakland monitoring the negotiations. It stretched late into the night. Alex . Reporter no one wants to characterize how close the sides are. But there are encouraging signs. Union representatives and bart representatives met for more than 13 hours here at the cal trans b
No history whatsoever. Learn your history, if you lose your history, you would not be around. You are calling me a liar, and you do not have yes, i want to see the tick ticket. [screaming] martha that is unbelievable. And look at this team, one of the most alarming visuals of the day from st. Louis, a couple pulled their guns out on a group of protesters who they claim came storming on the property. So there is that in st. Louis. So tonight former new york police commissioner, senator kennedy, and karl rove is here tonight. Other guests, all of this bubbling over as other tensions way on the hearts of americans. Covid19 stays put, and it digs in now in florida and texas and arizona, and georgia. Some of these beaches are closing now ahead of the fourth of july weekend. And the hhs secretary azar gives us this warning. Speak of the window is closing. We have to act, and people as individuals have to act responsibly. We need to social distance. We need to wear our face coverings if we ar