3 all new this morning. Four people are behind bars after a shooting in Pickens County left a 17 year old dead. Dead. All four are charged with murder. Murder. Easley police were called to the tricity lanes Bowling Alley around 9 00 wednesday night. We are told 17 year old kejuan brown had been shot in the chest, and died at the scene. Witnesses told officers they saw four suspects in a car together. 3 police then spotted that car at the spinx on highway 183. All four suspects in the car were taken into custody, and are behind bars this morning. Morning. Those suspect range in age from 15 to 22. Police have not released their photos this morning. 3 3 greenville takes the National Spotlight in the republican race for president. President. Three of the six candidates took part in a town hall meeting in downtown wednesy night. Cnn hosted the event at the old cigar warehouse. Ben carson, ted cruz and marco rubio took the stage separately to answer questions from anderson cooper. And from l
The president s response, blame and demote his Campaign Manager. The candidate is the problem, but dont try to tell him that. News last house, the president did finally speak with his top Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony fauci after more than a month of silence between the two men. Fauci says we need to hit the reset button on the pandemic response. The president keeps saying the coronavirus is under control and that fullspeed ahead is the only choice for opening schools and keeping the economy own, but the numbers, meaning the facts, tell us the country needs to be having a much more complicated, a much more nuanced conversation. Just wednesday the new number of confirmed coronavirus cases 66,000. More troubling, the death curve no longer trending down. The number of new deaths across the country yesterday 941. The some total of infections 3. 5 million. The pandemic death toll here in the United States, a sad 137,000 and counting. Now the president is right to say it is misleadin
The United States reporting backtoback days of 1,000plus deaths for the First Time Since the end of may. There is a pattern to much of this. The summer surge and then state after state reimposing restrictions and then jobs lost. The firsttime unemployment claims that i mentioned back up after a is aweek decline. The that adds even more negotiations now to negotiations up on capitol hill about more coronavirus relief. Thats a washington debate. Where you live out in the states the immediate challenge is to slow the spread and lets take a look at how that works out. In some ways this map is a bit more optimistic than it has been in weese ent days. 23 states though still heading up, thats the orange. Texas the largest among them. That means more cases this week than last week. If you look florida and california steady at the moment. 22 states are Holding Steady right now. Youll take whatever progress you can get if youre in those states. Holding steady, 23 headed up and 22 Holding Steady.
Fully manmade is assault on science and altering cdc reports to fall in line with trumps rhetoric on the pandemic. Incorrect rhetoric. Trump putting supporters at risk with indoor rallies and now learning that the Washington Post that the president s new choice to lead is a known skeptic of Climate Crisis. We have much measure on all of this and we begin with the hurricane threat. The gulf coast is once again on edge bracing for a powerful storm. Tropical storm sally strengthened into a hurricane. Mississippi and alabamas entire coasts are under a hurricane warning. We have meteorologist Jennifer Gray whos tracking sally in the cnn Severe Weather center. Tell us about this path. It appears that it is shifting east. Yeah. A little bit east. Expected to make landfall between Southeast Louisiana and the alabama coastline. The biggest thing with this storm is going to be how long its going to sit over this coast. It is going to slow down tremendously before making landfall and dump rain al
Im laura jarrett. 5 a. M. In new york. 50 days until election but of course we may not know the result that night or even that week so be ready for a long, drawn out president ial election. Well have much more on that. We begin this morning with the nation confronted by three serious crises. The raging wildfires on the west coast. The death toll rising to 35. 25 in california. They have burned 4. 6 million acres. Thats the equivalent of connecticut and rhode island combined. The major cities along the west coast likes los angeles, san francisco, seattle are feeling the effects. I listen to the fire professionals. Its been very clear that years of drought that were seeing, whether its too much water or too much rain or too little, this is Climate Change. Mother nature is physics, biology, chemistry. She bats last and she bats a thousand. Thats the reality were facing, the smash mouth reality. This perfect storm. The debate is over around Climate Change. Just come to the state of califor