Force her back inside the home. Tensions rise over housing settlements in jerusalem, the white house senior official uses a dirty word to describe Benjamin Netanyahu. World series win for the San Francisco giants the San Francisco giants pulling off something baseball hasnt seen in decades. The world series win is one for the record books. Good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Lava is on the verge of swallowing dozens of homes in hawaii. It inched closer to a town and is less than 100 yards from could not assuming its first house. It moved 70 yards on wednesday, thats about the length of a football field. Officials fear the flow may widen and cause a larger path of destruction. Is there anything that can be done to help the people in the path of this lava . That is something the island Civil Defense chief is hoping the National Guard can help figure out once 80 troops land on the island today. They may not get there before the lava hits the town.
It is friday, july 31st, 5 a. M. In new york. Despite what President Trump suggested on twitter yesterday, laura, we are still 95 days to the election. Well dig deeper on that in just a few minutes. You bet we will. This morning, a nation in desperate need of a plan will look to medical experts for answers. The House Select Committee on coronavirus will hear from members of the White House Coronavirus task force including dr. Anthony fauci, testing leader and cdc chief dr. Robert redfield. With any luck, theyll have more specifics than this. You said youre in the process of developing a strategy against the coronavirus thats very powerful. Where is that strategy . Youre seeing it. One of the things were getting, it hasnt been utilized, were all set to march when it comes to the vaccine. So the plan is wait for a vaccine. That will be little comfort to the more than 1200 people who lost family members. Staggering when you think of that. It was the Third Straight day of record deaths in
Out front tonight, more people may die. That is the warning tonight from joe biden. The president elect using some of the strongest language yet since the election, telling President Trump it is time to start to transition now or risking losing more american lives to the virus. More people may die. If we dont coordinate. They say they have this Warp Speed Program that not only dealt with getting vaccines but also how to distribute this. If we have to wait until january 20th to start that planning, it puts us behind over a month, month and a half. The idea that the president is still playing golf and not doing anything about it is beyond my comprehension. The virus is spreading at an alarming rate. More than 100,000 cases for the 14th day running, far outpacing any increases in testing. At least 14,951 americans have died since election day. People were alive coming in, now dead. Yet the president is ignoring the urgent calls not just from biden but from dr. Fauci. Obviously, its someth
Having no legal merits. Well have more on that in a moment. Georgia is also facing two hotly contested Senate Runoff races in january that could determine control of the u. S. Senate. Kelly loeffler announced she tested positive for covid19 on friday. Another test on saturday was inconclusive. She campaigned friday alongside mike pence and david perdue. Back to pennsylvania where u. S. Senator pat toomey joined the short list of republicans recognizing biden as president elect soon after the judges ruling on the Trump Campaigns ruling in pennsylvania, toomey said in a statement, with todays decision by the judge, a longtime conservative republican whom i know to be a fair and unbiassed jurist, President Trump has exhausted all plausible Legal Options to challenge the result of the president ial race in pennsylvania. We want to get more details from jeremy diamond. Reporter well, President Trump is suffering his latest defeat in his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Screen. We have now surpassed 12 million confirmed cases of the virus here in the United States. We have watched that number rise throughout the day today. Each one of those numbers, each one of those more than 12 million nearly 44,000 cases is a person. A mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a brother, a sister, a friend. Someone who is either current lip infected or perhaps dealing with the after effects of this disease, which we are only just now beginning to hearn about of those longlasting effects. More than 12 million cases on the number of american whos have died, that number has risen above 255,000 today lives lost to this pandemic. The cdc is worried that people will not avoid gathering with anybody except for those in your immediate household. We have new guidance, most infects are spread by people who dont show any symptoms, even more than previously thought, actually. That means that those people could spread the virus to so many more without, of course, even knowing it. Th