Country first and think beyond your own ego and your own interests and your own disappointments. The president vows to keep up his legal battle despite losing case after case in court and the Administration Blocks joe bidens team from crucial covid information. This after a weekend where thousands of Trump Supporters flooded the streets of the capital and clashed with counterprotesters. Hurricane threat. Overnight, iota gaining strength. The category 4 storm taking aim at hardhit Central America and the severe storms tearing through the midwest and the northeast. Dangerous winds whipping through this nfl game in cleveland and tearing down buildings. Were tracking the latest on hundreds of thousands waking up without power in the u. S. This morning. Abc news exclusive. Oneonone with michael j. Fox opening up about the Health Crisis that threatened to leave him paralyzed and his darkest moment that led him to question everything. Of all things that was the thing that really set me off. T
President and his refusal to concede. Calls for justice growing following the death of 15yearold Quawan Charles, the mystery surrounding his death and what his family is saying about the preliminary autopsy report. Hurricane iota rapidly intensifying. The catastrophic rainfall forecast for a region just hit hard by hurricane eta earlier this month. Our weather team tracking the storm. And ready for launch. The Spacex Crew Dragon Team making final preps for their historic mission. The experiments on board they hope will lead to medical breakthroughs and the vips Just Announced for the liftoff. Good morning. This morning there is basically no part of this country not feeling the surge of this pandemic. Cases are going up in almost every state. In 47 states, plus d. C. , puerto rico and guam cases are higher and staying high. The death toll in this country now surpassing 245,000 people with cases nearing 11 million. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. This week the biggest Public
Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
Pennsylvania. Everyone on board was wearing a life jacket. Thankfully they are okay this morning. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 15th. Good morning. Good monday morning, thank you for joining us. That video is crazy. I went rafting once when i was a kid. I was like, nope, not again. That was it . Yep. This video really is incredible. The fact that there were two kind of close calls like this . Thankfully all of them are okay but goodness. Quite a thrill, and again, thankfully theyre all okay this morning. We do begin this half hour with the ominous warning from President Trump that has many undocumented immigrants afraid to leave their homes. The promised crackdown triggered protests across this country. The mass arrests that were expected over the weekend have yet to take place. But the threat is not over. Heres abcs daria albinger. Reporter emotions running high over the weekend. Protesters taking to the streets ahead of nationwide immigration raids billed as
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