All the overnight developments right now on america this morning. Good thursday morning, everyone. Vice president mike pence says it could be memorial day before we get through the most challenging part of this National Coronavirus crisis. Nearly 1,000 americans have died in just the last 24 hours. Heres the map this morning showing the death tolls by state. New york is reporting more than 2,000 deaths. New jersey and michigan each have more than 300 followed by louisiana, washington and california with over 200 each. President trump says the Strategic National stockpile of ongo one we. Nlqpmsey 40in y five states have not yet issued a stay at home order or some kind of statewide close. They include arkansas, missouri, nebraska and the dakotas. Abcs ines de la cuetara begins our coverage. Reporter with more than 5,000 deaths reported from covid19 across the country, President Trump striking a grim tone. Difficult days are ahead for our nation. Were going to have a couple of weeks start
Concerns that americans have about people losing coverage. Im a big believer we can cover everybody but reduce costs and bring down those premiums deductibles. I will make a conviction on cspan that before the end of the year that obamacare would will be repealed and a new plan will give people more choices and bring more competition to the health care markets, because thats whats lacking right now. You saw what happened in connecticut where many peoples premiums are going up 40 50 this year. Obamacare the wheels are coming off. Host covering everybody and reducing costs is such a hard thing for congress to try to do. Was your suggestion . Guest several things and one is a nobrainer. Let the people buy insurance across state lines. For example, i live in virginia. But i have an Auto Insurance policy that is based and in ohio company. Why cant you do that with Health Insurance . One of the problems with obamacare is that some of the Health Insurance companies have dropped out of the mar
Acting like summer and bringing us that warm, moist air from down in the tropics somewhere right here. You dont have to spend money on the plane ticket. We have it right here. We do have just a little hole in the loud making for a pretty sunrise this morning. The clouds will win today. 64 in durham. 64 in south hill. 63 in southern pines. The temperatures are very warm for this time of year. Expect mid60s heading out the door. At lunchtime, 75. A high of 79 even with the clouds. Shower today. We have some rain in the forecast for the weekend. Ill show you the potential it wont be a washout. Starting to get a little busier out there. Well zoom in to raleigh and show you some of the crashes. The oldest accident on this is that one in west raleigh. Out by the airport, we have a crash reported on aviation at globe and on the northeast side of raleigh. Look out for an accident in the cheering stages on new hope road at green acres lane. In the clearing stages on new hope road at green acres
The crisis becoming. Republicans on the south level have been trying to come up with a way to get out of the box they put themselves in and do it with a tiny bit of dignity after two weeks, its a different tone from House Republicans. They described the meeting as productive. Even if no final decisions were made. We had a very useful meeting. It was terrifying for both sides as to where we are. And the take away for me was our teams are going to be talking further tonight. We agreed to try with the conditions related to the shut down. No one here wants to default on our nations debt. Opening the government is a negotiation that will happen tonight. In the hours ahead. We hope to have it open by monday morning. Probably tuesday morning. Monday is a federal holiday, but its coming. House republicans floated a deal hoping that would be enough. Throughout the white house meeting, i am told the president made it clear he was not and he pressed to reopen the government. He does not want to b
August giving a huge boost to the u. S. Economy and well have more on that in just a moment. But we begin tonight with apple. Shares tumbled 4 today and that almost single handily dragged down the nasdaq compos index. One week ahead of what should be a shining moment when its expe to unveil the iphone six, they closed below 99 a piece, just a day after apple shares hit an alltime high of 1 103. It caused the nasdaq to drop and the s p lost one point. So what happened today . One analyst told investors to take profits saying hes skeptical the Product Launch will result in massive profit opportunities, but besides that warning, apple is facing a lot of criticism about security after intimate celebrity photos were stolen from individual i Cloud Storage accounts and then today, rival samsung unveiled two new smart phones, including one with a side display for quicker access to apps. Kim joins us now to talk more about the issues that are weighing on apple today and by extension on the nasd