House that includes free testing, extended sick leave billion dollars in food aid. Mean wile, several states and cities across the nation have shut down restaurants and bars in california, illinois, and new york city among them. The city of new york announcing last night that it is closing schools, nightclubs, movie theaters and other entertainment venues. The city of new york is now considering whether to join two other states, georgia and louisiana in their primary elections. The governor of california has called on the more than 5 million Senior Citizens in his state and those with Underlying Health conditions to isolate themselves. All of this as the number of confirmed cases continues to surge now closing in on 3500 people. Florida saw a huge spike this weekend and West Virginia remains the only state without a confirmed case. And this was a result of the Trump Administrations airport screenings for travelers from europe. Hoards of people crammed together in the types of crowds we
President to take timely action despite several early warnings. Officials are now debating how to carry out the new goal of rolling back social sdandistanc guidelines. Despite Health Concerns that such a move without widespread testing would step back any progress made from social distancing. The president was warned about the potential for a pandemic, but internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response. In short, trump was warned, by, quote, the very people in his government whose expertise and long experience might have guided him more quickly toward steps that would slow the virus and likely save lives. For instance, the times reporting by the third week in february, the administrations Top Health Experts concluded that should recommend mr. Trump a new approach that would include warning the American People of the risks and urging steps like social distancing and staying home from work. But the white house focused instead on messagin
Good tuesday morning, everybody. It is may 12th, just in case you were wondering. Days do blend together these days. With more than 1. 3 million cases of the coronavirus here in the United States, and the death toll at nearly 82,000, the president is claiming that his administration has, quote, prevailed when it comes to testing. In the rose garden yesterday, the president was flanked by two large banners that read america leads the world in testing. Even though the numbers appear to tell a different story. The president tried to project confidence about reopening the economy, but he found himself on the defensive when questioned by reporters. In your comments earlier, we have met the moment, we have prevailed. To you, sir, is the Mission Accomplished even with 1. No, we prevailed on testing is what im referring to. You never prevail when you have 90,000 people, 100,000 people, when you have 80,000 people as of today, when you have the kind of death youre talking about, when you have p
Beheading the kneeling man with a hunting knife. Joining me now is cnns ian lee, who is tandi istanding by for u istanbul. Obviously we cant show it, ian, but tell me what more you know about the video. Brooke, its a brutal video. The runs about eight minutes of the the majority of it you have this man sitting in a chair talking about or confessing, rather, what his alleged crimes are against isis. He says that he was recruited by russian intelligence and then was blackmailed, according to him, saying that they were going to charge him on drug offenses unless he went and spied for them. He was given a little bit of training and what he says was his admission was really twof d twofold, one, to look for isis leaders in iraq and syria but also report back to russia on my sort of operation thats could be planned to take place inside russia. Now, this man was from chechnya, a region of russia where there have been militant whoz have gone and fight for isis. So this man was caught after a li
we really appreciate you doing that work. kim writes, because molly wanted a treat to watch you knowing the oriole lost again. and our friend jay crusoe up because he has an unruly cat who wants to get fed. and matthew is up road tripping from madison, wisconsin, to denver, colorado. two great cities. safe drive. up next, a look at the axios one big thing and coming up on morning joe a check-in with former commissioner dr. scott gottlieb ahead of pfizer s booster shots for the general public. plus, we ll hear from the democrats campaign office. sean patrick maloney after risking his party loses the house without a change of message. his appearance can t be missed. the show is just moments away. the show is just moments away. yeah.uh. doug? sorry about that. umm. what.its.um.