Orleans. The state of emergency. Francine slamming ashore in Louisiana Packing 100mileperhour winds and up to ten feet of lifethreatening Storm Surge. A national Guard Truck running off the road. Our team in the storm zone, and Al Roker tracking it all. Also tonight, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump coming facetoface again and shaking hands at a 9 11 memorial in New York just hours after their fiery debate. The candidates clashing over the economy, abortion, the border, and the moment the former president pushed a baseless and shocking claim about immigrants in ohio. Did the Debate Sway voters, and will there be a rematch . Plus, the impact The Endorsement from Taylor Swift is already having. The raging California Wildfire exploding ten times in size in just 24 hours. Dozens of homes destroyed. Dramatic rescues and Word Tonight of people trapped including an offduty officer. Plus, the Arson Arrest in another massive inferno. Inflation cooling to 2. 5 with the Fed Set to cut rates. Justin
Return especially in texas is a factor. Now look at this. Five stocks at or near record levels. Apple, microsoft, google, facebook. What you are looking at is premarket prices. I see apple and amazon up again. Not much of a selloff in the other three. Facebo facebook, google and microsoft, after yesterdays stellar performance. Put together, these five make up 22 of the s p 500. Now, that is dominance. The news from the street this morning. It is not good. In atlanta, armed men took over a small area and refused to let the police in. In wisconsin, a state senator beaten when he took a photo of demonstrators. In our Nations Capital, the flag burned by a cheering mob. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart a political bombshell is unfolding. Longtime democrat congressman of new york, elliot engel, is fighting for his political life. The 16term incumbent is trailing by double digits against a progressive. He received the full support of congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. Engel was su
Republicans need strong federal leadership to combat this deadly threat. Help to get the protective equipment and supplies they need to protect their frontline medical workers and essential employees. Thertunately, administration is leaving it up to the states, forcing them to compete against each other in order to purchase equipment and supplies from the private sector. This is leading to higher prices and greater shortages. We need the federal government to use the existing authorities to efficiently, effectively, and citiesly help states and that need them the most. This committee has heard from Bipartisan Health experts that cities and states need a comprehensive nationwide plan to safely reopen the economy, including detailed plans for tracing, andact containment. Have been forced to develop their own testing ineffective,cient, and inequitable patchwork that will only prolong and exacerbate the crisis. Local governments are facing financial crises. Expectt survey shows budget shor
He said they are following the white houses reopening criteria and will continue to monitor across the state. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. I appreciate the public for tuning in on their television or their radio or their computer. However they happen to be watching. Or on their computer ar they happened to be watching. I have dr. Alex bu. Marshal butchfire browning who will be here to answer any questions you might have as pertains to what he has been doing with open safely and has become more apparent in a moment. The next proclamation will likely be issued on thursday and will be effective friday. We intend to leave it in place for 21 days. Which is june 5. The next time that we we intend to leave it in e today will place there and have the most recent data to look at. Like all decisions, this one involves a lot of time and work. I want to thank the department of health and dr. Billoux and his team. We wanted to make sure we were following the cdcvetted plan t
Interacting with the public to wear masks. I am also encouraging a up anytime to mask you are not around people or your immediate household. , you arewear a mask protecting others, when others for terror masks, they are protecting you when others wear masks, they are protecting you. When he to do this along with the social distancing and the hygiene so that we can make sure into phase one of makeeopening so we can sure we move into phase one of the reopening. We have been working to share information with louisiana ands louisianans. Many households received a phone call from me earlier today. That was real. We make those calls to landline and the messagess and the people who walked in we make those calls to landlines and the people who opt in on their cell phones. Where reporting 710 new cases of covid 19 or a total of 9711. That is a larger increase than we have reported in a number of days. It is somewhat startling, but i want people to understand that 381 of these new cases came fro