Some of those in fear that going back to normal too soon would then drive those numbers back up. Thats right. Still, cnn has learned that the president s aides, some of them are in talks about potentially reopening the economy more broadly as soon as may. Those discussions happening as we see more news of a crushing week for the american economy. 646 million americans filing jobless claims last month alone. If you add up the last few weeks, its 7 Million People filing unemployment claims. Lets turn to athena jones. Another record of sad deaths here. Reporter he came with that press conference yesterday when he released these numbers because there are deaths that are increasing. New york yesterday reporting the highest single day death toll for the second day in a row. And this is something that the governor and other Officials Say we can expect to continue to see in part because deaths from coronavirus are a lagging indicator. People who ultimately die of the disease may have been hosp
House and Human Services tom price that cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Did they violate rules . We welcome our viewers, wolf blitzer is off today. Im jim acosta. You are in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. The breaking news tonight, a potential fatal blow to the latest republican effort to repeal obamacare. Senator john mccain announced he cannot back the latest deal, score detailing its real world impact. The measure is one vote away from failure. Republican senator rand paul announced he opposes the bill. A handful of his colleagues are voicing serious concerns about it. We are following the high stakes world of words with President Trump and dictator kim jongun, they are trading personal insult, kim calling the president mentally deranged after President Trump called am mad man. That was one of the latest tweet storm. We are also awaiting the president s arrival in alabama. He will be arriving to speak with senator luther strange, running fo
800,003 federal employees on forced paid leave or due at work but also unpaid because of the partial governmenttia shutdown its third day. James mattis out even sooner than he planned. Other the weekend, President Trump decided he hated mattis Resignation Letter and basically fired him after the fact. The head of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell is thought to be safe for now, but only because Steve Mnuchin informed the president the law would prevent him from firing him because he blames him for Rising Interest Rates and falling stocks. Cnn has learned the president s anger now centers on mnuchin, who recommended powell for the fed job in the first place. Much more on all of this in the hour ahead. We begin, though, with Cnns Barbara Starr at the pentagon. We understand the shakeup at the top causing real alarm in the field. You have u. S. Forces deployed ipactive war zones today who dont know whats going to happen next. Thats right, jim. Several senior commanders are overseas on long
Rocks at the officers, police cars were vandalized. Windows were broken out, in a fire station a concrete wall completely demolished. Mart Martin Savage has more details. What can you tell us about the root of this . Reporter emotions are very raw in the frazier neighborhood in north memphis. Started around 7 00 last night when u. S. Marshals were moving in, attempt to go serve warrants on the man they were going to arrest on federal charges, but things turned, they say that the suspect attempted to flee, got into a vehicle, used that vehicle to ram a number of police cars then got out of the vehicle with a weapon and thats when u. S. Marshals opened fire and killed him. That is what sparked a protest that then started shortly thereafter, a crowder gathered and some in that crowd began throwing bricks and rocks. You had 24 Police Officers that were injured at least six of them had to be transported to hospital to be further checked out. And a number of civilians, including two journali
Asked if the two were able to resolve some of their differences, the speaker said we dont have many differences. Well, of course they do, otherwise we wouldnt be where we are today, right . You look at the history of whats happened with these two, pelosi downplaying, some say aocs influence, whether it be on twitter or otherwise. Youve got the speaker criticizing the squad for not supporting the immigration bill. So theres been a lot of public back and forth. Whats been interesting to see whats happened after this meeting is aoc has basically been avoiding our cameras. Weve been in several locations trying to catch up with here. Perhaps what were trying to see here Going Forward is a clear message from one person about the outcome of that meeting. That one person is obviously going to be the speaker when she gives her briefing later on this morning, just at a little after 10 30 a. M. Or so. Poppy, jim. All right. Well be watching. You keep chasing. Jason carroll. Thank you so much. Nan