Cases nationwide with at least 50 deaths. President trump declaring the coronavirus outbreak a National Emergency, a move that will free up more money and resources to fight the pandemic. All of this as americans deal with a massive upheaval in their everyday lives. Officials in cities nationwide caselling school and cancelig school and banning Mass Gatherings. Steve harrigan has the latest from outside the cdc headquarters. Reporter a real stream of news coming out of that press Conference Following the task force on coronavirus. The president making the point that this virus has forced americans to change basic actions, basic elements of ther behavior, including the president himself. Heres President Trump on shaking hands. People come up to me, they shake hands, put their hand out, its a natural reflex. Were all getting out of it, all of us have that problem. Somebody comes up to you, they put your hand out, you tend to shake it. Were all getting out of that. Shaking hands is not a
And chicago are now ghost towns. Number of confirmed cases has topped 19,000 across the country with at least 260 deaths. President trump offering words of encouragement during todays task force briefing. I want to thank all of the incredible people of our country, the citizens of our country, that what youve done and the way youre responding is just has just been very special, something that we will never forget, that the history books will never forget. Arthel we have Fox Team Coverage, alex hogan, Mark Meredith is standing by. We begin with Steve Harrigan reporting live outside cdc headquarters in atlanta. Steve. Reporter arthel, as the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Approaches 20,000, that means in the past week that amount of cases has risen by 1,000 and new jersey has joined with new york, california and illinois, becoming states which are asking all nonessential workers to stay at home. This means by monday, one out of four americans who are in the workforce will be aske
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Quijano good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im elaine quijano. This is our western edition. There is no letup in a wave of terror and suicide bombings as the muslim holy month of ramadan draws to a close. There were attacks today in three cities in saudi arabia, killing at least four. One was near the u. S. Consulate in jeddah, another outside one of islams holiest sites, the prophets mosque in medina. No group has claimed responsibility, but i. S. I. S. Has said it was behind yesterdays attack in baghdad. Charlie dagata reports more than 200 were killed in the worst attack there since just after the u. S. Invasion in 2003. siren reporter even in a country awash in bloodshed, this was bad. The i. S. I. S. Suicide bomber knew just where and when to strike to kill as many civilians as dassible. The holy month of ramadan ends this week. And cafes and shops along the boulevard were packed full of families enjoying the cool of the night after
Material that was marked classified. Plus, breaking overnight. Hello, jupiter, nasa engineers as their satellite makes it into the orbit. It was a journey five years in the making. We have got a lot of politicso cover this morning. We have got them again with donald trump firing back, trying to explain away the images others have described as antisemitic. He is looking at it from the trump side and chris twhere do stand now . Donald trump is tweeting about his meeting over the weekend. So the campaign wants to move on from this quite obviously but it is still ongoing. Right now dan scavino is now claiming that he is not antisemitic and he did not get this image of what could be considered a sheriffs star. After that tweet was sent out yesterday or sunday it was quickly covered up with a circle before being tleeted entirely. It prompted a ton of backlash online for what that might look like to somebody who potentially is jewish. The campaign has been trying to push back. Dan scavino is
Report and then over her president s private meeting with attorney general Loretta Lynch as she wrapped up a meeting with the fbi about her email system over the weekend. Were you given that indication today that no charges will be filed and are you confident no charges will be filed . I am not going to comment on the process. I have no knowledge of any timeline. This is entirely up to the department. Heather meanwhile, donald trump firing off on twitter himself, including this quote. Crooked Hillary Clinton knew that her husband wanted to meet with the us ag to work out a deal. The system is totally rigged and corrupt. Joining us now, susan crabtree, White House Correspondent at the washington examiner, thank you for joining us this Independence Day. Thanks for having me. Heather lets take a look at these numbers. We have the latest fox news poll we can bring up for people and it shows clintons honest and trustworthy numbers are at a record low, look at that. Just 30 percent say that