Week, in the depths of the Great Recession and frankly a number like 600,000something would be spectacular news for us at this point. For us now, week after week, i said ten weeks, actually for eight straight weeks as of today, we are over two million americans filing for unemployment. Simultaneously, and perhaps in a related development, the white house announced today that theyre just not going to give their annual National Forecast for the economy this summer. The white house does that every year. They do a budget in february and then they do an Economic Forecast in the summer. For how things are going to go for the rest of the year. Except this year, for the first time in decades, theyve just said theyre not going to do that. Better not to say, right . Imagine what that report would say about the forecast for the economy, if they did have to put it out. Better just to keep mum maybe. We are learning from this federal government with each passing day of the epidemic that not talking
Steve . Jon, something has happened here. The details of yet we are still trying to determine. Reports from people who running away from the bridge behind me say that a semitruck has plowed into a group of people. We dont know anything about the identity of the driver of the truck or the injuries. The likelihood that something traumatic did happen is because we have seen about 20 police cars, full sirens racing off to the bridge about half mile in front of us. We are on the way now to see what happened. This is part of a large protest movement, a huge crowd, filling the road, so any driver there would have had to deal with large crowd, whether it was deliberate, whether it was an accident, whether it was out of impatience, we dont know. We dont know the extent of the damages, but certainly this could set off more trouble here if these facts turn out to be true. Were going to toss it back to you and head up to try to find out more information. Jon . All right looking forward to an updat
Generations of pain is manifesting itself in the world is watching. This hour we will get the latest on the case from Minnesota Attorney general, we will discuss how to heal the divide between the black community and Law Enforcement with the head of the minnesota chief of police. And why in the year 2020 is race still such a flashpoint. We are joined by professor cornell west in South Carolina senator tim scott. The question is what would happen if we have a pandemic, right on fox news sunday. Chris hello again from fox news in washington. A nation already on edge pushed to the brink. The coronavirus claiming more than 100,000 lives in 40 million jobs, now the video recorded death of an unarmed black and in Police Custody acting like a match on a tinderbox. Tens of thousands taking to the street overnight in more than 75 cities across the country. As some protests turn violent the National Guard was deployed and curfews were imposed in more than two dozen cities. The most at one time s
Bring us harm and to learn from this experience and become stronger. Well be back with you shortly. Thank you. Thank you, mayors. So there it is. Truly historic moment here in the United States. We heard some really powerful words from the governor of minnesota, the mayor of minneapolis, the mayor of st. Paul, the u. S. Military, the National Guard commanders. Full mobilization of the minnesota National Guard, 3,200 troops, not all of them will be mobilized right away. Some are still in training. In addition to that, we just heard they have asked the pentagon, asked the u. S. Military, for assistance from the outside. They have asked for assistance from National Guard personnel in neighboring states. The governor saying hes spoken with the secretary of defense, spoken with the chairman of the joint chiefs. They are claiming that these are outside agitators, what they call terrorists who have come into minneapolis and st. Paul to use the excuse of the murder of george floyd, the murder
Were told that the governor is going to be talking about that states response to those protests that weve been watching over the last few days. Meanwhile, this morning smoke still rising over minneapolis. The National Guard and police have beefed up their presence there, and it is clear that some of those protests over night in minneapolis took a violent turn. There was rioting, a Police Spokesman said that some demonstrators forcibly entered and ignited several fires at the third Police Precinct. Thats the base of the four officers who were fired after George Floyds death. Other parts of minneapolis also burned and the twin cities are dealing with looting, as well. The mayor of minneapolis jacob frey shared this message with the people of his city. There is a lot of pain and anger right now in our city. I understand that. Our entire city recognizes that. What we have seen over the past several hours and the past couple of nights in terms of looting is unacceptable. Our communities can