Welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im john king in washington. The coronavirus summer surge is accelerating and fresh evidence today that the white house is well aware of the scope of the problem yet seemingly will not take charge. A new daily case record yesterday. More than 77,000 new infections reported. The surge also causing a spike in hospitalizations in many states. Deaths heading up in many states, as well. Yet its been tn days since the president of the United States held an event specifically to address the pandemic. And that was to tell schools to reopen despite any local coronavirus numbers. You get the scope of the challenge. Even if the president doesnt. 60 of americans disapprove of how the president is handling the Coronavirus Crisis and greater numbers say they trust little or nothing of what the president says about this pandemic. Now weve watched for months as the president ignores oris puts the science, cannot ignore the numbers and the t
Its clear the president overhyped executive weekend steps he promised to help the unemployed and those facing evictions and for Many American families, a new report brings a complication. Nearly 100,000 American Children got sick with the virus just in the last 2 weeks of july and new reporting shows the president s vaccine timeline likely out of sync with reality. Experts say 2021 is more realistic but election day 200 is out of the question if safety guidelines are followed. The president s weekend assessment of the case numbers, quote, all coming down. Some numbers today are down but, no, sir, not all. New cases dipped over the weekend tan sevenday average at nearly 54,000, that is 13 lower than the previous week. New numbers out of florida show they added the fewest cases in a single day since june 23rd. 4,155 is todays number. Bu but the decline is relative to the pandemic highs and some states are trending up. The countrys still averaging over 30,000 more daily new cases than it
Whats the latest youre hearing . Reporter you mentioned the human remains. Thats being looked at by the medical examiners office. When we asked last night at a press conference, the police chief did confirm that tissue was found, believed to be human remains. He wouldnt tell us exactly where in the blast site those were found, whether it had anything to do with potentially someone inside the rv. He said theyre still looking into all of that. And to keep in mind that the debris was really scattered across a large distance, and so its still difficult as theyre parsing through a lot of that. And we also have heard now of, of course, about the three people who were hospitalized. Those are three civilians, luckily with nonlifethreatening injuries. The city also reallytalked abou efforts of the First Police Officers that came to the scene. The six officers came to the scene, they heard that ominous recorded message coming from the rv telling people they had 15 minutes before a bomb would go
Is trending down, there is some cautions. The mayor today announcing all parades, concerts, rallies and large gatherings planned for june june are now canceled. Looking across the landscape, zero states at this hour meet the president s criteria to reopen the country. Testing is a big piece of those white house reopen guidelines. Governors complain of a giant testing gap between capacity and capability. They say that means until it is closed, they are just not ready for a reopening. There are a few governors, though, easing restrictions, creating tension with local officials and Public Health experts. We also see this debate in protests, and the president s keep praising those pushing you see them right there to get their governors to open up. Yet the president s top expert says just this morning a rush to reopen would be a giant mistake. But unless we get the virus under control, the Real Recovery economically is not going to happen. So what you do if you jump the gun and go into a si