Good morning. Im jim sciutto. This morning tens of millions of americans waiting on Economic Relief during an ongoing pandemic. Sources tell cnn the white house and congress remain far apart on a new stimulus package. Millions of American Workers now without the 600 weekly socalled enhanced benefit after that expired on friday. The negotiations are expected to resume today on capitol hill. We should note speaker of the house nancy pelosi, she will join me on this broadcast in just a few minutes. And a new warning this morning as deaths rise in 30 u. S. States. White House Task Force coordinator dr. Deborah birx says the u. S. Has now reached, quote, a new phase in this pandemic saying the virus is now extraordinarily widespread with cases rising in both urban and an area thats been accepted so far, rural areas across country. Despite all this President Trump continues to spread disinformation about the pandemic, claiming that cases are going up only due to more testing. Its not true. T
Alleging here. Reporter yes. This is really a massive fraud case. The allegation essentially is that steve bannon and the three other defendants who were charged and indicted with him today marketed this scheme, this build the wall scream, collected donations from hundreds of thousands of donors under the false protense that this money is going to go to build a southern border wall. Instead what steve bannon and the other defendants allegedly did was pocket that money, use it to pay for lavish lifestyles, essentially really in some ways if you take out the big names, it is a standard, a big one, a big one very seaseasily provabl fraud. A standard and somewhat simplistic, is it not, elie honig, taking this money and say youre going to use it to build a wall, promise in the description of the website that youre not going to take a salary, that youre all volunteers. I imagine prosecutors would have a paper trail then of where the money actually went if they were able to indict. Exactly, j
Already made its mark as the most powerful hurricane to hit louisiana in more than a century. The state just reporting its first death now, a 14yearold girl, who was killed when a tree fell on her home. It is early. They are just getting out there to get to some of the more remote areas. The governor says the damage section tensive. You can see some of it here. Trees uprooted and homes destroyed. The Lieutenant Governor told me in the last hour that this will also impact the states response to the coronavirus pandemic. Remember, youve got both these things going on at the same time. President trump is heading to fema later today to be briefed on the Emergency Response to the storm. Cnns gary tuchman is in lake charles, louisiana which saw some of the worst of this. Gary, tell us what you saw particularly with storm surge and with wind . Those are the two big concerns as the storm came ashore. Well, thats right, jim. This is the river in the middle of the city. Yesterday we were doing a
Back around the block and were back to where we started in march. Come on, man good morning to you on this sunday. Nine days, yes, we are in Single Digits now from the election as coronavirus cases are climbing across the country. Theres been another flareup of the virus inside the white house inner circle. And theres a flareup across the country really yesterday which was the second highest day of coronavirus cases in the United States since the start of the pandemic. Nearly 84,000 new infections were reported. Thats just 39 cases shy of the alltime record reported only the day before. And now joining that total are two top aides to Vice President mike pence. The man who head the countrys Coronavirus Task force. Yeah, but with the campaign in the home stretch the Vice President is keeping his full schedule. He haves crisscrossing the country despite the outbreak among those closest to him. Cnns Sara Westwood joins us live from the white house. What are we learning about the latest out
Not seen for two months. President trump is ignoring those numbers and the science. He continues to insist we have turned a corner in the pandemic, but thats not what experts are seeing. 13 days left to vote, tens of millions of people not waiting. Look at these numbers. More than 33 million votes have already been cast, and frankly thats a low estimate that will go up by a lot in the next hour or so. That is 72 of all early votes cast in 2016. Its about a quarter of the total votes cast in 2016. It is staggering. So what are the candidates doing this morning . There is such a stark contrast coming into focus. Probably a deliberate contrast, at least from the Biden Campaign. The president s traveling all over the country on the attack against, well, everyone. Leslie staal, Anthony Fauci, kristen welker, the debate commission, hunter biden, Hillary Clinton, dish washers. The message, have attack, will travel. And the Biden Campaign seems to be saying, have at it. Their message is that j