California mark the deadliest day since the coronavirus pandemic began. New numbers from the state department of Public Health show that 197 coronavirus related deaths on tuesday. Bringing the two week average to 109 deaths a day. The cases we saw a rise earlier in the month had a number of people who had severe disease that led to deaths. We had to take this seriously. Reporter the Positivity Rate stabilize from a major surge , the daily death toll has risen dramatically. They say the averages dont tell the story of hot spots including the Central Valley and other pocket is. Even if its not in other areas where its occurring. We all have to Pay Attention to get it under control. Reporter all nine counties in the bay area are on the state monitoring list. San mateo county was added on wednesday. Exceeding the metrics of less than 100 cases per 100,000 people. If it stays there for three consecutive days, indoor operations at several businesses including hair salons and gyms would be fo
Drastic measures to combat the coronavirus are forcing dramatic changes across the country. Well bring you the very latest this morning. Our guest the fema administrator now spear heading the nations response. And new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Plus, two former members of trumps Homeland Security team, tom bossert and Kevin Mcaleenan and dr. Jennifer ashton what you need about the pandemic. And Chris Christie and rahm emanuel are handling a nation in crisis. From abc news, its this week, here now coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning and thanks for joining us this sunday. As we come on the air this morning, alarming and sobering numbers from across the globe. There are now more than 300,000 confirmed cases worldwide and more than 13,000 deaths from coronavirus. And in the u. S. , there are now over 26,000 cases and at least 340 have died. New york, the city that never sleeps has gone quiet. Now the epicenter of this crisis with more than 12,000 confirmed cases, one of least five stat
Next Immigration Services director testifies on supporting critically ill children and their families. At a House Oversight subcommittee hearing he talked about his decision to stop processing deferred action earlier this year. Good morning everyone, thank you for letting us today. The subcommittee will come to order without objection this years authorized clearly says the committee anytime, 33 with examine the administrations decision to support children with critical illnesses and decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will tell you the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to the port critically ill children and their families. It appears that this family is policy has been reversed after congress in American People rose up in an outcry in this policy. Treat this hearing as an honor but as
Without objection this years authorized clearly says the committee anytime, 33 with examine the administrations decision to support children with critical illnesses and decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will tell you the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to the port critically ill children and their families. It appears that this family is policy has been reversed after congress in American People rose up in an outcry in this policy. Treat this hearing as an honor but as a hearing in direct pursuit of the policy objective that was close to his heart that threatened deportation of six children with such an outrage that is very last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to work out. On wednesday in the waning hours of his life through all of hi
Were going to convene a committee on Homeland Security. Were going to ask the members of the press to please part the center aisle so members can have access to the witnesses. The committees meeting today to receive testimony on global terrorism threats to the homeland part two. Good morning, the committee, as i indicated, is meeting to hear from four expert witnesses on where we are as of this date with threats to the homeland. This committee was created in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. Since the establishment of the department of Homeland Security, the committee has focused on insuring the department is fulfilling its mission to secure the homeland. I take this responsibility seriously, as has every chairman of this committee. This is why its been the committees practice to hold a hearing to assess Global Threats to the homeland and evaluate the federal governments efforts to confront them. Congress and the American People deserve to hear about the t