Christina coleman has been tracking it very literally since the first coronavirus cases we knew about in wuhan and now joins us from our west coast news room. Hi, leland. Health officials in oregon and Washington State are concerned about the possible Community Spread of the virus and the c. D. C. Warned here in the u. S. Clusters of the infections are likely in communities. There are four new presumptive positive cases since yesterday. Three unexplained. Health officials in washington believe one case was travel related, but the other may be that states first instance of Community Spread. A High School Student from everett, oregon may have the first spread case, too, and california may have a second instance, an older woman from Northern California with Chronic Health conditions. Now, globally, around 85,000 people have been diagnosed with this illness and theres been more than 2900 deaths, most of them in china. Major stock indexes around the globe posted another round of declines an
Leland nice to be with you as well. Im leland vittert. Theyre working to keep this contained at home, but a newly leaked dossier that might shed light into where and how this various first began. Mark meredith at the white house theyre keeping an eye on that, the president is at camp david. As you mentioned the president is at camp david. But the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus continues. One told john roberts, that most u. S. Intelligence agencies believe that the virus originated in a chinese lab and the release was an accident, not intentional. The president this week said he could not go into detail about the intelligence gathered so far. The president was asked before he left for camp david if china could face additional Economic Issues over this crisis . A lot of things are happening with respect to china. Were not happy, obviously, with what happened. This is a bad situation, all over the world, 182 countries. But well be having a lot to say about that. Its cer
Be indicted and we do know individuals that Robert Muellers team has been looking into, in the investigation into russia meddling. Theyve raided the home of paul manafort, a person of interest in a number of ongoing congressional investigations due to his previous work lobbying on behalf of pro russian groups in ukraine. Last night manaforts attorney told fox news neither he nor anyone on the legal team had been informed of indictment, which would have been if charged had been filed against manafort. Another target of muellers investigation has been President Trumps former National Security advisor Michael Flynn. In particular, investigators reportedly were trying to determine if flynn made a role in trying to get Hillary Clintons emails from Russian Hackers during the investigation. Flynns attorneys have not responded, but former Trump Campaign chairman Corey Lewandowski believes that no one such as flynn or manafort did anything wrong. This last nothing to do with the president. If t
The show. In the meantime a lot of news and some breaking in the past couple of minutes. Im leland vittert. And kristin fisher. Stay for the puppies but we will start with really just was going to be a huge week in washington. Because Christine Blasey ford s legal team has been working with Senate Republicans over the last week or so really, but really negotiations have very much intensified over the last 24 to 48 hours. Right now we are hearing that her legal team has reached a tentative agreement to testify on thursday. Garrett tenney has been following this all day. Were getting breaking news in the last few minutes. Reporter yes, her attorney had a fan call with the Senate Judiciary Committee Staff this morning. They agreed on thursday at 10 am. Notably, it will be an open hearing. We will get to see this as it plays out. There are still details are trying to work out. Who will ask the questions and who will testify first . The Senate Judiciary committee has offered to have a femal
Congress to fund his border wall and the plans to perhaps stifle hiS Immigration policy. Have you recovered from thanksgiving dinner yet . I have. Leland you have . And i spent part of thanksgiving watching you. Leland one would hope you had Something Better to do. Americas news headquarters, a busy saturday, im leland vittert. And im Kristin Fisher. Leland right now, there are clashes in the streets of paris, this now on saturday evening, 6 p. M. Over rising gas prices and its increasingly violent by the minute. Thousands have gathered and are airing their grievances with the french president and rising gas taxes hes implemented as a plan to reduce his countrys dependence on fossil fuels. And ryan from the european news room. Hi, ryan. Yeah, the police estimate that about 80,000 people took to the streets in not just paris, but in cities and towns right across france today. Theyre very easy to identify, to see, theyre all wearing yellow high visibility vests, the ones that youre requi