Plus, breaking news, america under attack. Russian hackers target email used by the state department, a brazen almost cheeky assault. And this morning u. S. Apparently with a Treasure Trove of unexamined evidence over origins of the mystery over the coronavirus. A very good morning to viewers here in the United States and around the world. It is friday, may 28th, and the Senate Burning the midnight oil and then some overnight, setting up a showdown this morning on the bill that would form a commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection. So heres what is delaying the senate. They went until almost 3 00 this morning to debate a bill that counters chinas influence after republicans derailed it. Senators looking to skedaddle this holiday weekend, they can take it up with wisconsin Senator Johnson whos staaling the bill. Debate will pick up where it left off, meaning a vote on the Insurrection Commission not expected until later today, and even when it happens, republicans almost c
Superspreader event. Debate canceled. Next weeks meeting between President Trump and joe biden off the table. A town hall replacement on abc. Plus, the cochair of the commission on president ial debates joins us live on what happens next. A new surge . Coronavirus cases climbing in the u. S. The spike were seeing in hospitalized americans as the cdc expands its covid risk warning. What it means for millions of americans. And the heat is on. With the season on the line the. Good morning, and lets get right to the breaking news. Hurricane delta slamming ashore in louisiana overnight as a category 2 storm, but weakening as it moves over land. Delta lashing the gulf coast with 100mileperhour winds. The dangerous storm surge, over nine feet in some places. And this is the record tenth named storm to hit the u. S. This Hurricane Season. We have Team Coverage on the ground in hardhit louisiana, where more than 500,000 people are now waking up without power. Rob is in lake charles with more on
San jose and 75 in oakland and 68 for San Francisco. So right around where we should be for this time of year. With offshore winds kicking foweekend, and to early next week, we have critical fire weather conditions. A red flag warning is now in effect as we look to saturday 9 00 p. M. Until monday at 8 00 a. M. For the north bay mountains and east bay hills and valleys due to gusts up to 35 to 50 Miles Per Hour. And low relative humidity values. You will be watching this very closely for you as we head into the weekend. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic on this friday morning. Hey, good morning. Taking a look at the roadways, its still pretty slow into the Altamont Pass, we starun right at grant line. All lanes are now open. But a bit of backup continues out of tracy. Heading into the area. Plus theres a wind advisory in effect. So extra careful as you are traveling through there. The drive times though looking at lot better. 39 minutes now to go from 205 over to 680.
A day after the 1st case of corona. Jordans king warns of massive conflict with israel if it goes ahead with plans to annex more palestinian territories in the west bank. We begin in brazil where theres a political backlash to president jaya both scenarios handling of the coronavirus pandemic crisis the Health Minister has handed in his resignation at the less than a month in the job now and follows his predecessor who had publicly criticized bolton there was decision to allow the reopening of gyms and beauty parlors brazil is a center of latin americas corona Virus Outbreak with close 215000 deaths it registered a record 15305 new cases on friday the highest in a day that took the total number of infections to over 218000 but the president is pushing state governors to ease lock downs and reopen. Anomie john homan has more now from mexico city. Where is a public why he had to step down but its believed that he was against the president s wishes for widespread use of clora cain thats l
With israel if it an excess more Palestinian Land in the occupied west bank. We begin in brazil where a 2nd Health Minister has left the job in less than a month nelson teach quits after criticizing president jaya balsam our us and length of the pandemic brazil has more than 200000 cases and its not the only country in latin america thats suffering infections are rising faster than ever in mexico the lockdown that is being eased i was on the m. P. s who was. Nelson teach stepped down as brazils minister of health after just weeks in the job as president became increasingly at odds on how to deal with the coronavirus spend there make. Repeated lee criticized his minister s. Too timid in his efforts to reopen the economy the last straw came after the president issued at the creed declaring gyms in beauty parlors essential businesses without consulting him but in his Farewell Press Conference to refrain from criticizing the president life is made of choices and today i chose to leave i te