Result of arson fires. And coronavirus takes out the countrys Oldest Department store chain. Liquidation sale signs could be seen on lord taylor locations yesterday. The nearly 200yearold Company Announcing its declared bankruptcy. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 3rd. Thank you for joining us. Hope you had a good weekend. Lots of news to get to. Were beginning this half hour with the possible hurricane heading for landfall in North Carolina. Residents and President Trump has already approved a disaster declaration for parts of the state. Isaias is a Strong Tropical Storm and heading northnorthwest. Before its done it will bring as much as six inches of rain to North Carolina. Reporter josh chapin is there. Reporter beachgoers raving about the weekends weather even as a storm threatens this beach town again. For Tropical Storms, we have to look at the totality of impacts. Reporter New Hanover County Emergency Management is not yet calling for evacuations. For ea
Just ahead, the president of the American Medical Association. The impact the coronavirus is having on tourism and the convention business. Our phones a lot our phone lines are open. [indiscernible] , 202 7488001, and if youre a medical professional, 202 7488002. We begin with the numbers courtesy of johns Johns Hopkins university. 1. 6 million confirmed cases and around the world, more than 100,000 deaths, of those, more than 18,000 in the u. S. Our countries dealing with 490,000 cases of covid19 across all 50 states, washington dc and the territories. Six members of congress have been battling covid19, including senator rand paul, representative joe cunningham, representative neal dunn and congressman mike kelly of pennsylvania and ben mcadams of utah. Fromsixth member joins us his home in miami, representative Mario Diazbalart from florida. How are you feeling tonight . . Epresentative diazbalart i am welcome i feel recovered, i am still weak but other than that i feel pretty well.
Legislature to covid19. The newly elected representative he parish. M lafouc he spent his life making his community and south louisiana a better place. Just about three months ago, he was sworn in to his first term and i know he came to the state capital with excitement and eagerness to serve our state and the people love House District and the people of House District the entire state is 54. Mourning this great loss and i ask everyone to keep his family in your prayers right now. All the families who have suffered because they have lost someone or because someone remains gravely ill because of this disease. Before i get to the latest numbers, i want to take a moment to brief you on another situation that people need to be aware of this weekend. Saturday and sunday, we are looking at a chance of strong to severe thunderstorms beginning in northwest louisiana from late saturday for the first half of sunday. There will also be a isolated flood threat, widespread flash flooding is not exp
Having on tourism and the convention business. Our phones a lot our phone lines are open. [indiscernible] , 202 7488001, and if youre a medical professional, 202 7488002. We begin with the numbers courtesy of johns Johns Hopkins university. 1. 6 million confirmed cases and around the world, more than 100,000 deaths, of those, more than 18,000 in the u. S. Our countries dealing with 490,000 cases of covid19 across all 50 states, washington dc and the territories. Six members of congress have been battling covid19, including senator rand paul, representative joe cunningham, representative neal dunn and congressman mike kelly of pennsylvania and ben mcadams of utah. Fromsixth member joins us his home in miami, representative Mario Diazbalart from florida. How are you feeling tonight . . Epresentative diazbalart i am welcome i feel recovered, i am still weak but other than that i feel pretty well. Aeve this unfolded about month ago. Explain what happened, and when you knew you had coronavi
Every 24 hours, it doesnt mean that the number of people that i just reported as having died died in the last 24 hours. There is some lag in reporting and sometimes people die and test is pending and its not until the test comes in positive that that death is then reported to us as a covid19 death. Sometimes i think people are tested completely after they have died. And so we are going to try to start reporting at least personally the number of people who actually expire over the previous 24 hours so that we can take a look at that. The reason thats important is, as i mentioned last week several times, the real numbers that were paying most attention to about covid in louisiana arent so much the testing numbers, but the number of hospital admissions and deaths. Because we know there are a lot of asymptomatic people out there. We dont know what that percentage is that have covid19. But theyre not going to be tested. But we know from data gathered here in the United States and in other c