Police tactics against protesters in oakland. Breaking news, a free fall on wall street right now. Take a look. The dow way down about 1700 points at this point. Good afternoon, im michelle griego. Im len kiese. And investors jitter ri in the face of rising coronavirus numbers in countries. Numbers falling. More than 1. 5 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. Layoffs are high, but the downward trend in claims continues. This follows last weeks surprising report that shows businesses added more than 2 million jobs in may and the Unemployment Rate developed. The good news is that as these weekly claims start to drift lower and as theres more evidence that employers are bringing new people back on their payrolls, the situation is not nearly as dire as ten weeks ago. The Federal Reserve predicts unemployment will continue to fall, but finish the year above 9 , much higher than the 3. 5 before the pandemic started. And this afternoon, the Oakland Police department is
All right. The break news over just the last several minutes. New israeli air strikes in Northern Gaza, and you can see the smoke rising over that part of the region, and now if you are looking at gaza, this is where the air strikes have been taking place, but here, down to The Rafah Crossing in the extreme southern border of gaza and egypt, our cameraman has been seeing the critical aid crossing from egypt into gaza. Six u. N. Fuel trucks entering at that border, and that is a major development. Southern gaza is also where israel has told more than 1 million palestinians to move from Northern Gaza into Southern Gaza, and this is where israel says they will be safer, kate. It is happening as the u. S. Secretary of state tony blinken is back in israel today. He has been in the region traveling all throughout the region for days now, and we are standing by to see if blinken is going to speak to reporters now, and the critical update given the news that we are giving, and this and the sob
Good evening. Thanks for watching North Carolina news at 11. Were following breaking news in raleigh. Youre looking live right now at i40 and lake wheeler road where there has been a wreck. Traffic is backed up. Headed westbound for miles. Crash happened just before 10 00 and 295. If youre headed in that direction, you might want to find an alternate route. The right two lanes are closed at this hour. Traffic is expected to be backed up for at least another hour or so. Right now, all eyes are b on hurricane matthew. As it moves through the caribbean. Right now cuba and haiti right in the path. Storm team, bill ray ising the latest hurricane plane said they havent changed any winds. They have noticed the pressures dropped ant eye is concentrated a little bit. Theyre thinking the winds is beginning to stay sustained. You can see the eye there. Just been wobbling around. Kind of drifting to the northwest and north. A lot of thunderstorm cluster around it. And some blowing up to the northe
The first reported case in this outbreak spreading from person to person by sexual transmission, not mosquitoes right here in the u. S. Our dr. Richard besser at the center of the outbreak answering any questions this morning. Super bowl showdown. Amy schumer, seth rogen join forces in a new ad for the big game. Today we celebrate our Independence Day. Are you just quoting Independence Day . Yeah. Really inspired. A dream team of laughs and you can see it right here only on gma. We do say good morning, america. On this wednesday morning and many cant wait to see those super bowl ads and the super bowl itself. The game. Its going to be a great show and theres also big news about lady gaga. She is going to be performing the National Anthem. Yes, at the super bowl, only four days to go until the super bowl. That is right so youve got them on lady gaga and beyonce and coldplay and in New Hampshire, take a look at this donald trump with a commanding lead in New Hampshire. But remember the p
Center of the outbreak answering any questions this morning. Super bowl showdown. Amy schumer, seth rogen join forces in a new ad for the big game. Today we celebrate our Independence Day. Are you just quoting Independence Day . Yeah. Really inspired. A dream team of laughs and you can see it right here only on gma. We do say good morning, america. On this wednesday morning and many cant wait to see those super bowl ads and the super bowl itself. The game. Its going to be a great show and theres also big news about lady gaga. She is going to be performing the National Anthem. Yes, at the super bowl, only four days to go until the super bowl. Six days until New Hampshire. That is right so youve got them on lady gaga and beyonce and coldplay and in New Hampshire, take a look at this donald trump with a commanding lead in New Hampshire. But remember the polls missed the mark in iowa and that one was taken before the votes. The big question this morning, will trump drop in New Hampshire af