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With Alisyn Camerota and john berman. We want to welcome everyone, all of our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is tuesday, september 15th, 6 00 here in new york. And there is a crises unfolding in every corner of the United States this morning. Residents along the gulf coast, bracing for Hurricane Sally, which continues to churn and move very slowly towards landfall. The big concern with this hurricane is that it could dump torrential rain for days and bring a deadly storm surge from louisiana to the florida panhandle. Youre about to see new video from a u. S. Air force Hurricane Hunter giving us a view inside the storm. Then on the west coast, nearly a hundred wildfires are now burning out of control. 22 people are reported missing in oregon. Because of these fires, the west coast has now become it now has four of the worlds ten most polluted cities. Im with you. Listen to that, john. That is the headline that got my attention. Four of the wor
Million people, youre going to find many more cases. Many of these people arent very sick, but they still go down as a case. So actually the number of cases and were also a much bigger country than most. So when we have a lot of cases, i dont look at that as a bad thing. I look that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better. So if we were testing a Million People instead of 14 Million People, we would have far few cases, right . So i view it as a badge of honor. Really its a badge of honor. Its a great tribute to the testing and all of the work that a lot of professionals have done, okay . The president was also defending for a second day his decision to take the antimalaria, antilupus drug hydroxychloroquine despite warnings from his own government. The fda warned that hydroxychloroquine could cause serious side effects, especially with the heart. Yeah. Ive worked with doctors, and if you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, th