Reaching questions. There is energy and enthusiasm for this president. Something we havent seen before through this boat parade. [cheers] steve good morning, everybody. This is your 6 00 a. M. Eastern time wakeup call. September 8th. Tuesday that will feel like a monday. Yesterday was labor day. Unofficial end of summer and today is the unofficial start of the Campaign Seasonal. And look who is back after a week away. Ainsley hey, everyone, its sod so good to be back. I enjoyed a little bit of time off im grateful for this job and grateful to be waking you up this morning. Thanks so much for getting up with us. Steve missed yfrmt a. Ainsley thanks. Brian back together for the sprint to the finish. We know there is going to be just over 20 days to the first debate. We know we have 56 days until election day, which would bleed over because of this mailin voting. But it seems. Like a normal Campaign Season as donald trump will be going to florida and North Carolina. Joe biden is going to
Working . And will you start working from home again . Get in touch. The leader of Britains Opposition Labour Party urges voters who abandoned his party to take another look at labour as he delivers his Virtual Conference speech. We hear you. Never again will labour ta ke we hear you. Never again will labour take you all the things you care about for granted. More than 150 countries sign up to an agreement to distribute future covid 19 vaccines fairly china and the us decline tojoin. A fierce debate erupts over Donald Trumps choice for the us Supreme Court. The president says he wants to see his selection in place before the election. And coming up this hour. More signs of Global Warming this years Arctic Sea Ice melts to the second smallest area since records began. Hello. All pubs, bars, restaurants in england must close at 10pm from thursday to help stop the spread of coronavirus. It comes as the uks covid 19 alert level moved to four, meaning transmission is high or rising exponent
President elect Kamala Harris will Campaign Later today. Good afternoon, peter. Reporter there are several dozen cars lining up ahead of a visit by Kamala Harris, the Vice President elect is heading to georgia on behalf of both the democrats, Raphael Warnock and jon ossoff, and those are both candidates whose closing arguments have been heavily critical of Kelly Loeffler who they accuse of selling stocks based on inside information. She got busy making sure that she protected her own wealth. Shes the wealthiest member of congress. She dumped 3 million worth of stock, meanwhile, telling you there was nothing to worry about. Reporter we had a sound bite there, sorry about that, im not sure what happened. Basically, Raphael Warnock and jon ossoff are accusing Kelly Loeffler of getting information in congress about covid19 and then selling stocks, that is something that she denies, something that the Senate Ethics Committee Looked at as well, and she was cleared of any charges of wrongdoin
Somebody in florida. We have to listen to the epidemiologists, the scientists, to the doctors, dr. Fauchi and the cdc and others to make sure were doing the most effective things we can possibly do to stop the spread of this pap democratic. Do you think it would help the public not because of a partisan difference between yourself and him do you think it would help if he would just stop talking and let dr. Fauchi be the only one who talks. Thank you for asking me that. I am so over the partisan difference. Literally from the floor of the house yesterday. It was an extraordinary moment. Little more of a year, its been a heck of a year but it was not a partisan day. While there were some small bickering and silly obstructionist by a Single Member of the republican party, you saw a house yooint united in a historic bill that sends 2. 2 trillion act. Its called the care act. It is a well dressed bill that actually sends important resources to our hospitals, to our state and local governmen
Kushner who reported in vanity fair, viewed it nothing more than a pr problem. Trump wrote it off as a democratic hoax and he kept up with the happy talk despite receiving dire warnings from inside the administration about the looming pandemic. The waushington post is reportig that the u. S. Intelligence agencies began issuing warnings as far back as january. And so here we are. The hour by hour updates coming out of local and state governments are heart wrenching. There are now more than 19,000 cases of covid19, the illness caused by coronavirus in the United States. New york is reporting the largest number of cases with more than 8,000 people infected. 247 people throughout the country have died. In the last 24 hours the governors of new york and illinois followed in the footsteps of california issuing stay at home orders. And while hospitals are becoming overwhelmed with patients and running low on vital supplies, some workers are now resorting to making their own protection gear wi