The pandemic began and from some flash flooding in the midwest to tornadoes in the south and a Tropical Storm off the u. S. East coast, a very busy weather day ahead to kick off your week. Early today starts right now good monday morning. Im phillip mena. And im cori coffin as lockdowns are lifted in nearly the entire country, more americans emerge from their homes, we enter a new phase in the pandemic here are the latest numbers. Nearly 1. 5 million americans are now infected with covid19 now according to Johns Hopkins university, over 272,000 have recovered, but more than 90,000 people have died in a push for more covid19 testing, Governor Andrew Cuomo was tested during a Live Press Briefing new york has doubled testing capacity, reaching 40,000 new yorkers per day. Well, thousands of people packed the jersey shore this weekend. Some new yorkers may not be so lucky. Mayor bill de blasio announced beaches in city will be closed for the weekend. State beaches and lakes will open may 22
Threatening to halt much needed checks to millions of americans. Desperate times. Some hospitals now forcing two patients to share a single ventilator this morning a look inside one of new yorks busiest hospitals where doctors are doing anything they can to fight the virus. Those cases plus danger zone, deaths in louisiana. The dramatic spike blamed on new orleanss most iconic celebration. People werent only catching beads here, they were catching the coronavirus. Just ahead, desperate plea for help from louisianas governor and the nfl star stepping up in a big way. Drew brees joins us live january 27th, 2020 from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. It is friday morning thank you for being with us. Im home again hoda, its been a lot week a lot of developments and that continues. A busy morning. Major developments on the coronavirus. The 85,000 cases in the u. S. , now t
Proimmigrant but even immigrants say respect the law. The white house is mexico has lost to stop the flow. Tonight we talked to the border guys with shares and agents fighting the fight. Calling the democrats even obama era already born a mexico southern border is now our southern border. A big shocker from the drug first my demonstration, the dea had investigated the president of honduras and associates for smuggling cocaine into the u. S. In muddy laundry. According to these documents just rebuild tonight. Tonight we bring on an arizona sheriff to break it down. To the rising number of houses democrats for an impeachment inquiry, you can expect impeachment inquiry without the actual impeachment as a key to the ally reportedly called impeachment a tool of air. Taken on the investigators bill bar hopping this bombshell. He says he now doubts Intelligence Account he says what investigators did with in the medical to the democrat system instead of the institution. The battle for 2020, 15
Did nothing. The news just weeks after a former gymnastics doctor was arrested for abusing members in his care. And Chris Cornell who committed suicide last year opened up. Vicki cornell has opened up about her husband, saying she doesnt believe he meant to kill himself. My husband was the furthest thing from a rock star junkie. He just wasnt. He was the best husband, the greatest father. I lost my soul mate and love of my life. And you believe it was the addiction that led him to do what he did that night in taking his life . I dont think he could make any decisions because of the level of impairment. I know people say, cant blame yourself and im trying not to. But there were signs. People think that addiction people dont recognize it as a disease and it was i feel guilty. You think addiction is a choice. And its not. And you can see robins full interview on Good Morning America later today. When we come back the star who has quite an opinion on curling and what curling has to say abo
Hail, but damaging winds. They could take downpour lines and tree branches. Thats the 60 mile an hour wind gusts with this and they are moving off to the east at 30 miles an hour. Also producing some very heavy rain. So the Severe Thunderstorm Warning into southern bucks county until 5 30 this evening. Now this is going to probably extend the storm into the search area that they are looking. The breaking news that were covering about the missing young men. So were going to be watching this closely as it approaches that area. Thats not the only one we have. We have another Severe Thunderstorm Warning up here in burkes county. This is moving through reading at 5 33 this evening. And its moving kind of east southeast as well. You can see this is the warning. Its just tucked into that corner, into that western corner and that expires at 5 15 as these storms progressed east. We may see these warnings extepid into other portions of the area. The storms have popped up very quickly. You can se