High against the yen. The same strength it had before the Global Economic crisis in 2008. Japanese authorities have confirmed saturdays volcanic eruption is one of the deadliest ever. They now say all 48 people found without vital signs have been confirmed dead. And they are still searching through ash and debris, looking for more victims. Smoke is still spewing from craters that formed on the southwest face of the summit. About 1,000 selfdefense force personnel, police officers, and firefighters, have been searching in difficult conditions. Officials say the death toll surpasses the eruption in nagasaki prefecture in 1991, where 43 people died. They now say mount ontakes eruption is the worst volcanic disaster in postwar japan. Police say the victims suffered severe injuries that led to their death. They say many climbers were hit on the head, neck and back by falling rocks. Searchers will return to the top of the mountain on thursday to look for any remaining victims. Demonstrators i
About snums, crowd sizes, ratings, the stock market, the most powerful, greatest, biggest numbers of all time. This is not what he had in mind. The u. S. Setting a new single day record with more than 50,000 new cases of covid19. Heres how President Trump sees things. I think were going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. Hes been saying that for months and hes wrong. Sources tell cnn theres a split in the white house over whether he should turn back to the pandemic thats killed 128,000 americans or continue to focus on reopening the economy as if the two are mutually exclusive, but the president s focus hasnt been on this pandemic. Monuments, black lives matter, joe biden, military base names, white power, tv ratings and more. The president has been beating the race donald trump all week complaining about names on buildings, fair housing rules. He called black lives matter a symbol of hate. A nonstop barrage r
Multiple times. Lets go to cnns boris sanchez, of course, one of the states being worst hit now. Boris, the Vice President will be meeting with the Florida Governor ron desantis today. Governor desantis was claiming victory like the president last month. Has he changed his tune at all as the numbers go up there . Not exactly, jim. Youre remember that about a month or so ago he was colliding the media for reporting about the rising number of coronavirus cases here and questions about reporting of those numbers from the state. And just the last month weve seen more than 100,000 new cases in the Sunshine State of the still, desantis says that he does not anticipate reimposing that statewide stayathome order that effectively shut down florida just a few months ago. He is leaving it up to local officials to impose mandates within their own municipalities and were seeing that, for example, here in sarasota they installed a face mask mandate countywide. Miamidade county has expanded their fac
We start here in the uk, where warnings are growing about the Economic Cost of tightening social restrictions around the country. From midnight tonight, london, essex, york and other areas are being placed under tier two or high alert for covid 19. That means a ban on households mixing indoors, including in pubs and restaurants. The changes come as the governments furlough scheme comes to an end to be replaced by a less generous job support scheme that will only help firms who are actually forced to close under the highest tier three restrictions. And that can only mean widespread job losses a quarter of a million in londons hospitality sector alone, according to its industry lobby group. It seems its a small change but it will be absolutely catastrophic particularly for hospitality in Central London, the city, the west end, those businesses have seen very low trade as people work from home, dropping domestic terrorism and also the result of curfew being kicked back to the curb and the
Cameron also made clear that britain will continue to support u. S. Military operations. A brother of the slain aid worker, michael haines, spoke on behalf of the family. My family and i agree with the government that we nee identify those fightin and on the return to the u. K. , face the consequences of their actions. The militant Group Released the footage online on saturday. The British Government says the video appears to be authentic. It shows a masked man beheading a man in an orange jumpsuit. The militant warns britain against cooperating with the u. S. Military. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry has stressed the need to degrade and defeat the islamic extremist group. He says some countries are ready to join the united states. There are some that are clearly prepared to take action in the air alongside the united states, and do air strikes, if thats what theyre called on to do. Kerry spoke on a cbs tv program that aired he also said some nations have offered to commit their tr