What did he say . Reporter yeah, he did. So there is some 66,000 confirmed cases here in new york state alone. But as you point out, brooke, the governor said the rate of infection is actually slowing. Here is more of that. There is also no doubt that the rate has slowed. We had a doubling of cases every two days, then a doubling every three days and doubling every four days and then every five. We now have a doubling of cases every six days. So while the overall number is going up, the rate of doubling is actually down. Reporter so that is a little bit of a silver lining. But the governor also stressing, brooke, we have been behind this virus from day one and now is not the time to become complacent. Because of the numbers here in new york, the governor pleaded with other states, send doctors, send Additional Health care workers here and then vowed when it is worse for them to then repay those states in the future, didnt he . Reporter yeah, he did. And we remember in the last couple o
While nearly every state is ordering residents to stay home, the president said he doesnt want to issue a National Shelter in place order, the president said hes leaving it to the governors. Americans are looking for hope this morning, hoping that today will not be like yesterday and the day before, another record setting day for covid19 deaths. The u. S. Reported 1,169 deaths yesterday. And so far america has lost 7,100 people to the virus. Cnn National Correspondent Kristen Holmes is at the white house for us. Do we have any indication what were going to hear from the president today . Reporter we dont as of right now. It was a question of whether or not we were going to hear about the masks yesterday or today. And, of course, we know we heard about this yesterday. And i want to dive into that, because this was just the latest. The remarks from the cdc and President Trump in this push pull between Health Officials and the white house over what americans should be doing to protect the
Is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. It was a terrible thing to watch, but the fact that a womans abduction on the streets of philadelphia was captured on camera was a big reason why tonight she has been found and reunited with her family. And that is just the start of the science that went into this investigation. Using video and satellites and police work across five states, and tonight her attacker is in custody and being described as a violent predator. Nbcs rehema ellis starts us off from philadelphia tonight. Reporter it was a dramatic end to a threeday, fivestate manhunt for the suspect who kidnapped 22yearold Carlesha Gaither in philadelphia. I want to dance. I want to scream. Reporter a mothers relief after her daughter was found alive in a car in a mall parking lot in gessup, maryland. And the suspect, 37yearold delvin barnes, arrested. Hes a vicious predator. Hes off the streets and hopefully in jail for the rest of his life. Reporter Authorities Say the in
Kuwait and bahrain. A commander from irans revolutionary guard said on state television that the boats entered territorial waters after a failure in their Navigation Systems. Iranian military forces seized both vessels and detained the sailors. Nine men, and one woman. For more on this right now lets bring in nbc news correspondent ali arouzi live in tehran. Ali, whats the latest . Good morning, mika. Thats right the Iranian Revolutionary guard issued a statement saying that theyve released the ten sailors and their two vessels. They said initially they had stopped them because they found they had been suspicious. But after conducting a thorough investigation they concluded that their Navigation System had failed and they accidentally trayed into iranian waters. They werent suspected of any espionage or anything untoward. They said that the boats had been escorted out of iranian territorial waters, into international waters. Now we had been expecting them to be released early tehran ti
President trump has ordered flags at the white house and other federal buildings to be flown at halfstaff. Nbcs joe friar is in Thousand Oaks. We heard from the sheriff in the last hour. He briefed reporters. What did we find out from him . Reporter one of the most important things the sheriff did was release the name of the gunman. The sheriff says he is 28yearold ian long. He actually lives in new bury park. His house is seven, eight miles west of here. The sheriff says he is a marine veteran, that in recent years the Sheriffs Department had had some small minor interactions with him, the most recent was actually earlier this april when authorities were called to his house. He was irate. He was disturbed. A Crisis Intervention Team was called in, but determined not much more needed to be done, and things were sort of let go there. That was according to police and Law Enforcement their last interaction with him. We do know more about his gun. The weapon was a glock 21, 45 caliber with