America. Its not a number that should ever be celebrated, but this was the message from President Trump today on twitter. He wrote for all the political hacks if i didnt, we would have host 1. 5 to 2 million people. Its not the first time hes struck that tone about a death toll, which was unimaginable, just three months ago. We would have lost 2 million, more if we had done it a different way. But youre talking about 100,000 more . Who knows. People were thinking in terms of 1. 5 million lives lost to 2. 3 without the mitigation. And hopefully were going to come in below that 100,000 lives lost. The. 100,000 is not just a number, of course, they see are human beings. These are people, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. The president also suggesting that his actions prevented the worstcase scenario that some models had suggested. The reality is that the models have swung wildly, right . Projections of 60,000 up to 2. 2 million deaths. It comes as we see a kucountry with mixed re
Virus could actually be accelerating right now as americans gathered in large numbers this Holiday Weekend. Shocking scenes of very huge crowds and few people without masks are raising newfors of other spike in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks and months and a top official with the World Health Organization now says its dangerous to assume the next real danger point in the pandemic wont come until fall. It could come much more quickly. Lets begin the breaking News Coverage out in california right now. Our cnn National Correspondent kyung lah is joining us. Conk, the governor there just made an important announcement about houses of worship and retail stores. Let me start with retail, and this is developing here. The governor announcing that californians will once again be able to shop in stores. Now, there will be restricts so it wont snap back to the way it was before. There will be social distance, requirement of masks, restrictions for employees. But the other Big Development i
Deaths from the coronavirus in this country will surpass 100,000. One spouses loss, one friends absence, not ten times or a thousand times ten, it is one life lost and everything that means times 100,000. Yet even as we grapple with that and we show you the faces of those who died, we want to focus especially tonight on the notion of this moment as a turning point when things could go either way. Looking at the moving average of new cases nationwide over the last two weeks, you can see its barely changed. Holding steady at about 20,000. Yet while as that line stays flat, thankfully, states and localities across the country have been lifting outbreak related restrictions. And this Holiday Weekend we saw not every place, but in many places the almost total collapse of social distancing. Which is troubling to the experts, including the World Health Organization who see this moment as a potential turn for the worst, toward a second peak in a first wave that is still hitting. Not a second w
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to try to backpedal on the controversial comments he made in the runup to parliamentary elections last week. He apologized to arabs for a lekelection day warning that arabs were turning out in droves to vote. He was condemned as racist. He said i know what i said a few days ago damaged israels arabs. I had no intention of that. Mr. Netanyahu has also tried to clarify what exactly he meant when he said there would never be a palestinian state on his watch. Remarks which he now says were misunderstood. He says he still supports the idea but not under current conditions. But the white house is not letting up on the israeli Prime Minister. On monday, president obamas chief of staff, dennisis mcdonough addressed a group and reminded people that the current extraordinary committed an extraordinary a time and energy. Thats why the Prime Ministers comments on the leave of the election in which he first internated and then made very clear in smons to a foll
First. As it looks like potentially maybe one of those bomb disposal robots from Capitol Police or some other Law Enforcement jurisdiction sort of checking this thing out first and foremost. Tell me what you know. Hi brooke. I can tell you we were standing outside of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting. This is where the iraqi Prime Minister is meeting with senators. This is over half an hour ago. We saw commotion begin. Several Police Officers running through the hallways speaking into their radios. We asked what was going on. They said we were told a helicopter of indeterminate size had landed on the west part of the capitol. Of course, this is highly unusual. This is restricted air space. You need special permission to fly in this area. They did not know why this person had landed an aircraft on the west front. So that was the commotion. After a few minutes, the situation was under control. Police ran over to the man, brought him into custody. Hes now undergoing questioni