A new grim milestone on friday it was at the United States had crossed 500000 recorded cases of the coronavirus on saturday is that the u. S. Is now registered 20000 deaths more than any other country including italy and as you point out one 3rd of those cases was from new york state alone new York New Jersey and michigan being the hardest hit of all states so far and u. S. Health Officials Say they believe the infection are going to peak on Easter Sunday this coming sunday that was originally a date when President Trump is 81 of the u. S. To come out of this shelter in place orders and want to business to be back and moving again that is no longer happening that date seems to moved to may 1st and there are a lot of Public Health officials who are skeptical even about that date but there are places here in the United States where pastors are keeping churches open most states 43 states have locked down orders 7 of them do not but of the states that have lockdown orders Something Like 51
In other news. Thats the 50th anniversary of the apollo 13 mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. It is very much an unknown want to record but the United States now has more corona. Cases than any other country the tally supposing italy for the 1st time on saturday 20000 americans have died from it but the epicenter still in new york but really all 50 states are affected in fact theyre now in a state of emergency for the 1st time which will allow them to use federal funds during the pandemic elsewhere were looking at india where its 1300000000 citizens will continue to stay home till the end of april Prime Minister is expected to announce an extension to the lock down there and in europe the hardest hit countries are now easing some of their restrictions from mondays spain will allow nonessential employees to return to work it is reported a falling death rate there and even if these decided to let some stores open now but were going to start with the United Stat
Betsy ross bridge, kind of quiet this morning, virtually no overnight construction because of the holiday. Couple of fire locations, one here in abington, Huntingdon Pike, police and fire crews on the scene, with the fires comes the water. Then that gets iced over just like here in the neighborhood. The fire location, we will tell but in a moment at that church, corn well just off of f street. So watch for some local detours. Septa had some problems last night, signal problems, causing big delays on the Airport Media elwyn and wilmington line late last night. Were still wait fog find out if those signal delays will carry into the start of our morning rush hour, well have that update the next time around, thomas, back over to you. Bob, thank youment lets talk about the developing story. Still breaking right now, overnight fire at old Vacant Church. This is in kensington. Sending 19 Homeless People back into the bitter cold. That cold weather certainly made it hard for crews to get all o
Quite a few Unanswered Questions here. Were going to continue to follow the story for you. Download our news 5 app for the latest updates. Lets take a live look outside peer group Progressive Field is all lit up. We are getting ready for game one of the alcs. We want to see how the forecast is looking for it. Lookup pristine that shot is. You cannot tell it is downright cold out there. Take a look at the radar. A most everyone in this periwinkle color is under a frost advisory this morning. It is very cold were seeing frosting taking place on the windshields and on the plants. 36 degrees is the current temperature. Some spots got down to the Freezing Point this morning. 38 in cleveland. A little warmer along the lake shore. Lake county, not under that frost advisory. Tens of sunshine. Check this out. 7 00, 8 00, 9 00, still quiet for the game. No inclement weather but definitely hoodie weather. Good call. Thank you tomorrow. To merhroff. Were still clocking off a clocking in at a three
That person was taken to metro where they were pronounced dead. Police also not yet releasing the name of the victim. A lot of questions here. We will continue to follow this story for you. Live flint live in cleveland, sarah phinney, news 5. Lets take you live now to Progressive Field. You see it there looking great this morning. All lit up. You can hear the applause here in the studio. Were ready for game one of the alcs going down tonight. Tomorrow, the question is, is that forecast looking good . It is looking good. It will be drive for the game. The real question is how cold is it . Take a look right now. Any county covered in periwinkle is under a frost advisory. It is really chilly. 30 degrees right now. Were at the Freezing Point in Medina County county as well as for wayne county for a lot of neighborhoods. A little warmer. 41 degrees in lake county right now. As we go through the day, to the mid60s. Tons of sunshine. We have again going down this evening, but tonight, were lo