And chicago are now ghost towns. Number of confirmed cases has topped 19,000 across the country with at least 260 deaths. President trump offering words of encouragement during todays task force briefing. I want to thank all of the incredible people of our country, the citizens of our country, that what youve done and the way youre responding is just has just been very special, something that we will never forget, that the history books will never forget. Arthel we have Fox Team Coverage, alex hogan, Mark Meredith is standing by. We begin with Steve Harrigan reporting live outside cdc headquarters in atlanta. Steve. Reporter arthel, as the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Approaches 20,000, that means in the past week that amount of cases has risen by 1,000 and new jersey has joined with new york, california and illinois, becoming states which are asking all nonessential workers to stay at home. This means by monday, one out of four americans who are in the workforce will be aske
Allegiance to and in parentheses the word omitted. Some are asking this morning why are the American People being denied the facts . Later in this hour we asked former fbi does assistant director and he will join us live on the justice departments decision to edit that transcript. And its a major news morning, another fox news alert on a major shakeup in the Trump Campaign. Im eric shawn in today for john scott. Melissa and im Melissa Francis in for jenna lee. Donald trump hiring his Campaign Manager. This comes after a rough couple of weeks for the Trump Campaign and as a possible revolt on the Convention Floor may have gotten a boost this weekend when House Speaker paul ryan said he is not going to tell delegates what to do, adding their fellowrepublicans on the hill could feel theory to withhold support for the presumptive gop nominee and for more on this, john roberts is outside trump tower and a lot going on upstairs behind the glass windows this morning. Reporter eric, melissa, g
Heres a couple of new things. He says there is a vehicle outside that has some bombs, just to let you know. You people are going to get it and im going to ignite it if they try to do anything stupid. Now, the police say they immediately checked out that van and didnt find any explosives. Later in the call he said that he had a vest and described it, quote, as the kind they use this france. So this explains why the police thought that there might be explosives inside. While this is going on about 4 21, the police say they pulled an air conditioner unit out of the wall in a dressing room. That got some more victims out. They say some of the victims came out from the pulse nightclub and told the police that mateen said he was going to put four vests with bombs on victims within 15 minutes. A couple of other new details that come from this information here, thomas, the fbi says based on their analysis of the Orlando Police Radio Communications, there were no reports of shots fired inside t
The last one lasted about 50 seconds. We can show a little bit of what he said. Emergency 911. This is being recorded. The operator says. And he responds in the name of god, the merciful, the fischel beneficial, in arabic he speaks. The operator doesnt understand. He says peace be on the prophet of god. Ill let you know im in orlando and i did the shootings. Whats your name the operator says . My name is i pledge allegiance to and this is where he first mentions isis and he says they ask him again what his name is he says i pledge allegiance to this is the leader of Isis Al Baghdadi who he praises and says hes pledging allegiance to. Where are you at . He says in orlando. Where in orlando . And he hangs up again. There are a couple other phone calls that follow this one with hostage negotiators in which he praises the boston bomb percent. He mentioned hes wearing a suicide vest like the ones that were used in france. He specifically says that. And he rails against u. S. Policy in syria