Until today when the president said he didnt know how popular the task force was and said hes decided hes going to keep it around. The virus continues to churn across our country in tandem with the trend of reopening businesses and entire states. Despite the Johns Hopkins expert who just today testified that none of the states reopening have met all of the white house guidelines for reopening. And despite opinion polls showing a majority of americans are not at all ready or willing to go back to life and events as normal as we knew them. Indeed, in the real world tonight the death toll across our country stands at 73,863 souls lost to this virus. There are now among the small percentage tested more than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number of new cases is rising in nearly half of our country. Those are the states in orange on this map. The green states are where the number of cases are falling. Some 36 states have now reopened in some form or fashion. Former director of the cdc was
Bringing half of them back, coming back this week, the other half next week, were not opening up until next week, at the end of next week. So the end of that next week marker, brian, the stands will be socially distancing. Theyll be closed off some of the seats where family can seat together. In places like indiana, its tire company that runs off the speedway the car company that runs off the tire company, those dominos start falling, you get an idea of the businesses that are affected. Absolutely. Auto racing is really trying to be the sport to come back. Their athletes the drivers, by nature, work alone. The pit crews can try to remain distanced as well as they can. That leaves security, concessions, but as you point out there, theres such a cascading economy at a local venue like that, these small tracks as they gear head, i can the tell you, friday nights, saturday nights across this country, this is what you look forward to, you cant imagine doing anything else on a summer weekend
It is at 101 feet. So there is a mandatory evacuation. Officials waiting for first light here in houston and that has just happened. In the past few moments, it has gotten light enough for people to try to make their way out of those communities. Chris, the danger is not over here. The water in downtown houston has receded. I am next to the Buffalo Bayou. It has gone down but it is still incredibly dangerous at these dams. Their floodgates need to be open and the reservoir may spill over. Well a lot of the places flooded, the water is not expected to crest until tomorrow or the next day, according to the fema head and the story as right behind you. A bayou is supposed to be a slow moving artery of water. Look how fast that current is. It shows how overcapacity they are. We also hear theres a mix the blessing starting today. The fisz responders are going to start going door to door. Why is it nixed . Because hopefully find people alive and who knows what else theyre going to find. Anoth
American tragedy, that is the focus of tonights angle. When donald trump announced his candidacy, the media reacted with horror to this statement. When mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. They are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems with us. They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. And some, i assume, are good people. Laura while many, some, at least, quibble with the formulation, they knew what he basically meant. Maybe he should have singled out mexico, people from a lot of places are doing us harm. Ill tell you tonight there is continuous and sad evidence to substantiate crimes of the underlying crimes. Every day there are fresh tragedies to report on. American citizens brutalized, abused, murdered by illegal aliens, yet most of these stories are buried at the back of the local metro sections in your local paper, and most of them are never heard National News broadcasts. The media are too bu
Of georgia about her countrys renewed tensions with russia and its long time if its to join the european. Hello im christine want to welcome to the program. The 1st major stroll off the u. S. Atlantic Hurricane Season has made landfall along the gulf coast Tropical Storm barry is a slow moving system with the potential to deliver record rainfall and flooding across the region officials they hope the improved the levees will hold up against rising water levels its americas 1st major storm of the season. Despite full costs new orleans has so far been spared the worst of it but Tropical Storm barry now no longer hurricane strength only recently made landfall. I ask everyone to stay vigilant and be safe. This is always been projected to be a rain. The storm isnt as fast as it might have been and a slow storm means more flooding. So louisianians are bracing for rising rivers and storm surges after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in which 1800 people died artificial defenses were upgraded but not