Canaveral. But Mother Nature may get the last word today. The head of u. S. Senate says congress will probably need to pass another coronavirus stimulus bill. Weve got a preview. Early today starts right now good morning ill phillip mena. Im frances rivera. We begin with breaking news from minnesota where hundreds of protesters poured into the streets. There is outrage in minneapolis this morning over the death of a black man who was pinned to the ground by a Police Officer the protests turned chaotic with Police Officers in riot gear using tear gas and rubber bullets against a crowd. Protesters vandalized a squad car. Its in response to the detainment of george floyd the images are disturbing. Nbcs Dan Scheneman has this reports this report protests in minneapolis began with outrage and turned violent protesters also gathered in chicago. We stand in solidarity with all those people this is not going to keep happening. The anger sparked by the death of george floyd who died while in th
Americans have died of the coronavirus in 12 weeks time. Amid the loss, the president remains focused on moving the country further along on what he likes to call reopening and today predicted we would soon see breakthroughs in treatment. I think were going to have therapeutic remedies, and i think were going to have vaccines very shortly. Ive been saying it, very shortly. I think ill be proven correct. Were safely reopening our country while aggressively protecting the vulnerable. Meantime, the Presumptive Democratic nominee joe biden did weigh in on the pandemics death toll this afternoon with his own assessment of trumps response. 100,000 deaths. 100,000 deaths and at least 35,000, 50,000 were avoidable but for lack of attention and ego. Columbias study is showing we could have if you just started a week earlier, it would have saved thousands of lives. I mean these are this is a tragedy. Former Vice President interviewed by dana bash on cnn. Earlier today trump did seek to defend hi