Safe and continue to play. This morning the commissioners response to one star player who says the league failed to put health and safety first. Fatal encounter. A woman killed in whats believed to be maines first deadly shark attack ever while in new york several beaches now shut down. The latest in a live report straight ahead breaking overnight violent new clashes between protesters and armed federal agents in portland, oregon large demonstrations in other cities across the country. On the ground on the ground. This morning, the growing chorus of mayors demanding Congress Step in those stories, plus a heros farewell that saved a wretch like me a powerful rendition of Amazing Grace moves people to tears at the u. S. Capitol where congressman john lewis lies in state. Today, tuesday, july 28th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza hey, everybody welcome to today. So happy youre joining us on a Tuesday
Times reports that fringe Breitbart News racked up a reported 14000000 views in 6 hours of a video featuring doctors telling us masks are unnecessary and hydroxy chloroquine is the cure social media full of experts who seem to have gotten their m. D. s a Trump University whom to believe dr Tanya Dempsey is the founder of the am center for personalized medicine dr welcome. Thank you thanks for having me. What is the number one myth or misconception about this novel coronavirus. Well that it is just like the flu its not just like that its its highly contagious more contagious than some other viruses that weve seen and its clearly deadly and it is being asked by many asymptomatic patients without symptoms. And you do need to wear it no question about it. To protect yourself and to promote others more importantly. Yeah we keep hearing its to protect others but i do feel safer with myself much of the noise in the news lately is about vaccine encouraging as these reports are its not soon tha
And robots in berlin its great to have you with us the true economic toll of the coronavirus outbreak is becoming ever clara a stream of g. D. P. Figures from across europe a show many economists that have been seeing years of growth are now deep into the red the euro zone as a whole is now officially in its deepest ever recession after 2 disastrous courses. Cash registers are humming again across europe iconic landmarks eerily quiet and spring are alive with people once more no one knows for sure how the pandemic will develop over the next few months but what is becoming clear is that the economic damage done in europe between april and june was of historic proportions that was the period when strict lockdowns brought large parts of the continents economy to a virtual standstill. The data for that period is now becoming available on the news its as bad as anything the e. U. Has ever seen it means the european economy has entered its deepest recession in postwar history spains economy
New jersey, connecticut. That really added to things. It is still going on. Governor andrew cuomo on the screen speaking live right now. At the beginning of this, they cade a joint announcement. People coming into the tristate area from certain highrisk states would be ordered to quarantine for 14 days, when investors heard that, the market went another leg lower. Well cover it from all angles, starting with Jackie Deangelis in the new york newsroom. Like i said, jackie, things were not going great to begin with andth just added to it, right . Reporter exactly right, connell. There are is a twopart story. There was fear in the market about being spike in coronavirus cases across the country in certain states. That added to tension for investors. Were seeing a spike going into the summer. That was not predicted. Theyre thinking about what could happen if there is a second wave. That is the push and pull weve been experiencing in the marketplace. New york, new jersey, connecticut governo
Were following all those headlines. And this. While democrats are moving forward without republicans to get americans covid relief aid, the white house is ramping up vaccine efforts. The new plan, send Vaccine Doses to community pharmacies. Its an allout push to get ahead of more fastmoving variants. But first, we begin on capitol hill. Lauren fox is tracking the republican rift between trump loyalists, longstanding conservatives. Lauren, where do we stand . You have two politicians fate at stake here. Marjorie taylor greene, but also liz cheneys leadership position. Thats exactly right, jim. Last night, we should note, Kevin Mccarthy, the minority leader in the House Of Representatives sat down for an hourslong meeting with Marjorie Taylor greene to talk about her future. We are told that the minority leader is still undecided about whether or not she will keep her post. But essentially we are learning from that meeting that Marjorie Taylor greene did not apologize for the past statem