By doctors from the White House Task force issued a new projection of the potential death toll from the virus. The institute for Health Metrics and evaluation estimated that by early august, nearly 132,000 americans will be dead from the virus. While the death count is still climbing, the number of new cases nationally is now continuing along a slow and steady decline. Testing has also increased. And the rate of tests coming back positive has also declined. All 50 states have now begun some form of phased reopening of their economies. Some moving faster than others, all with some restrictions still in place. As these reopenings proceed and the warm weather months arrive, Health Experts are warning of a potential new spike in cases. A new study from china today also suggests the number of asymptomatic cases could be much larger than previously thought. But also that those individuals may not spread the virus for as long as symptomatic patients do. This report was based on 78 people, all
Push to ban it. Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, there are exactly three weeks to go until election day. And with donald trump continuing today to sew seeds of doubt about the integrity of the voting system, president obama jumped into the middle of things, advising trump to stop whining. Trumps conspiracy theories and mantra about a rigged election have come to define much of the home stretch of the campaign, along Hillary Clintons daily email embarrassments. If theres a shakeup in the state of this bitter race coming, it could come tomorrow night when the two meet in las vegas for their final debate. Thats where Hallie Jackson leads us off tonight. Hallie . Reporter hi, lester. Donald trumps aides say he spent part of his morning preparing for the final faceoff. As we learned late tonight, hes expected to bring president obamas half brother as one of his guests here to vegas tomorrow, a signal everything is now on the table. Dona
Unredacted Mueller Report and all the underlying documents and information that is part of that. Add to that, subpoenas for documents for five former white house officials relevant to the mueller investigation. The committees chairman nadler was talking just moments ago. Lets play it. The Mueller Report probably isnt the total exoneration the president claims it to be. Any event the committee has a job to do. I want to go right now to nbcknbc kasie hunt. We expect this vote to go down in the next few minutes, we think, the republicans are working to slow up this process. There have been a couple delay tactics used by republicans that seem to be related to the spat from yesterday in the committee. Kind of politics as usual back and forth between the two sides. This has at times gotten a little bit fiery. Essentially republicans trying to make this all about jerry nadler. Theyre bringing up how he voted on releasing the star report during the clinton years. Hes insisting hes been consist
The justice department. And democrats arent the only one upset in the wake of the Mueller Report. The white houses lawyer writing a scathing letter to the attorney general accusing mueller of exceeding his authority. Alexa is listening. Experts believe amazon collects more of your private data than any company on the planet. What you buy, what you watch, what you eat, where you live, even what you say in your own home. Do you buy the companys argument that its all about improving the publics experience. Breaking news, employers adding 260,000 jobs dropping the Unemployment Rate to the lowest in almost 50 years. Those numbers presenting a 2020 challenge for the democrats as Mick Mulvaney reminded everybody this week, once again its the economy stupid. Ben white economic correspondence, well get to the numbers of this, but put it in context for us. The economy is in good shape. 263 is a good number, better than was expected 190,000 but remember the Unemployment Rate going down to 3. 6 ,