Laez mayor made a similar announcement overnight. And the white house is considering making that recommendation in hot spots across the country. It is a dramatic shift in guidance, designed to stop the spread of the virus. And it comes as confirmed cases now top one million worldwide. Nearly a quarter of all of those infections are right here in the u. S. More than 5,000 have died across the country. And theres another stunning number, 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. Thats double the number of claims from the week before, and it is historic. Take a look at this chart that puts it in perspective. Earlier this year, weekly claims numbered in the thousandss. Tonight, they reach into the millions. In the outbreaks epicenter, new york and new jersey, some hospitals are now diverting patients as those i. C. U. S fill up. Our team is covering all of the headlines, and well get to that new guidance on the mask in just a moment, but Mark Strassmann leads us off
E white house isuse is considering making that recommendation in hot sp acro s a dratic shift in guidance, designed to stop the spread of the virus. And it comes as confirmed cases now top one million worldwide. Nearly a quarter of all of those infections are right here in the u. S. More than 5,000 have died across the country. And theres another stunning number tonight, more than 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. Thats double the number of claims from the week before, and it is historic. Take a look at this chart that puts it in perspective. Puts it in perspective. Earlier this year, weekly claims numbered in the thousands. Tonight, they reach into the millions. In the outbreaks epicenter, new york and new jersey, some hospitals are now diverting patients as those i. C. U. S fill pa. Our team is covering all of the headlines, and well get to that new guidance on the masks in just a moment, but Mark Strassmann leads us off tonight and, mark, we just hear
the job support job report out shattered expectations. employers added 329,000 jobs which is way more than the 190,000 that was expected. the jobs did tip up to more people entering the workforce looking for jobs. the federal reserve is looking to this report as to whether or not to raise more the interest rates. wow. this is more than was thought. you are looking at the big headlines of the big companies doing the layoffs, but small businesses can finally get their hands on workers and hire. and the hiring here is broad based and centered here. tech workers and hospitals and nursing homes and construction sites and everything but manufacturing, because there is a little bit of weakness in manufacturing, and it is showing strong hiring. it is showing the signs of resiliency in the signs of everyone taking the 39,000 jobs and new added, and christine, you pointed out new interesting numbers related to women. the workforce sales force of women 29-54, the biggest share of
him on his alleged handling of top secret classified documents. sources telling abc news federal prosecutors obtained an audio recording of trump acknowledging he kept a classified document about a possible u.s. attack on iran during the trump administration. all eyes meanwhile on the senate tonight, 24 hours after the house passed the deal made by the president and the speaker of the house to raise the debt ceiling, now the vote in the senate and the warning from senate leadership tonight. rachel scott on the hill. in the northeast tonight, the air quality alert 19 states, smoke from large canadian wildfires drifting over several major u.s. cities all the way to washington, d.c. first day of the atlantic hurricane season and we can be first to this first named system. rob marciano timing out. abc news exclusive come of the that horrified the country. after a member excellently started to get into his car veered tonight one of the cheerleader shot three times speaking to gm
hour. the system then heads to the east. rob marciano timing it out. tonight, the remarkable images from texas, the faa now investigating the explosion of the spacex starship. minutes after takeoff, the world s largest rocket blasting off from texas, no crew on board. but what went wrong with the test flight and what they were hoping this rocket would soon do. gio benitez tonight. police say this happened again, a shooting over someone s mistake. this time, a basketball rolling into a neighbor s yard. a girl and her parents shot and wounded, the urgent manhunt now underway tonight. what police are saying. news just in tonight on president biden and when he s expected to announce he s running again. what our team has learned. rachel scott live at the white house. an irs whistle-blower claiming the federal investigation into hunter biden is being mishandled. the white house responding tonight. pierre thomas on this. news coming in, an american citizen confirmed dead tonight and