Llg ndrainti, President Trumps leadership during the pandemic that has killed nearly 180,000 americans as the president gets set to close out the Republican National convention tonight. Overnight authorities reveal the identity of the officer who shot jacob blake in the back and a new report there may have been a knife in blakes car. Also Police Arrested a 17yearold accused of the Fatal Shooting of those protesters. Sports on strike. The nba playoffs shut down by players, demanding justice over the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Lebron and the lakers reportedly voting to end the season. Protests in the wnba, soccer and mat me t wide world ofports . President Trumps Administration accused of pressuring the cdc to stop testing asy. Dr. Anthony fauci not signing off on these new guidelines. What the white house is saying this morning and why men might be more susceptible to the virus than women. Dr. Jha joins us live. Plus, baby daisy is here. Cover me in daisies, daisies, daisies report
Can help you make the most of today. Mutual of america financial group, Retirement Services and investments. Additional suppo been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewersike you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york,re hariivasan. Sreenivasan good eveni j and thanks fning us. The new coronavirus has now spread to 107 countries and there are close to 108,000 cases worldwide according to the johns hoins university coronavir resource center. Italy is one of the hotspots, where more than 360 people have died frothe virus, and the government issued a quarantine, restricting trel for more than 16 Million People in the northern part of the country. It affects cities like milan, venice and more than a dozen provinces until april 3. In the u. S. , the grand princess cruise ship is etoected to dock rrow at the port of oakland. 21 people ha
Begins. Reporter we get word the on g off to a slower, lowkey start than originally thought but could still roll out over the next couple days. We went door to door. Reporter this group of marin county volunteers came together after a call for help went out over social media. The volunteers say fear was running through the largely immigrant canal neighborhood of san rafael. This after a rumor spread that i. C. E. Agents had been spotted in the neighborhood saturday night. The volunteers wanted to help ease those fears. Im indianmuslim. I need to show up for latinos. They need to show up for the muslims. Everybody needs to show up for each other. Reporter they fanned out over the neighbhoou know your r answered questions and stood ready to document any arrests. We had to do something. If it means i got to stand out here a few hours in the hot sun and hand out flyers, well, im going to do that. Reporter at st. Johns Evangelist Episcopal Church in the mission district, they were ready to
Immigrant advocate groups that tried to mobilize response including keeping tabs on movements by i. C. E. Agents, and so far they havent seen any activity. This sunday there wasnt much activity in the immigration congratulation and enforcement office. A spokesperson declined any comments on their operations which target people who have been ordered to be deported by a judge. Were monitoring them. Reporter Luis Angel Reyes zabala tells me i. C. E. Usually likes to operate in secret. Donald trump announcing sweeps probably didnt help much. I thought if theyre going the strike, theyre going to strike on a day not announced by the president. Reporter he says no one has called their Rapid Response hotlines reporting agents active in Northern California so far, was anxiety about these raids is palpable. The Mission District has been unusually quiet for a sunny sunday. St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church is a designated safe haven for immigrants, but no immigrants showed up. Church goers
Good monday morning, im philip mena. Im frances rivera. President trump igniting a firestorm with a tweet and he suggested they go back and help fix the totally broken and crimeinfested places from which they came. While he didnt mention anyone by name he appeared to be referencing four freshmen democrats, none of whom are white, and all but one from the United States. Craig boswell has more from d. C. Democrats denounced the comments as racist. Reporter good morning, everyone racist is the key word and the four progressive congresswomen have fired back at the president as reaction from the president s tweets continue to add up this morning. Targeting a group of democratic congresswomen. The president saying they should back to the crimeinfe places y came from. All four are u. S. Citizens all but one born in the u. S. A sad state of affairs when the president of the United States is going to use race in a way that the divides the country and then be ignorant about who all these people