Someone the just line they are infected. Reporter the molecules put the coronavirus and a straitjacket. It attaches to the virus blocking it from infecting or multiplying so that it cannot attach to healthy cells and loses its ability to infect them. It only interacts with the protein. And that allows it to be made far cheaper and on a scale that is much larger. Be turned over for initial testing if we can have Clinical Trials in the next few months. Reporter this is one of the most potent weapons ever discovered with the potential to treat other maladies. Weve had three other coronavirus viruses without cures as well as other lung attacking pathogens. We think this could be applied to other respiratory viruses as well. Reporter this will require three phases of human trial. And even if it was sped up it would not be done in two 2021. This is a major breakthrough with a worldwide implications. Tom baker , ktvu fox 2 news. Kaiser permanente is plenty to join a phase three Clinical Trial
Date for an exhibition fight against him around champions which its true. Now Chinas Foreign Ministry has ordered the closure of the u. S. Consulate in the southwest and city of chengdu it marks a further escalation in tensions between the 2 while the powers the announcement came just 2 days after washington ordered the shutdown of beijings consulate in Houston Texas the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or had described that concert as as a hub of spying and intellectual property theft while we can now speak truck correspondent katrina you she joins us live from katrina a tit for tat trade off a tit for tat diplomatic war it really seems quite the die lemma for beijing having to respond while risking even more global isolation at this stage. Thats right but the way beijing saw it it had to respond to what its called an unjustified act from the u. S. Theyve made no qualms about this this is in direct response to the u. S. Decision to close the chinese consulate in Houston Texas on j
Not want to see this Current Situation but it puts the responsibility at the foot of washington saying its also up to washington to now act to either withdraw its move to close the chinese consulate in texas old to create conditions from which this bilateral relationship can improve now we will waiting to hear which consulate would close there are 5 consulates located in Mainland China and we also have the embassy of course in beijing there was some chance that it could have been the 2 which is quite a small quantity but chung do it is a much more significant consulate located in the southwest of china it was founded in 1985 a just a few stops about 6 american officials at the time and 29 local stuff now there about 200 staff working at the consulate in chengdu including about 50 u. S. Officials there and they work in variety of areas commercial economic and its also considered quite an important listening post for the u. S. When it comes to issues around that and whats happening in sh
Postpones general elections for a 2nd time this year. A staggering impact of craven 1000 on the United States shows no sign of easing the number of infections across the country has now crossed 4000000 more than 144000 people have died President Trump has now called off the Republican Convention in florida because of coronavirus fears or castro before the worlds richest nation has now surpassed its 4000000 known case of coping 19 and its feared the number will only soar whats important about that is the steamroller that it is. The acceleration that this have. The rate of new cases is trending upward in 39 states with a Record Number of deaths reported in florida thats where President Trump had planned to speak before a massive crowd at the Republican National convention in august an important moment for his Reelection Campaign but now those events are canceled i care deeply about the people of florida and everywhere else frankly in this country and even in the world who would be coming
Some places are reporting record single day increases lets kick things off with meg terre terrell. Were seeing a couple days worth of data with record cases. If you look at the United States in total, now the sevenday average of new cases is starting to tick higher again meaning trends to the south and west of increasing cases are starting to overcome the positive trends coming down in the northeast as of yesterday, 27,000 new cases were reported across the United States United States. If you look at individual case, weve been getting the new case counts for today for states like arizona now up to an additional 3200 cases today california reporting 4300 additional cases today but that could be due to Testing Backlog from l. A. County we saw in the numbers yesterday. Florida also reporting record high cases today 3800 South Carolina another one of those states reporting record highs. Now in terms of the hot spots in the country, the areas with the fastest case doubling times, it is clos