Good morning, everyone. And welcome to your new day. Im amara walker in for christi paul. And im boris sanchez. Right now, President Biden is meeting with World Leaders at the g7 in england, as biden sells his america is back message to allies. Its his meeting with the World Leaders that is not in attendance that is looming large over the summit. As vaccinations among children rise, there are new questions over just how soon kids should be vaccinated. And a new study showing a possible link between vaccines and heart issues in children. Plus, forced into hiding. How georgias Secretary Of State, a Repeat Target of President Trumps election lies, felt the need to go into hiding after facing Death Threats and breakins. And a major heat wave is building across parts of the country with more than 20 million under heat alerts, where temperatures will soar well into triple digits. Good morning. And welcome to your new day. It is saturday, june 12th. We are glad that you are with us, amara, sa
Statements about his condition. Abc News Reporter reena roy has this developing story. Reporter in a surprise move tonight, the president leaving Walter Reed Medical Center in the midst of battling covid19 to wave hello to supporters. Posting this video on twitter moments before. I also think were going to pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots that we have out on the street. Reporter a Senior Administration official tells abc news he then went back to the military hospital. Seven months into the pandemic, President Trump saying hes now learned a lot about the virus. And i get it, and i understand it, and its a very interesting thing. And im going to be letting you know about it. Reporter tonight abc news is learning from multiple sources familiar with the matter that President Trump had already tested positive with a rapid test before phoning in to Sean Hannitys show on fox news thursday evening. At that time only revealing that top aide hope hicks had contracted the viru
Burning around the bay and as they continue to rage that major that declaration will help us right now the latest from cal fire puts the lnu complex fire. At 17 containment. That is the fire thats burning in the north bay. The scu lightning complex fire which is in the east bay has burned 10 contained right now and the czu lightning complex fire. Thats the one along the peninsula. Its just 8 contain still that is a jump from yesterday morning by about 3 so little by little they are working on it as fast as they can to knock down these fires before there is a threat. More dry lightning. Lets talk about the csu lightning complex fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties in total. This fire has burned 71,000 acres, 60,000 people plus have had to flee their homes and as you can see many structures have gone up in flames 2 people suffered minor injury. There are now 1300 fire personnel there battling that fire right now. Lets take a look at the map and that shows you Scotts Valley and santa
Exactly where the fires are burning so theres the lnu lightning complex fires, burning in the north bay and now 21 contained. And then we have the scu lightning complex fires in the east bay only 10 contained this morning and then the czu august lightning complex fire along the southern peninsula at 8 contained more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires all across california and were learning that the body of a 70 yearold man was found sunday afternoon in santa cruz county. Well the l a new lightning complex fire has been the deadliest and most destructive check out this video at least 4 people have died and others have been injured 871 structures have been destroyed and another 234 structures have been damaged flames have just scorched more than 347,000 acres containment this morning, its only 21 . The fire continues to burn just west of the hillsborough area and also threatened several more homes kron fours taylor psaki has a look at the damage. Right no
The front lines in the overnight hours thankfully they get to rest a little bit as theyre throwing as much as they possibly can at this fire 1500 firefighters with more firefighters on the way from out of state. This fire they are making progress we did learn from a News Conference earlier this morning that containment numbers now sitting at 13 containment and that is up from 8 in the overnight hours, however the acreage did go up from 74. To 78,000 and the number of homes or structures destroyed sitting at 231. Destroyed or damaged were talking about that going up and up especially since the fires are happening in a remote rugged area thats. Hard to get to for the firefighters, but we do know that the one fatality that one man who did die that he was trying to leave the area because he was not found inside his home instead he was found near his car. So that leads investigators to believe that he was trying to flee the area that was simply overcome by the flames or the smoke as far as