Like washington, d. C. And chicago. Sandra where were police when all this was happening . Police say they were here but simply put, there were too many people in too many crimes happening at once for them to get things under control in reasonable time. Not until early this morning things started to calm down. A few hours ago there were people still breaking into this old navy right downtown in chicago in the loop. You can see these windows that were busted earlier just this past hour the front door, one of the front doors was busted open and clothes coming out of the store. Witnesses say that they saw essentially a coordinated effort. Caravans of cars bringing folks to the downtown area. Dropping them off. Folks run inside, smash and grab. Come back out with whatever they could carry in their arms, shopping bags, get bag in cars and move to the next location. You can hear how overwhelmed police were on the scanner traffic from last night. We got a call from the f. B. I. Breaking out w
Social media, the president promoted a message that you dont need to wear masks. To his 84 million followers on social media, he promoted a message bashing dr. Anthony fauci. To everyone in the world with a television, the president told governors to open up states, despite the fact that deaths are rising in 27 states, topping 1,000 nationwide yesterday. Nearly 150,000 americans have lost their lives so far. Dr. Anthony fauci issued this warning. Unless we get our arms around this and get it suppressed, we are going to have further suffering and further death. Republicans in congress, meanwhile, pushing their latest economic plan, which would cut the weekly 600 unemployment plus benefit down to 200 a week. Republicans admit, they are still weeks away from a final plan. The pandemic affecting every sector of life, including our leisure activities. The nfl preseason called off. Major League Baseball canceling games after a new virus outbreak. And President Trump, meanwhile, making up a s
Will be speaking at the Republican National convention. The lineup includes most of the first family and some folks who made news in our culture wars. This america has changed a lot in four years. Were dealing with an economic crisis, a push for Racial Justice and a pandemic that has killed enough americans to fill Yankee Stadium three times. Were reaching the peak of a hurricane season. Tonight it is historically busy. Weve never seen two Tropical Storm systems come this close to kwermging. But hurricane marco and Tropical Storm laura are being monitored. Laura could hit the state as soon as 12 hours later possibly as a category 2 hurricane. In california more than a million acres have burned in wildfires there. 26 do federal First Responders are helping battle the blazes. President trump has approved major disaster declarations for the hurricanes and the fires. We have a lot of natural threats to deal with right now but lets begin with covid19 and the treatment for it that is about t
Worked for Paul Manafort in russia when manafort was servicing russian oligarchs close to the kremlin, this very odd duck whos turned up in all sorts of weird fringey ways in the trump universe for years, Michael Caputo, the man who the Trump Administration put in charge of the cdc, the Trump Administration installed him as the top spokesman at the health and Human Services department. He then took it upon himself to try to block the cdc from publishing its scientific reports on covid he and some guy who he appointed to be his scientific adviser, even though he was just a spokesman, came in and said that they were overruling the entire cdc. They actually successfully got cdc to change wording in some of their scientific reports they forced delays of other cdc studies about coronavirus, which Michael Caputo decided he didnt like and so they got held back for weeks. You may have seen today that Michael Caputo, today, is out. He announced that he is taking a leave of absence after the pub
Servicing russian oligarchs close to the kremlin, this very odd duck whos turned up in all sorts of weird fringy ways in the trump universe for years, Michael Caputo, the man who the Trump Administration put in charge of the cdc, the Trump Administration installed him as the top spokesman at the health and Human Services department. He then took it upon himself to try to block the cdc from publishing its scientific reports on covid he and some guy who he appointed to be his scientific adviser, even though he was just a spokesman, came in and said that they were overruling the entire cdc. They actually successfully got cdc to change wording in some of their scientific reports they forced delays of other cdc studies about coronavirus, which Michael Caputo decided he didnt like and so they got held back for weeks. You may have seen today that Michael Caputo, today, is out. He announced that he is taking a leave of absence after the publication last night by yahoo news of a Facebook Live v