Recovered the bodies of six hostages In Gaza over the weekend. Whilst we have the first poll numbers following the Democratic National Convention what they say and where the candidates will be in the days ahead. And Pope Francis is getting ready to leave for asia. Details of his itinerary during the longest trip with his pants live from atlanta. This is cnn newsroom with Rosemarie Church thanks for joining. Us. A nationwide strike is now underway in israel as pressure mounts on the government to secure a Ceasefire And Hostage deal, Air Travelers were among the first to feel the impact as Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv halted departures and arrivals of flights two hours ago the strike comes as Anger And Anguish build over the deaths of six hostages In Gaza. On sunday, this was the message from israels largest Labor Union i call on the people of israel to take to The Streets this evening tomorrow, leave the workplaces. I call on all economic organizations in the state of israel, everyo
Why she says a woman will face more scrutiny just days before biden is set to announce his pick. Plus, high speed crash. The pileup during an International Bike race with sticker shock, whats behind the rising prices at the supermarket and how much more you can expect to pay. Mac and cheese for breakfast . How your childhood favorite is breaking into the most important meal of the day. Good thursday morning, everyone. We begin with the growing crisis along the southern border. Were going to show you how covid19 is taking a toll in texas, but first the national numbers. Were seeing more than 1,000 deaths per day, but the increase in deaths over the last week has slowed down to 3. 6 . Facebook has now removed President Trumps post from wednesday in which he claimed children are, quote, almost immune from the virus. Children are not immune and overnight we learned one county in south texas has reported the number of babies testing positive has nearly doubled in the last two weeks. Abcs an
This morning, japan has marked 75 years since the unleashing of the worlds first atomic bomb on hiroshima. 140,000 people were killed, nearly half the citys population. A scaledback, social distancing event was held with survivors and relatives marking the 8 15 a. M. Blast anniversary with a moment of silence. This morning, were opening up the abc news vault to august 1995, the 50th anniversary, with abcs carole simpson. 4,000 americans were there the day the bomb fell. Only 1,000 of them came home. Abcs deborah amos looks at how two of them are faring today. Reporter every other year, for nearly 20 years, kay yoshioka and jack diruike spend a day in a San Francisco clinic where a team of visiting japanese specialists check for cancer, blood diseases, and anything else that might be traced to what happened 50 years ago. Kay was 8 years old then, americanborn, but living in japan because her family had moved back to care for her grandmother. That summer, with american planes firebombing
republicans about what should be in any compromise. the devil is always in the details and the two sides are still pretty far apart on some of those details. we have fox team coverage tonight. chad pergram is on capitol hill to tell us what is going on behind the scenes but we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn with the biden administration perspective. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. the white house called a lid before 5:00 p.m. with no deal and earlier today the press shop held its last scheduled briefing before tuesday, meaning, as things stand, the american people are set to spend four of the remaining seven days before the economy could go off a cliff without getting questions answered. and some are coming from within the president s party. and they are making progress. i want to be clear that the negotiations we re having with speaker mccarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about defa
Duped often into voting for donald trump. Guest there is that view out there, but as i talk about in the smear i think if you actually want the rally of Hillary Clinton and donald trump and i tried to what watch him as everyone and if you talk to people outside the big city, which i did a lot of, that led me to predict that donald trump would be president when so many others did not see that i think you get a different picture than this stereotype about host pie the smear into election 2016. Were their campaigns going on sub rosare . Guest totally i think 2016 was the epitome of all the culmination of factors whether its social media, these smear groups, smear industry in washington dc, all of the tactics they use and everything came out a plate in 2016 and more money was spent, i mean, a bunch more actually by Hillary Clinton and her supporters man on donald trump, far more and yet i guess the lesson is even though in my view as i say in the book t the liberal side of e Hillary Clinto