Ainsley this as people are rallying against the stayathome orders. Protests breaking out in michigan, virginia, wyoming and North Carolina to name a few. Folks demanding to get back to work, steve. Steve thats right, ainsley. In the meantime, 2500 americans have died within a 24 hour period. The deadliest day of the pandemic yet in the United States. Now, deaths are topping 33,000 people. And that is a grim number. But, nonetheless, recoveries as well going up. Good morning, everybody, its friday, april 17th. I know sometimes its hard to tell what day of the week it is, tgif. It is friday. Good news on the economy. You know, yesterday the president talked a little bit about reopening things by may 1st. He also said it sounds like there are about 29 states could do it right now. The Dow Jones Futures are up about 700 because jill gilead. The companies that make drugs, one of the drugs is showing real promise with people in chicago hospitals. They did a trial there who had severe coronav
He could not have imagined a fire like this. Mysterious new cluster of pneumonia cases. They couldnt count the bodies. The moment when the worldwide catastrophe was born. Chaos in wuhan. What did the chinese hide . The government of wuhan was saying shut up. Be quiet about this. The virus was silently moving through the population. The men who hid the truth. They made it much worse for the Chinese People. They contributing to a pandemic that swept the globe. One man who told the truth. You know, this could be me. Whistles for a whistleblower. Grief from a devastated people. Outpouring of grief. Chinas furious battle to stop the killer covid. They used brutal measures. No question about it. The country and a leader desperate to hold on to newfound global stature. The greatest threat to their control since the square uprise. Words of praise turn to darker rhetoric. You should have china. China was very secretive. Very, very secretive. As the battle that began in china becomes a world war
That the last town along that western iraqi border with syria that was still in government hands, cnn is hearing reports that that has now fallen. Which would mean that effectively syria and iraq to a greater degree have become one battlefield, that the Iraqi Government is only in control as these reports put it of that northern border with kurdistan. Thank you so much for keeping us apprised of whats happened there. President obama has a message for iraq, you need a political solution to unify your country. He says no u. S. Military action can bridge the sectarian divisions that threaten iraqs future. Kate bolduan has a oneonone interview with the president. Good morning, kate. Reporter i started by asking the president about Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki who the president just a few months ago commended for ensuring an inclusive and democratic iraq. But maliki has done none of that. So how can anything get fixed there with him in power . We gave iraq the chance to have an inclusive d
A moment he says the fate of this country hangs in the bat lance. One last chance to keep this country together. The president made a plan tearing iraq apart at the core is political. Thats the longterm problem he believes and has to be the longterm solution but because the immediate problem is military, sunni forces rampaging and the iraqi army cuts and runs in the north, mr. Obama today offering military help and American Military personnel not to fight but advice the iraqi military. After laying out the plan, he got a reminder as if any commander in chief needs one of the consequences of any decision to send americans to danger zones or back into them. He presented the medal of honor, excuse me, to retired marine corps machine gunner william Kyle Carpenter who jumped between a taliban grenade and his buddies in afghanistan helmet province. Carpenter spent two and a half years in the hospital. Tonight, well look at what sending advisors and planning air strikes can do for the situati
For the First Time Since that horrible accident. Thank you. Thank you so much. How long will his recovery be . And drugged . Pills to go to sleep, pills to play, pills to play at half time, pills after the game. Former detroit lion jd hill on the dea investigation of the nfl. Did the nfl illegally give players pills to keep them on the field . After they put me out of the Good Old Boy Club and out of the locker room, on the streets, with my family, im still in family. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thanks so much for joining me. We begin this hour in the middle east where a cease fire plan couldnt even survive the night. Just six hours after israel accepted the deal, it abandoned the plan by launching these new air strikes on gaza. Hamas militants scoffed at the cease fire at the very beginning. I cannot contempt strongly enough the actions of hamas in so brazenly firing rockets in multiple numbers in the face of a good will effort to offer a cease