Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington. This is a special edition of the situation room. A potentially devastating onetwo punch for millions of people in the covidhotspot state of florida. Greatly complicating the Public Health emergency. Floridas emergency resources already stretched. Now forced to handle a major storm during the pandemic, theres more breaking news were following, the coronavirus spreads again on capitol hill. Another u. S. Congressman tests positive for covid19. Thats after he sat near a fellow lawmaker who also has the virus and makes it known that he refuses to wear a mask. Tomorrows doubleheader between the cardinals and the brewers will not be played. Thats after more st. Louis players tested positive for the virus. The same two teams scheduled for today was called off. If covid infections continue to pop up, he may actually shut down the whole season all together. Now its a major emergency thats unfol
How we consume it, even how we shop for it. And families face tougher times now more than ever as they struggle to get necessary loans to stay afloat. We love to mythologize about family farms but we dont Pay Attention to their needs. I home we Pay Attention long after covid19 is over. Americans love stories that may know us feel good about ourselves. One of the big ones is that america loves its family farmers. Do we . Heres the current secretary of agriculture and millionaire farmer. In america, the big get bigger and the small go out. What i heard today from the secretary of agriculture was that there is no place. Yep, get big or get out. If youre a farmer who is not white, the message has just been, get out. God bless america. This is oklahoma. This is a farm in oklahoma. That is an american flag. And those are pigs. There are 78,000 farms here which means lots of barns, cows, hay bales and oh, a spider. 91 of these farms are independent operations are largely run by families. Typi
Rain bands and squall lines moving through. This is the theme from palm beach right here. It lashed as a category one hurricane. As mentioned, its expected to get stronger in the coming hours. For that, lets turn to cnn meteorologist tyler molden. Hello, tyler, what are you seeing . Its slowing its forward movement. The 2 00 a. M. Update just came in from the National Hurricane center. It is now moving at a snails pace. 8 Miles Per Hour to the north and west. You see the thunderstorm activity really firing up close to the center is pushing some thunderstorms and showers towards the south florida coastline as it takes that track. Still, packing wind speeds of 70 Miles Per Hour, gusts up to 85. And here is the track. You can see that it continues to hug the east Central Florida coastline. Sebastian to titus, could possibly have this come a little too close for comfort. It could actually brush up against your coastline or come to shore. So be ready for that. And by the time it gets to you