Saints in modern times. Welcome to the program. Thousands of pro hundred ga refugees escaping the violence in myanmar are adrift in the sea in what the u. N. Has called floating coffins. Myanmars government refuses to recognize the group or take responsibility for the growing humanitarian crisis. Tiethailand malaysia and indonesia have all turned the boats away win the last few hours the thai navy towed another boat away from their coast saying thats what the people on the boat wanted. Rob mcbride is in kuala lumpur. Brings us up to tate that the ty authorities said about the people wanting to move to malaysia. Reporter the authorities here in malaysia are remaining very tight lipped about this latest arrival. This is a highly sensitive issue here in the malaysian authorities are also very sensitive to the way that they have been handling this or perceived to be handling this developing situation, there is some speculation in the media here that this vessel might not by now even be in
Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow. Im glad youre with us this morning. The United States on the brink of 3 million coronavirus cases as the nation breaks a singleday record for new infections. Still the president is ramping up pressure for schools to reopen in the fall. Now threatening to cut off funding if they dont, getting students back into the classroom safely, that is a major issue for schools across the nation. Here are the facts this morning. Hospitals are strained in florida. At least 56 intensive care units are now at full capacity. There are fewer than 200 icu beds left in the entire state of arizona. Hospitalizations are also at an alltime high in california where nearly 6,000 coronavirus patients are currently. Next hour we expect the White House Coronavirus task force to brief the country on the troubling numbers. Lets begin in florida with our rosa flores who has more on what the hospitals are dealing with there. Good morning, rosa. Reporter poppy, good morning. Le
Have successfully reopened their schools. Denmark was the first country in europe to do so, reopening their primary schools on april 20th. In wuhan, schools started reopening at the end of april. In singapore, schools reopened at the end of june and even started some extracurricular activities. Of course this hasnt all gone smoothly everywhere. There have been plenty of places where the virus flaired up and they had to close again. But this proves it is possible. And we all desperately need american schools to reopen. Pediatricians, parents, educators, basically anyone who deals with kids, they all agree it should be a priority at every level of government and for all of American Society to get fulltime, in Person School open again in the fall. Right now that is looking unlikely because we have the worst Coronavirus Response in the world. That has not stopped the president. He is now trying to reopen schools the exact same way he tried to reopen the economy, despite the fact that his p
These countries who struggled with the coronavirus but this proves it is possible. And we all desperately need american schools to reopen. Pediatricians, parents, educators, basically anyone who deals with kids, they all agree it should be a priority at every level of government and for all of American Society to get fulltime, in Person School open again in the fall. Right now that is looking unlikely because we have the worst Coronavirus Response in the world. That has not stopped the president. He is now trying to reopen schools the exact same way he tried to reopen the economy, despite the fact that his push to reopen the economy created the disastrous and catastrophic conditions we are in now, which is what makes the School Problem so difficult to solve. Remember when everyone said when we were locked down we needed to use that time to suppress the virus and put infrastructure in place, testing and tracing, ppe and all that stuff to keep it from coming back. We did none of those th
Carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosis lectern. A retired pennsylvania firefighter accused of throwing a fire extinguisher that hit Police Officers. One man parading the Confederate Flag inside the halls of congress and the qanon person for his face paint and hornd hat sandra security ramping up in d. C. 20,000 National Guard troops deployed to the Nations Capital as washington goes on lockdown. Jennifer griffin is live on capitol hill for us. How seriously are they taking these threats ahead of Inauguration Day . Good morning. Good morning, sandra. They are taking them very seriously and the online chatter the f. B. I. Director referenced has been flying around the internet since before that angry mob stormed the capitol behind me on january 6. What has National Security officials and secret service and others very concerned here in the capital is that there have been open calls to bring weapons to washington, d. C. And to state capitals for an armed protest this sunday at noon. The fly