Coronavirus. You could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. But youre right, i mean, obviously, if we had right from the very beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. And as we know, that pushback came from the very top. President trump at first ignoring all the signals and growing evidence that the deadly virus was spreading across the nation. The Washington Post reporting that he asked dr. Fauci last month, why cant we just let coronavirus wash over the country. Fauci told him that would result in a lot of americans dying. Does that sound like something weve heard before . The president saying this about a lot of people who were telling him to ride out the virus. But think of what would have happened if
Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. We begin tonight with a dramatic rescue operation near the top of mt. Hood in oregon. A climber fell several hundred feet in treachuous conditions today at the most visited peak in the u. S. Fellow climbers were seen performing c. P. R. Another waved to a rescue chopper. Shortly after, a rescuer was lowered to the surface and the injured climber was airlifted to the hospital, but a number of hikers remain stuck on the mountain with more rough weather expected overnight. Amy frazier of kointv, our cbs portland affiliate, is at mt. Hood. Reporter weve just learned that one of the climbers has died, despite the extensive efforts you just saw, to revive him. Seven climbers remain trapped here on mt. Hood, about 40 rescuers are trying to get to them, and its a race against time. Scaling the hogsback trail, the first climber was close to the 11,000foot summit of oregons toughest and highest peak when he plunged nearly 700 feet down the icy
Britain holds a Memorial Service of some poles configured well for the victims of one of the countrys worst peacetime tragedies at least seventy people were killed in the tower fire in Central London six months ago. Vladimir putin mocks allegations that moscow meddled in the us election and you will not have the News Conference russias president also claimed to be puzzled by whats going on in the united states. Im still gale welcome to the Program European Union Leaders meeting for a summit in brussels could be heading for a showdown over the issue of migration in the run up to the meeting you Council President donald tusk called for the quota system whereby refugees are supposed to be distributed across the block to be scrapped. Described it as divisive and ineffective germanys chancellor Angela Merkel has said the e. U. Countries could not show selective solidarity another difficult topic on the agenda the two day summit will be present. D. W. Correspondent matus is at that summit at
The United Way of Kennebec Valley is hosting a series of community conversations around the region to establish its 10-year community goals for the nonprofit agency that supports social service agencies in the area.