United states and all around the world. This is new day. Its wednesday, march 18th. It is 6 00 here in new york, and the time for half measures is over. History will not forgive us for waiting an hour more. Those are the words from the mayor of san jose. Our dr. Sanjay gupta tried to send the same message, that america is still, as he says, woefully underprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. New this morning, confirmed cases in all 50 states and washington, d. C. There are more than 6,000 known cases in the u. S. Thats a 37 increase from yesterday. But without a doubt, there are more, way more. Were just scratching the surface with testing. As of this morning, 112 americans have died. The Financial Impact is staggering, breaking overnight, the white house issued a 45. 8 billion request for emergency coronavirus funding. Thats on top of a 1 trillion stimulus proposal that includes giving Many Americans a check for 1,000, maybe more, depending on the proposal. Cnn has learned that treas
Some time and spread from there. Dan springer on the zone that has a lot of cities and no less than the president of the United States are watching one closely. I think a lot of people around the country think its going to be utter chaos but the reality is that a lot of people in seattle including the mayor, is taking a laws a fair attitude. Her first News Conference since this broke monday and they vacated the precinct, she was asked by cnn how it was going to end, when its going to end and she said we dont know. It could be the summer of love. This is going to go on for a while. Clearly shes not taking this as seriously as some of her residence. She compared this barricaded autonomous zone as a gay pride festival and set her main concern about Getting Police officers back in the area is she doesnt want to create a flash point for violence. Her police chief seems to have a very different opinion. We got the inside look at the precinct yesterday. Wanted to look at the damage but really
Leadership. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is a special edition of new day. Its wednesday, june 3rd, 5 00 here in new york, and the breaking news this morning. Were waking up to what seems to be a different situation in most cities around the country, much calmer. We saw thousands protesting peacefully, some in defiance of curfews. There were hundreds of arrests, and we did see isolated pockets of looting, but the scale much less than we have seen. There was also some vivid imagery. In denver, protesters silent for nine minutes, marking the time george floyd was held under the knee of a White Minneapolis Police officer. And in new york, this remarkable moment. [ inaudible ] [ cheers and applause ] protesters cheering for Health Care Workers and vice versa, frankly, as the protesters walked past a hospital. That was incredible, john. There were some pockets of escalating violence last
Morsi called the move temporary but at least 100 people were injured as protesters clashed with police in cities across egypt, including alexandria and the capital. Holly williams begins our coverage tonight in cairo. Reporter thousands of egyptians poured on to the streets, furious with the countrys first democratically elected president. They accused Mohamed Morsi of behaving like a pharaoh, making a power grab by president ial decree. During the arab spring, egyptians came together on Tahrir Square to top it will countrys longtime dictator hosni mubarak. Today mr. Morsis critics clashed with his supporters while police fired tear gas canisters into the crowd. Hes saying that hes our god said this protester. Hes made a mistake. And this woman said that after marching for freedom the countrys ended up with a new dictator. In alexandria, an angry crowd stormed the offices at the Muslim Brotherhood from which president morsi draws his support. They ransacked the building and then set it
Well show you some of the artistic options. First heres my take. Whatever happens in ukraine over the next few months and years, the crisis has reminded me that there are really two kinds of rulers around the world. Those who think about the past and those who think about the future. And if it werent abundantly clear already, it is now. Vice preside Vladimir Putin is the first group and his country the poorer for it. Weve all learned some lessons in russian history. Crimea was the first great prize for russia and a mark of russias rise to great power status. It also gave the russians something they never had, a warm water port with direct access to the mediterranean and wider world. Russia held on it to the region even though it lost the crimean war in the 19th century. It maintained its grip on the region after reclaiming it from the nazis in early 44. Then came the strange and fateful twist when soviet premier nikita crish nof gifted crimea to the ukraine. Why he did that, we mains s