Hurricane isaias is a very healthy looking hurricane. We still have to take precaution. They are facing the unprecedented double threat of a hurricane and a coronavirus pandemic. The governor says that the state is ready. He says there is plen tty of pp pl plenty of supply here. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Live look at the white house this morning. Good morning to you, thank you for being with us. There is this new projection from the cdc this morning. They estimate that at least 20,000 more americans will die from the coronavirus in the next three weeks. So far more than 153,000 people have died in the u. S. There is some hope here, dr. Anthony fauci says he is, quote, cautiously optimistic that there will be a vaccine by the end of the year. Millions of americans lost the extra unemployment benefit at midnight. Negotiations on a new stimulus package ended with no progress, just deadlock. Also several covid19 testing sites in florida have
Afternoon. Fox reported at least some of the investigation of Hunter Bidens business and tax activities dates back to 2018, in other words, the entire time that his father was a president ial candidate. The wall street journal reports attorney general bill barr knew about the numerous investigations looking into Hunter Bidens business and financial dealings since at least this spring and worked to keep the probes out of public view during the election. A spokeswoman for the attorney general declined to comment to fox today. Barr signaled in may he wanted to keep the criminal Justice System out of the president ial election. As long as im attorney general, the criminal Justice System will not be used for partisan political campaigns. This is especially true for the Upcoming Elections in november. Reporter but a key ally of President Trump says that was unfair to the president. You know what you did . You influenced the election by supressing very important investigations that were going
Panic. We do not need to be overly concerned yet in the United States about the novel coronavirus. We do need to keep her eyes open for the seasonal flu. Jesse if everybody saw this coming in january how did morning joe look to the one guest that did not. Impossible right. Heres what i said in january on the five, we covered the virus three days straight. Jesse china has been lying about this. They headed over there for a year end they have not told anybody about it and theres been undocumented deaths, 1000 undiagnosed people and they have now quarantine the one city but people have already escaped the quarantines and they annoyed you where theyre going. The trip of administration has a decision to make. Out of the abundance of caution, you. The ban on now. Im not afraid of the coronavirus at all and i think other people have the right to be scared, that is their business, if they dont have a hold on this you stop the travel ban on china both ways. Jesse that is right. I called for a f
Panic. We do not need to be overly concerned yet in the United States about the novel coronavirus. We do need to keep her eyes open for the seasonal flu. Jesse if everybody saw this coming in january how did morning joe look to the one guest that did not. Impossible right. Heres what i said in january on the five, we covered the virus three days straight. Jesse china has been lying about this. They headed over there for a year end they have not told anybody about it and theres been undocumented deaths, 1000 undiagnosed people and they have now quarantine the one city but people have already escaped the quarantines and they annoyed you where theyre going. The trip of administration has a decision to make. Out of the abundance of caution, you. The ban on now. Im not afraid of the coronavirus at all and i think other people have the right to be scared, that is their business, if they dont have a hold on this you stop the travel ban on china both ways. Jesse that is right. I called for a f
Were not even through this season, of course, as you all know, a leading u. S. Model is upping its projected death toll by august to 66,000 people here in the united states. That is a 10 increase from their previous modeling. Still states moving forward on their plans to loosen restrictions despite warnings from top experts and no clear treatment for this virus. A new study this morning shows the antimalaria drug that the president has consistently touted has no benefit in treating covid and is linked to higher rates of death. Lets begin there with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Well get to that study on hydroxychloroquine in a minute. Lets start with the news out of california that deaths from covid19 in the u. S. Were three weeks earlier than previously thought. Yes, this is very interesting. This is something that i and other reporters brought up at the time. How do we know that people arent dying of coronavirus . This was sort of in during pretty much the month o