On what appears to be culture wars as the pandemic that has rocked this white house for the past four months escalates to an alarming level in this country. Just a few hours ago, trump was declaring victory on that front. I think were going very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point, thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. You still believe so . I do. New cases of the virus are surging with the daily number topping 40,000 in recent days and moving north of 50,000 over the past 24 hours. New cases. The New York Times reports infections in this country are now up 80 over the past two weeks. In 38 states and puerto rico are grappling with covid spike. The south and the west are new epicenters with arizona, california, florida, and texas posting the highest number of new cases. Bloomberg news reports intensive care units in houston are now at 102 of capacity. Propublica reports many of the citys Health Care Workers fear that hospitals may soon be overwhelmed with vir
I think that at some point, thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. You still believe so . I do. New cases of the virus are surging with the daily number topping 40,000 in recent days and moving north of 50,000 over the past 24 hours. New cases. The New York Times reports infections in this country are now up 80 over the past two weeks. In 38 states and puerto rico are grappling with covid spike. The south and the west are new epicenters with arizona, california, florida, and texas posting the highest number of new cases. Bloomberg news reports intensive care units in houston are now at 102 of capacity. Propublica reports many of the citys Health Care Workers fear that hospitals may soon be overwhelmed with virus patients. Georgia also dealing with a major increase in coronavirus cases. The outbreak now straining that states testing infrastructure. Today one House Task Force member said discussions are under way to flood those states seeing major outbreaks with even more testing
Just a few hours ago, trump was declaring victory on that front. I think were going very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point, thats going to sort of just disappear, i hope. You still believe so . I do. New cases of the virus are surging with the daily number topping 40,000 in recent days and moving north of 50,000 over the past 24 hours. New cases. The New York Times reports infections in this country are now up 80 over the past two weeks. Tonight, 38 states and puerto rico are grappling with covid spikes. The south and the west are new epicenters with arizona, california, florida, and texas posting the highest number of new cases. Bloomberg news reports intensive care units in houston are now at 102 of capacity. Propublica reports many of the citys Health Care Workers fear that hospitals may soon be overwhelmed with virus patients. Georgia also dealing with a major increase in coronavirus cases. The outbreak now straining that states testing infrastructure. Today one
Restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on Civil Liberties in american history. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The most trusted person in america when it comes to cboe pandemic according to polling is dr. Anthony fauci. The director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. And there is good reason for that, right . Hes a legend in the field of infectious diseases. He served six president s, democrats and republicans. He played a major crucial role in helping contain the hiv aids epidemic he was personally treating ebola patients as early as five years ago. His entire career has been building for the battle we are now in with a once in a century pandemic he has been a scientific voice of reason throughout there is no denying the u. S. Has had a disastrous response. The numbers dont lie. We are now in the cusp of hitting 200,000 deaths that horrific death toll represents a far higher mortality per capita rate than the rest
The evening of january 2 9 begins with a bart officer giving a man a stern warning. Get off the train. Hold it get off the train reporter someone on this train called bart police to say the man was harassing riders . An officer arrived and tried to convince the man to come talk to him on the platform. He didnt comply and even though witnesses can be heard saying the man was done nothing wrong and was bothering no one, watch what happens next. Taser, taser, taser reporter the officer tases the man and he falls to the ground. Dont move or ill tase you again reporter minutes pass. More officers arrive and as the man is being held down and cuffed tase him again taser, taser, taser [ taseing ] reporter the same officer does it again this time for five full seconds. One witness was so horrified that she wrote a blog post about the incident and later reported it to bart police. In a statement to kpix 5, bart said, as per policy and protocol, bart police have initiated the proper investigation