Friend or perhaps starting her journey to the white house. Is texas senator ted cruz far behind . There are two levels of filters that should prevent this from happening again. Also ahead, a florida judge speaks out about the killers who allegedly forged his name to escape prison. What he says about missed warning signs as the allout manhunt stretches into the weekend. Plus, gone and forgotten, the tangled lines of responsibility leaving some in Colorado Living in virtual ghosttowns that look like the wild west. And also this afternoon, blocking cyberbullies. Right now, a group of computer hackers is Building Tools that can detect harassment as it happens. Its todays big idea. A whole lot to get to. We start on the Campaign Train where Hillary Clinton is about to take the stage. Shes campaigning for Terry Mcauliffe. Its her First Political event since she left the state Department Last year. Casey hunt is in falls church, virginia for us on a saturday afternoon. Heres the thing. Normal
Well. And as you can see here, despite the gravity of the crisis in florida, the president is still refusing to follow the device of his own Health Expert and simply wear a mask in public. Cnns erica hill is joining us from new york. Erica, some truly troubling new numbers right now coming out of georgia. Yeah. There are. And of course georgia one of the first states to reopen, wolf. The state adding nearly 4,500 new cases. And that is a pretty significant jump from the last high that we saw only a couple of weeks ago. And as we look around the country, this is a trend were seeing more and more of. Long lines for testing in florida as the numbers there continue to move in the wrong direction. The situation is really concerning here in south florida. Reporter florida is now averaging more than 9,000 new cases a day. A staggering jump of more than 1,200 since the state began reopening two months ago. The president in hardhit Miamidade County today, the Positivity Rate there is nearly 30
Country stands at roughly 4. 8 million now. The death toll approaching 159,000 with americans accounting for roughly a quarter of the 700,000 deaths worldwide. Even though were just 4 of the global population. As the virus continues to spread in many places in this country, the president went on fox and friends this morning still sounds unwilling to acknowledge the facts on the ground. The numbers are coming down very rapidly in florida. Theyre coming down in california. Theyre coming down in texas. Theyre coming down. Those three places shot up and those numbers are coming down, so by the time we get there, well probably be in this very good shape. November 3rd is a long ways off, a lot of things are going to happen. We should note that the university of washington model that was once held out as the Gold Standard by the Trump White House is now predicting nearly 231,000 americans will die from the virus by november 1st. Chicago Public School students will join their counter parts in
Michigan, and wisconsin. All of which he won in 2016. More than 93. 5 million americans have already voted. And tensions are rising across the country. Businesses boarding up, fearing unrest after the election. Plans are also underway to put up another fence around the perimeter of the white house. You keep on hearing certain people saying, election day is one day away. Let me make clear that the votes cast yesterday, the day before, one or two weeks ago, theyre every bit as valid as the votes cast tomorrow. And there will not be a winner until the votes are all counted, wherever theyre counted. Which is what makes this new claim from the Trump Campaign so absurd and frankly undemocratic, that the president might declare victory before the count is in. That hessian that it should all be done tuesday night. That is not true. It has never been true, period. Now, there is other major news this morning. There is a pandemic in this country, surging beyond control. More than 81,000 new coron
The blast has been called a deliberate act. So far, suspects and motives, though, are missing. But there is no shortage of destruction. Now, Authorities Say more than 40 buildings were damaged, in all. They believe what they say could be human tissue might have been found near the blast site. But, there have been no other reports of any serious injuries. You can see and hear some of the confusion, fear, and see the destruction there, early Christmas Morning. Only three people suffered minor injuries. One reason this was not a human catastrophe. The motor home was blaring a warning that it was going to explode. Another Reason Police believe that warning got people to safety. Once they arrived in the area, they heard an rv giving out a message. Basically, saying that it was going to detonate, within a certain timeframe. And a countdown would go on, and and then, it would play music. And then, countdown would start again. Officers, immediately, began knocking on doors and evacuating resid