Today america reported a record high 136,000 new cases. Its the seventh consecutive day with 100,000 coronavirus cases nationwide and now, every state in the country is reporting an increasing number. Texas just became the first state with 1 million cases. In california, not far behind and at our current rate, well reach 1 million cases by the weekend. Bay area counties range from the best to the worst among the color coded coronavirus restriction tiers. San francisco is the only in the best category, yellow but preemptively going to shut down indoorining friday night as a precaution. Yesterday contra costa and santa cruz moved backwards from orange to red. A spike in new cases in napa county has Health Officials worried and for very good reason. Those numbers are rapidly moving in the wrong direction and could send napa county from the orange tier to the state most restrictive purple tier if things dont turn around. Cornell bernard found many people are suffering from coronavirus fati
Good morning, everybody. It is day two and still no sign of letting up. Millions are feeling the effects of the first Government Shutdown in 17 years. It goes beyond the closure of parks and museums. Did you know new patients will not be accepted into Clinical Research trials at the National Institutes of health. About 200 patients will be turned away this week. The fda cannot continue review and approval of new drugs. Conservation efforts to protect endangered species will stop. And sites contaminated with hazardous chemicals, not all of them will be cleaned up. Tracie potts joins us now in washington. What are the latest developments overnight . Reporter betty, good morning. Here on capitol hill, there is a Skeleton Crew runs things. President obama is reportedly canceling part of his asian trip for next week. And hes blaming the tea party for insisting on scaling back health care to get this government running. They will get their Social Security check. Reporter but mothers and chil
He says and well bring you any relevant developments throughout the hour. Then theres this. When we were in chicago, we were driving through a predominantly black neighborhood. His comment to me was only the blacks could live this way. Trumps former lawyer has a to say. We have more on that coming up in a moment, but first, donald trump is doing everything in his power to stop the bleeding after an explosive report in the atlantic that redisparaged u. S. Soldiers. When ever a narrative threatens his grip on power. Hes denying the report, fox news confirming parts of the story. When he didnisnt in denial mod Trump Doubles down on insulting the military by attack aing the very military leadership that he himself appointed. Im not saying the militarys in love with me. The soldiers are. The top people in the pentagon probably arent because they want to do nothing but fight wars that all of those Wonderful Companies that make the bombs and planes and Everything Else stay happy. Now what wev
Waiver promising they wont sue if they get sick. The city of tulsa also bracing for as many as 100,000 people just outside the venue. All of this as we learn tulsa county is reporting a new daily record of coronavirus cases. For more on our breaking news, lets get out to abby philip just outside the bank of oklahoma center. What else do we know . Reporter well, these six Campaign Staffers who have now tested positive for the coronavirus is a new wrink le t the campaign. They are planning to have 19,000 people at the bok arena behind me, but now they appear to be in the process of ensuring that none of the people who were in contact with these staffers are around this efent e recent including lawmakers, the president and the Vice President. I do want to read this statement or part of this statement from the Campaign Communications director. It says, per safety protocols, staffer tested positive for covid before the event. Six staffers tested positive out of hundreds of tests performed a
This the 156th day of the Trump Administration. In for ari mel burn and while trump used the some ber tone in the remarks today, the literal survive was not exactly the issue that dominated, though the health and perhaps survival of american democracy was on the minds of many as trump prepares for the big showdown meeting tomorrow with Vladimir Putin. So at this joint press conference in war saw Halle Jackson again asked if President Trump accepted that russia was behind the hacks. The president did not cite the authority of the u. S. Intelligence assessment. That would be the easiest way for any president to handle the question. No, instead, he went out of his way to cast more doubt and nonloop back to the man who held office before him. I think it was russia. But i think it was probably other people and or countries. Anise nothing wrong with that statement. Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows for sure. I heard it was 17 agencies. I said boy thats a a lot do we have that many . I