A gracious call from the president of the united states. Im very happy with what i did. Trump saves roger stone from prison, rewarding a longtime friend convicted of lying to protect the president. Defying the attorney general. The fallout this morning with the chair of the house intelligence committee, chairman adam schiff, and our powerhouse roundtable. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. It was not supposed to be this way. Early in the pandemic, President Trump predicted the coronavirus would disappear in days. Back in april, his soninlaw and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner said a lot of the country should be back to normal by june. The hope is that by july, the countrys really rocking again. 12 days into july, its the virus thats rocking. The u. S. Leads the world in cases, with more than 60,000 new cases yesterday alone, more than 30 states saw their caseloads increase this week. Hospitalization
Testing. We believe weve made progress. As we see cases rising, that we still have work to do. Vice president pence plans to travel to and meet with the governors of arizona and texas next week to talk about the cases if the states and whats next. Back to you. Thank you. The Trump Administration is taking aim at the Affordable Care act. An 82page brief was filed arguing the law is unconstitutional after congress ended the tax penalty for not buying health insurance. Joe biden took aim at the president for the suit. Donald trumps twin legacies, his failure to protect the American People from the coronavirus and to take healthcare protections away from american families. A study from the center for American Progress estimates 23 million americans would lose healthcare plans if the act is repealed. A Supreme Court decision probably wont come until 2021. An Oakland Mcdonald is to stay closed. The restaurant on telegraph avenue has been closed since may 26th when workers went on strike. Las
Briefings this was held at the department of health and Human Services not at the white house the briefing was held after the number of new coronavirus cases in the United States, hit an alltime high of 40,000 today. I think what we are missing on this is something that it is not just isolated to you because if you get infected, you are part innocently or inadvertently, propagating the dynamic process of a pandemic. Because the chances are, that if you get infected, that you will in fact someone else. You may feel well. 40,000 new cases today making the total case count in the United States more than 2. 4 million and as cases surgeon some states there are nearly 2 and half million coronavirus cases again here in the United States more than more than 124,000 people have died from covid19. In minutes we will bring you the governor speaking live as he updates the states response to covid19. We do know the number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in california,
Yesterday. The has not shown up on website yet but it will in the next day or two. I want to give an update on where we are with our data metrics. Friday these slides on and they are also available on the department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the seven day moving average. We have seen these numbers going up. That is what we would expect to see. Manycraft shows us how people are being tested each day in the blue bars. Ae yellow line represents sevenday average. These have been trending upward. This slide shows how many hospitals are reporting hortages of p. P. E. This is trending downward, this is good news. Its several days since any hospitals reported shortages of p. P. E. And right now even the trend is at zero. Our adequate supply of p. P. E. And swabs are two of the factors allowing us to test more. Might also mention that we have a warehouse here in virginia of p. P. E. And our supply, our stock on hand, is doing well and looki
Governor northam also spoke about the coordination of reopening between himself and leaders of maryland and washington, d. C. Gov. Northam i hope everyone had a nice weekend. To all of the mothers, a belated happy mothers day. I want to talk about Northern Virginias regional pace to ease restrictions, petersburgs water, the dmv and our elections. 9801 testsported yesterday, which is a great step as we work to ramp up testing. That has not shown up on the website yet but it will in the next day or two. Now i want to give virginians an update on where we are with our data metrics. You saw these slides on friday and they are also available on the Virginia Department of health website. This is our confirmed positive cases. The blue bar represents the number of cases and the yellow line is the seven day moving average. While we have seen a slight dip in the past few days, largely these numbers are going up. That is what we expect to see. Manygraph shows us how people are being tested each d