Thank you for your time today. I like your happy thanksgiving. Happy early thanksgiving. If you have a question the doctor, go to Facebook Live and well try to get them answers. Doctor, the tsa has screened five million travellers since friday. How nervous does that make you, given what were facing right now . It makes me very nervous, kristen, because we know that in previous holidays, even in the united states, memorial day, etc. , it was accompanied by a predictable increase in cases in two weeks. Not only cases but concerningly high hospitalizations. You hook at what happened in thanksgiving in canada, i think the writing is in the wall. Well see increased numbers in two weeks, even above our current surge. Lets try to do our part and one piece of that is having smaller gatherings. Dr. Fauci was asked whether the risk from small gatherings has been exaggerated . What does the data show . Can we do a small gathering without a surge . I think what the contact data tracing shows is it
A major hit following the failure of crude producing countries to greet production cuts as a man for oil falls amid fears about the coronavirus saudi arabia says it will increase output after a dispute with russia for more that heres our teeth. But quite a somber atmosphere here on wall street they are already calling it black monday we saw a 15 minute free futures trading when the stock market opened big dramatic plunge on the stock market the biggest drop weve seen since the 2008 financial crisis and on top of all of that weve got an Oil Price Drop 30 percent decline in the price of oil a plunge in the price of oil the biggest drop weve ever seen in oil cents in 1901 and at this point it being traced back essentially to the negotiations with opec saudi arabia has come forward and called for a decrease in Oil Production juju limited demand or. The coronavirus well russia has come forward and said that this call for a reduction in Oil Production and a cap on Oil Production doesnt reall
The threat for 50 million americans this morning with more to come. And birthday boy. Prince george turns 4. The new official portrait following a very photogenic royal family trip. The helicopter high jinks. How george and charlotte stole the show. Good morning. Another day, another bombshell report on the russia investigation. This one comes from the Washington Post, and it involves the embattled attorney general Jeff Sessions. Now, the story says that u. S. Spy agencies intercepted communications between the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. , sergey kislyak, and his superiors back in moscow in which kislyak talked about conversations that he had during the president ial campaign with then senator Jeff Sessions, a major trump supporter. According to the post, kislyak told his bosses that he and sessions discussed both campaign and policy issues. Now, this directly contradicts what sessions told congress during his confirmation hearings for the job of attorney general back in january.
Offices. The Eastern Iowa Health center and Young Parents Network are cooperating on the collection and say 100 percent of donated dollars or diapers will go to those who need them. We often dont think of diapers as a necessity but it is really is and the fact its not covered by any federal program, you know no incentives or anything like that. Diapers are such a big need 80 dollars a month for a lot of people. Health has committed to purchasing 50thousand to get the program started. Organizers say those much smaller diaper drives would collect only a limited number of diapers and when those were gone, theyre gone. But with a diaper bank, the idea is to keep collections going off and on and always have enough on hand to help those who have trouble paying for this necessary infant product out of pocket. Beth . Thanks, dave. Us now with your first forecast. Chris, some of our viewers have had a little rain today. Will that continue . A weak upper level system is moving across eastern iow
Storm track seven meteorologist eileen loan is here now with your storm track seven forecast. We have a few showers tracking through early this morning, but they will track out by 7 or 8 this morning. We may have some areas not reporting any problems. Temperatures are holding in the mid to upper 50s a big story this morning Hurricane Matthew is behind us but the suffering it caused is far from over. In the us alone 30 people have been killed. Communities in north and South Carolina are dealing with massive devastation and widespread flooding. As reid binion tells us more could be on the way. Street. North carolina governor pat mccrory. Underscoring the crisis still playing out amid massive floodi left by Hurricane Matthew. President obama, declaring a major disaster in the state. Including the throughout the day to rescue 15hundred people stranded by flooding. The faa ordering not stranded by flooding heartbroken by the ongoing furniture, and its all in pieces and its on the other side