Weeks. Los angeles county just reported a Record Number of Coronavirus Pressure on President Trump, who has been in denial about this hospitalizations for the fourth time in a week. Crisis. Tonight hes suddenly tweeting also, President Trump is now in support of masks after planning to resume white house minimizing their importance for coronavirus briefings. And after months of refusing to months, and he wear a mask and even mocking those who do, he just posted this photo of himself in a mask. And he tweeted many people say it is patriotic. Nick watt is joining us. A new Record Number of hospitalizations where you are in l. A. County. Reporter thats right, wolf. And governor gavin newsom just said that across this tate, the next few weeks are going to be critical. He called out one county up by lake tahoe, napa county also, wine country, saying they were having constraints in terms of icu beds and staff. And, wolf, as you mentioned, fourth day in a week, we have sat here in l. A. Count
While nearly every state is ordering residents to stay home, the president said he doesnt want to issue a National Shelter in place order, the president said hes leaving it to the governors. Americans are looking for hope this morning, hoping that today will not be like yesterday and the day before, another record setting day for covid19 deaths. The u. S. Reported 1,169 deaths yesterday. And so far america has lost 7,100 people to the virus. Cnn National Correspondent Kristen Holmes is at the white house for us. Do we have any indication what were going to hear from the president today . Reporter we dont as of right now. It was a question of whether or not we were going to hear about the masks yesterday or today. And, of course, we know we heard about this yesterday. And i want to dive into that, because this was just the latest. The remarks from the cdc and President Trump in this push pull between Health Officials and the white house over what americans should be doing to protect the
Here in the United States and around the world. Im George Howell. The cnn newsroom starts right now. At 5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast, we start with the separation of children from their families on the u. S. Border with mexico. It is happening. Critics call it inhumane and unconscionable. But the white house says its not their fault, but the facts show 2,000 children have been separated from their parents. That is just from midapril through may. This according to the department of Homeland Security. The increase in family separations is the result of the Trump Administrations zero tolerance policy. That policy where adults Face Criminal Charges for entering the United States illegally. President trump falsely blamed the democrats. Lets listen. The democrats gave us the laws. Now i want the laws to be beautiful, humane, but strong. I dont want bad people coming in. I dont want drugs coming in. And we can solve that problem in one meeting. Tell the democrats your friends to call me
Distort and distract and must find someone else to blame is charting a very dangerous path no president will ever have dominion over objective reality let us resolve to be allies of the truth and not partners in its destruction. Also coming up tonight north and south korea. And the same fate if a Nuclear Conflict were to ever break out but come next month theyll share something very different teen spirit. And the south and north korea will march together under one flag at the Opening Ceremony of the pyongyang Winter Olympics and. We begin today drawing parallels between a u. S. President and a soviet dictator just as the first year of the drunk presidency draws to a close today in a speech before the u. S. Senate but clearly written for a global audience u. S. Senator jeff flake a republican from arizona ripped into u. S. President donald trump for terrorizing the truth he said that trumps use of the term fake news had alienated americas allies any embolden the worlds despots and he ac