Last icon of hollywoods golden age pass. We remember Olivia De Havilland and her role in gone with the wind early today starts right now good monday morning. Im phillip mena after only taking 16 days for coronavirus cases to jump from 3 million to 4 million, the outbreak reaches a critical stage with more than 4. 2 million americans infected cal and florida have surpassed new york meanwhile texas was hit with a onetwo punch dealing with covid and hurricane hanna. Reporter good morning. The state of florida is in a state of crisis. It just topped new york for the second most number of coronavirus case in the country and that is Hurricane Season under way right now something florida is waiting for and texas is experiencing right now, a double whammy. In texas the seasons first hurricane, leaving flooding and fear in its wake the walkway is gone reporter rescue by night and realization by day First Responders getting people to shelters. Youre whole intake system changes. In the past you c
Nearly a dozen shark sightings off cape cod forced the closure of several beaches on monday. Swimmers were held out of the water for an hour or more until the allclear was sounded. Sharks come to cape cod to feed on the seals. Sightings this year are slightly off from previous years, but that may be because the pandemic is keeping the shark spotters away. Turning now to that deadly explosion in baltimore that leveled three homes and killed ateast one person. Firefighters scrambled through the wreckage. Heres abcs rachel scott. Reporter the search for survivors after a catastrophic gas explosion shook his Baltimore Neighborhood leaving one woman dead. The call coming in just before 10 00 a. M. It appears as if i have at least three dwellings that have completely exploded. I was sitting in my house, all i could hear is boom when i got into the alley, three houses, they were collapsed into each other. Reporter firefighters digging through the rubble. I have three children trapped in the d
Because you have breaking news. It is breaking right now, mike. A woman shot dead overnight, a man hurt outside of a 7eleven in antioch. Its the citys third homicide in the past three weeks. Today in the bays bob redell is live at the scene with the very latest for us. Bob, what do you know . Reporter good morning, laura. In front of the 7eleven here on buchanan in antioch. Police tell us that a little bit after 12 30 this morning someone walked up to the man and woman, fired several shots at them. The man in the drivers seat was hit a number of times, has been taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. The woman was shot and killed while she sat in the passenger seat. Shes deceased and remains there until the coroner arrives. She is the sixth to be murdered. There is a Large Police Presence out here. You have officers, homicide detectives out here. A number of evidence markers. Im not sure if they indicate bullet casings or other bits of evidence. Police do not know why the
Who have paychecks. People do not right now, which brings us to the second big issue, which is Unemployment Insurance benefits. A gut instinct is we will see two month extension of the current Unemployment Insurance booster payments such as 600 a week through september 1. The alternative is we cut it to 400 a week, but extended for a longer duration, say through year end. Referenced achin technical correction needing to be made. This is far from a technical correction. This is a deepseated issue of disagreement between democrats and republicans. I would say this is the biggest sticking point. The way it will get resolved it to throw money at the problem. To that end we have shifted up our expectations of the overall scale and scope of the bill. The last time we spoke i was expecting a 1. 5 trillion package. Now our base case is 1. 5 trillion to 2 trillion. The further that rises, the more generous the Unemployment Benefits will be. You can see potential spending directly on certain sec
Fed president Robert Kaplan this hour. President trump orders chinese to shutdeo app tiktok down in the u. S. Next month unless there is a deal with microsoft or another leading american company. Breaking news out of south korea. The cpi numbers for the month of july year on year, a growth of 0. 3 . This is of course after inflation remains flat for the previous month year on year. We have seen somewhat muted demand. Perhaps weighing on the month on month numbers. We are seeing inflation at zero growth. This really missing expectations that prices would rise 0. 1 if also inflation is decelerating from the previous month of june. Core cpi take out oil prices, and you get a rise of 0. 7 , in line with estimates, and slight acceleration from the previous month. We have seen brent crude prices recover somewhat from aprils slump but still down 38 year on year also. The are also expecting tokyo Inflation Numbers within the hour so take a look at what japanese futures are doing at the moment.