President s argument that he has absolutely immunity over his financial records, deciding the president is not above the law. In one case granting the new york prosecutor access to those records down the road but certainly not before the november election. In a separate 72 opinion, the court is asking the three house committees is ruling that the three house committees led by democrats should narrow their requests for the president s records in arguments before the lower court. But still upholding the principle that the president s records are not beyond congressional oversight. In a stinging rebuke to mr. Trump, his two Supreme Court appointments, neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh, joined the decisive 72 majorities in both cases. Ordinarily a congressional request would have been compromised with the president s lawyers and never would have reached the high court for a decision. Joining me, pete williams, peter alexander, former u. S. Attorney joyce vance and former Investigative Repor
Country. Vice president pence announced the cdc will be revising its guidelines for schools after President Trump complained on twitter that those guidelines were very tough and expensive. Lets begin our coverage this hour with cnns erica hill with more on todays coronavirus developments. Los angeles county for example is now warning residents the coronavirus is surging to levels not seen there since the initial peak of the pandemic back in april. Update our viewers. Thats right. Hospitalizations as you said are at levels not seen since april. The Public Health director says that is because of community spread. Cases, infections, and hospitalization rates all on the rise. She says there has been a slight uptick in deaths as well and she fears there could be more death to come because as we know those numbers lag behind. These classrooms need students according to the administration. They must fully open and they must be fully operational. Reporter the American Academy of pediatrics say
The country are being deployed to arizona, all in an effort toe help hospitals there that are being pushed to the Maximum Capacity as a key model revises its projections this morning. The university of washington now estimating another 100,000 covid deaths in the United States by november. The model says one way to reduce that number dramatically if nearly all americans wear masks in public. We got major breaking news, intelligence agencies here in the United States and in the uk saying that russia has been trying to steal information from researchers in a bid to win the race for a vaccine against covid19. Were going to have a lot more on that story in just a few minutes. But our team is spread out covering it all for you. Lets start with nbcs blayne alexander in atlanta, georgia and ellison barber will join me from maine. Blayne, the university of washington model predicting 40,000 lives could be spared by november if nearly all americans started Wearing Masks in public. Why i ask you
Place that Governor Brian Kemp has not challenged. Well talk to the mayor of one of those cities, van johnson of savannah, later this hour. And we begin, though, with nbcs ellison barber who is in miami where the mayor is considering a lockdown now because of the surge there. Ellison, what are you finding . Reporter hi, andrea, yes, we know the mayor of miami, mayor suarez, started his meeting with local Business Owners to discuss the possibility of another lockdown about an hour ago. So far we dont know if that meeting is still ongoing or what actually happened inside of it. But we do expect to hear from the mayor later this evening, around 5 00 p. M. , if not sooner, in some other sort of capacity. Yesterday when speaking with reporters, mayor suarez said that when you look at the numbers in the city of miami, the hospitalizations, the rate of cases that just continues to increase, if something doesnt happen, in his words, to dramatically alter the course of things, then things could
Threatening people. Meanwhile, a political feud under way in georgia. Brian kemp suspended all local government mask mandates. We expect to hear from the mayor of atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms who still argues her citys mask requirement remains in effect. And 1. 3 Million People filed firsttime unemployment claims last week suggesting the new wave of coronavirus spikes across 40 states is continuing to hinder the u. S. Economy as well. Lets begin with that breaking cyberattack news. Three western countries including the United States, canada and the united kingdom, say russias Intelligence Services tried to steal Coronavirus Vaccine research through hacking. Lets check in with matt bradley, nbc news foreign correspondent, who has been tracking this story here. Matt, how long has russia been at it, and how much success in their hacking have they had . We havent really seen those exact details coming out of this report that came out of here and london. Its not entirely clear who they tar