Kristen, we just heard from governor christie in the last hour. I want to show people, though, this is the area and exactly what it looked like after sandy and then yesterday to today. Are they any closer, though, to getting to the cause, the root of what started that fire . Reporter yes, thomas, that investigation is going on now. There are a number of agencies here looking at it. What the governor said is their focus up until this point has really been to get this fire stopped. You saw those winds yesterday and just how quickly this was moving, how quickly it was spreading and so their focus up to now has been on stopping it. It is now 95 contained. Theyre still worried about a couple of hot spots and still working on that as the investigation begins. Theyre beginning to do some damage assessment. Theyll soon have what the financial toll is but really what weve been talking about today is the emotional toll on people here. Im joined by angie lombardi. She was a Business Owner here. Y
This is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the ones who wont be silenced a beauty queen whos accused former gambian president of raping to 5 years ago is back in the country where shes encouraging victims of Sexual Violence to speak out. So i am inspired by war meant more to faded by the horrendous other stories of the new year and i think its not fair for me to be in the queue to really get it was my silence protects what he has done to me. And the n. B. A. His 1st professional Basketball League outside of North America set to kick off in africa in january well be talking to the Managing Director of n. B. A. Africa. Im kristie want to welcome to news africa im glad your chin did in Gambia Overlord investigating allegations against the former president. Hes accuses say
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All the schools for the rest of the school year. Ainsley new york city mayor bill de blasio warning new yorkers to be prepared for a possible shelter in place order. As cases drop by more than 100 in just one day. The state jus opened the second drivethru testing site. Brian the governor says dont prepare for that i will make that call. More than 6400 coronavirus cases and the u. S. At least 114 people have died. 170 have recovered. We can expect a really big show. A lot of doctors coming our way including seema verma, dr. Nicole saphier and dr. Siegel. We will have a visit, not in studio, but from a remote location Cardinal Timothy dolan. Steve brand new member of the fox news family dr. Janette nesheiwat will be here as well. If you have questions for Cardinal Dolan so many people are looking to a higher power to help guide us through these selfice hraeugtd times when you have so many questions, if you have a question for him because the three of us do email us at friends foxnews. Co
Be prepared for the likelihood there will be 100,000 americans who die from this virus . The answer is yes. As sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much . I hope not and i think the more we push on the mitigation, the less likelihood it would be that number. But as being realistic we need to prepare ourselves thats a possibility. Sandra new york is leading the nation in the number of deadly cases. The state reporting more than 1700 deaths so far with more than half of those in new york city. We have Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. John roberts has more on the white house response. But we begin with David Lee Miller live in new york city for us this morning. David. Sandra, the Field Hospital here in central park was supposed to begin operations yesterday. That has now been postponed. They say that it should be operating later today. And then start receiving the first patients. It has 68 beds and is designed to accommodate the overflo
The eu and the United States are ready to take fur thur restrictive measures in response to russias behavior. Russia must admit it is a party to the conflict and take genuine steps that will lead to a de escalation of the conflicted. We must also continue to support ukraine by providing the country with the assistance that it needs. When it comes to the security of our region, the United States engagement here runs deep. Estonia is a close and reliable ally to the United States. We take our naet toe comm nat commitment seriously. Very seriously. We have not sat back and waited for others to take care of our security. Since joining the alliance estonian soldiers have consistently a fought for the freedom of others in began sfan and iraq and most recently in the central republic. We dedicate resources to defense and are increasingly increasing our National Defense capacity. We are grateful to the United States for sending troops here for actively participating in the Baltic Air Policing