Coronavirus crisis. Now more than 786,000 coronavirus cases in the United States. Over 42,000 deaths. Theres also the breaking news out of the north korea. Kim jong un reportedly in grave danger after recent surgery. Well go live to the region later in the hour. First, the latest information opt coronavirus pandemic. The death toll double where it was this time last week. Worldwide, nearly 2. 5 million cases and 170,000 deaths. The state of georgia will begin easing restrictions on businesses allowing gyms, tattoo parlors, barbershops, hair and nail salons to reopen on friday. Theaters and restaurants next monday. And local officials are barred from imposing their own restrictions on those businesses. Governor admitting his state may see an up tick in cases. Tonight President Trump insisting again enough testing materials are available. That governors are responsible for testing. His statement coming hours after Vice President pence held a Conference Call with governors to address thei
Bild in a french magazine, they were working together they have this card. In it they have been able to see this video that showed chaos. You could hear the screams, the cries of my god could be heard in multiple languages. All of this as were getting this new revelation about how much this airline, lufthansa, knew about the copilots mental state when they hired him. That airline now admitting after further internal investigations that it knew that Andreas Lubitz had suffered depression and specifically medical documentation from the copilot himself to his Flight School a couple years ago about a, quote, previous episode of severe depression. So i have a lot to get through here. Cnns will ripley joins me from dusseldorf. And justin green is with me aviation attorney and pilot. Will, first to you. Can you talk me through what were learning about this . Its been described. No ones publishing the video. The description here of these final moments on this plane. Brooke weve been remarking
With an intuitive motion activated lid and seat,ad bold makes sure youll never have to ask him again. Sequester, very, very bad . Mostly bad . Not so bad . Or actually kind of good . Dont ask a republican. Its monday, february 25th, and this is now. Joining me today new york city deputy mayor howard wolfson, the queen bee of the greo. Com joy reid, eric baits, a contributing he editor at Rolling Stone and a visiting scholar at new york university, and former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst the notorious Michael Steel. With four days until the sequester deadline, lawmakers are taking a page from the shaggy playbook and saying it wasnt me. Its made up. Its been created. I didnt support the sequester because thats a stupid way to cut spending. I think the sequester was a stupid thing. I voted against it when it first came up. Woodward said it was president obama who proposed and promoted the sequester. You have as usual in washington a large kabuki going on about who can get blam
A. P. , congress is pretty much the worst, hands down, of any group we ever investigated. Theyre worse than college students. Despite the fact that both sides bought into this plan, action to avert the sequester has been limited. President obama advocates a mixed approach. More than 1 trillion in spending cuts coupled with 680 billion in tax revenue. Speaking to the National Governors association a few minutes ago, the president urged congress to find Common Ground. While you are in town i hope that you speak with your congressional delegation and remind them in no Uncertain Terms exactly what is at stake and exactly who is at risk because heres the thing. These cuts do not have to happen. Congress can turn them off any time with just a little bit of compromise. But Common Ground may be difficult to reign for a party who doesnt really know where it stands. Speaking to the gops shifting position on the sequester, karl rove wrote Congressional Republicans are simultaneously united, divid
Epidemic in africa, made even scarier for americans now with the first case diagnosed in this country. And now the effort to find out who came into contact with the man who is now a patient in isolation in the hospital in dallas, texas. On top of that, there is the unbelievable challenge of trying to track a virl vir virulent illness from overseas in the jet age. And there are questions about whether the dallas patient, Thomas Duncan, told the truth about his exposure to ebola before embarking on International Air travel to the u. S. Were on top of all of it tonight, starting with nbcs ron mott at the hospital where the patients being treated in dallas. Ron, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. As this man continues fighting for his life tonight at this hospital, nbc news learned that before he traveled to the United States, he checked no on a health form asking whether he had any contact with any people infected with ebola. Now that contradicts what some of his neighbors