Than half a million confirmed infections with the number of dead at nearly 19,000. And coronavirus will not overcome us the words of the queen in her first ever easter message. Good evening. For the second consecutive day, the daily death toll from coronavirus in the uk has risen by more than 900. Yesterday, the country recorded europes highest daily number of deaths yet. It came as the British Medical Association issued a stark warning that supplies of protective clothing for Health Workers were in some areas at dangerously low levels. The home secretary priti patel said she was sorry if people feel there have been failings in nhs protective kit, describing the pandemic as unprecedented. 917 people have died in hospital in a 2k hour period. But that number doesnt include people whove died from coronavirus in care homes or in the community. It brings the total number of deaths in hospital to 9,875. Here is our science editor, david shukman. A human cost on a scale unimaginable even a f
Effect. Businesses were broken into and looted. Multiple fires burned with no sign of first responders. This morning, the front page of the star tribune calls it a state of agony. At one point, the governor called in the National Guard to respond to what he described as arson, rioting and looting. But there was very little sign the authorities had any handle on the chaos. It wasnt until dawn we saw the National Guard and state police show up and try to regain control of the situation. I want to go right to my colleague Shaquille Brewster who has been on the ground in minneapolis since the protest started. And i want to remind our audience, shaquille and his team are protected with security there. Shaq, lets start with that. How are you . Doing okay, stephanie. Just want to point out the scene that you see right now is much different than what we saw when our team first arrived here. When we came here, we were doing a morning joe live report and tried to do it from here but you saw buil
Vulnerability that we have in this interconnected world on every level, whether its peoples twitter accounts or Facebook Accounts or government to government. Or burger king. Or burger king. The way in which the world is changing is making us more connected but vulnerable. Pales in the challenge of having two sets of identitial twins. And as three sets of parents of twins we can tell you those people will never sleep again once those babies come home thats it for five years no sleep. Coming up tomorrow on starting point were going to talk to r b singer and author keith sweat, the actor alex krapovsky who plays ray on girls. Cnn newsroom with Carol Costello begins right now. See you back here tomorrow morning. Happening now, the motivation of a killer, newtown shooter adam lanza reportedly trying to outkill norway mastermind Anders Breivik. Also remembering reeva. We have to keep reeva in our hearts forever. Reporter the girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius laid to rest this morning as he goes
Surrounded by 23 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Ainsley we are now learning more about the victims and the american heros who risked their own lives to save others. I saw people in front of me get hit with bullets and my first reaction was to hop on my friends to make sure everybody was okay. There was a gentleman that was shot and he said can you help me. I put him in my car and i had like six people in my car. People without shoes running, just to get away. Brian as the country comes together in mourning, thoughts and prayers are pouring in from all around the world. We have paris where the eiffel tower went dark. The tel aviv where city hall lit up in red, white, and blue, big american flag. That is solidarity with the United States. They are no strangers to terror attacks. Ainsley its just incredible as we wake up this morning. We know what we were all doing. Steve doocy got on a plane after our show and he is live in las vegas. Good morning, steve. Steve good morning
So thats a lot of tree damage being done. We take it through the night. Notice the winds in central georgia. Savannah at 43. Brunswick 41 maybe a downed tree. We shouldnt see too much additional damage. Notice when we wake up tomorrow morning, charleston at 48. Still a little breezy, augusta, savannah, consider wag we have been through at this point in the storm, id say 70 of the damage is done. We have about 30 to go, mostly all tree damage. Im thinking of the forest happened, they use that georgia pine the falt wood as fire starters. It is j such a pun gent and potent sap. You can smell it in the air. It will be po at the present time tonight. I seen numerous pictures already. It looks like match sticks with all those pine, blown over. Firewood will be all over the place. Look, it will be no fun for folks in the macon, metropolitan area at night in the dark, 70mileanhour winds howling. It wont be funny, you hear that whistling noise outside, even at 70 miles per hour, when a thunders