Well the killing of george for a change in Race Relations in the u. S. Protests against Police Brutality continues President Donald Trump is accused of fanning the flames is there enough momentum to change laws and altitudes in what is already a polarized Election Year this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. The killing of george floyd has reignited pent up anger towards racism and Police Brutality in the United States since his death in minneapolis more than a week ago there have been nationwide mainly peaceful occasionally violent protests and is forcing america to look at its longstanding issue of race head on. People defied curfews in more than 140 cities to demand justice for florida and other black americans who have died at the hands of Police Demonstrators in portland laid down on a bridge for 9 minutes thats how long it took for the 46 year old Security Guard to suffocate a 4 officers pinned him down a sign from looting and violence in some cities the protests have
Virus vaccine be free of charge for everyone caught between a pandemic and civil war between tragedies increase the suffering in yemen and the coronavirus is the take that in a bangladesh camp home to more than a 1000000 refugees. A whistleblower has issued a stark warning over the coronavirus pandemic in testimony before the u. S. House of representatives rick bright is the former head of the u. S. Agency responsible for developing a vaccine for the virus he says he was sacked for raising concerns over the u. S. Colona virus response he told the house that unless urgent action was taken the country would be facing its darkest winter in modern history there have been more than 82000 coronavirus related deaths in the u. S. So far well our White House Correspondent kimberly how kid joins us live tell us a little bit more about what dr rick bright told the house. Sharply critical of the administrations response to the corona virus pandemic inside the United States dr rick wright repeatedl
Begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the Global Pandemic is into a new month confirmed cases are still soaring 3400000 there is some hope though 1100000 people have recovered but the grim number you can see fatalities more than 243000. Well the brazilian president is being blamed for not doing enough to stop the outbreak of corona virus as the death toll in the country goes postes 6000. 00 shy of all sonora earlier dismissed the virus as being nothing more than a little flu and on friday a Brazilian Court gave the president 48 hours to release his covered 19 test results something he hasnt done yet hes kind of open as the details new cases of corona virus are turning up in brazil each day the numbers are mounting the death rate is estimated to be much higher due to limited testing weve got brazil preparing big graveyards anticipating lots of victims brazils president has been reluctant to acknowledge the threat of coronavirus now with over 6000 deaths this is his response. So i w
President backtracked and said a quarantine will not be necessary. That comes as the states raise to continue to keep up with a surge of covid19 patients. Our alex hogan has more from york. Reporter President Trump watched as the uss comfort pulled out of the port in virginia. That ship is loaded with medical supplies and is headed for the epicenter of the coronavirus in the United States. The United States is leading the world with the highest cases of coronavirus cases, surpassing italy and Mainland China where the outbreak was first reported. Since the beginning of the epidemic, new york, california, and washington have captured the countries tension with spikes and the virus. There are a growing new number of hotspots emerging from coastto coast, including detroit, chicago, and new orleans. Every day we have a dramatic uptake in a number of cases. Despite the surging number of cases, the u. S. Is with a severe shortage of ventilators and equipment. This is the alternative if you do
1 you see it there at. 89. An amazing day yes, it is. Thank you so much. Welcome to power lunch. We have all the angles of this historic sell off covered. Bob is watching stocks for us. Rick tracking the historic lows in bond yields all eyes are on the trump administrations response and stooefr steve is on the feds next move. Well start with bob were back at the lows for the day. That 7 level becoming important because of the Circuit Breakers. We had the halt at 9 33 eastern time lets review the Circuit Breakers because they were very important this morning these are long history but only used once. Level one down 7 . We saw that at 9 33. Theres no other halt if were down 7 . Next level is down 13 that would be another 15 minutes until 3 25 p. M. Eastern time and there would be no trading halt at all unless we went to level 3 down 20 that would halt trading for the rest of the day. These Circuit Breakers had a long history this goes back to 1987 remember that 22 drop everybody said we