Out of an abundance of caution during the covid19 pandemic, there is no in person audience today and certain ceremonial elements have been prerecorded. Please welcome the official party to the stage the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. Chief of staff of the army, general james c mcconville. Sergeant major of the army, michael a grinstead. Director of the National Museum of the United States army, ms. Tammy call. Accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c miller. And chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Millie. Now presenting the colors is the third United States infantry regiment the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. The National Anthem will be performed by Sergeant First Class jesse meeks from the United States army band, pershings own. Present. O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through t
Then he left the white house and walked to a nearby church damaged and the unrest plus. Were broken and were disgusted we cannot normalize this pain not Entertainment Industry calls for a blackout to honor george ford. Have another breaking news story were following for you as well irans foreign minister says the iranian scientist and prison in the u. S. Is now back on his way home serves us kaare had been pleading for weeks to be released from an Immigration Center after contracting kovan 1000. 00 he was in custody since 2017 while on trial for charges of fraud in selling state secrets skaro was acquitted last month but was transferred into immigration custody over an expired visa so would the parent way he is now on his way back home. An unprecedented night in the United States the protests continued for a 7th day over the killing of george floyd in Police Custody and he died after being pinned down by a white Police Officer for almost 9 minutes an official autopsy has now concluded
Im julie haener. Im Frank Somerville tonight working from home. Lots of new developments to tell you about this evening. Governor newsom has put out an urgent call for doctors to help treat the expected surge of coronavirus patients. The governor says the number of people in the hospital in california has now doubled and the number of icu patients has tripled in just the past four days. Across the u. S. More than 3,000 people have now died from the outbreak. Among them the first u. S. Service member, a new Jersey National guardsman. Today the Navy Hospital ship comfort arrived at new york harbor to ease the burden on hospitals by caring for people not suffering from covid19. At the White House Health and Human Services secretary alex azar said the u. S. Has tested more than 1 million coronavirus samples, more than any other country. He also says the u. S. Is now testing nearlysamples a day. Experts say the u. S. To test between 100,000 and 150,000 patients a day to contain the virus. S
Im joined with my great colleagues, gasia mikaelian, sal castaneda, steve paulson. Gasia, its good to see all of you. Its good to see you as i work from home as people all over the country are. Well still doing the work of getting you out the door if you have to go. Steve paulson is tracking the weather. Good morning. We are looking for what looks to be a little better day of sunshine. Still good fog bank out there. 40s, 50s, livermore 46. Everyone else in the 50s. Oakland airport in the low 50s. Partly sunny by noon, a few upper 60s, near 70 today. Activity to the north holding our temperatures in check. Still rain to the north is going to stay there until the weekend. Then it might pay a visit to us with a lot of rain. Well have more in ten minutes. Highs today near average with a little more sun. Heres my good friend, sal, with an update on traffic. Thats right. Now, we do have a tanker truck that spilled fuel in hayward southbound 880 at 92. We are trying to get some pictures for y
We await President Trump right now, probably in about the next hour or so he will be addressing the top of the Coronavirus Task force. One of the Big Questions will be about his conversation earlier this morning with russian president vladmir putin. The white house has said that those two talked about the need to stablize energy markets. The president saying earlier this morning that he believes oil prices are too low. Russia and saudi arabia are fighting and they have driven down the price of oil and i never thought i would be saying that maybe we have to have an oil increase because we do. The price is so low, theyre fighting so crazy over distribution and over how many barrels to let go. Reporter the president also said that he would like to see hazard play, hazard pay, rather go into effect for the nurses on the front line in the hospitals treating the coronavirus patients. The treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said earlier today, speaking with Stuart Varney that receipt now theyre