that five of his aides have tested positive for coronavirus. that includes his chief of staff, mark short, and his bodyman, zach bower, whose job is to accompany the vice president both day and night. according to cdc guidelines, pence, the head of the white house coronavirus task force, should be in quarantine. instead, the vice president plans to spend the remaining nine days crisscrossing the country, campaigning for a second term, while denying a second wave of the pandemic. now, on top of that we saw president trump campaigning in maine today without a mask. there you see him getting up close to voters, signing hats. he was giviining fist bumps. it was just over three weeks ago he was hospitalized with coronavirus. cnn s natasha chen joins us now in kingston, north carolina, where vice president pence just wrapped up speaking and cnn white house correspondent john harwood is standing by at the white house for us. natasha, did pence ever talk about the coronavirus outbrea
el paso, texas outside another american crime scene, another sight of a massacre by guns. welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. any minute now, we will hear from president trump. this as the nation mourns 29 people killed in two states just 13 hours apart. what will the president say? what will he do? what will he push for? what will he deliver? so far he has floated the idea of tying universal background checks to something he s desired for a long time, immigration reform, which normally means money as well for a wall on the border. he also took a moment to blame the media for the attacks and the violence. left unsaid anything about white supremacy. in fact, since these shootings, particularly the one here in el paso where the shooter referenced white supremacist views, the president has not used those words. look at the comments of his fbi director, christopher wray emphasizing the danger in this country right now.
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action to slow the spread of the virus. let s start in florida, which has been setting records all week, today topping 9,500 new cases of coronavirus. the state is now on track to become the next epicenter, nearing new york s highest single-day increase in cases. florida s single day peak number of new cases is also now higher than italy ever saw when that country was considered the epicenter of the pandemic. and the situation in italy was one the u.s. wanted desperately to avoid. cnn s natasha chen is in pensacola, florida, for us. natasha, what is happening there? reporter: well, as we talked about just now, the high numbers is causing the state to shut down standalone bars like the one behind me. they re no longer allowed to sell alcohol inside the premises, but because where we re standing out in the parking lot is not actually their property, they can allow people to take their drinks to go and sit right outside. now, let s take a look at the general florida situation
he immigrated here from the fiji islands like my parents did and was definitely enjoying the american dream. went to the police academy. william la jeunesse live for us in our los angeles bureau. so, william, why are they releasing his photos and not his name? a lot of people asking that. right. so police say the suspect is a heavy set hispanic male in the u.s. illegally. it s not uncommon south of the border for a man to take both his father and his mother s maiden name. and when caught entering the u.s., some migrants will try to conceal their identity by inverting or omitting one name or the other. so police tell me it s possible his prints match different names. in this case police are not releasing his identity. but security cameras did catch him buying two 12-packs of beer at the convenience store shortly before the shooting wearing a black jacket. silver chain, black shoes. moments later, the shooting happened. after officer singh stopped the suspect in his pickup
democrats. it is day 20 of the partial government shutdown which yesterday s white house shutdown not only didn t showdown rather didn t solve, but it may have pushed a compromise further out of sight. doesn t look like a lot of progress coming. the president s day trip to mcallen, texas, may turn out to be more than the photo op he reportedly called it this week. if he decides to fund the border barrier by taking the rare step of declaring a national emergency. that s not at all clear, but for what it s worth the white house counsel is due to travel with the president today. that is certainly unusual. in congress, a number of republican senators aren t yet willing to give up on a deal. that brings us to manu raju. i know you have been following this and talking to the players here. they want to make a deal. does a deal have a snowball s chance, i guess, is the question. reporter: great question. it s one we cannot answer at this point. we do know talks between the lead