How despite elaborate precautions and constant testing of white house officials the White House Press corps and others in contact with trump the president contracted the virus but earlier one of trumps top aides hope hicks was confirmed to have tested positive hicks accompanied the president to the debate in Cleveland Ohio on tuesday trump phoned in to a Fox Television program earlier on thursday and talked about hicks having been exposed its a tough kind of a situation its a Terrible Bank so i just want to test it and well see what happens i mean who knows the white house physician sean conley said trump and the 1st lady are both well at this time and that the White House Medical Team will maintain a vigilant watch lonnie a trump later tweeted we are feeling good. Trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he is in his bid seventys and overweight only had to wait for the next few days. Were for some people getting sick with own alors but you
Environment now hes declared that hes tested positive of a few days in quarantine millers very close to President Trump pieces chief speechwriter as well as probably one of his closest policy advisers now he joins us long list of people from the white house who have declared positive in recent days among them the press secretary another Senior Policy Adviser hope. Press secretarys aides a number of them at least 3 journalists who work at the white house the president s chief of campaign manager. This list is growing and growing and growing and clearly there is some issue perhaps it is where the actual source of infection comes from its not clear at this particular point but i must point out that hoe picks for example tested positive on wednesday last week kaley make and then the president secretary held a briefing the next day with journalists flouting c. D. C. Regulations that anybody whos been in close contact with somebody whos contracted the infection should go into self quarantine
Now working hard to get me all the way back i have to be back because we still have to make America Great again weve done an awfully good job of that and no regrets from donald trump who was rushed to hospital late on friday i just didnt want to stay in the white house i was given little to stay in the white house lock yourself in dont ever leave dont even go to the Oval Office Just stay upstairs and enjoy dont see people dont talk to people and just be done with it and i cant do that i had to be out front and this is america this is the United States. But the white house message and the president s illness has been confused and incomplete on saturday morning the doctors gave a briefing but that race questions of when the president was actually diagnosed the president tweeted out the news on friday morning just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of it in a particular day 7 to 10 of the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness. At this time the team and i
Much he is. To the south bay we go. More of the same. This is video shot this afternoon in san jose. It looked like heavy winter fog. But this is just more smoke wafting into the bay area. And this is the problem. Take a look at the satellite images from the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa. Well have more on the fires in just a moment. First lets head straight to Spencer Christian for a look at conditions and why today looks so different. The sky looked eerier yesterday. Take a look at the water vapor satellite image. You can see smoke not only moving through but the circulation to our north is pulling smoke from the oregon fires. Well show you how it is pulling directly down. Yesterday the smoke was locked above us in a higher level of the atmosphere. Today it is right down at the surface level. Mixing in, making our air dirtier and posing a greater threat to our health. As you can see, it is indicating poor to very poor air quality. The central part of the bay a
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