Nascar becomes the first sport to return without fans in the stands. How it could drive the conversation on bringing sports back to america. Gentlemen, start your engines, but first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Theres a very real Health Consequence to these shutdowns that must be balanced against, as we try to reopen this economy and move forward. Many americans out and about for the first time in months as more states ease restrictions. I think were doing pretty well, being precautious. People will have to be fully confident and that may have to await the arrival of a vaccine. This pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing. The war of words is escalating between President Trump and former president barack obama. He was an incompetent president. Grossly incompetent. North carolina bracing for the first named storm of 2020. Tropical storm arthur. This is an early start to the hurricane s
Today. At this moment, we are waiting for new york Governor Cuomo there he is. He has just sat down. He is getting ready to start his daily briefing. Here we go. We will take you there live. To take off nine years now. Lets look at the facts today. Total hospitalization is down. Good news. Intubation is down. New covid hospitalizations are down. Its a good day across the plate. It is interesting. We have always been talking about this and been looking at this. Its interesting to see how the decline has actually been relatively flat. Remember, we talked about we knew how steep the incline was. What was the decline going to look like . What was the contour of the mountain going to look like . Look how long on the way down compared to the way up. Thats why the spikes are dangerous. Once you have the spike, coming down from the spike is a prolonged period of time. Number of deaths are down. 139. At a different time and place, if i had that news to deliver, that would be incredibly shocking
Battling is not just a particular individual or political party. But what were fighting against are these longterm trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided and seeing others as an enemy. That has become a stronger impulse in American Life. And, by the way, you know, were seeing that internationally as well. And its part of the reason why the response to this Global Crisis has been so anemic and sp spotty. And it would have been bad even with the best of governments. Its been an absolute chaotic disast disaster. When that mindset of, whats in it for me and to heck with everybody else, when that mindset is operationalized in our government. Lets start our coverage at the white house with cnns kristen holmes. The white house is now responding to that assessment from the former president. Thats right. Just a few moments ago, we got a statement from the press secretary kay league mcenany which did not mention the former president. However, it did not surprisingly slam demo
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. It is 11 00 p. M. On the east coast and we have the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. Now more than 1. 2 million cases of coronavirus in the United States. The number of new cases climbing by more than 20,000 each day. And the coronavirus death toll in the u. S. Now surpassing 73,000. The president reversing himself today, now saying the White House Coronavirus task force will continue indefinitely. The reversal coming after an outcry from medical experts who say it is too soon to disband the task force while the nation is still in the middle of the pandemic. The president also saying dr. Fauci and dr. Birx will remain in their current roles on the task force. At least 43 states at least partially reopening with encouragement from President Trump even though the virus is still spreading in many parts of the country. Over the last 14 days 19 states are seeing an upward trend in coronavirus cases, 18 states are not seeing any change in their case leve
Gift to the audience and to us so we stay focused on the humanity. Thank you, my friend. Have a great night. I am chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. So, its a monday. Im going to ask you to try Something Different tonight. Lets just try it once, see how it goes. All right . Instead of taking the bait that the president tossed out today about him taking he ining hydroxychloroquine, can we just try looking at why hes doing this today . Okay . Because this is not an accident. This is another day that he wont have the media pointing out that were reopening reckle recklessly. Its another day that hes going to avoid the media, people like me, saying, we dont have proper testing and tracing measures in place. Were the only major nation who doesnt have a central plan to do so . This thing about the drug is a fight he can win because his base believes in the efficacy of the drug. The science is irrelevant. Hes not going to lose anybody that he doesnt have already and he avoids a fight he d