Reporter it is the eighth night of protests in new york city as tensions continue to rise as thousands defied the 8 00 pm curfew and clash with cops. Marchers took to the streets of brooklyn demonstrating new the berkeley center, the scene of much violence earlier this week. It was large but more peaceful protests, similar scenes occurring throughout new yorks 5 boroughs is protesters made their way through city streets shatter their mantra black lives matter. After 8 00 pm cops began aggressive reinforcing interview and that is when trouble and services started as offices work to disperse the crowd sometimes by which a gap between the groups and blocking off streets, dozens were arrested. In upstate new york police shoving an elderly man who falls to the ground and hits its head bleeding. He suffered a serious head injury but is expected to recover, the Buffalo Police commissioner has ordered an investigation into the incident and the two officers have been suspended without pay. Hund
Hello to you. The number of people who have died from covid 19 in the United States has now officially exceeded 100,000. The actual numbers are likely to be higher than that, but it is clear that in the past three months more americans have died from infection than during the korean war, the vietnam war and the conflict in iraq combined. Lets take a look at how the us got to this point. The first death in the country was reported on february the 29th. On march the 13th, President Trump declared a National Emergency as schools were closed. Stay at home orders were issued in california, new york and washington, dc. Within a month, the us surpassed italy with just over 20,000 now the highest death rate in the world. Then President Trump released his guidelines for reopening the country, as anti lockdown protests broke out. Into may, and the president said his task force would continue indefinitely, 2a hours after announcing it would close. The death toll then stood at 71,000. Nowjust thre
Viewing for george floyd begins in his home town and hour from now. Today the floyd family is expected to meet privately with joe biden. At the same time former officer Derek Chauvin now facing seconddegree murder charges for his role in mr. Floyds death will make his First Court Appearance in minneapolis. In new york city, 400,000 people are going back to work today as part of the city beginning the phase one of reopening. Even as the outpouring of demonstrations across the nation over the last 12 days raise concerns about potential spikes of coronavirus cases. Here in washington, President Trump his weekend out of public view in the white house as peaceful protests continued around the white house. The president tweeting attacks on joe biden and prominent africanamericans including d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and former secretary of state general colin powell. A republican who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and now endorsed joe biden while blasting mr. Trump. The one word i have to
Hour of this saturday edition of fox friends im joined, of course by jedediah beal i cant and Griff Jenkins. Our swat monster who i saw in solidarity in a sense for a couple of days earlier this week. Griff, how are you doing this morning . Griff im doing good. Its been a crazy week i will say seeing you in the guard serving our nation. Me out there in the streets reporting. Its good that things are calm this morning while we wait for this really really big turnout today which we expect to be very peaceful but very large. Jedediah yeah. Its been interesting to watch. A lot of people were exercising their right to protest peacefully. Some wearing masks. Some not. Remember we are in the midst of a coronavirus. Pete oh, we are . Jedediah trying to manage that. Pete is that thing still going on . Okay. Jedediah i know, when the news cycle switches its amazing. Some people seem to have completely forgot been that interesting how that has played out. The responses from. So mayors and some of
Earlier t today. President trump we cant let what is happening, happen. Equal justice under the law, and thats every encounter with Law Enforcement regardless of race, color, gender or creed. We also what happened last week. We cant let that happen. Jesse ahead of the big protest in d. C. The liberal mayor feuding with President Trump over how to keep the peace. Trump blessing mayor Muriel Bowser for trying to kick out the National Guard. Okay. Greg gutfeld. I dont see the problem with a National Guard for this reason. When you use the National Guard, the National Guard seems to work to stop the and violence. So i dont know why you want to kick out the National Guard before the violence has been quelled. Greg we are in a weird situation in that we are being told everything is great and peachy but i just heard this phrase yesterday, or was it today, called measure management. Thats how the media treats the public. They keep us in the dark and they keep feeding us. Anyway, i dont know wh