The national hurricane center, they literally came in five seconds ago, the forecast did have the center making landfall at the 5:00 p. M. Advisory right into the hamptons, around south hampton, it shifted westward again. Now we re making it toward eye islip. All of a sudden, 24, 48 hours ago this was in the buzzard s bay and new port and rhode island area and everyone in cape cod who pulled their boats out of the water saying they may catch a break. People from long island, now all of a sudden heading toward new york city and the long island sound, everyone is going we have one day to prepare. That s it. You have saturday. Because this storm is coming in in a hurry early sunday morning. The landfall time is up. So let me go to the graphics and giving you a new update and we re still dealing with it as a tropical storm. Did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. And heading to the north finally at 9 miles an hour. And now it s going to accelerate northwards on its journey to new engl
Are hospitalized with covid right now than in the state s previous peak back in july of 2020. Also this hour, the legislative victory lap for democrats continues. Senate democrats just passing that $3. 5 trillion budget overnight. Passed along party lines, above other things it will expand medicare eligibility. We re also watching this podium because we expect to see and hear from senate majority leader chuck schumer about it. Remember the once promising negotiations on a police reform bill? we just got a new interview with a key negotiator. So what s the hold up? we ll explain in a few moments. We start with a surge in covid cases across the country. Shannon pettymiss is there. Dasha burns is in east tennessee, and there are already dozens of positive cases among students and staff. Alison barber is in a state that has just run out of icu beds. And i want to bring in a doctor. A big thanks to all of you, shannon let s start with you. 15 minutes or so from now president bide listen be
Okay, kids, don t wear masks. Then you find out retrospectively that this virus in a strange and unusual way is really hitting kids really hard but hopefully this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn t have a negative lasting impact on them. Robert redfield echoing dr. Fauci on the transmission of the delta variant but he is pushing for kids to get back into schools. Redfield noted there are few cdc studies that involve children wearing masks in a classroom setting. These policies should be grounded in data as opposed to opinion. This as florida governor ron de santis announcing the florida board of education may withhold the salaries of school officials who choose to require masks in schools against his executive order. Six counties are rejecting the governor s mandate and requiring masks or of have made them optional and in texas the dallas school board voting to require masks in defiance of governor greg abbott s executive order. Lloyd austin announced all milit
The biden plan to move the country along. Get vaccinated. Please, it works, it saves lives. The president combining two messages there. We are now economically, a very long way from when covid first hit, the humanitarian crisis which became an economic one, the dow, the markets, jobs and everything crashing. Now to be at precise as possible. The american economy was rebounding before biden took office. This shift on jobs and unemployment and historic drops in poverty are now powered by biden s push of this successful spending. Biden s tour looks like a new landmark win on the next job of infrastructure bill which we ll get a vote tomorrow. We ll see what the final vote is. Some republicans have shifted to blocking about the additions to the national debt in this plan tomorrow. Now that has been the reason that some are claiming delays. Republicans double the entire deficit when trump was in office. There is no debate about the american jobs marketing. It is improving under biden s doub
A growing list of new york district attorneys are weighing criminal probes into the embattled governor amid questions over charges on a federal level as well. All of this as a new poll shows 59% of new yorkers feel if cuomo does not resign, he should be the first new york governor impeached in more than a century. David spunt is live with more. Good afternoon. Hi, trace. I just checked with a justice department official. As i m told, the doj doesn t have an active investigation into the sexual harassment allegations surrounding governor cuomo but that could change quickly just because federal law prohibits any type of discrimination in the workplace. This is from title 7 in the civil rights act of 1964. Federal civil rights investigators could probe into a potential hostile work environment and allegations or retaliation and potential witness intimidation. Trace, there s a growing list of district attorneys in four new york counties that are requesting more information about cuomo. Bac