between now and the next few weeks. and if you are infected, step by step guidance on what to do. our expects live in the studio, answering your questions. pandemic: what you need to know. here s david muir. good evening and thank you for joining us for this special live 20/20. and as we come on the air tonight, much of america shutting down. late today, president trump issuing new nationwide guidelines for americans across this country, in the fight against the coronavirus. the outbreak spreading across the u.s. more than 1,300 new cases in just the last 24 hours and that s without testing fully up to speed. in total, more than 4,600 cases in 49 states. at least 82 deaths. late today, the president urging americans not to gather in groups larger than ten. and to avoid restaurants and bars. and he said the u.s. could be dealing with this right into the summer. tonight, a major lockdown has been declared in the san francisco area. nearly 7 million people in several cal
america s crime rates frustrating the biden administration. stay tuned how the white house responded again today when peter doocy to blame the surge nationwide lawlessness. plus andrew cuomo has to return millions of dollars after disgraced former new york governor made from pandemic leadership blog and he hasn t much time to cough up the cash. we began with ongoing pandemic and weight of new restrictions and democrat lead cities and states to complicate struggling economic recovery. matt finn tracking all of this tonight, good evening. kathy hochul reintroduced a mask mandates and hospitalizations up 70% since thanksgiving. the new mandate requires business workers and customers to prove vaccination or wear a mask indoors. it is sparking outrage that some workers and customers with fatigue will stay home perhaps even more shipment delays and perhaps some type of impact on the economy. the raising of the question whether the mask mandate will stall new york city economic re
wider conflict. the latest from the region is coming up on cnn. but first, why do we keep giving donald trump exactly what he wants. tonight on laura coates live. but donald j j trump got exactly what he wanted today. and i mean again. a giant megaphone to call the 370 million dollar civil suit against him, say it with me, we all know the phrase, a witch hunt. but as you know, this is an unconstitutional witch hunt. its election interference at the highest level. but then in the courtroom, right in front of the very judge who is going to decide just how much he has to pay. again this is not a jury trial. no dye audience, he s talking to the person who is going to decide how much he has s fraud case. so maybe you want to want your words, saying, quote, this was a political witch hunt, what s happened here sir is a fraud on me. and that is donald trump s closing argument. the world of bach, or the 370 million dollar box stop here. now i want to bring in former trump
i am ending this long running saga. i am cancelling the rest of the h52 project. and in its place. ..and in its place, we will reinvest every single penny, £36 billion, in hundreds of new transport projects in the north and the midlands, across the country. this means £36 billion of investment in the projects that will make a real difference across our nation. applause ijust want to remind you exactly what hs2 actually is. it s a high speed railway which is what the hs stands for and it was touted as the uk s biggest infrastructure project, aiming to transform public transport between london, the midlands and the north. the first part, between west london and birmingham, is already under construction and will be completed. but the length stretching further north from birmingham to manchester has now been officially scrapped. a separate leg from nottingham to leeds had already been canned. the last official estimate on hs2 costs, excluding the cancelled section, added up
best arguments today to close the case.and nothing was off limits. limits. he planned and he premeditated the murder of lynnsey donald, that is he had plenty of time to think about what he was going to do before he did it. it. when you investigate a little bit further is that nick obviously suffers from a severe illness and disease and so there s much more to this case. still, the state argued luerkens mental health was not an excuse for his crime. crime. even dr. rosell admitted that despite his depression he still had the mental capacity to understand that he was committing a crime. the surveillance video and the notebook that had luerkens allegedly plotting to kill donald was shown to the jury again.but the defense fired back, saying that s not the full story. story. they act as if all you need is a video and a journal and that is not the case in this situation, that s not your job. your job is to consider all the evidence. evidence. in this case, the defendant nic