What were noticing the crowd is on the move again. It was kind of stationary for a couple of minutes and now appears to be on the move again. Tish do you have any idea to what they may be eve heard reports, wbal channel 11 up in baltimore our sister station heard reports they might be moving south towards Martin Luther king but its hard to tell why they are going. Thats why they took the preventative measures. Theres a good map. That gives you and idea. They are moving south below that yellow section on the bottom. They began at the Mondawmin Mall by the zoo and then they walked ten blocks south. The governor larry hogan has declared a state of emergency and activating the National Guard. Thats a very significant event to activate the National Guard. We were there last week. We were interviewing linda singh. She was put in that position in january. Shes the first woman and first africanamerican agitant general. She lives in Prince Georges County and her headquarters are just down the s
What could be a Silver Lining for the government employees. The house may vote to give back pay to those furloughed workers. President obama is not traveling to asia. He has canceled that trip to keep up pressure on congress to pass a budget bill. Hallie jackson, thank you. We have been telling you about all of the federal workers affected. That shutdown will make it hard to track this flu season. It arrived early in maryland. Jennifer franciotti has more. Good morning. Good morning. The cdc also being affected by the Government Shutdown. Saying iticials are is earlier than it is ever been spotted in maryland during flu season. The cdc has stopped tracking influenza cases, a victim of the Government Shutdown. Theyre flu surveillance homepage says it all. No one is watching where the flu is moving or whether a pandemic is emerging. A doctor says that maryland and other states will continue tracking and testing locally. Without the government, there is no one linking across state lines.
Field. You gave him so much happiness. Reporter several former colts greats like lenny moore, jeno marquettey, tom matte, bracey and andy nelson attended the funeral. He was a special personal. And he was what baltimore was all about. We used to get auto people i see the people i see here today, thats amazing. To have a guy like donovan. Your mind is on what you have to do and how have you to do it. And youre tightening up in your head. Then all of a sudden, you hear a roar over there in the locker room. Theres donovan over there, you know, getting guys together. Loosening him up. Governor Martin Omalley and former governor bob ehrlich, join hundreds of close friends, former teammates and family members to remember the great art donovan. Reporter and while the Funeral Service here at the cathedral was public, the interment was, in fact, private. Close friend and teammate says artie still playing football, just on the big field in the sky. Were live at cathedral of mary our queen, im je
Looking at what were seeing now, you know, i would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases but i dont want to be held to that, because its its excuse me. Deaths. Millions of cases, but i just dont think we really need to make a projection when its such a moving target that you can so easily be wrong. And mislead people. What we do know, jake, is we have a serious problem in new york. We have a serious problem in new orleans and were going to be developing Serious Problems in other areas. So although people like to model it, lets just look at the data of what we have and not worry about these worse case and best case scenarios. New cases in the u. S. Have risen sharply. Just over the last 24 hours, there are now more than 130,000 people infected with the disease. The number of deaths doubling in just two days. Now exceeding 2,300 people. All this as the White House Coronavirus task force is reviewing new proposals to lead to reopening some parts of the country. Holding a briefing in just
You dont see your family for a while. I thought to myself, could be worse, like my brothers and sisters over in new york who some of them, they didnt survive. Everybody around me is talking about opening up the economy and the hospital and all of that. Im not quite sure what to think. We cant be overconfident until we have some measure of being able to say its in the past. Once again, we begin the show tonight with a small glimpse into the lives of the medical workers. Welcome to friday, it is meet the press daily. Were continuing special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. We passed a grim milestone today, more than 50,000 americans have now died from this virus and the number is likely much higher due to insufficient testing. At this rate, in just a few days, more americans will have died from coronavirus over a pan of roughly nine weeks than died in the vietnam war over the span of 12 years. And in the face of the economic calamity thats also hit our country, some states have beco