Affected by the coronavirus. Egge discussesrt how covid19 is impacting nursing home patient. Next. Ington journal is host the weekend july 4 celebrations are over, and the covid crisis continues, the cages surging in several states across the country. Good morning. Welcome to washington journal for this monday, july 6. We will talk about what the situation is like in your area and state, the impact of the search in it crisis across cases across the state. In lines are 202 7488000 the eastern and central time zones. In the mountain and pacific areas, 202 7488001. If you like to send us a text, 202 7488003t at tell us your name and where you are from. cspanwj. So on twitter soaring cases, hospitalizations overshadowed july 4 celebrations. States cast an 39 shadow over the nations fourth of july celebrations, as Health Experts word about holiday parties causing a further spike in infections that could overwhelm hospitals. Also looking at the wall street journal this morning in specificity
Hospital, Morton Plant Hospital in clearwater, and Advent Health north had no icu beds available saturday. Thetampa bay times reported Data Collected by the agency for health care administration. To your calls. We will go first to cedric in boston. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wanted to make a comment about president trump. He used his whole fourth of july weekend talking about statues, and people are dying from this disease. Job. Ur this guy cannot even do a job. All these sick people worrying about going back to work, told not to wear a mask. We are going to fire his behind. In texas. Is good morning. Caller how are you . Host fine, thanks. Caller my comment pertains to all the violence we are having across the country. Apparently, people have forgotten the history of this country. Im old enough to remember what we were taught when we went to , and wes youngsters read history books that they are not reading today. The civil war was not fought over slavery at all. Passed the s
Showers will develop late this afternoon. Look at that view. Nice, dazzling reflection of the sun there, limited clouds for you. We hop over to Clearwater Beach where we had a shower offshore. Its fizzling so we have light winds for you, and clouds build offshore and only one area of showers that continues to fall apart. We can call this a shower. One tiny little shower about five miles west of reddington beach, a little further south. These showers hang south and theyre about 10 miles west of anna maria and fort de s soto. We keep an eye on those, and im not expecting them to reach the coast, though. We dont have 80s this hour. We can celebrate that and bartow is at 72. Our weather controlled by very light winds and some drier air aloft today. With that you see the high, and notice the wind arrows all over the place. Light wind means the sea breeze moves away from the beach quickly. Starts, we introduce the 30 chance of showers but a few slowmoving, possibly strong storms. Well look a
Anjuli good morning. Welcome to good day tampa bay. Its 7 00 a. M. And sunday. Im anjuli davis. Alcides im alcides segui. Thank you for joining us. Is that a sunrise . Anjuli that looks pretty dark to me. Lindsay 7 20. Theres a better one. Alcides thats the sunrise, right. Lindsay theres extra clouds in the mix this morning. Theres showers out there. Im not sure what was going on with that camera. Well get outside and lets take a happening on brookdale bayshore. A little fog into Citrus County but thats it. Visibility is pretty darn good for this time. Temperatures are warm at 72 ba bartow, 77 in tampa and its 78 in st. Pete and so steamy because the winds are light. With it well talk about sky tower. Were in a setup where i wouldnt be surprised if the shower you see may have been a wate stay offshore. If youre boating avoid these type of cells. Zoom further out. A couple extra showers meandering a couple mimes west of fort de soto. Most of the rain is over the water and not over land.
And we begin with a news alert right now out of charlotte , North Carolina. For the second night in a row, the streets have been filled with violent protests. The governor of north state of emergency in the city. And the National Guard has been sent in. It started last night as a peaceful prayer vigil, but quickly got out of control with angry marches. One person in the crowd was . Shot and critically wounded by another civilian. Four Charlotte Police officers were also wounded by the protestors. All the injuries are considered minor. Officers in riot gear had to disperse the crowd with flash grenades and tear gas. Several Office Buildings and restaurants were also damaged and looted. Stems from the deadly shooting of a black man tuesday. Keith scott was killed by a . Black police officer. After police say he refuesed several orders to drop a gun. Scotts family claims he didnt have a gun. But a gun was found at the scene. And here in tampa. One officer just faced a very similar scary s