Washington. Welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world on this first day of may. You are in the cnn newsroom. As we come on the air tonight, several countries are rushing to get desperately needed covid aid to india. Essential medical supplies are arriving as india s health care system buckles under the out of control pandemic. On friday india recorded more than 400,000 new cases in a single day. That is a first since this pandemic began. India is not alone. Symbolic body bags now lined the famed beach there in rio de janeiro. Brazil now reporting 400,000 covid deaths. The government s handling of the pandemic now under investigation. The contrast country to country grows more stark. Hospitals in india are struggling to provide even the most basic care. Eight patients died at a new delhi hospital this afternoon because of a lack of oxygen. They couldn t breathe and there was no oxygen for them. This as disney land in the u. S. Reopens and the nation takes more ste
of the tunnel draws near. we re headed in the right direction. we re going to have a great summer. but we just have to be a little more careful against the big stuff right now. i fear that people are going to get complacent. they are going to see that things are returning to normal. we don t reach herd immunity come the fall and with the winter, because coronaviruses are winter respiratory viruses, we have a big resurgence. raids by federal agents of rudy giuliani s apartment and office this week are raising fears among former president trump s inner circle. these are quite overt steps that are being taken by the justice department. this isn t just anybody. this is a lawyer to the president, former u.s. attorney in new york. it s a late night for spacex, as a crew and capsule get set for an overnight splashdown in the gulf of mexico. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are in the cnn newsroom. gre
been signed. experts say those tests are weeks away if not longer. mike: peter doocy gets us started from the white house northline. good afternoon, peter. good afternoon. a lot of questions here at the white house today about backing up this big promise for half a billion tests by next month. the government telling us there s going to be a new website where people can go to request a test for free to be sent to their house, but so far we don t have much on timing. we don t know how many tests each person is going to be able to order for free. we also don t know exactly how they are going to back this up. because, as the new york times is reporting today, and as jen psaki confirmed in the clip you re about to see, they still haven t signed the contract yet. why is it you guys are promising 500 million tests next month if you haven t even signed a contract? we have no concern about the contract being finalized. we are working to finalize the contract. if it is so e
acknowledging you knew the risk about carrying a taser? yes, i signed the document. it turns out the carrying of these weapons, reaction side means what? my lefthand. you are right-handed? yes. carrying a taser you have done for years on your left side, correct? yes. and your firearm you carry where? on my right side. how many years have you carried your firearm and taser that way? firearm for 26 years. my taser according to your documents for 19. as long as you have had that taser you carried it on your left side, correct? in the beginning i carried it on my right side in a drop holster. when did you switch? when we were given new holsters. when would that have been? i don t know. okay. before 2016 you sought images up in court. long before that you were carrying your taser on your left side, correct? yes. years and years? yes. [silence]. we will talk about reality and scenario based training. when you go through those trainings,
another tranche of secret documents, compiled by the cia and the fbi and the little boy in australia who mixed up his order and maxed out his dad s credit card on ice cream. hello, more people have tested positive for covid in the uk in this past twenty four hours, than on any other day in the last twenty two months of this pandemic. almost 80,000 test results came back positive and the true number of infection right now in the uk is likely to be much higher. the recent spike is of course down to this new, highly contagious variant. 0mnicron is already the dominant strain in the capital and is soon expected to overtake delta as the uk s dominant variant. scientists are putting the emphasis on the booster programme three doses of the covid 19 vaccine will provide good protection against this variant. but at sobering press conference at downing sreet a few hours ago, england s chief medical officer chris whitty said many more records will be broken in the coming weeks. thi