The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglecd needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Laura im Laura Trevelyan and washington, d. C. And this is announcer bbc world news america. The number of coronavirus around the world passes 55 million. States impose new restrictions. 30,000 ethiopians have fled to neighboring sudan. Almost halare thought to be the n. Wants to know more about whats happening on the ground. They are needing avsperately to access unhindered, eunconditional access to refues. Laura plus, the taxis reached its destination as space x brings for astronauts safely toa the internatiospace station. Welcome to bbc world news america. The u. S. Is facing s the covid pandemic reeks fssther havoc ache nation. Each day the tracking ofovid cases gets darker and darker. More than 138,000 new cases on monday. To put that into perspective, one in every 378 americans tested positive f
Morning. Shattering records. Coronavirus cases growing across most of the nation. Each death a painful loss. To tell her that he wasnt going to make it, its just not something that you want to have to tell anyone ever. The new rules for travelers heading to new york. Femas Field Hospital in el paso. And this illegal Halloween Party packed with people. Gaining strength. Tropical storm eta in the Caribbean Sea tying 2005 for the most named storms in a season. Our weather team tracking its path. And touching tributes to sean connery. Bond, james bond. From the dashing 007 to the role that earned him an oscar. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. The magical moments on screen and how hollywood is remembering him this morning. Good morning. If youre waking up in parts of the country that use daylight savings time, we hope you enjoyed that extra hour of sleep. I know i did. The mood. I didnt even realize it was happening.
Back to work for some italy and spain begin easing a few new restrictions plus. This decisions must be based 1st on foremost on protecting human hill the warns governments around the world against abandoning lockdown orders to. The number of new coronavirus cases is now nearing 2000000 worldwide but the some signs of light at the end of the tunnel china has approved 2 new experimental vaccines to be tested on humans Clinical Trials are also under way in the United States and there President Trump and his top disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci say the daily number of new infections is not growing as fast as before more than 1500 americans have died in the past 24 hours alone bringing the total number of dead there to over 23000. 00 thats the highest anywhere in the world and in europe spain has taken the 1st step in easing a nationwide lockdown hundreds of thousands of nonessential employees have been allowed to return to work italy is also easing some districts ones from tuesday but the W
Here on a monday night. And we begin with california burning tonight. States of emergency as the fires now turn deadly. Were watching fires outside l. A. And north of San Francisco tonight. Homes, ne acres burning. 0 contained. Families escaping through the flames in hardhit santa rosa. The fires unstoppable, all day flames. And look at this tonight. Et after street just the of homes. Abcs matt gutman is right there tonight, where the speed of these fires still burning is of great concern tonight. Reporter tonight, that swarm of fires consuming northern californiawhole. Those powerful winds propelling the flames. Were really at the mercy of the weather right now. This wind is making a serious push. And that is out of our control. Reporter at least 1,500 structures destroyed north of San Francisco. Tens of thousands of acres er incifire battling flames up to ten the fires only ignited late last night and expoelded to over 80,000 acres in just 18 hours. We know we have a number of injuri
In politics, the house will vote on the g. O. P. Health care plan. It will be a partisan vote and its just the first step in a lengthy process to ultimately make this bill a law, but we begin with late night politics. Steven colbert he doesnt completely back walk or walk back from his vulgar antitrump monologue. Varney company begins. Folks, if you saw my monologue on monday, you know that i was a little upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine. So, at the end of that monologue, i had a few choice insults for the president in return. I dont regret that. I have jokes. He has the launch code. So, a fair fight. Well, that was Stephen Colbert from last night addressing in the comments he made the night before. Want to bring in James Freeman with the wall street journal editorial page. Seems like he did stop short of apologizing. Yeah, i think a lot of people are asking, wouldnt he be fired in many circumstances . What im happening for here is some market discipline. Stuart fr