After the shooting of jacob blake. Well cover it all, but well start with Donald Trumps convention, which featured uniquely president ial acts and trappings, such as an official president ial pardon, a rose garden address from the first lady, a speech from the current sitting secretary of state, delivered on foreign soil, a mini naturalization ceremony, wherein the president , who has separated families and caged children, was flanked by his acting Homeland Security secretary, chad wolf, and made a show of embracing immigrants to this country. An event described in todays prank coverage as both highly irregular and gallingly hypocritical. Michael shere in todays New York Times writes this, quote, it was not the first time mr. Trump has presided over such a ceremony, but the willingness to use the trappings of president ial power during a Campaign Convention was a stunning departure from the past in which prior president s have avoided seeming to blur the lines between official xactions
Kenosha, wisconsin, overnight. Police are searching for a man with a long gun who apparently opened fire on protesters and agitators. Police say two people are dead this morning and one injured after a group of heavily armed vigilantes took it upon themselves to police the streets. Many videos on social media show the chaos as some of these shootings played out. [ gunfire ] [ screaming ] he just shot that guy in the stomach [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] people are getting shot all around us people are just getting shot everywhere, guys. [ bleep ] its been three days since jacob blake was shot in the back seven times in front of his children. His family says he is paralyzed. Police have still not explained what happened or why they shot him. This morning, we have new video of the moments right before that shooting. Also breaking just moments ago, we just got word that hurricane laura is rapidly gaining strength and is now forecast to become a very powerful category 4 storm tod
Highest sevenday average for new daily cases. A stunning 53 surge from the prior week. Health officials announcing that several new cases linked to that massive bike rally earlier there this month and in kansas the state added nearly 4,000 cases in 1 week for the first time. The governor says each county in the state now has at least one positive covid case. And as more u. S. Schools try to strike a balance, the new study offersen sight to track infections. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has details. Anderson, theres been a lot of questions asked, how many children are there out there in the United States that dont look like they have covid and look fine and are infected . Researchers in San Francisco did a very smart thing. They looked at children who were at childrens hospitals for other reasons, surgeries, for whatever, but not for covid and seem perfectly fine and tested them for covid and lets take a look at the results. In hospitals in various parts of the country,
Get down, get down, get down. Sandra a gunman opened fire hitting two people and killing a third. Police confirm they are searching for a man armed with a long gun. It happened during a Third Straight night of violent protests in the city following the shooting of jacob blake by police on sunday. Much more on this. Meanwhile it is day three of the Republican National convention. It will get underway soon with the theme land of heroes. Melania trump urged the country to come together amidst all the unrest. Trace im trace gallagher. Tonights lineup includes outgoing counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Vice President mike pence who will officially accept the nomination from fort mchenry. Last Nights Program featured two surprises from President Trump when he pardoned john ponder and took part in the naturalization ceremony of five new american citizens. The big star of the night was Melania Trump. This is the cover of the New York Post. In her speech she asked americans to uni
First, to mike tobin who isnt live now in kenosha, wisconsin, to begin the hour. Make it . Well build a whole town of kenosha smells like a structure fire. This is one example and as you can see there is more than a little smoke rising up among this particular business. The state is now making it an assessment about the extent of the damage and they also said they will be redeploying more National Guardsmen to the scene last night. The way it boiled down last nights support has itself seem to become the line where the demonstrators squared off with police in riot gear. A pretty typical escalation which started with the bottles, glass bottles coming over the crowd. Ultimately the demonstrators went to fireworks and they were using mortars, not military motors but the type of thing you would see at a fourth of july. Some of them with bright colors and some of them with an explosion. Police responded with things like rubber bullets and tear gas to back up the crowd. Ultimately we saw the