Get us into even more trouble. The Washington Post reporting, quote, as daily covid19 deaths climb to levels not seen since early in the pandemic, nine states have hit one more grim marker. More than one in every 1,000 people dead of coronavirusrelated causes. On friday south dakota became the latest state to reach that unwanted marker, including new york, new jersey, and neighboring north dakota which currently has the highest covid Mortality Rate in the world. Its Early Morning here outside the badlands region of south dakota. Were traveling to key locations across the country, areas that have been hard hit by the coronavirus, even before the arrival of covid19 Native Americans had the countrys lowest life expectancy. Now south dakota is reporting some of the highest deaths per capita. Residents are fighting for their very lives. With a Positivity Rate of 24 , south dakota and neighboring north dakota have the highest incidence of covid19 cases nationwide over the past week, a stark
Funding expires. Bills on energy and clean air and forced labor. Announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in statuary hall at u. S. Capitol friday. The ceremony will only be open [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by conroy. Plain, father chaplain conroy let us pray. Ord, merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. E give you thanks for the life and work of justice ruth ginsburg. Americans be inspired to be their best selves because of her example. She rest in peace. Bless those throughout our ation who are suffering from the pandemic, fires, hurricanes, and flooding. Needs continue. Our political leaders to tend to those needs with sp
Joe bidens message to american voters. Wrapping up this years up a virtual democratic convention, he vowed t to battle donald trup in novembers election. United nations represesentatives have been in contact afafter a military c cop forced him to resign on tuesday. Now plunged into o political ununcertainty with representatis from the u. N. Seeking to restore stability. N newsroom. To the have died inpeople Northern California due to the dozens of wildfires raging across the region. More than 30 firefighters and civilians have been injured in the blazeze, and tens of thouous of homeses are currently at ris. Fires were sparked by a rare phenenomenon, tens of thousandsf Lightning Strike for several days, the area was s also susuffering from high temperatures. Our correspondent has the story. The latest that episode of caliph on the california wildfire seasonn has been deadl. The blazes around the greater San Francisco bay area spreading rapidly. They have destroyed hundreds of homes anan
Safe and effective vaccine. If so, who gets it first . Soledad im Soledad Obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Every roadmap for fully reopening the country begins with a vaccine. So who gets it first . We posed that question to experts about a month ago and learned an Advisory Group to the c. D. C. Is working on guidelines to distribute initial doses. And it hopes to have a proposal ready in late september. Potential vaccines are racing through the deve operation warp speed promised to stockpile milli doses. Declared safe and effective, there likely wont be enough for everyone who wants it right away. Meharry Medical College in nashville is one of the nations oldest and largest historically black Academic Health Science Centers and is enrolled in operation warp speed. Dr. James e. K. Hildreth is an immunologist and the president and c. E. O. Of meharry. Instead of being a lead researcher, hes going to be a participant in the testing trials. Dr. Hildreth, its so nice to talk to you. Why
September. As Coronavirus Infections soar past 112,000 and the philippines, tens of millions of residents arare back in lockdow. Good to have you with us here on france 24. Spains former king has left the country. Pressure had been mounting on the former monararch for weeeeks after prorocutors in spain and switzerland began looking into allegations of briribes. In a letter to his son, juan carlos said he wanted him to rule untroubled. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [ [speaking spanish] for more on how the Spanish Press have been reacting to the former kings departure, here is our reporter from madrid. It depends on whether you look at the left wing or right wing press, but generally most of them are reflelecting the mid views many spaniards field for a man who is considered by an older generation to have helped deliver the democracy after the dictator Francisco Francos death. The most recent allegations, mixxed views, you can probably see that from abc. It has an editorial calle