Winter is showing signs in what we call 2020. Early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. The global war against coronavirus continues as the war has topped 44 million covid infections 8. 2 million and 75 million and 52 million respectively. Theres a dramatic rise in new infections available icu beds are critically low in some states. Heres nbcs gabe gutierrez. Reporter frances, wisconsin is among those states seeing a Record Number of covid cases the state had already opened an emergency Field Hospital near milwaukee. Now this new drivethrough testing site as demand for testing soars. The parking lot of a Major League Ballpark transformed into wisconsins newest drivethrough testing site the cars started lining up an hour before testing started. On friday they saw a Record Number of covid cases, nearly 3 rkds 800 what are your symptoms ive had a pesky cough since saturday and fatigue we all want to get back to work and have life as normalal as possible
Psychologist who removed Jeffrey Epstein before he hanged hims f himself. All that and panic in st. Louis. Students running for their lives in fear of an active shooter. Across town, an 8yearold is killed by gunfire. Defeat down under. The u. S. Mens Basketball Team falls to australia. The first loss in the Major International tournament in nearly 13 years. And paradise bound. A town rallies around the High School Football team playing its first game since the community was wiped out by the devastating wildfires. A new reason to cheer today, saturday, august 24th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with sheinelle joins and Peter Alexander and dylan dreyer. From studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thanks for joining us. Kristen welker is here while sheinelle has the week off. How about the story from california . Players prove paradise is not lost. Incredible to see it. Well have the story in a moment. Lets get to the top story. That is President Trump arriving i
Championship. Making art come alive. Meet themarlie hall. Im frances rivera. In kansas hail measured over two inches across rained down. Video shows the intense moment it pounded the town of elsworth. Saw wind gusts over 100 Miles Per Hour in south bend, indiana, sightings of a massive tornado through the town the Day Care Center was severely damaged by the high wind Severe Weather also wreaking havoc in texas communication has been restored at two dallas airports after a Lightning Strike caused a transition equipment causing hundreds of canceled and delays flights. Missouri was hit hard. A flash flood washing out roads and bridges and also reports of Drinking Water bouthwestern missriive inches of rain. Ramping up pressure on iran with sanctions on tehran the move comes just days after the country shut down a spy drone over the straitt and launched a cyberattack on iran target its control system. Tracie potts joins us with the latest from d. C. Good morning, frances growing concern ar
we are coming on the air with several developing stories, the big international pledge secret meeting on secret doc with a little bit of committee chaos, let s start with what is happening right now with the u.s. and allies getting ready to add tanks to the battlefield in ukraine. the white house just now outlining when those tanks will be on the ground, part of a bigger international push to try to get other countries to do the same. our teemg is standing by with the latest. also this hour, senators getting briefed by the head of the u.s. intelligence and what is at the top of the agenda, a whole bunch of classified documents ending up in places where they shouldn t be. we will have the team on what to expect. plus the committee, democrats blasting speaker kevin mccarthy s move to boot top democrats from the in tem committee and his expected push to try to block one member of congress from foreign affairs. we will get into it all later in the show. i m hallie jackson in
hour. the category 4 storm is currently barreling across southwest florida with winds up to 150 miles per hour. more than 1.5 million people in the state are currently without power, and that number is growing. but the most imminent and life-threatening concern is the storm surge. some areas seeing 12 to 18 feet. to give you an idea of just how severe that is, a meteorologist for the national hurricane center says no one alive has seen 12 feet of storm surge in that area, and many areas could take years to recover. just take a look at this surge today. the dangers are a reality for many who chose to hunker down and wait out the storm despite the evacuation orders. take a look at what family told nbc affiliate wbbh as their house flooded. so this is ft. myers beach on cutlass drive. it s four of us. four of us? on cutlass drive. and you re on the second floor already? yeah. six of us in here. do you have do you have a roof? 15 feet of water now. there s 15 fe