Surpassed 4 million cases of thats a drastic increase of infections in just a few weeks that illustrates how rapidly the virus is spreading. To give you a sense of how fast cases are growing, it took about five months to reach 2 million cases here in the u. S. But only six weeks to double that number. And tonight for the second night in a row more than 1,000 people have been killed by the virus nationwide in just 24 hours. The cdc said today that death toll will only keep growing, projecting as many as 30,000 more deaths in the next three weeks. With deaths in florida hitting a record high tonight, President Trump says he is pulling back on his plan to host part of the Republican Convention in jacksonville next month, and will most likely now give his acceptance speech online. The president angrily moved much of the convention to florida last month after north carolinas governor said his state couldnt safely allow thousands of delegates to gather in an arena. And in his third briefing
heinrich starts us off tonight. good evening, jacqui. good evening, mike. today in a background call about these documents, the white house counsel s office at one point encouraged reporters to look into the secret deals kevin mccarthy made to be secret speaker of the house. sums up the posture of this administration and the information blackout that we are getting right now. come on, guys. reporters didn t hear from the president s lawyers today. but the white house brought the golden state warriors to the brady briefing room. good afternoon, everybody. and the press secretary. i have been forthcoming from this podium. and, yet, most questions directed at karine jean-pierre went unanswered. reporters repeatedly referred to the white house counsel s office which had made an adviser, not a lawyer, available just an hour earlier. referring reporters to the department of justice and the president s personal attorney. we have within trying to answer questions thor
we begin this hour with celebration turning into tragedy at the university of georgia. just hours after the football team was honored for winning a national championship one of their key players, 20-year-old, was killed in a car crash along with a member of the football staff, 24-year-old chandler lacroix. cnn is live in athens, georgia. what do we know about what happened? reporter: we just got a statement indicating this happened at 2:45 early this morning. that car was traveling southbound on this road behind me just past this curve right here and then, fred, for some reason that car left the roadway, struck this power pole right here. we saw utility crews in the last hour or so replacing and fixing this power pole, and then the car continued, fred. you can see the debris, the fallen tree limbs where it struck a tree. as we make our way over here i will show you the exact spot where this car came to rest continuing past this slope right here and ending at this location r
rescuers digging through the rubble, desperate to save lives. matt gutman on the scene in dnipro. a new atmospheric river in california. a major highway shut down as it s buried in snow. in the south, the clean up under way from deadly tornadoes. one woman describing how she rescued multiple children as a twister bore down on their day care facility. tonight the storms are moving across the country. what it could mean for the midwest and east later this week. our weather team tracking it all. the picture tells it all. damar hamlin beaming as he reunites with his buffalo bills teammates for the first time on the eve of their big matchup. the latest on hamlin s remarkable recovery. disturbing body cam video. a suspect tased repeatedly by police and later dies at a hospital. the cousin of a black lives matter cofounder. the incident in los angeles happening after a traffic collision. what we re learning about the use of force investigation, and what the man said about geor
i m kind kim brunhuber. ahead we are not out of the woods yet. the threat to communities remains and waters will continue to rise even after these storms have passed. the already drenched state of california is bracing for even more storms. we ll have a report from the cnn weather center with a preview of this weekend s weather and new details in the case of the missing massachusetts mother, what she told police nine years ago about her husband. plus a huge explosion in the disputed ukrainian city of soledar as russia claims it has captured the city, this is amid new attacks in kyiv. we ll have a live report from ukraine. life from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. and we begin with extreme weather across the united states. in california, more than 25 million people are under flood watches this weekend, including the entire bay area, snrlcentra valley and central california coastline. more waves of storms fueled by a strong atmospheric river