Area light fog. A short sleeve summer morning and sunblock hotter summer afternoon coming up with lower humidity moving in. Last couple of day, we have had the rather steamy humidity. Dew point temperatures in the 60s and 70s, but now down in to the 50s. Police apartment humidity for much of the afternoon. Between now and then, that humidity will drop. But still fairly high humidity causing dense fog. These counties in gray. Visibilities here are generally under a quarter of a mile. All the way through 9 00. So throw down, use your low beams. Coming up, the hour by hour temperature warmup. The body of an American Hero is on its way back home here to the u. S. Major general Harold Greene was killed earlier this week in afghanistan. We have received confirmation his remains are on an aircraft, have already left a military base in germany on the way to dover delaware. Once the body arrives in dover, there would be a transfer ceremony. He was killed on tuesday. A gunman opened fire shootin
Nasdaq, and google was 2,000 and the s p 500 holding on to fractional gains at 1803. Watching hewlettpackard can pop with its quarterly numbers beating the street, mixed bag, citigroup says they have 30 more upside, Goldman Sachs keeps the celebrating so were watching that as well. Commodities are to the downside. Oil below 92 for the First Time Since june so we are watching that story closely as well. Dennis lets talk about the wintery weather, weather making its way to the east coast causing several headaches for a lot of people on the busiest travel day of the year. Accuweather meteorologist pilotpoint is tracking the storm and jeff flock as the latest travel delays. Where is the storm heading . Is it getting worse . Luckily traveling in the eastern u. S. There have not been a lot of fun but thankfully the worst has already occurred. Many of us will be looking at improvement over the next 24 hours but lots to talk about on the busiest travel day of the year, retain close it to the c
Welcome to viewers in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer in washington. This is a special edition of the situation room. We begin with alarming numbers on the coronavirus pandemic, coming out right now out of the state of florida. The latest from state Health Officials today, more than 10,300 new infections, even worse news. Also reported, 90 florida residents died of the virus. Again, that in just one day. Texas also reporting very alarming numbers. More than 10,000 tested positive in texas for the fifth day in a row. Globally, the number of new Coronavirus Infections is also on the rise. The World Health Organization is reporting more than a quarter million new cases. On your screen now, you can see how many people have lost their lives around the world, and just in the United States because of the coronavirus. You see the numbers on the screen. Lets go straight to the current epicenter of the crisis in the u. S. , rosa flores is on the scene in miami. Rosa, te
Emergency Operations Center in florida, which has been dealing with this pandemic, has closed after 12 employees there tested positive for coronavirus. In arizona, one er doctor tells cnn that because of the heat, those individuals waiting in line for a coronavirus test are fainting. And even if they get a test, they will likely be waiting a while for the result with labs still reporting long backlogs, which means that by the time individuals get their results, they will be outdated and could be quite irrelevant. The testing inadequacies in this country, are, as trumps former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney called it, simply inexcusable and beyond the testing problems are a complete lack of a serious and comprehensive Contact Tracing program nationwide. The president instead of arising to this moment is focused on nonsensical claims about joe biden and various other culture war distractions. More than 138,000 people in the United States have died from coronavirus as of today. And in 17 st
Come up with a plan, President Trump decided he was going to take matters into his own hands over the weekend signing four executive orders. Hopefully we can do something with them at a later date but were going to be signing some bills in a little while that are going to be very important and will take care of pretty much this entire situation. Well, that doesnt make very much sense. Why . Because the president said these are bills. But only congress can pass bills. What the president did was sign executive orders which most likely will be challenged. In theory, the orders are supposed to get more aid to unemployed workers, suspend the collection of payroll taxes, stop evictions and help with student loan payments. But there are some serious question marks. For example, the president is offering less financial help than people were getting before and theres no stimulus checks or aid to Small Businesses included. Secondly, when talking about things like the payroll tax holiday or morat