Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are lucy fisher, defence editor at the times, and the broadcaster and authorjohn kampfner. Many of tomorrows front pages are in, starting with stay home advice to be scrapped thats the top story on the daily telegraph, referring to the governments plans to adapt the lockdown slogan this weekend. The Financial Times also focuses on the easing of lockdown restrictions, while at the same time highlighting travel issues, and areas where restrictions could be tightened. The daily mail simply headlines the words hurrah Lockdown Freedom beckons. The daily express exclaims first steps to freedom from monday. Happy monday is the top line on the sun, which predicts well be able to exercise all we like, and sit in the park from next week. The top story from the independent online focuses on the uks shortage of tests saying widespread testing has been suspended for many key workers. Thats also the headline
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. A little past 9 00 p. M. Here on the east coast. We have the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. Ill take a breath now. This is a tough case. That all unfolded live. I didnt know where it was going. Im gong to be honst with you. I am broadcasting from a separate studio with a lot of delays. There was social distancing. I dont know that family from adam. I dont know whats going on. I dont know anything. I dont know. I dont know why he didnt call 911 or honk or try to drive up and stop. Nobody knows. But a young man is dead. His death was captured on video. A mother is grieving. A family is grieving. An entire world is grieving. Were all trying to figure it out. So lets figure it out together and take a deep breath. Ooip going to stay on top of this. Cnn is going to stay on top of this for you. So so lets move on and talk about coronavirus and Everything Else going on. So there are now more than 1. 3 million cases of coronavirus in the United States. To
Grief and devastated survivors. As nations around the world slowly emerge from their lockdowns, we have hit another disturbing milestone in the spread of coronavirus. Johns Hopkins University reporting the number of cases around the world topped 4 million on saturday. Nearly 280,000 people have died. And it didnt take long to get to this point. You can see how fast the pandemic spread after the first million cases were confirmed early last month. It took less than two weeks to reach the next million. And the next and the next. About one third of those cases, 1. 3 million, are of course, in the United States. With more than 78,000 lives now lost. Almost every state in the u. S. Will be back in business by monday to some extent. People in los angeles allowed to golf and hike again this weekend. And, as the u. S. Balances opening back up with staying safe, the pandemic is hitting close to home. Some of the most prominent experts leading the administrations response to the crisis. It looks
From today. Even in hardhit states such as texas, colorado, and illinois, 13 sites across five states in total, even though dr. Fauci, once again, emphasized today the importance of testing. Fauci is among the Trump Administration Health Officials testifying right now before the House Committee on energy and commerce. And it has not been all bad news, we should note, as cnns nick watt reports for us now. Dr. Fauci is cautiously optimistic there may be light at the end of this tunnel. If you look at how weve been hit, weve been hit badly. Reporter a checkup from dr. Anthony fauci, praise for new york where they are for now controlling covid19. However, in other areas of the country, we are now seeing a disturbing surge of infections. Reporter black americans are being hit harder. Does institutional racism play a part . The answer, congressman, is yes. Reporter and a vaccine . I still think there is a reasonably good chance that by the very beginning of 2021 that if were going to have a
Out their gains by reopening too quickly . Theres a lot of question and criticism at the local level in certain states about reopening too quickly. Heres what we do know. Were learning more about bhooz getting infected, more young people. And we knew about underlying conditions, the elderly and those morbidly obese. The cdc saying anyone with a bmi of 30 or higher is at higher risk and thats some 42 of the population. Reporter in the nations three most population states, things are going from bad to worse. I dont think the history is going to look back kindly on americans going through this. Reporter Governor Greg Abbott pausing additional reopening in texas where hospitalization records are being set too. At Texas Medical Center there are just two available icu beds in the greater houston area. Two out of more than 1300. Were running out of that time with the runway short and our Health Care System is filling up. And we need to do everything we can as a community to fight this pandemi