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New York City Council is debating taking a billiondollar chunk out of the nypd budget. Well other progressive cities follow . Even if they face the crime rates this summer. And the commissioners asking for the publics help to find the people who gunned down 17yearold brandon hendrick, star basketball player just graduated from high school and was on his way to st. Johns with a scholarship. Tweeting out a call for help to solve the case. City councils work to Defund Police departments all across ...

Pausing or pulling back their reopening plans, a reminder, it did not have to be this way. The United States has about 4 of the worlds population. Yet a quarter of all coronavirus cases and deaths, at least official numbers say. And as we see cases spike at the highest level so far here in the u. S. , the European Union not to mention many other countries throughout the world has been able to drastically flatten the curve there. The United States is the only western and wealthy nation that has h...

Were not losing the battle, but were in the midst of it. Definitely not losing. That came on a day when florida set a single day record of 15,000 plus cases. Larger than any state has seen in a day including new york at the peak. With more than 3 million cases nationwide, there was this sunny assessment from the Surgeon General. Just as weve seen cases skyrocket, we can turn it around in two or three weeks if we can get a Critical Mass of people wearing face coverings, practicing six feet of soc...

It could be worse in the fall. And we are all continuing to increase everything we do. In louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards is the latest to issue a mask mandate announcing everyone over the age of 8 must wear a Face Covering in public unless a Health Condition prevents them from doing so. And announcing all bars will be closing starting tomorrow. And in texas a patient in their 30s died from coronavirus after attending a covid19 party. A gathering held by someone hin fected with the virus to...

Since early june, and a white house official released a statement saying that, quote, several white house officials are concerned about the number of times dr. Fauci has been wrong on things. What is going on here . Yeah, this is pretty remarkable. I have covered politics for a long time and seen a lot of candidates drop opo, as we call it, Opposition Research on their political opponents. I have never seen a white house do it to one of their own officials, much less in the middle of a pandemic,...

Than 15,000 new cases in a single day. Thats more than any other state including right here in new york since this pandemic began. Still, floridas governor said he plans to reopen schools next month, as the debate over whether that can be done safely heats up nationwide. Education secretary betsy devos pushing the president s message that the schools must reopen this fall without offer a clear plan how to do it. At the white house, a remarkable new effort to discredit dr. Anthony fauci, Administ...

Record for daily coronavirus cases yesterday. So many cases it ranks number four in the world behind three countries. It was floridas highest increase we have seen so far. A sing is the day since the beginning of the pandemic. Florida also saw nearly 500 deaths in the last week alone, which means the growing number of cases isnt just a sign of more testing. Me meanwhile, House Speaker nancy is pelosi pushing back against the Pressure Campaign to reopen schools. We cannot say to kids well go to s...

136,000 americans have lost their lives. At the very same time, a Silver Lining coming out of new york city which used to be the epicenter of the pandemic. On sunday, the city reported zero new deaths from the virus for the very First Time Since early march. Washington, d. C. , went the whole weekend without a single new death. The Trump Administration has unveiled a new strategy. This one is aimed at discrediting their own top health expert, dr. Anthony fauci. That includes listing past stateme...

Manchester Uniteds Marcus Rashford spent his summer raising the issue of Child Poverty in the uk. We will discuss it with the childrens comissioner here in england. And it is pasture bedtime. The hotel offering its customers the chance to sleep next to a horse. Small towns usually dont get a visit from a president ial candidate, let alone two candidates. But this week both donald trump and joe biden have gone to kenosha, wisconsin and theyve gone with different messages. Theyve even met very dif...

Same way we began yesterday morning. And so many other mornings. By telling you that more than 1,000 americans died from coronavirus in just the past 24 hours. Theres confusion this morning over a potential vaccine and concern that the Trump Administration will put politics over Public Health by releasing it before its fully tested. The head of nih says it is unlikely that a vane can be ready by october, but the cdc is telling states to prepare to distribute one before the election. As for what ...