Approaching Dangerous Levels in places like texas, florida and arizona with covid19 cases accelerating at a rapid pace. Health experts warn the country is running out of time to control the virus whitney wild now has the latest from washington. The numbers are shocking the United States recorded more than 50,000 coronavirus cases wednesday. The highest number of new infections tracked in a single day since the pandemic began. Federal Officials Say the spike is due to an increase in cases and not solely an increase in testing there is no question that the more testing you get the more you will uncover, but we do believe this is a real increase in cases because the percent positive a teaser going up 23 states are now pausing or changing plans to reopen economies. Arizona california, north carolina, tennessee and texas all reported new single day record highs wednesday. This is whats frustrating right now is that people arent taking it as a search everybody thinks with false hope that is
Seth good evening, im seth meyers this is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . [ cheers and applause that is great to hear. In that case, lets get to the news President Trump tweeted last night that he was looking forward to the World Economic forum this week because the u. S. Economy is quote number one in the universe by far. [ light laughter ] which is a real slap in the face to Prime Minister glaxor [ laughter ] Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has unveiled his proposed rules for President Trumps impeachment trial. And to keep things simple he revealed the rules by emoji. [ laughter ] Vice President mike pence [ applause ] Vice President mike pence will visit the vatican this week and he will have a great time as long as he doesnt look up [ laughter and applause theyre just friends, right . [ laughter ] democrats today accused republicans of attempting to hold most of President Trumps impeachment trial late at night to limit the number of people watching on Television E
The bay area atop the newscast but more importantly we will talk about tomorrows ring which looks more impressive than this coming up. For joining us, im juliette goodrich. Im Brian Hackney in the kpix5 studio, we learned that an inmate at the santa rita jail in dublin has tested positive for coronavirus, we are told they are being treated roundtheclock in the medical unit, the first case at the facility. 3300 cases in the bay area about one third of them in st. Clair county. 87 patients across the region have died. Today Governor Newsom says more needs to be done when it comes to testing. Let me just acknowledge on the outset, that the testing space has been a challenging one, for us, and i own that and i have a responsibility, as your governor, to do better, and to do more testing in the state of california. So far more than 126,000 people in the state have been tested for covid19. The governor has launched a new task force that will work to boost californias Testing Capacity when wo
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