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Also noted for the second day in a row, this state now logged its highest single day death toll. On tuesday, that number 779. A blunt assessment. Its going to be a bad week for deaths. Reporter with overloaded hard hit communities bringing in refrigerated trailers and more help. In new york city, hundreds of National Guard members and more than 50 active duty mortuary military specialists are now assisting the medical examiners office. States and cities report a rising death toll, there is some ...

Democrats move to get the seat? >> democrats should move quickly, remember, 10 days before the election in 20 -- excuse me, 2016, president, or president-elect, trump, former president trump, was able to push through a nominee, and there, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell at the time and so this administration and chuck schumer should not waste any time, five weeks i think for getting someone through and already been several women, nominees who had bipartisan support and approval so hopeful...

Call with russian president vladimir putin ended mostly in a stalemate. of course, some of the same conservative patriots calling the president weak over the situation in ukraine are the same ones calling for the economic mayhem on our northern border to spread into our cities as committee and police and antivaccine protesters clash this weekend over the on going blockades of major border crossings and federal law enforcement is worried that the unrest could threaten americas wiggest sporting ev...

The presidency. >> trump is up in his 70s, joe biden is highly experienced. when joe biden says he is the most qualified, it reminds me of george h.w. bush. a very qualified, lots of experience. you cannot argue with joe biden joe bidens many years in the senate and also as the head of the judiciary committee. >> laura: they dont want biden! they want to beto. biden 25, bernie sanders 13, hillary clinton, 13, beto orourke 9%. i dont think any of that means anything right now because im telling y...

>> we pray that the parents there who are waiting for some word can get word about their loved ones very soon. thank you very much for the reporting. back to politics, what does a divided congress mean for the next two years? mitchell andrew will give us his take next. our big idaho potato truck is out there somewhere

Richard lui. breaking news. new orleans mayor mitchell andrew called the deadly shooting in his city last night an unconscionable act. new orleans police have identified the victim as 25-year-old demontres toliver of baton rouge. four other victims remain in the hospital. new orleans police continue to search for the suspect. now back to "split second desis." almost half a million fires ignite each year in buildings. thats according to the fire -- national fire protection association. its an a...

Mayor mitchell andrew and i created cities united. anthony smith is director there. focused on stopping violence in the african-american community, men and boys. and so that is the kind of work that i want to continue right here in philadelphia. but also raise many of these issues to a national level. philadelphia is currently the largest city in thamerica with african-american mayor. the charter says i have to go, so i have to work on. but the work continues. whether in elected office or not, t...

it is in the babies and the school children of flint. lead is devastating to the human body and children builds up swiftly in kidneys and bones and livers and brains and the effects irreversible. in just a matter of months, the children and babies of flint, michigan became two to three times more likely to show elevated levels of lead in their bodies coming after the state of michigan allowed flint to change the source of its drinking water without taking precautions. this is the story...

for a second term. and there are reports that there are a number of officials making announcements as well. and hillary clintons last day as secretary of state, and she said she is ready for some rest after logging almost a million miles in the air. editors at the wall street journal say there are hackers in china, and they were trying to find out how the wall street journals was covering stories in china. and newspapers say they have now beefed up their cyber security. we are also...

the northwestern fringes of the strongest band around the center are now over southeastern louisiana. gus over 70 miles per hour. you will see more of that kind of wind and heavier rain move onshore of alabama, mississippi and southeastern louisiana. conditions really are going downhill as the afternoon goes on. you can see on the satellite that in the southern part of the circulation and out to the east, there is perhaps a longer period of rain and wind that will occur. the north side...