Died. Nationally, the number of new confirmed cases is trending downward over a fiveday average. But the number of new infections every day is still staggering. More than 20,000 new cases were confirmed in the United States yesterday. And those are still only the people who were able to get tested. According to the covid tracking project, close to 10 million tests have been issued in the u. S. And a country with a population of over 328 Million People. That accounts for just 3 of the population. Experts are still concerned about potential hot spots popping up across the country with an eye on the states opening up their economies. And the nations top vaccine expert is still testifying before the house in person. Dr. Rick bright says he was ousted from his position after he pushed back against the president s desire to fast track the drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid19. And he warned congress that without a comprehensive national response, the worst is yet to come. A warn
Two weeks after his death in Police Custody sparked a movement against racial injustice, calls for changes in policing and protests worldwide, george lloyd was laid to rest. This will be a homegoing celebration. Floyds funeral at the fountain of praise church in his hometown of houston cap six days of mourning after services in minneapolis and north carolina. Religious leaders remembered the 46yearold father and said his death would not be in vain. I leave with you one word, his final word which was breathe. Attendance was limited to 500 people and included family members of other africanamericans killed by Police Including breonna taylor, michael brown, and eric garner. There will be no more 8 minutes and 46 seconds of injustice. What that order will say is in this city we will band choke holds and stranglehold. Is the floyd family thanked all those that came to support them they reiterated all their calls for justice. I want justice for my brother, everybody is going to remember him
Jillian breaking developed in the search for her kids, jj and kylie, not seen since september. Positive news, already making a difference at the end of the day. They lost everything in a fire. Fox and friends first continues right now. Rob matt finish live in minneapolis, some testimony was released overnight. Reporter todays house hearing seeks to examine the crisis. Racial profiling and lost trust between Police Department and their communities. The white house is working with senator tim scott to develop a gop response to the Democrats Police reform bill. Democrats need to bring their Police Reform package that would ban show colds, create a National Police misconduct registry and recovered federal officers to wear body cameras. In todays hearing among the scheduled witnesses George Floyds brother and benjamin graham, attorney to the family. A piece of the expected testimony today reads, quote, the only reason we know what happened to george floyd is it was captured on video. The ad
Withdrawing from contract negotiations with the police union. What our city needs now more than ever as a pathway and a plan that provides hope, reassurance, and actionable measures of reform. Because i work for, and serve the people, this worker must be transformational, but i must write dana lets begin with mike tobin, he is live in minneapolis with an update for us. There were two, big developments that came out of the press conference with you Minneapolis Police chief, the first you just mentioned. He is pulling police force out of negotiations with the federation of minneapolis. The Second Development is an overhaul of the disciplinary process that will use what he called the Realtime Data to intervene with officers. He does this with the support of mayor jacob frey. We dont just need a new contract with the police we need a new compact with the police one that centers around compassion and accountability. He also supplied the retreat from the third precinct building on thursday t
The police. We have good pulleys, and we have bad police. You cant sort them out so we have to figure it out right now. So right now, i want everybody to start going to Council Meetings and everything and get everything together. Ed lets go to john roberts reporting live from the north line but they are working on some head of a plain dumb academic plan. A long list of witnesses before the house Judiciary Committee, the marquee witness will be a felonious floyd as well as chief and Pastor Darrell Scott will be there, ben crump who is George Floyds attorney, ron davis from the National Organization of black Law Enforcement executives. Dan bongino will be tested phoning as well as mark morel who is president of the urban league. As our Senate Republicans, and Jared Kushner and sharon smith, the domestic policy advisor, visited meadow is saying afterwards that there are a lot of good ideas being kicked around. Senator scott was giving us some good input. We are letting them establish prio