Well begin tonight with a new concern from the governor. He sayspike in coronavirus cases. He says our behavior is leading to a new spike in numbers and putting peoples lives at risk. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. In his update on coronavirus today california Governor Newsom talked about those rising case rates and had a strong warning for a handful of counties that refused to enforce some safety mandates. He said it could come back to bite them when they seek state aid. Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas is live in the newsroom. The governor loves data and there was lots in his update today. The increase in coronavirus cases, the rate of positive test results, the number of hospital beds available. But newsom also showed he was ready to play hard ball with counties not playing safety protocols. The governors testing numbers showed an explosion in new covid19 cases from sunday until today. Just in the last few days those numbers have increased some 69 . To 7,149 individuals. Repor
Himself and his administration on its response to the pandemic. He theorized there would be millions dead without his brave and decisive action. Much more on that just ahead. But we want to begin tonight with a glimmer of progress toward a possible way out of this, a story you probably saw from earlier this evening. The cambridge, massachusettsbased biotech firm moderna today announced that every participant in its preliminary, early, early Covid Vaccine trial, all 45 patients all developed antibodies, in effect triggering a potential immune response. Now, because this is potentially big and important news, before we begin our leadoff discussion with our journalists tonight, we want to begin just briefly with a frequent guest of ours who we plan on talking to in more depth just a segment from now. But we want to bring in dr. Michael osterholm. Hes a professor and director of the center for Infectious Disease research and policy up at the university of minnesota. Also happens to be coau
Toward a possible way out of this, a story you probably saw from earlier this evening. The cambridge, massachusettsbased biotech firm moderna today announced that every participant in its preliminary, early, early Covid Vaccine trial, all 45 patients all developed antibodies, in effect triggering a potential immune response. Now, because this is potentially big and important news, before we begin our leadoff discussion with our journalists tonight, we want to begin just briefly with a frequent guest of ours who we plan on talking to in more depth just a segment from now. But we want to bring in dr. Michael osterholm. Hes a professor and director of the center for Infectious Disease research and policy up at the university of minnesota. Also happens to be coauthor of the book deadliest enemy our war against killer germs. Doc, as you know, tonight the university of washington upped its projected death toll to 240,000 americans by november 1. I contend we are optimistic people by nature,
Has upended life in america. Today in a Campaign Event that was falsely labeled as a rose garden news conference, the president conducted what the New York Times called one of the most rambling performances of his presidency. Along the way, he all but ignored the fact that we now have over 136,000 deaths and climbing. Instead, he again congratulated himself and his administration on its response to the pandemic. He theorized there would be millions dead without his brave and decisive action. Much more on that just ahead. But we want to begin tonight with a glimmer of progress toward a possible way out of this, a story you probably saw from earlier this evening. The cambridge, massachusettsbased biotech firm moderna today announced that every participant in its preliminary, early, early Covid Vaccine trial, all 45 patients all developed antibodies, in effect triggering a potential immune response. Now, because this is potentially big and important news, before we begin our leadoff discu
We are standing by for a press conference with the Los Angeles Police Department Regarding the latest in their investigation looking into the shooting death of a homeless man by several l. A. Police officers. As soon as this press conference gets started, were expected to hear from the police chief, well take you back there live. First n less than 24 hours israeli Prime Minister netanyahu will make a rare and controversial speech to congress to try to derail u. S. Support of a nuclear deal with iran. This is happening as reuters is just reporting today that iran is being, quote, slow to cooperate with nuclear inspest ers inspectors. Today netanyahu began making his case before a proisrael group, one of the most powerful lobbies on capitol hill. He was greeted with lots of cheers. Hes up for reelection in just a couple of weeks and he received a victors reception as he walked on to the aipac stage. [ applause ] right away netanyahu acknowledged the elephant in the room. His strained rel