Deaths. Ill talk with a top harvard doctor who now says the u. S. Can expect another 100,000 deaths by september. The breaking news were following nascar just banning the display of Confederate Flags at all events. President trump is taking a very different approach tonight. Lets go to our White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. The president refusing to consider even changing the name of u. S. Military bases named after confederate commanders. Reporter thats right, wolf. Amid the National Reckoning on racism the army said earlier this week that defense secretary mark esper was open to having bipartisan conversations about changing names of bases named after confederate commanders. Today, though, the president is rejecting that out of hand, tweeting that those bases are part of a Great American heritage and announcing my administration will not even consider the renaming of those bases. While the president is weighing in on that issue we have not yet heard from him what types of poli
An end goal. We want to obviously our end goal is to get racial inequality out of here and treat everybody equally. That is our end goal. As far as the process we dont know the time frame. I have to run. Again, im way over. You fainted after your race yesterday. You okay . Im all good. Im here talking to you. I just want to be sure youre okay. Yes. Im good. Just got excited. A lot of stress and not a lot of time for preparation. Were all good. Appreciate you checking in on me. Ive been there. Trust me. Absolutely. Bubba wallace not watson. My mistake. I cant read sometimes. All good, brother. Appreciate it. Come back and see us. Good luck. Thank you. It is the top of the hour. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Just after 11 00 on the east coast. It has been two weeks since george floyd died in police custody. The video of a Minneapolis Police officer with his knee on floyds neck shocked the nation leading to mass protests all across this country, even around the world. A new cnn poll
Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight breaking news. A delta flight with 273 passengers on board forced to turn back as it approached bengurion International Airport in israel. The incident less than a week since a surfacetoair missile struck down a passenger jet over ukraine killing all on board. Today the faa suspended all u. S. Airlines flying to and from israel for at least 24 hours. Delta flight 468 was the first inbound flight affected. It was an hour away when a large rocket landed about a mile from the airport doing considerable damage to a house nearby according to the Israeli Defense force. Benjamin netanyahu called u. S. Secretary of state john kerry this afternoon to ask the United States to reverse the ban on flights. Earlier the Israeli Airport Authority urged those u. S. Airlines to reconsider saying, quote, theres no reason that american carriers should stop flying to israel and thus give a prize to terror. Several airlines followed the United States lead. Including those f
Optimistic about his prognosis. All the latest developments with the ebola crisis, beginning with chief medical correspondent, dr. Sanjay gupta. Quite a series of developments overnight, sanjay. No question, the cameraman working for nbc, his name is ashoka mukpo, 33 years old, working on projects in liberia for the last three years, this past tuesday he started working for nbc. The next day he started having some, started feeling not well, some aches, he got his temperature taken and it was a little bit elevated. That prompted this whole testing, testing came back and now theyre en route back to the United States. Mukbo and the entire nbc team. The rest of the team appears healthy and theyll be checked out when they get here as well. As for mr. Duncan, hes where he needs to be, in the hospital, still in serious but stable condition. And members of his family and friends are in quarantine, also where they need to be. But i will tell you, none of this came too easily. Health officials n
Routin routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium becomes routine, the conversation and the aftermath of it. Weve become numb to this. I want to begin with john vause on the campus of umpqua. But first, lets get to john. Youre at the command center. Tell us what we know about him. Chris harper mercer, 26yearold, don, not 20 years old as the governor of oregon had said earlier today. Were told that he does have ties to this local area. Friends and family who are tonight being interviewed by investigators. Police say it appears he did act alone, but we still dont know if he was a student here. Detectives and Uniformed Police officers have been searching the campus all day long. Mercer did not leave behind any theyre still looking for clues and evidence as to why he shot and killed at least 17 people. It was a moment of chaos and terror here. And this is how it sounded in the dispatch call from the local sheriffs department. We have a report of one person shot, an