More details coming up. The u. S. Secretary of state is in london with talks with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. We will have a live report from the british capitol. Good to have you with us. Well, after months of politicizing the issue, u. S. President donald trump appears to be finally endorsing masks. Mr. Trump tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask and described it as a patriotic act. He also plans to restart the coronavirus briefings today. It may be an effort to revive his Approval Ratings after a failed response to the pandemic. The coronavirus cases are still spiking in at least 31 u. S. States and the death toll has topped 140,000 people. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. Despite nearly 52,000 new cases on monday, there have been massive testing delays. A top u. S. Lab says covid19 test results are lagging by up to two weeks in some cases. Theres promising news from three vaccine trials. There is evidence they can produce immune responses to protect people against
Since the president was last in an indepth Task Force Briefing and still the president doesnt get it. You dont even have to trust a source familiar with the briefing. Just take a look at this morning. In a new interview on fox the president was trying to make the case for opening schools and he argued once again that the virus is going to disappear just using different words. My view is the schools should open. This things going away. It will go away like things go away and my view is that schools should be open. He is clearly focused on pushing all schools to reopen without offering a plan for how to do so safely, but despite his best efforts some of the nations Biggest School districts are not listening. Chicago Just Announced that its going to start the year completely online after initially saying that kids will be in classrooms a couple of days a week and in districts that had already started school this year in person like georgia, theyre quickly running into problems. Cnns Diane
A new study from the cdc says some patients can experience symptoms for up to three weeks after testing positive, and that includes young, Healthy People without underlying conditions. Despite that, the cdcs guidance on reopening schools is getting support from the nations top Infectious Disease expert. I dorks, i think the cdc wast good guidance down. I just took a quick look at them before i started the program, which was sent to me byly colleagues at the cdc. I think its a sound set of guidelines. A recent study came out that showed children up to 10 years old, it looks like they dont necessarily spread infection as readily as adults do, whereas children 1019 appear to be spreading infection to adults as equally as well as adults spread to adults. Lets start our coverage in new york. Cnns evan santoro is there. The state has seen its numbers drop drastically, but that isnt the case in so many other states today. Fred, thats exactly right. If you look at the map that weve been showin
That our response at the federal level to this crisis, would this be considered in your mind drawing on the expertise, is this the Gold Standard of responses that our federal government can do . Is there nothing else that you can think of from your expertise and experience that we could be or should be doing we are not already doing . I think i just have to repeat what several of us said, that within context of what we have, whats available to us, were doing everything that we possibly can. Ill just repeat what i said clearly the thing i am responsible for we are doing everything that we possibly can, absolutely. What you see with the position on the task force, for instance, are you confident in the level in which were using the defense productive act to bolster production . Thats something thats out of my realm, congressman, about the extent and the implications of the defense production act. What it when it comes to the federally we had federally backed tet sites we stood up across
Earlier today, protesters gathered outside dejoys home for a loud protest. Also tad, fedex put out a statement saying it does not accept individual ballots for shipment, advising voters closely review their states requirements. And a new investigation by the Senate Homeland Security Committee which oversees the Postal Service. It is clear that without overtime, without sending extra trips with taking these machines, sorting machines out, its slowing down the process. Theres no question about that. I have asked the postmaster general a number of questions. He is not very transparent. He doesnt want to come forward with facts. Nbcs Josh Letterman is at the white house. Josh, the president continues to resist emergency funding for the cashstrapped Postal Service. What, if anything, might change his mind . Depends what day you ask, garrett. The president has been all over the map in terms of what he might accept in postal funding as the issue of usps has been pushed into the forefront of t