On a wartime footing. Warm welcome everyone. Thanks for your company. Right now were witnessing the 20th straight night of protests against Racial Injustice in the United States. Killing of Rayshard Brooks at a Fast Food Restaurant here in atlanta reignited the explosion of anger that began over the death of george floyd in minneapolis. These are some of the major cities holding rallies against police brutality. Brooks was shot twice in the back according to Fulton County District Attorney. First thing the officer said after shooting brooks was quote, i got him. Hes since been fired. The District Attorney telling cnns Federico Whitfield hes weighing murder charges. I can tell you definitely that probably sometime around wednesday well be making a decision in this case. I believe in this instance what we have to choose between, if theres a choice to be made, is between murder and felony murder. Were getting a clearer look at moments leading up to the shooting. Deadly encounter captured
To create a block house autonomous zone. Im sandra smith. Ed and im ed henry. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Lafayette Park where they try to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson before Police Stepped in and use pepper spray to disperse the crowd. Protesters also targeting that historic st. Johns episcopal church, once again, spray painting bh a z on his columns in an attempt to imitate seattles top zone. The president plans to issue an executive order to make citys guards or monuments of these ongoing instructions. President trump i dont like it at all. I dont like anything thats going on now. Federal, ive stopped. Ive stopped federal. But the states are, a lot of the states are weak, people are weak and they are allowing it to happen. Its going over a little bit around the world now. They want to remove the statue of gandhi, okay. All he wanted was peace. They want to take down ulysses s. Grant. No ones stock went higher than his stock over the past ten or 15 years. Ed Gillian Tu
And now half of the 50 states are reporting a doubledigit increase in new cases. That is compared to the previous week. Eight of those states seeing a spike of 50 or more and dr. Fauci today calling the latest developments, his words, very trouble some. In other areas of the country, were now seeing a disturbing surge of infections that looks like its a combination but one of the things is an increase in community spread. And then on this issue of testing, listen to what the president said just yesterday. We test much more than any other nation. So you hear about all of the cases, so instead of doing 25 million tests, say we give 10 million tests, we would look better because we have far fewer cases. You understand that. I wont do that. Butly say this, we do so much more than other countries. It makes us, in a way, look bad. But actually were doing the right thing. So here is what members of the president s own Coronavirus Task force have to say about that. So its the opposite. Were go
Congress. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday, june 24th. And im yasmin vossoughian. Weve got a lot to cover this morning. Were going to begin with some of those notable Election Results from primary races held across the country yesterday. 24yearold motivational speaker madison cohorn defeated linda bennett. Bennett was endorsed by both the president and white house chief of staff mark meadows. In the race to fill meadows former congressional seat. She will face mo davis in november. Nbc news projects that kentuckys u. S. Senate democratic race between amy mcgrath and Charles Booker is too close to call. Mcgrath leads by over 2,000 votes. And in november. And in new york, two democratic incumbent seats could be in jeopardy. In the states 12th democratic primary incumbent Carolyn Maloney is leading and longtime eliot engel over jamelbowman. Michael adams projects the total turnout for tuesdays primary would exceed 1 million, including 800,000 mailin ballots. That final figure woul
Records in five separate categories new cases, daily hospitalizations, inpatient beds, icu beds, and ventilators in use. Five new records. Trumps agenda did not include anything on the ground related to the virus but did feature a photo op at his border wall, then a speech at a students for trump rally indoors at a megachurch in phoenix. It was his second indoor event in four days, this time in a state where the virus is spiking again as it was in oklahoma. And note these pictures show the kind of indoor mass gathering we have not seen in this country since winter. People sitting close together, most of them not wearing masks. Its only the second indoor mass gathering in our country in four days, and the president has presided over both of them. Like his speech at the tulsa rally, this one featured a xenophobic slur to describe the virus. I said the other night, theres never been anything where they have so many names. I could give you 19 or 20 names for that, right . Its got all diffe