Tunnel as he warns of dark days to come in the next 2 or 3 weeks. Overnight us coronavirus desktops 4000. 1700 people have died in the outbreak epicenter, new york. 76,000 people tested positive in the state of new york. Another hotspot is louisiana, could soon run out of ventilators as cases spike 30 over 24 hours. Brian hawaii retiring people traveling between islands to self quarantine. As nevada issues a travel advisory to stop the spread of covid19 it is not all bad news, 7000 people have recovered in the us, 1000 more than yesterday, one of every eight that gets tested ends up tests negative but stunning to think we are at 7000 deaths and we are going to get between 100200,000 deaths over the next month. I cant wrap my head around that statement and we could be doing everything right and everything they tell us and still get to that number. We top people with the virus, now if that happens we will be by far the top of those 4000 dead, tops for people around the world with the vir
Witt here in new york at msnbc world headquarters. It is high noon in the east, its 9 00 a. M. Out west, 11 00 a. M. In texas. Heres whats happening, Hurricane Harvey is still pounding parts of central and Southeast Texas with heavy rain and winds, with the full damage yet to be seen. But this is the scene just a short time ago in victoria. The mayor of rockport is already saying that the storm has brought widespread devastation with some buildings, including schools and homes damaged or completely destroyed. And then moments ago on fox news, Texas Governor greg abbott spoke relief efforts in the state, he spoke about that. Heres a clip from those remarks. The way that the president authorized my disaster declaration has already triggered the involvement of fema. What that will do is to help our fellow texans rebuild more swiftly. Now the hurricane is a category 1. It has winds of about 75 miles an hour with the threat of major flooding looming in many areas. The National Hurricane cen
Completely stall out across freeport. Seeing the backside of the bands. You are looking at the cloud coverage. Look how expansive it is. About 300 miles in diameter here. Nearly taking overall of florida. We are watching this closely. We are seeing sustained winds of 165 miles an hour. The 8 00 a. M. Hour report still has it out of the west at one miles per hour. We are watching the potential of a storm surge across florida and south carolina. I want to do some live reporting here and show you exactly where this storm system currently is. It has stalled out across the northern bahamas. It will sit there at least the next 36 hours. Youll see this innun dags of water and storm surge, really significant here. Everyone is talking about the potential landfalls. The outer band of this system that will push in the water. We are watching very closely from West Palm Beach to the eye of this storm. Currently 102 miles here. From West Palm Beach to the outer bands is about 50 to 55 miles. Well st