To stay connected. Vicks vapopatch. Easy to wear with soothing vicks vapors for her, for you, for the whole family. Trusted soothing vapors, from vicks thanks for joining us. Tonight, covid19 inflicting a deadly toll on rural towns. Once seemingly insulated from the pandemic, now struggling to survive as Health Care Workers grapple with a death toll topping 250,000. Heres Steve Osunsami with the abc news investigation into a quarter million, americas loss. Reporter here in the heart of rural georgia for those trying to give up, for those struggling with covid19 reporter reverend Willard Weston praying for mercy from the coronavirus. A proper understanding, have mercy right now in the name of jesus reporter begging the lord to keep it from stealing more lives. Let us understand, lord, it cant be our way, it cant be my way, it has to be your way. And when you have spoken, lord, we must submit ourselves unto thee, amen. Reporter at Sardis Baptist church in dawson, this is what services lo
It also limits our share of federal dollars. Political leaders across the state agreed there is much work to be done to change peoples mindset. In alameda county, community and elected leaders rallied today to dispel the myth caused by the proposed citizenship question. Sacramento has been busy spending money to urge people to be counted. In 2017, california spent 10 million. In 2018 90 million and another 87 million will be allocated pending the governors signature before midnight. Ill do the math for you. 187 million is being invested to make sure we get a complete count. Reporter the Supreme Court asked that the Trump Administration give a legal reason as to why it wants to add that question. The deadline for printing the census questionnaire and other forms is july 1st. Today the president said, i have asked if they can delay the census no matter how long until the United States Supreme Court is given Additional Information from which it can make a final and decisive decision on th
Mountains. The second one is coming developing rapidly behind that. Well get some morning rain. Could be a light more steady rain starting to develop a little bit to the west and weve had a few reports to the north but its kind of hit and miss here up to lake county. Were waiting for that to kind of moisten things up. And then they will all pick up throughout the day. It will be later on as that whole system develops. Right now things are pretty quiet. Look for cloudy skies and by tonight thats when this all develops rapidly and were already seeing signs of that. 60s, upper 60s, low 70s. Theres a really big difference in the high temps. All right allie. 5 01 things still quiet or picking up . Things are picking up. With a little bit of rain tomorrow thats when we all see those spin out crashes. I think tomorrow might be a different story. lets start with today. Your commute coming through tracy. Its getting a little more crowded as you head through westbound 580. Although its a litt
Candidates within 4700 votes of each other, and night we learned governor mccrory challenging votes cast in 52 counties. Adam owens is live in downtown raleigh to explain what all of this means. Reporter it appear it is counting is not over. There are protests to votes in North Carolina counties. E latest challenge in the gorns race volves most of those counties. There are claims votes were cast by felons and in the name cast multiple balts. In wake county nearly 30 votes having challenged. Anotr sue, a federal cour order effecting the canvass in dozens of counties. Last month the judge id people whos registrations were not turned over by thdmv in a timely manner should be alwed to vote provisionally. Confming thecases uld take more time. Adto that allegations of Election Fraud fr governor mccrorys mpaigninvolving dozen counties. The outcome could effect close races across the strait. In the governors state. In the governors raccoer leads mccrory by roughly 5,000 votes staid white. A s
Were supposed to be here this afternoon. Reporter Mary Ellen Foley overcome with emotion upon arriving to see her beloved American Legion post 396 destroyed. Shed been coming here for 25 years even planning a Surprise Party here next month. The uniforms of the men and women who served in our armed forces for many, many years, and the pictures and the medals, things that cant be replaced. Reporter eyebrows raised, of course, as an American Legion post goes up in flames on memorial day. The fire marshal, atf and police all here now looking for a cause but wont speculate. Fire cause is still under investigation. It will be awhile before we can even get inside that building. Reporter jones was driving by and recorded this video from her cell phone as firefighters had just arrived. The smoke was so black and thick with the flames you could feel the heat actually. Smoke first and then as soon as we made the right to come into this part, all you seen was flames. Reporter despite battling the