this is deja vu news live from berlin beirut lebanon in shock this morning after 2 massive explosions devastate the city. the blast tearing through the city's port area killing at least 100 people leaving many others trapped unease rubble thousands of the injured hospitals are overwhelmed the blasts were caused by tons of highly explosive material stored in warehouses also coming up. into muslim tensions in india security is tight at this hour in the city of najaf as prime minister narendra modi prepares to lay the foundation stone for a hindu temple on the site of the demolished monks. and with just 90 days to go now until the u.s. election we hear from lifelong republicans considering the un's thinkable in november casting their ballots for the democrat. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today beirut lebanon awoke to scenes of utter devastation this morning after 2 colossal explosions devastated parts of this country's capital they happened at a warehouse where nearly 3000 tons of highly explosive the money and nitrate were being stored apparently without any safety measures

news live from beirut lebanon in the shock this morning after 2 massive explosions devastate the city. the blast tearing through the city's port area killing at least 100 people and leaving many others trapped beneath the rubble thousands have been injured hospitals are overwhelmed the blasts were caused by tons of highly explosive material stored in warehouses also on our program. with just 90 days left of the u.s. election we hear from lifelong republicans considering the unthinkable. casting their ballots in november for a democrat. and with parts of the u.k. seeing a rise in new covert infections tough new restrictions have been issued for millions of households in northern england. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today beirut awoke to scenes of utter devastation this morning after 2 colossal explosions devastated part of lebanon's. pittel happened at a warehouse where nearly 3000 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate were apparently stored without any safety measures at least 100 people were killed some 4000 injured that according to the red cross we're getting thes

amid the grief and pain in lebanon, there's growing anger at the government. the massive explosion in beirutilled at least 137 people — and injured more than 5,000 — dozens are still missing. the french president, emmanuel macron is the first world leader to visit since the blast and called for "profound change" from lebanon's leadership. here's our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville. france's president said he was here to bring home truths to lebanon's politicians. he received an earful of them in beirut‘s gemmayzeh neighbourhood. woman shouting they stopped clearing up their shattered homes and streets, and begged for help. please help us! please, please! do something about us! the french president is being pulled in all directions behind me, there is a great deal of anger here among the lebanese people. some are calling for a revolution. others are telling them that there needs to be political change in this country. most are just asking for help. their own president, they declaimed as a terrorist. and as they've demanded for nearly a year now, they called for a revolution. one

in beirut lebanon rula can you explain what happened to the domestic workers. now some of them sleeping on the streets can you give us some context. since the very beginning whenever domestic workers come to lebanon they do not find themselves protected by any form of law because lebanon did not sign international conventions that would protect those rights and under the national law it does not include migrant workers so when they find themselves under a file a system which is arabic for sponsorship or guardianship or treaty which treats them as if they did not have the autonomy or the responsibility over themselves and eyes unto one employer which is a drastic excuse for abuse of power and this has been the status quo or the economic crisis that has devalued that for over 70 percent in the past few months and with the $191.00 domestic workers are being true we're going to come back to. there are sort of rolling blackouts in beirut right now so we'll come back to rula let me just pick up with bunchy bunchy i'm just showing the tweet here what happened to africa

two enormous explosions shook beirut, lebanon, today. ly 80 people are dead and more than 3,000 wounded, but the death toll has been rising by the hour. and tonight, lebanon's prime minister is vowing to hold responsible whoever is to blame for the explosions. moments ago, president trump said it was a bomb of some kind without giving details. here's cbs' chris livesay. >> reporter: just after 7:00 p.m. local, the enormous explosion rocked the port city, sending shockwaves miles away at sea. scamg ) the u.s. state department is warning about toxic gases released in the blast, telling all to stay indoors. the source of the catastrophe? explosive material seized years ago and stored at the port, according to the lebanese government. but what sparked it is yet unknown. terrorism has not been ruled out. >> houses, buildings, dead bodies in the streets, injuries. hospitals couldn't accept more injuries and bodies because they were full. beirut is a destroyed city. it is like a real war zone. >> reporter: and tonight, the prime minister vowed t

mustafa stanley came here from syria before lebanon's own civil war the children were all born in beirut they had always felt safe here until now but at least they all survived. know what a feeling it was. we were so scared we thought we were dreaming. i kept wondering when i would wake up and has nightmares. i can still hear the sound of glass shattering in my head. so i feel. i don't know why that keeps happening. i'm shaking. but. not right do you need fruit you can be nothing no one of the big snow. ok i'm going to hold the best. for you on the last night i'm going to. be my love my dear it's good to see you're safe how are you doing you. johnny are soft is keeping many lines of communication going he connects spall and tears and victims over whatsapp and facebook posting what's needed and where here he's come to see its windows and walls have been repaired he doing ok. my guys come by. i don't but even for the windows. but johnny is told that a wall has collapsed. he says he will see what he can do about it. ok i don't you feel. well. even before the explosions this house in cairo a

and a tale of heroism in the wreckage of beirut lebanon on this nurse for example holding newborns she rescued from incubators amidst the blast rubble she told us exactly what happened in the infants ward that day. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today russian doctors are refusing to let opposition politician alexina vallie leave the siberian hospital where he's in a coma with a case of suspected poisoning now that's after. a german n.g.o.s sent an air ambulance to transfer him for treatment here in berlin doctors say he's too sick to be moved this prompted harsh criticism from the only spokeswoman who called the medics decision approach direct threat to his life. his wife is also not been allowed to visit him the molly was rushed to the hospital after falling ill on a flight from palms to moscow prompting an emergency landing here's what the chief doctor at that hospital had to say earlier this morning. that if we can stabilize the patient's condition and the council of doctors decide that he is able to be transported then he will be flown out but right now that is not possi

lebanon. not just in beirut.initial explosion, and it appears there was a fire initially at the port, and according to the governor, he said there was a fire and there are some images of this fire in which there are projectiles coming out of the fire. it looked like fireworks to some and early reports this was a fireworks factory that had gone up. they have since changed that story. but there was an initial fire in the port area. the governor said he sent in a fire brigade to try to put it out, and then came this massive explosion. a truly enormous explosion. so large that it sent a mushroom cloud up over the city of beirut. people who are in the mountains, beirut is in a bowl that goes down to the sea, but it is ringed with mountains. people in the mountains were knocked off of their feet. one witness said that it looked like hiroshima. people could see and hear the blast in cyprus which is 150 miles away. lebanese officials, a senior lebanese security official said that it wasn't a fireworks factory but that it

tonight, we have breaking news surrounding a massive, deadly explosive in beirut, lebanon. wait until you see the tape unfold. that straight ahead. l plus, the very latest details from today's heated antifa hearing on capitol hill. senator ted cruz is with us. also, condoleezza rice slamming the thought police on the radical left. we'll explain that. also, we start tonight with the developing story out of, yes,e joe biden's basement bunker. tonight, there are currently three presidential debates in the works. joe's biggest fans in the media mob are now begging him not to show. i have sources telling me tonight that his team missing, can we bring notes?, they clearly believe that joe biden is too weak and too feeble. they are worried that he will be destroyed by president trump,el and fake, conspiracy news theorists. cnn's own humpty dumpty tweeting that this story is far removed from reality. oh, okay, there is no violencece in seattle or portland and it's just a summer of love and festive atmosphere. i guess they forgot about theirr own network's coverage, or maybe they're

live from berlin i'm a very warm welcome we begin this broadcast with breaking news from lebanon the capital beirut has been hit by a nasty of an explosion dozens of people are said to be injured and there are some reports of people trapped under the rubble the calls of the blast is not yet know it's caused widespread damage and appears to be centered on the city's port area it is the to the winds the blast wave has turned cars upside down absolute devastation in the lebanese capital sadly a country that is used to explosions but this is an entire different magnitude altogether i'm joined here in the studio by my colleague joel a dull boy to talk about this breaking news story this is altogether something else we haven't seen anything like that in lebanon in recent contemporary times and these pictures we've been seeing are just incredible and lots of people have been sharing them on social media that have been captured from the city you see a massive explosion or huge white cloud and then there's another cloud inside that seems to be of a different color red and so forth and if you look closely at

important and what the german foreign minister minister also announced already on his way to beirut. lebanon but on the other hand. that we are ready to help in this emergency situation is castro but on the other hand that reforms serious reforms are definitely needed and i think it's also. we are facing now days here in beirut where exactly that in the name on all that especially by its representatives and by the. air ok so let's be clear than just warm depend on the disjunction aid depend on changes to beirut that lebanon's government. i think we are talking about 2 different levels of support and help the want is the long term level of support which goes back to 28. where we have the international investment on friends etc just a couple of weeks ahead of the lebanese and 3 elections where 50 states support its we are talking about total amount of 50000000000. excuse me $11000000000.00 u.s. dollars the 2nd level this is. targeting these situation we are facing all since last tuesday with a big loss in beirut and this can be framed as immediate emergency help from the international communit

i don't know if you saw this today in beirut, lebanon.osion caught on tape that people could hear and feel from at least 6 miles away. at least 50 are dead. close to 3,000 injured. that's what we know. here's what we don't: how the heck did it happen? it will mean painful cuts to essential public services across america. fewer teachers and nurses, longer response times, dirtier streets. but some say our states should just go bankrupt. text fund to 237-263 to tell congress to fund our essential public services. afscme is responsible for the content of this ad. you can't always stop for a fingerstick.betes with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you don't have to. with a painless, one-second scan you can check your glucose with a smart phone or reader so you can stay in the moment. no matter where you are or what you're doing. ask your doctor for a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestylelibre.us. >> neil: more hopeful news. the number of co

lebanon. people are showing support days after that devastating explosion in beirut. >>> thank you for joining us. i am dave clark. >>> welcome to friday morning, i am pam cook. when the evening rolled in, we had big breezes rolling in again. i don't know if that will continue. >>> off and on. the wind has picked up a little bit. monday we had 90s and yesterday was back in the 80s and we are bumping up a little bit. there is not a lot of fog but some is forming here. today looks to be a tiny bit warmer. it doesn't take long to get up to the 80s and 54 in santa rosa. there is west, southwest 20. a little bit of fog there but otherwise another sunny day. temperatures are near average to above. >>> here is my good friend, sal castor. >>> good morning to you. we don't have much the day bridge, it is very quiet. you would expect that at this time of the morning and that is exactly what we have. let's get back to the headlines.>>> almost 70,000 customers in manhattan lost power in a power outage. it is now being restored. this is a live picture. the lights are starting to come back on. it also affec

beirut in the past 9 years the e.u. has invested more than 2000000000 euros in lebanon. as a stock like it's never been on has an important strategically positioned in the eastern mediterranean and it is an important partner for the e.u. yet it's ivan as we knew him in the past experience has told us that on unrest in lebanon and he stabilize the region your own vitae festac that may be the reason why iran and israel have also offered humanitarian aid. now is taylor small the stories making news around the world today the australian state of victoria reported a record rise in covert 1000 cases and deaths as it went into lockdown to guard against the 2nd pandemic wave state premier daniel andrews urged people to stick together and not to panic as he announced that meat production would be reduced due to the risk of virus transmission in taurus and processing plants. twitter says it has temporarily blocked president donald trump's official campaign account because of a tweet containing misinformation about covert 19 misinformation was a claim that children are almost immun

mention any reporting from beirut lebanon thank you. remarkable scenes in beirut there and remarkable account in reporting there by our colleague besson every day and with me here is my colleague joel dollar what more have we learned about what has happened so coming in in the last hour we've heard that the prime minister has declared a national day of mourning for tomorrow the president of the country is meeting with the security council to assess this of course if you have to imagine that they will be going over all the possible scenarios as we have heard the the chief of security there from from lebanon saying that there was explosive material stored at the port potentially something like sodium nitrate that had been confiscated from a ship and had been in storage all still speculation there will of course be many rumors going around and as if to get ahead of some of those rumors we've also heard the reuters news agency reporting that israel has come out saying that it has nothing to do with this explosion the israeli foreign ministe

. >>> and now, an update on last week's deadly blast in beirut, lebanon, that so far has taken the livesf at least 158 people and injured about 6,000 others. representativeves from more tha 30 nations and international groups have agreed to provide about $300 million in emergency relief. world leaders on sunday took part in an online donor conference organized by the united nations and france. the french preresident says emergency aid must come swiftly and be coordinated efficiently. >> translator: the objective of the conference is to bring our resources together to provide a substantial response in the coming days, the coming weeks, to meet the needs of beirut's residents. >> a statement from the french presidential office says that under the auauspices of f the ud nations, donors will deliver the aid in the form of medicine, food, and housing reconstruction material. the explosion's aftermath triggered anti-government protests in the capital. violent clashes between police and protesters were seen for a second day on sunday. many lebanese people have long held back their simmerining a

the french president emmanuel macron will visit beirut later, on the centenary of the declaration of the state of greater lebanon. the country faces a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the devastating beirut port explosion. lebanon's president has called for a secular state, saying its the only way of creating real unity in the country. rebecca bailey reports. its 100 years since french authorities declared the state of greater lebanon, carving its borders modern lebanon is not ina mood borders modern lebanon is not in a mood to celebrate. some of the some of these buildings have survived. killing at least 200 people. the government resigned en masse but that's done little to dampen people's anger. on sunday, the president called for change. translation:

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the world has to help lebanon and beirut rebuild and to stabilize. human and labor rights lawyer dan kadlec thank you for your time and your comments thank you very much. lebanon isn't the only middle eastern country gripped by public unrest some 15000 people took to the streets of jerusalem on saturday night they gathered outside the residence of the israeli prime minister denouncing corruption and the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. after midnight police ordered the demonstrators to go home personally removing those who refused to leave but now who is facing charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust the prime minister denies any wrongdoing at the same time unemployment has soared as a result of crown of our structure us. it's now been 75 years since the us dropped the atomic bomb on the japanese city of nagasaki it came just days after the bombing of hiroshima on the 6th of august attacks led to some 200000 civilian deaths people continue to die years after the tragedy due to severe burns radiation sickness and other injuries.

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these these explosions a calm as beirut lebanon is in the midst of a social and political crisis a number of crises and what needs to happen right now to get the country and its people through the shock. yes there is never known is not one crisis in the midst of multiple crises so you mentioned the corona crisis. came after the. millions of lebanese protested against their government not only the government against a complete political system which is totally corrupt and which is not ready. to start any we flew home and to open up the system which is exactly the problem and i mentioned crisis 50 percent of. the country with destroyed the 'd 'd messes. 'd with pushed under the pope over to line then came corona the month long several month long lockdown now was searched in numbers of corona and section and then this that was wrong powell from the 100 foundation speaking with me earlier from beirut let's get you a brief balance from the other stories making the news this hour the former colombian president of our a rebate is being placed under house arrest while the supreme court decides wh

we're following the chaotic situation in beirut, lebanon, right now where dozens of people have died. of people have been hurt by a huge explosion. we'll go live for an update. >>> we have much more coronavirus coverage coming up. but we're also following a really worsening report of destruction, injury, and deaths after a huge explosion rocked beirut, lebanon today. the explosion has killed at least 73 people. they anticipate that number going way up and injured thousands of people in beirut. ben, we see a lot of destruction even where you are. tell us what happened. >> reporter: well, it's just after 6:00 p.m. local time, wolf, about five, six hours ago at this point i was in the bureau by myself and i thought there was an earthquake. buildings shook and i sort of ducked down beneath my desk thinking that that's the thing to do in an earthquake. but just a nanosecond later, the windows in our studio in one of our other rooms were just completely blown. this is the window frame here. and this scene was duplicated, replicated throughout beirut. i have spoken with people all over the c

to 50 kilometers away from beirut they each day become very in west jordan mainly. west of lebanon which is about 50 kilometers away from beirut. what took about 2700 people until this moment on down we have too many they are we don't know anything about them to announce it on social media television while all social whatever it takes people are asking for their beloved one they don't they don't know anything about them they are. moment. let me the be a destruction you know it's good if you. for the delay here in this ng let me just ask you about you know where you are on the is located in a geo political power keg almost immediately after the blast we heard from israel israel said they had nothing to do with the explosion we've heard tonight hezbollah is calling for national unity we've heard from saudi arabia saying they will stand behind the government in lebanon on. what what crossed your mind when you heard this blast think that this was. an act of terrorism. yes of course the huge explosion i never thought that because by the way it seemed that it's due to. new trait it was b

the roman reminder of our top stories there's concern over food security in lebanon after tuesday's explosion destroyed beirut's port the economy minister says lebanon will need international aid to help it with the financial impact of the blast at least 137 people were killed and more than 5000 injured. these are the latest pictures from beirut where the french president has just arrived to meet his counterpart michel aoun the lebanese president of the closed door meeting before president much is given a tour of the disaster site he says he wants to meet the people who've been affected by this disaster and france will stand by levanon and help in any way that he can. twitter temporarily blocked president trumps official campaign account for violating its content rules that included a fox news interview where trump made false claims about covert 19. and vote counting is underway in sri lanka's twice delayed parliamentary election these franken people's front party led by the rajapaksa brothers who serve as president and prime minister are expected to win a majority. at least 8 coronavirus patients have died in

it's still breaking and developing out of beirut, lebanon. are getting at this point the death toll so far and the number of injured so far, and we do understand there has been some damage to the american university in beirut. we will keep you posted on this breaking news, folks. >>> well, let's get back to the markets in this country. we are mixed. we had gains across the board when we started the hour but as we go into the final hour of trading, we have actually seen some pressure on the nasdaq and on the s&p 500. got a couple big names reporting after the bell that have been impacted by the pandemic. activision blizzard, video games, quinwynn, which is gambl and disney will be the headliner. want to break down all the news with alicia levine. i want to start with disney. obviously it is the streaming story that has catapulted netflix and amazon prime. lot of people thought netflix was dead but that stock is back 70% and right now disney is struggling. why do you think that is? >> look, the fact of the matter is that if your base business is

an 8 fold increase in mortgage prices the level of poverty and in beirut. lebanon has. exploded people until this explosion the big problem people were talking about in lebanon were suicide personal suicide people on able to survive both locals and even immigrant workers in the country there was a case of a net european worker for example so we have really devastating psychological economic situation compound by. crisis where people really i think at this point could not care less about it because of the problems they're dealing with a personal level so big. the initial the initial aftermath of course is how how do people get treated and we're hearing a standard that hospitals are reportedly full of people from the plastic sack numbers that aren't known enough stage our local hospitals are they sufficient what you've been taking us through the volatile situations our hospital sufficiently well equipped to deal with such a tragedy. well hospitals are probably not equipped to deal with this additional burden considering already the the the financial stress they're under do

chief foreign correspondent richard engel who is quite familiar with that part of the world, beirut, lebanon. richard, thank you. >>> in the middle of the pandemic, we are seeing tension between our medical experts and our politicians across the board. new york city's health commissioner just resigned after clashing with mayor bill de blasio. she's not the only one to step down. why public health experts all across the country are leaving their jobs in this crucial time. also, a history making investment from the biden campaign. it all but guarantees that you are about to hear these words a lot more often, quote, i'm joe biden and i approve this message. type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7! (announcer) and you may lose weight. adults who took ozempic® lost on average up to 12 pounds. i lost almost 12 pounds! oh! (announcer) for those also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death.

.>>> search teams continue their grim work in beirut lebanon tonight as we learn more about the incredible explosion that leveled entire buildings. >>> california prosecutors expressing their outrage tonight over the collaboration between learned that or than 100 people are confirmed dead. 4000 others were hurt after that horrific explosion in lebanon. terrorism has not been ruled out in the blast that flattened entire buildings in the capital city of beirut. our cbs correspondent reports the danger may not be over yet.>> reporter: just after 7 pm local the moexplosion rocked the port city sending shock waves miles away. the u.s. state department is warning about toxic gases released in the blast telling all to stay indoors. the source of the catastrophe, explosive material seized years ago and stored at the port according to the lebanese government. what sparked it as yet unknown. terrorism has not been ruled out.>> houses, buildings, dead inri, hospitals couldn't accept any more injuries because they were full. beirut is a destroyed city. it looks like every other war zone. >> tonight th

in beirut, lebanon. there appears to be a fire started in a building. ese are mass protests taken to the street. they are met by tear gas and live ammunition from lebanon security forces and these are protests because of just how unbelievably incompetent the people in the streets feel their government is and has been, not only as it relates to trying to react to the explosion that killed 150 people and wounded thousands more when ammonium nitrate stored at a warehouse in the port of beirut blew up. but people there are angry over years, if not decades, of corruption, mismanagement, hunger and increasingly large refugee population that's come in because of the civil war in syria. and unusually now, hard to underscore how unusually now, the people in the streets of lebanon are protesting against the iranian backed group hezbollah. and burning effigies of the leader of hezbollah in the streets of lebanon. the president of france, alicia, came to beirut after the bombings and talked about -- now we're looking at a live picture of what appeared to be a minist

in about 33 minutes with another look at your news and covering our breaking news story out of beirut lebanon stay with us this is our 2 international. so what we. crazy. in august 1 9452 atomic bombs were dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki and. to this day opinion remains divided as to the real reason behind america's decision to use nuclear weapons with no possible military justification for dropping a bomb i have no question that there were those in the us military who pursued the next it's the snow here in the planning in october of 1945 had chosen 20 targets in russia in the 70 years since the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki countless books and films have off the many just of occasions for and arguments against dropping the avons however declassified documents give weight to the arguments that the bombs were dropped not so it's a military necessity to intimidate the soviet union. the 1st ever atomic bomb to be used in wall was in the city if there is steam on the 6th of august 945 well over 100000 citizens were killed those in the hype a sense of what instantly t

injured thousands more and left huge numbers of people so this report is from when it's with in beirut. lebanon's government has finally caved in like the shuttered buildings along beirut's waterfront it took an explosion of 2000. $1700.00 tons of ammonium nitrate to bring down the prime minister and cabinet. today we followed it will of the people to hold accountable those responsible for this disaster that has been in hiding for 7 years and their desire for real change from the corrupt destructive state state of brokerages and theft to a state of law and justice and transparency to a country that respects its people they'd only been in power since january sworn in to replace a previous administration forced out after lebanon's banking system and currency collapsed. now they have a new crisis to add to all the others. the justice minister was asked if she was running away from her responsibilities which then if you didn't let anyone put themselves in opposition no one wants to be in power under such circumstances when facing everything a financial collapse the current virus this national disaste

lebanon's politicians. he received an earful of them in beirut's neighborhood.hey stoppedlearing up their shattered homes and streets and begged for help. the french president is being pulled in all directions. behind me, a great deal of anger here with the lebane some are calling for a revolution. others are telling them there needs to be political change in this country. most are just aing for help. their own president they declaimed as terrorist and as they've demanded for nearly a year now, they called for a revoluon. >> we don't know anything about this! reporter: few lebanese politicians would dare to get this close to the people's anger. then in a ruined pharmacy, the french president spoke to ada. >> he said, you must try our best again and again. we shallseo this b for our children, the future of our childr, because -- although we are a desperate, because we h enough. we are hopeless in this country. every time we try to do some project or to do -- we don't have dreams anymore. reporter: it's a sig of lebanon's desperation.it but asking its former colon

i'm sumi so misconduct thank you for joining us lebanon's capital beirut is in utter devastation today after shoot 2 huge explosions and they happened at a warehouse where tons of a highly explosive chemical were stored apparently without any safety measures at least 100 people were killed and 4000 injured according to the red cross rescue workers are still looking for survivors beneath the rubble it is unclear how many people right now are missing. a devastating blast followed by billows of smoke visible from all across the city. the massive explosion rocked beirut on tuesday evening flattening the city's port area with buildings destroyed and people trapped under the rubble. ambulances raced to and from the area transporting the injured to hospitals. we were at home we heard what sounded like fireworks we thought it was a container in the ports that was on fire and they weren't able to put it out a few seconds later we were flying through the air. when we heard the 1st explosion we went to see what happened next and i didn't have time i didn't realize there would be a 2nd explosion t

here watching the news still to come on our show in the wake of the deadly blasts in beirut lebanon is leadership faces growing anger over incompetence and corruption international donors pledge aid for rebuilding but demand top level reforms from within. but 1st let's take a look at some more developments in the coronavirus had that make health experts in the u.s. have projected that the number of coronavirus deaths in america could reach 300005 december 1st africa's confirmed corona virus infections have exceeded 1000000 but experts warned that the true number is likely much higher because testing rates are low officials in australia as hard hit victoria state say the infection rate has been relatively flat in the past week after mandatory mask wearing rules came into effect and the u.k. has added more countries to its quarantine list travellers returning from belgium andorra and the bahamas will now need to self isolate for 14 days. here in germany hundreds of students have been sent home from 2 schools in the northern state of mecklenburg western pomerania a teacher and a student h

news still to come on our show in the wake of the deadly blasts in beirut lebanon sleeper ship faces growing anger over incompetence and corruption international donors pledge aid for rebuilding but demand high level reforms on with that. but 1st here in germany hundreds of students have been sent home from 2 schools in the northern state of mecklenburg western pomerania a teacher and a student have tested positive in the 1st week of the new school year health officials are now worried about a steady climb and infections the number of new cases nationwide has talked a 1000 for the 2nd consecutive day. summertime and the living was easy. the threat of the corona virus is waning for many in the country. i don't think about it at all not at all. when they come to you remember to wear your mask. but when you leave public areas it's easy to forget on your own. discipline is falling to the wayside people are letting their guard down because the threat doesn't seem so serious anymore according to this psychologist. out of point where they think of testing the limits some say maybe i can tak