COVID 'Red Zones', Mars Rover Launch & NBA Returns - Thursday, July 30th, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, July 30th, 2020!
What to know today about:
- red and green zones in the U.S.
- the deal that has federal agents packing up to leave Portland
- which presidents will, and won't, be at the funeral of civil rights icon John Lewis
- what big tech CEOs said under oath this week
- the return of pro-basketball in "the bubble"
- who is topping the charts and breaking records
All that and more in just 10 minutes!
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Sources:
'Red Zone' Grows to 21 States: NY Times, CBS News, ABC News
New U.S. Death Records: The Hill, Newsweek, Reuters, Johns Hopkins
Federal Agents Leaving Portland: WSJ, NY Times, AP, Reuters, Gov. Brown, DHS Sec. Wolf
Agents go to More Cities: USA Today, Axios, Justice Dept.
Big Tech Hearing: AP, WSJ, Axios, USA Today, Full Hearing
John Lewis Funeral Today: AJC, USA Today, FOX News, NBC News
Mars Rover Launch: Space.com, USA Today, CBS News, Launchpad Live View, NASA Live Coverage
Eid al-Adha Begins: Al Jazeera, CNN, Al Jazeera 2
NBA Returns: AP, CBS Sports, NY Times
Lollapalooza on YouTube: The Verge, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Lollapalooza
Drake Breaks Billboard Record: CNN, Billboard, BBC
Thing to Know Thursday: Furloughs and Layoffs: WSJ, Dictionary
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, July 30th. |
| 0:01.8 | What to know today about red and green zones in the U.S. |
| 0:04.5 | The deal that has federal agents packing up to leave Portland, |
| 0:07.5 | and which presidents will and won't be at the funeral of civil rights icon, |
| 0:11.2 | John Lewis. |
| 0:12.2 | Plus what the big tech CEO said under oath this week, |
| 0:15.0 | the return of pro basketball in the bubble, |
| 0:17.0 | and which hip-hop artist is topping the charts and breaking records. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. breaking records. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:27.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:31.0 | Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:32.0 | You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:34.8 | Right now nearly half of the United States is still in the middle of a serious coronavirus outbreak. Federal officials released a new report this week that found |
| 0:45.6 | COVID-19 flare-ups in 21 states now are bad enough to be in the so-called red zones. |
| 0:51.2 | That means those 21 states have all been reporting more than 100 |
| 0:54.2 | cases per 100,000 people in the past week. And those states are mostly in the |
| 0:58.7 | south or west like Florida, Texas, Arizona, Georgia, and California. |
| 1:03.4 | But some states in the Midwest are also listed, |
| 1:05.6 | like Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa. |
| 1:07.9 | The report said each of the 21 states on the list |
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