- Well, welcome to the 700 Club.
Ladies and gentlemen,
there's something we need tounderstand about ourselves.
We are social creatures.
We like to get together with our family.
We like to have friends in for dinner.
We like to go out to eat in restaurants.
We like the pleasure
of just getting together with other people
to go to sporting events,
to go to football games,to go to all this stuff.
Now we can't do that.
As a result, the number ofpeople committing suicide
has gone up dramatically.
The number of cases of domestic abuse
has gone up dramatically.
And all this business ofbeing socially quarantined
is really hurting us.
But we hear about the cases of people
who have the disease
who are dying,
but we don't hear so much about the people
who are in their homes suffering
with some kind of depression
and the violence that's taking place.
Violence against spouses,violence against children
is rising dramatically.
And we need to do something about it.
But the crisis of COVID-19
has been ravaging nursing homes.
Could the deaths be farworse than reported,
especially in New York?
And does Governor Andrew Cuomo
have something to hide?
As Charlene Aaron reports,
families and lawmakersare demanding answers.
- The official COVID-19 death toll
in nursing homes acrossNew York stands at 6,600.
But that number may be far greater
because the state only counts residents
who died on nursing home property
and not those who died
after being transport to hospitals.
For Fox News meteorologist, the stats
on COVID-related nursinghome deaths are personal.
Earlier this year, shelost her elderly in-laws
to the virus.
- So coronavirus happens,
we're not allowed to see them.
We didn't know his dad was ill at all.
We were getting updatesfrom the nursing home,
regular updates and one Saturday morning
we get an update, the end of March saying
your dad's not feeling well
and three hours later they call us back
and tell us he's died.
His mom was in theassisted living residence
and several days later she got ill,
and she had to be brought to the hospital
and they diagnosed her with coronavirus
and she just, you know,died a few days later.
- [Charlene] New YorkGovernor Andrew Cuomo
says his state has only20 percent of COVID deaths
from nursing homes,
compared to 68 percent in Pennsylvania,
64 percent in Massachusetts
and 44 percent in New Jersey.
The controversy began in March
when Cuomo mandated recoveringcoronavirus patients
be placed in nursing homes.
This, despite the availability
of the navy hospital ship Comfort.
2,500 hospital beds set up inside
the Javits Convention Center.
And the field hospital set up
by Samaritan's Purse.
Many say the policy led to thousands
of possibly preventable deaths
across the state.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul
wants Cuomo removed from office.
- Governor Cuomo ought to be impeached
for the worst public policypublic health decision,
maybe in a century,
sending patients with coronavirus back
to nursing homes.
- [Charlene] Despite multiple calls
for an independent investigation,
the Governor still refusingas recent as last week.
- [Andrew] No, I wouldn'tdo an investigation.
I think you'd have to be blind to realize
it's not political.
Just look at where it comes from
and look at the sources and look
at their political affiliation.
- [Charlene] The NewYork State legislature
wants answers andrecently invited families
who's loved ones diedin elder care facilities
to testify.
During those hearings,lawmakers also grilled
state health commission Howard Zucker
for failing to report
the actual number of COVIDdeaths in nursing homes.
- Your administration's definition,
truly misrepresents the true scale
of this crisis in our nursing home.
Let's try and get thefull picture here and now,
how many of New York'snursing home residents
died in hospitals?
- I'm not prepared to giveyou a specific number.
- [Charlene] Meanwhile, Dean believes
she was disinvited from the public hearing
because of her affiliation with Fox News.
Regardless, she says all the families
affected deserve answers.
- I would like a 911style commission hearing
because it's not only New York,
there are several other states
that did the same thingputting coronavirus
patients into nursing homes.
So, you know, listen, that's my hope.
I don't know if that'll ever happen.
But my argument is Governor Cuomo,
what do you have to hide?
- [Charlene] Charlene Aaron, CBN News.
- Well, you're gonna be plenty of scandals
and plenty of coverups because
the death toll worldwide is coming close
to a million.
You know, we've had worsepandemics before flu
and, of course whenyou got the black death
during the Middle Ages, it wiped out
over half the population
and it was just horrible.
Well, there's good news onthe medical front, though,
in the fight against COVID-19.
Even though the numberskeep getting worse,
Wendy Griffith has more about that.
- That's right, Pat.
The death toll nationwidehas now passed 170,000.
And five states have set new records
for weekly deaths.
But the FDA has approved a new saliva test
for COVID-19,
developed by Yale University.
It's simpler and less expensive,
as little as $10 per test,
which will invariablyincrease testing capacity.
Meanwhile, a New York Times report
says new research is offering hope.
Unpublished studies say patients
who've had mild cases of the coronavirus
show signs of developingstrong long-term immunity.
Those studies are still being reviewed,
but experts commissioned by the times
call them promising and exactlywhat you would hope for.
Well, violence is rocking America's cities
as protestors continue topush for defunding the police.
And some city councils are complying.
Crime rates are shooting sky high.
George Thomas has the latest.
- From Los Angeles to New York City,
from Philadelphia to San Francisco,
the movement to defund police departments
across the country is growing.
This, as at least 12 other cities
also brace for severe budget cuts
not seen in more than a decade.
There result, some say,
is a spike in violence nationwide.
Days after the citycouncil in Austin, Texas
voted to slash $150,000from the police budget,
three Cedar Park police officers,
a suburb of the city were shot on Sunday
after a man barricaded himself
with three of his family members.
- I visited them in the hospital,
along with their families.
They are all in stable condition
and doing well.
- [George] That state's governor
warning the cuts in police funding
will pave the way for lawlessness.
In Chicago, new video emerges showing
a violent confrontation between
Black Lives Matter protestors and police.
- This group changed their appearance
and began pushing our officers
and eventually assaulting them.
- [George] One protestor allegedly hitting
a police officer repeatedlywith a skateboard.
The mayor of Chicago saying the attack
on police officers was planned
and that protestors camelooking for a fight.
- We are absolutely notgonna tolerate people
who come to these protestslooking for a fight
and are intending toinjure our police officers
and injure innocent people.
- [George] Authorities in Chicago
now monitoring social media sites
for threats againstofficers and businesses.
- What we want to dois expand our capacity
in this face of looking at intelligence
on open source.
- [George] And it's not just in Chicago,
violence now eruptingin other major cities
across the country as well.
In New York City, morethan two dozen shootings
in less than 48 hours.
In Philadelphia, a massshooting at a block party
injures three teens and two others.
Shots were also fired at police officers.
60 shell casings from several weapons
were found at the scene,
including rounds from an AR-15.
On Sunday, in Cincinnati,
18 people were shot, four killed
in four different incidents.
- Horrific and tragic that we have
this much violence and potential
for that much loss of life
in our city.
- [George] All thishappening as a new study
shows violent crimeson the rise nationwide.
Murder rates in 20 major cities
spiking by 37 percent between May and June
of this year.
George Thomas, CBN News.
- Mm.
Pat, this is very serious.
What do you think?
- I think the whole moveto defund the police
is brought about by people who want
to destroy our country and the trouble
is city councils are yielding to the mob
instead of yielding to their intelligence
and the mob is ruling
in city after city after city.
And it's shocking, the numbers of people
who are being killed,
the violence is taking place
and the one thing you do when you have
that much trouble is to beef up
the people who are standingagainst the trouble.
Instead of that, the city councils
in city after city aftercity across America
are taking money away from the police.
In New York, $1 billion being taking
out of the police budget.
Just think of that.
In the middle of a crisis of people
who want to destroy thegovernmental structure
of our nation and the cities
are being laid open wide
to terrible violence,
the worst violence we've ever seen
and it's being orchestrated by ANTIFA
and these other groupslike Black Lives Matter,
which are trying to destroy America.
That's the open-ended goal.
They want to destroy thefreedoms we have in America
and lay us subject to asocialist dictatorship.
And the amazing thing is we have
one particular party, political party
that is in favor of defunding the police,
in favor of some of these rioters
and is not speaking outopenly against them.
And you say why can't we get together
as Americans to understand
there's an evil in our society
that needs to be squelched
and it won't be squelched
by taking away the weapons we have
to control it.
Well, that particular party
is getting ready to have avirtual convention right now
and Wendy can tell us about it.
- They are indeed Pat.
Democrats open theirNational Convention tonight.
The virtual event features speakers
from across the country.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama
will deliver the key note.
Others include progressivestander bearer, Bernie Sanders.
And former Ohio GovernorJohn Kasich, a republican.
The four-night event isanchored in Milwaukee,
but due to COVID-19,
only a small contingent will be on site
and you can follow the nightly coverage
on our website, that's cbnnews.com.
Well, high heat and lightening
are fueling major wildfiresacross California.
The Loyalton fire has burnedat least 20,000 acres.
Thousands of people areunder evacuation orders.
This, just one of dozens offires consuming the state
in the middle of a massive heat wave.
Over the weekend, power officials
declared an emergencytemporarily cutting power
to hundreds of thousands of customers
to protect the power grid.
And speaking of those hight temps,
in Death Valley, Pat, thehigh was 130 degrees Sunday,
possibly one of the threehighest temperatures
ever recorded on planet earth.
- Global warming?
I'm telling you, that's hot.
120 degrees, the highestever recorded on earth?
This is shocking.
Phew!
Terry.
- That's why air conditioning was-
- What was that?
- The best.
- Well, you know, fortunatelyit's a little cooler.
We live in a wonderful part of the world.
I mean instead of going up, temperatures
in our area of Virginiabeach have gone down
and nice and comfortable in the 70s
and it's very comfortable.
- It is now, it's been a little warm
for some of us here.
- Yeah, the Lord just keeps-
- Summer in Virginia.
- If I'm being blessed,
I'm not gonna complain about it.
- [Terry] That's right.
- I am rejoicing in thegoodness of the Lord.
