From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop is at Battery Park, near the Whitehall Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
1. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the number of positive coronavirus cases in the state surged to more than 20,000, with more than half the cases in New York City. Cuomo promised 1,000 temporary hospital beds will be swiftly placed inside a vast Manhattan convention center as officials raced to prepare for an overwhelming number of coronavirus patients.
2. PresidentDonald Trump will have to go to the U.S. Supreme Court if he wants to block critics from his personal Twitter ac count. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday rejected his request for all of the court's judges to hear arguments that Trump can block critics. A three-judge panel had concluded that the president's daily pronouncements and observations were overwhelmingly official in nature.
3. The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed until 2021. The International Olympic Committee has decided that the Tokyo Games cannot go ahead as scheduled this year because of the coronavirus outbreak. The IOC says the games will be held “not later than summer 2021” but they will still be called the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
