Tuesday, May 5 coronavirus and top news briefs
Hello, welcome to The Daily Moth! It is Tuesday, May 5. Here are coronavirus and top news briefs.
Wendy’s, the fast food chain, is now having shortages of beef. News reports said 1 out of 5 Wendy’s locations in the U.S. is no longer offering hamburgers. This has to do with the impact of COVID-19 on meatpacking plants across the U.S. as many workers have fallen ill, forcing some to stop production.
The New York Times reported that Costco, Kroger, and Hy-Vee have placed various limits on purchases of pork, ground beef, and poultry. They have to ration their purchases.
President Donald Trump flew to Phoenix today. He said everybody who was traveling with him has been tested for the coronavirus with test kits that provide results within five minutes. He held a roundtable discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on Native American communities. He said over 2,000 members of the Navajo Nation have contracted COVID-19 and at least 70 died and promised that they would get $600 million to fight COVID-19. He signed a proclamation to recognize May 5 as the “Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives Awareness Day.” Trump said he is committed to supporting efforts to end violence in tribal communities and strengthen investigative protocols to resolve new and unsolved cases.
At the time of signing this news, Trump was in a Honeywell International face mask production facility.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview with National Geographic that there is no scientific evidence that the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab. He said the evidence shows that the virus evolved in nature (in bats) and then jumped species. He said even if the virus was found by scientists and brought in a lab and then it escaped, it still means the virus came from the wild and was not man-made.
President Trump has claimed that he saw evidence that that an advanced, top-secret lab in Wuhan, China was the source of the coronavirus, but said he couldn’t share the evidence.
So, it’s different messaging from President Trump and Dr. Fauci, who is the top infectious diseases expert in the U.S.
In separate but related news, President Trump said before his flight to Phoenix that he will not allow Dr. Fauci to testify before a House committee formed by Speaker Pelosi because it would be a setup with a bunch of Trump haters. He said Fauci would testify before the Senate.
In West Odessa, Texas, the owner of a bar named “Big Daddy Zane’s” opened the bar in violation of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that bars must remain closed while restaurants can open their dining rooms. There were six men armed with large rifles standing outside of the bar. ABC News reported that police officers arrested the owner for violating the governor’s orders and arrested the six men for having weapons on a licensed property. The county sheriff said the armed men was not there to protest their second amendment rights but was there to intimidate people.
Universal Studios reported that “Trolls World Tour” brought in over $100 million in three weeks in their direct-to-home release. Movie theaters have been closed because of the pandemic so Universal made this decision and it’s paid off. The cost is $19.99 to “rent” it for 48 hours. Will we see this as a new norm with new films in the future?
On Saturday at a Dollar Tree store in Holly, Michigan, a man was caught on surveillance video purposefully wiping his nose on a female store clerk’s shirt after he was told that he had to wear a mask. The Holly Police Department said the man told the employee “Here, I will use this as a mask.” The police department posted the video on social media and asked for help to identify the man and announced today that they have arrested the individual. It is not yet known the man’s name nor what he was charged with.
On Saturday in Santee, California, a man in a grocery store was spotted wearing a white hood that looked just like a Ku Klux Klan hood. A person photographed the man and explained that employees told the man to either remove the hood or leave, and that the man finally removed it at the check-out area. Law enforcement said they are looking into it because they do not condone hate or any acts of intolerance, and that they might bring criminal charges.
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Now, here are two bizarre news related to car chases.
In Utah, police pulled over a SUV that was driving erratically and found out that it was a 5-year-old boy named Adrian who said he wanted to go to his sister’s house in California and buy a Lamborghini. This image is from the Utah Highway Patrol and the boy’s face is blurred out. The boy’s parents came to pick him up and the SUV. Adrian’s other sister said she was watching him and other kids when she fell asleep and when she woke up, the vehicle was gone. It’s a relief that the boy did not crash the vehicle and get seriously injured.
The second story is in Merced, California. Police said they saw three SUVs traveling together on I-5 and saw them commit a traffic violation, but when an officer tried to pull over a SUV, it fled. Another SUV tried to block the officer, but the officer drove around it and pursued the first SUV only to see it stop on a shoulder. The driver got out and dropped two cardboard boxes, then returned to the SUV and drove for a bit before stopping again and surrendering. The drivers of the other two SUVS were also stopped and arrested. The boxes had $915,000 in dollar bills, almost a million in total. Police said the three suspects wanted to buy marijuana and were arrested. Marijuana is legal in California, but the amount of cash and the fact that the three men tried to avoid arrest makes it highly suspicious — and police said felony charges are pending.
So, when you drive, watch out for 5-year-old drivers or boxes of cash.
The U.S. Women’s National Team’s lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation for unequal pay was rejected by a federal judge on Friday. The judge said there was not enough evidence of pay discrimination and threw out major parts of the lawsuit. The USWNT said they would appeal.
In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro announced that two American men were arrested for trying to stage a coup. Maduro showed U.S. passports and ID cards of the men and said they tried to be “Rambo.” Maduro also showed footage of a group of men in a boat that was surrounded by Venezuelan security forces. The two Americans worked for Silvercorp, a security company based in Florida. President Trump said “it has nothing to do with our government.”
That is all the news updates for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/05/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd/#close
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/newsfeed/2020/05/trump-claims-coronavirus-wuhan-lab-200504121203518.html
https://abcnews.go.com/US/cops-arrest-armed-men-texas-bar-owner-violated/story?id=70509866
https://www.axios.com/trump-fauci-house-testimony-818e3146-c9f3-4c97-b9dd-c7c3faf8b4d7.html
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1257771817621696513
https://ktar.com/story/3129221/trump-signs-proclamation-in-arizona-against-native-american-violence/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/05/05/more-new-movies-likely-to-debut-at-home-streaming/3082125001/
https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/05/man-who-wiped-nose-on-clerks-shirt-at-dollar-tree-arrested.html
https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2020/05/03/sheriff-launches-criminal-probe-of-man-wearing-kkk-hood-at-santee-vons/
https://www.facebook.com/hollypolice/videos/238577607237058/
https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/05/man-who-wiped-nose-on-clerks-shirt-at-dollar-tree-arrested.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-wore-kkk-hood-face-covering-california-grocery-store-sheriff-n1199741
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/utah-boy-family-car-buy-lamborghini/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-chase-leads-suspect-drop-million-highway-pursuit/story?id=70508689
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/americas/venezuela-maduro-americans-failed-invasion-intl/index.html
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7g4d8/venezuela-mercenaries-silvercorp-gordon-goudreau-trump-rally