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Importance and urgency of making sure that the states are in the front line of this have that support. Thank you for doing this. I want to talk. Earlier today some officials in San Francisco were saying cdc guidance is not to move people from the streets into housing unless they have symptoms. Also today at a press conference in san diego officials there were saying that among those 1900 rooms they are not exclusively for the homeless. There seems to be mixed messaging from the state and the loc...

You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you s...

The increase on the trajectory of cases continues to climb. 76, 81. A couple of updates that i would like to make to the local Health Providers. We want to anticipate the situation. We talked yesterday about planning forward, getting ahead of it, that we have been behind on this virus from day one. Rather than be reactive, be proactive, get ahead of it. Local Health Providers should be watching what is going on in different parts of the state and anticipating what is going to happen. This is goi...

Weekly caucus meetings. Republicans are meeting with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin this afternoon about the coronavirus response. We expect to hear Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell address reporters at 2 p. M. Eastern. The senate will gavel back in at 2 15 eastern and, of course, well have live coverage here on cspan2. Up next, a conversation on the coronavirus pan dem sick and public trust in pandemic and public trust in government. We hear from this forum hosted by the Atlantic Counci...

Rights issues. Shes also chair of the institutes Human Trafficking advisory consults. This is vickie kennedy, an accomplished attorney and a nonprofit leaders. She advises government issues and regulatory issues. Shes the president of the board and the cofounder of the Kennedy Institute for the study of the senate and a nonpartisan and nonprofit, dazzling and a beautiful building here in boston that educates the public of the unique role of the United States senate in our democracy. Theyll be in...

President yee okay. Good afternoon. Welcome to the march 17, 2020 regular meet ongoing meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors, even though its not regular. Madame clerk, the roll . Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to ...

Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge...

Response efforts have not instilled much confidence either. Testing kits were notg probaby sent to the hospitals, and medical labs around the country, political personnel has overruled the recommendations for the cdc. In the administration was slow to appoint any single official for the Public Health expertise to coordinated our governments response. Even now, President Trump seems to be spending one of us time blaming commedia and blaming the democrats and being constructi constructive. Infecti...

Back of the room, my daughter who is doing a great job. , lets talk to you about whats going on today. First, what i try to communicate in these briefings is are the facts of the situation. And facts can be uplifting, they can be depressing at times, they can be confusing at times, but i think facts are empowering. In a situation like this, not knowing the facts is worse because thats when you feel out of control or when you feel that you are getting collective facts or you are being deceived by...

California has 33 cases of the virus, and thousands more are being monitored. We have live, team coverage. Thomas in sacramento with more on what the governor says is being done. Is a christian is in San Francisco where there are serious concerns of the effect on the tourism industry. We begin with rob roth in Solano County tonight. You just got an update from the Health Department there. Reporter thats right, in the press briefing is still going on. What we can say, the Solano County has been d...