Never give up. Woodruff welcome to our pbss ur special, confronting coronavirus. Im judy woodruff. A rus none of us can see with the naked eye has turned our lives upside down in ways we couldnt imagiek just a few ago. Most of us are anxious because so much has changed so fast; frightened because so much is unknown. Knowing that, we decided to try to addressome of your concerns. Over the past week, weve collected your questions, and, tonight, weve invit a team of experts to answer many of them. They cover your own personal health, the economy, and how prepared we are as a coury for this threat. Later, well also hear from dr. Anthony fauci of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases, probably the most respecte voice in the nation right now. But to begin, a look at how we got here. Its alover the world. Its incredible whats happened a such a short period of time. Woodruff onlw months ago, the disease now known as covid19 is believed to have originated at one seafood and
Welcome to front running 2020 with a mask riser and stacey are going to take a look at the policies on the issues heading into the election today were going to take a close look to the criminal Justice Reform. Place one thing youve heard throughout our campaigns is lock her up walk him up well mark her up which to me is quite terrifying i think that looks almost fascist but were going to look at justice because for the younger millennial generations theyre looking at issues of Economic Justice social justice and now we have Justice Justice and to put this into context before we turn to our guests to join us in this conversation Sinclair Skinner a marshall our back i want you to look at this chart of incarcerated americans right when the boomers became the largest voting bloc once they got their vote well that was right about there and it looks like they wanted to vote for it lock them up thats been their mantra for the last 40 years locking people up so Sinclair Skinner i know at your
Army at a south facing increasing pressure and abuse and in the corner virus where. Theres a lot of. Questions left on and on says we need all the hope we can get. You watching our to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 9 pm welcome to the program. First the number of coronavirus cases has now topped a quarter of a 1000000 the pandemic has claimed more than 10000 lives worldwide with over half of those deaths in europe alone meanwhile the World Health Organization has begun the 1st trials of a possible back scene it will not be estimated to be available for another 12 months. Russia has also started its own coded 1000. 00 vaccine trials the country does have 253. 00 confirmed cases which is relatively low compared with the west but officials point to the strict measures taken early on to prevent the spread they include comprehensive checks at airports as modesty it has been finding out. Welcome to sherry and thats in the airport where officia
Another that we otherwise take for granted its natural that in a situation like this all of us have many questions and concerns about how things will continue. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the coronavirus pandemic germany and europes worst crisis since the 2nd world war tonight german chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the nation and described the corona Virus Outbreak as a challenge to the country and continent the whites of which have not been seen since 1945 the number of new infections continues to increase exponentially Health Officials say if the public does not adhere to strict social distancing up to 10000000. 00 people in germany alone could catch the virus unlike france and spain germany is not in a total walked out and no one knows if it will stay that way what we do know is that merkel and has been chancellor for 15 years tonight was the 1st time that she delivered a message to the country in a prime
Of all we cannot have the contacts to one another that we otherwise take for granted its natural that in a situation like this all of us have many questions and concerns about how things will continue. On to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the coronavirus pandemic germany and europes worst crisis since the 2nd world war tonight german chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the nation and described the corona Virus Outbreak as a challenge to the country and continent the whites of which have not been seen since 1945 the number of new infections continues to increase exponentially Health Officials say if the public does not adhere to strict social distancing up to 10000000. 00 people in germany alone could catch the virus unlike france and spain germany is not in a total walk till and no one knows if it will stay that way what we do know is that merkel and has been chancellor for 15 years tonight was the 1st time that she de