Unrest in the ukraine, the parliament is striking down laws that have caused recent violent protests. And a school with no walls. Forget recess. Some seattle area kindergartners are spending their entire school day learning in the great outdoors. And we begin tonight with the american agenda. Tomorrow night, president obama will be outlining his hopes and expectations for the year ahead. His opponents will be doing the same. According to the poll, the president s approval numbers are up from november, but his lowest Approval Rating ever going into a state of the Union Address. Couple that with defiant house republicans, and president obama can expect an uphill battle. Mike mccarren is with us, and what do we know tonight about what the president will be saying tomorrow. The window is closing and this could be the president s last best chance to really set the agenda, and the fact of the matter is, he walks into the House Chamber tomorrow a lame duck. Everything from last years state of
Mayor vincent gray knew of the scheme to funnel illegal money into the Shadow Campaign before gray ever announced that he would run for office. He says that gray agreed to call him uncle earl to keep his identity a secret, and he said that during the campaign, gray personally asked thompson for 400,000 in cash for efforts to get out the vote. And thompson told the judge that he gave 10,000 to a Family Member of vincent gray and additional 40,000 to a close friend of vincent grays for home improvement. In addition to all of the money that was funneled to mayor gr grays campaign, thompson admitted to funneling another 2. 5 million to various campaigns from 2006 to 2012 and that is d. C. Council races as well as federal races for house, the senate and including several primaries that Hillary Clinton ran in. He says that he admitted to funneling more than 600,000 to the clinton campaign. That is the very latest here at u. S. District court. And now, tom sherwood is at the Wilson Building w
[inaudible] everybody down. Either go down or stay over here. Represented danny davis is a markup and will be with us when he is able to be free. Trayvon Benjamin Martins father, tracy martin. Former congressman who was a chair of the Congressional Black Caucus as well and we welcome him back to the congress. Dyson andl eric executive director David J Johnson of the White House Initiative on Education Excellence for africanamericans area for the Public Service they are offering today in this inaugural event of a congressional caucus on black men and boys. Establishing congressional caucus on black men and boys earlier this year, representative danny davis and i out to raise to the National Level beginning with the Congress Serious issues that we and other members of congress are grappling with in our districts along with state and local officials and especially parents and relatives in our africanamerican communities. The issues are spread across the spectrum of the life of black males
All of them need to do that, everyone should stay at home and work from home. Only go out to the grocery store, to the pharmacy or the doctor. Essential workers should go to work, that is it. Once we bunk the spread we need to kill it with drugs, remember the space race, we need a vaccine race, both the manhattan project. All the brightest scientists in america Walking Around the clock to find aki vaccine. Are people of the most innovated in the world, we need to get a this done in less than one year. In the meantime, President Trump flashing red tape, and the fda is approving therapeutic drugs to treat the symptoms of the virus. Experimental drugs, drugs from overseas are being fast tracked. Drugs that treat malaria have shown promise to treat corona. These drugs need to be approved as fast as possible and safely as possible. We know the risks, the Administration Needs to harness 100 of the private sector, not less. Gm and tesla are offering to produce ventilators, instruction compani
On this drug, but its interesting to note at this point nowhere in the world is remdesivir approved to treat anything. Not yet. But the fda tells cnn they are in an ongoing dialogue with its maker to get it out to patients as soon as possible. What it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. Reporter very early results from trials of remdesivir suggests this antiviral drug actually might treat covid19. The data shows that remdesivir has a clearcut significant positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery. This is really quite important. Reporter this is not a cure in studies touted by dr. Fauci today it lowered mortality and shortened the duration of the illness. To work in a positive work in these very sick patients to me is indeed very good news. Reporter many states in this country now planning to reopen and soon despite dire warnings from dr. Fauci. It is more likely than not we will see this again and again until we really stick the nail in the coffin of this outbreak