You can take time to get ready for work if you work for the federal government. Federal offices are opening with a twohour delayed arrival. You have the option for unscheduled leave or telework. Your kids have another day off today. Every major, and for that matter, minor School System closed because of the winter storm. We have a complete list of closings at the bottom of the screen and at nbcwashington. Com. Looking outside over washington, d. C. , it looks really pretty, but looks can be deceiving. It is bitterly cold with many snowpacked streets. Chuck bell with more on what lies ahead. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Theres a whole lot of crunchy, crunchy, crunchy, crunchy as you go down the side streets as the snow that fell yesterday is blowing and drifting around and getting crunchy. Temperatures, Single Digits and low teens across the area. Were at 12 downtown, but 5 in gaithersburg, 16 in culpeper, 10 degrees in manassas. Temperatures have fallen 20 to 30 degrees over
But a lot of times there are these moments where the racialization of the system, the bias, the racism of the system becomes more apparent than others. And what happens then is not so much that all of a sudden theres this plague of insanity in the black male population, its that the frames around illnesses, the way we dune define illnesses, change in ways that have some things to do with biology, but other things to do with old ticks. The reason people started seeing black men as crazy is because they were afraid of them. They were in the streets protesting and all in this tough, and this language of insanity became a way of quite literally ip cars rating black men but not having to take seriously the threat they were posing to the white political order that in a way it was a very political to get back to alondras quote it was health being politicized in the name of maintaining the status quo. So part of what i think were saying is that the its important to get treatment, to get help,
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Tributes are paid to the man thought to be the youngest in the uk to die from the virus craig ruston was 45 and had motor neurone disease. And the first people are turned away from the eu border under the blocs new travel ban for non eu citizens. All day long well be working to answer as many of your questions as possible. At 11. 30 well be answering your work and money related coronavirus questions with an employment lawyer and personal finance expert. The government is being urged to do more to help families and workers affected by the coronavirus outbreak, after announcing billions of pounds of help for companies. The chancellor, rishi sunak, made more than £300 billion in loans available to affected firms. But business groups said action had to be taken to pay workers wages, while labour said people struggling with their rent had been ignored. This morning, the government is expected to announce how they plan to protect millions of people who rent their homes. Here are the key mea
White house top doctors bemoan the fact that some people just arent getting it. Deborah birx warning that the data shows the amount of social distancing happening in this country today is still not enough to flatten the curve. Were only as strong as every community, every county, every state, every american following the guidelines to a t. And i can tell by the curve and as it is today that not every american is following it. And so this is really a call to action, we see spain, we see italy, we see france, we see germany, when we see others to bend their curves we can bend ours but it means everybody has to take that same responsibility as americans. Dr. Anthony fauci was openly be wildered that we have yet to see a nation stay at home order. I dont understand why thats not happening. As you said the tension between federally mend dated versus states rights to do what they want is something that i dont want to get into. But i dont understand why were not doing that. The top doctors on