Need to be disciplined to continue social distancing, which we are doing in washington. Peter what are you telling the california, nevada, and what you have learned being the first to deal with the pandemic . Ee i think weve been disciplined as a state and we have huge compliance with my stay home, stay healthy order. We have been relatively early in our decisions to declare emergency and close schools, and then have our stay home, Stay Healthy Initiative. That did help to bend the curve, we have a long ways to go in my state. It is not like i have something to offer any other governor. We are all sharing experiences. The one thing we have learned is take care ofre to longterm care facilities. These things can explode, and im glad we are putting strike teams in our state to go to facilities to make sure we have the topnotch Infection Control and to be early in that regard. You saw thatrse, firsthand in kirkland, washington, at a nursing home facility. Why was that hotspot so early . Is
And, social distancing guidelines set to expire at midnight tonight, the president will not extend those guidelines because states have put in their policies. Just ahead, governor jay inslee, fromater mike leavitt utah. Phone lines are open. Join in the conversation. 2027488000 in the east. 2027488001, mountain or pacific time zone. State,ington 2027488002. Good thursday evening. The numbers from john hopkins university. Cases inon confirmed 100 87 countries and regions around the world. 232,000. Toll 62,000 in this country. Joining us from washington is governor jay inslee. Gov. Inslee thank you for naming a show after Washington State. With let me begin unemployment workers. One in five workers now out of work, one point 5 billion in unemployment benefits. How are you dealing with the volume . We have received claims seven to eight times higher on a daily basis. Are doing everything to get checks to people with expanded compensation. I was one of the first governors to expand that. N
30 million americans now out of work as a result of this pandemic. And the federal governments social distancing guidelines set to expire in just a few hours, at midnight tonight, president saying he will not extend those guidelines because states have put in their own policies. Governor jay inslee of Washington State, and later the health and Human Services secretary will be joining us. Phone lines are open. Join the conversation. If you are in the manteno wec times out, were have a line set aside for you. This evening, we began with the numbers from john hopkins university, now 3. 2 million cases in 137 countries and regions around the world. The death toll at 232,000 here in this country. We are reaching the city 2000 mark and the number of deaths in all 50 states. Country. Joining us from washington is governor jay inslee. Gov. Inslee thank you for naming a show after Washington State. With let me begin unemployment workers. One in five workers now out of work, one point 5 billion
About to move into plymouth and indications out toward scituate and hull and marshfield that we got just a couple flakes out there, they are very fine, it is going to be flurries, they are not going to be high impact at all but again, southeastern massachusetts, south shore down to the cape, these are the spots that keep a close eye on this morning. Luckily it is 36 in plymouth, 36 in hyannis, so it is above freezing, going to melt if it gets down to the ground and future cast through the day really does maintain the clouds and few flurries across the coastline and 38 to 42 , take you through the next round of rain coming up and first Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic. Julie, new accident . 128 southbound right before the braintree split. So thats slowing things down as you approach the split and head up to the expressway. 93 south sluggish through medford, route 1 in saugus, you can see still very high heavy volume as you propose lynn fells parkway. Here are live drive times,
Behalf of the institute of human science and behavior at ucla it is my honor to welcome you. We are honored and proud to have with us this evening, a preimminent scientist who needs no introduction. Author of american mania, and the welltuned brain, which is had book that dr. Peter whybrow will be talking to us about. This is a real treat foresee many of us. We have people from oxford, france, and we are just delighted to welcome you this evening. Joining him is dr. Andrew lucter who is the professor of bio behavioral science at the seminole institute. He is also our factalty advisor. So we would like to thank faculty you for being here and sharing your knowledge and exp expertise with us. A few housekeeping items. After the discussion we will have a discussion and you will receive if you would like to ask a question, please pickup an index card, and write your question on the card and someone will come by to pick it up. We will not be taking any questions directly from the floor. If y