Afterwards he will take your questions please submit your questions using they will then step in to take them at the very end of the talk. We cant guarantee he will get to every question but we will try to keep them to as many as possible. Upcoming programs we will have here. Anthony townsend on the future of driverless cars. In our annual engaged you science series which is featured on reports. With samantha irby. We are adding new events every day as well as new events being released in podcast form. Many of the thoughts are available in video or our media library. Poke around our media tab not only ways to be plugged into the present. The taxpayers of washington state. The first and foremost is a member supported organization. You also know that rumors of vulnerabilities of nonprofits right now. We hope you will continue consider a gift at this time. One final Economic Data point before we start. The fact that other businesses are feeling the squeeze as well. If youre interesting an
The number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And doctor Francis Collins who once led the human genome project and now leaves the National Institutes of health needs a competitive shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and extensive diagnostictests. Covid19 plans should last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls s work speed a, faster than weve ever done that before but no one expects a vaccine this august. The second half of the school year schools should be able to provide more tests, more treatments, better Contact Tracing and hopefully we should begin to have vaccines. It will likely be the fall of 2021 though before we begin toapproach normal. There are several reasons schools have an advantage in weproviding a safe environment for students and for faculty. One younger people have been less hurt by covid19 and older people. Although doctor county told our committee we sh
Director of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights under law. She will talk about efforts to end Racial Injustice and advance criminal justice reform. Washington journal this good morning on monday, june 16. We begin with the latest on this coronavirus pandemic according to johns hopkins, over 2 million confirmed cases in the United States and over 115,000 deaths. We start with your thoughts on whether or not he would support if you seen shutdown a spike continue. If you support the idea, to a 27488000. Also text or put your comments cspanwj. At good morning. The New York Times had this story posted online. Coronavirus cases spark across sun belt as the economy lurches into motion. Arizona, texas, florida, reporting their highest numbers yet. As of saturday, coronavirus numbers were climbing in 22 states amid reopening. Governor,mo, new york one a press conference and guidelinesollowing on social distancing, masks, and other guidelines. [video clip] Governor Cuomo we are getting report
Departments especially in the counties experiencing the highest growth. Lee, mecklenburg and weick are our particular concern. D over the weekend i talked to Vice President depends about North Carolinas concern in numbers and i asked him in the federal government to help us with increasing our testing sites and his capabilities, especially focused on these counties. Another focus will be testing all nursing home residents and staff and this testing is ongoing. I now will ask our secretary of health and Human Services doctor mandy to share an update for us. Doctor cohen. Thank you, governor. Slowing the spread of the virus early on has allowed us to build our capabilities to be ready to respond to this surgeon covid19 cases that we are seeing. That included building up our inpplies of protective equipment, strengthening and expanding our hospital capacities, expanding our ability to test people for covid19 and staffing up our Contact Tracing. We are now drawing on these capabilities as
Announces he has canceled his Airline Investments and thats not all. Warren buffett revealed this weekend, which was nothing like you are seeing on the screen, it was a virtual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting with just buffett and one other person on the stage. Our expert buffett panel is here to read between the lines of what buffett really said. Wall street, as we look at this, it has happened. A National Store chain has succumbed to the coronavirus. J. Crew filed for bankruptcy protection, leading us to ask whos next. Major Industry Groups are now banding together by asking congress to prevent another one from going bankrupt. One of the biggest retail lobbyists is here on why the trump tariffs must be suspended if retail is to survive. And as restaurants, oh, boy, we know how tough its been for them, across the country take baby steps to reopen, weve got one of the bestknown star chefs of the world here. Celebrity chef Rocco Despirito on how to put out the massive corona fire