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Thank you all for being here today. m going to go out of order, thank you, mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. I first want to get on the record and thank our subject matter experts. Experts. If theres anything we legislative leaders ought to be doing an more broadly our government leaders, its listening to Public Health experts. Thank you so much and the experts in some of these discrete areas that will be impacted by the coronavirus. I regret that in minutes i have another meetin...

Budget director. Thank you for being here. Let us go through some updates for today. Areveryone knows where we and what we are experiencing. The increase on the trajectory of cases continues to climb. 76, 81. A couple updates that i would like to make to the local Health Providers. We want to anticipate the situation. We talked about planning forward, getting ahead of it, that we have been behind on this virus from day one. Rather than be reactive, people back to come get ahead of it. Local Heal...

Raise false expectations proven they begin to lose confidence. We should tell the truth as best we know it, scientists know it. We should let them speak and be doing all in our power right now to deal with being able to confine the spread of this disease. We need more testing gets. Testing kits. We should be rushing the supply of those. It has gotten better. Up have nurses showing over theirbage bags bodies as protection. We need to get them the help they need right away. We know there is going ...

They went missing in marylands Chesapeake Bay. Well have the latest. And remembering bill withers, the voice behinds some of the most beloved and soulful songs of the 70s passes away. Well look back with an extremely rare and revealing interview he gave us just a few years back. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. [ sirens ] hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. I want to come way under. The virus continues to spread nationwide. No...

Thank you all for being here. I will start by introducing myself quickly. Im the executive director of the task force and the political work and legal work [inaudible] [inaudible] most through the region and ba back. To my left is along side of the foundation an and they visited e border and theyve met with victims, medical workers, former detainees, survivors. The foundation has played a key role in helping to evacuate the Womens Center that we have so theyve been incredible supporters and clos...

Air pollution levels are going down. The coronavirus puts the brakes on north americas car industry will tell you what it means for drivers and the carmakers. Turkey was burning ambition for the olympics to go ahead despite the pandemic the torch arrives in the japanese capital. The coronavirus has now led to the deaths of more people in italy than anywhere else in the world and at the moment there is no sign of the spread of the virus slowing down just over 3400 people have died in italy surpas...

Putting the rate of their livelihoods at risk. Percent saturation 80 beds for your for a coffee can leave in a particular day and normally we identify have to bring in free or for our case we have a very precarious and difficult balance. Isolation is a cold hard necessity family members cannot visit here they cannot comfort or support outside is to not allow contact we try where possible to let them cellphones or video calls but sometimes they die when intimidated that cannot happen we know the ...

Another sign of how dramatically olympics postponed. The world has changed the the summer games ito summer olympics have been postponed until next year. On wall street today, the dow had its biggest oneday gain since 1933 after congress signaled it is very close to an agreement on the largest stimulus bill in history. Were talking about more than 2 trillion. Were going to begin tonight with meg oliver at the center of the crisis there in new york city. And meg, i understand theres some breaking ...

The committee will come to order. I thank all of our witnesses for returning this morning. We appreciate the recognition of our interest and oversight responsibilities. This is a crisis that is evolving quickly. Since our hearing yesterday, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Cdc has now reported that we have almost 1,000 confirmed cases. That is up from 100 reported cases a week ago. A 900 increase. Americans are worried. They are scared. It is ess...

U. S. Naval Institute News reporter sam lagrone talks about the role of u. S. Navy hospital ships in the coronavirus response. Washington journal is next. The men and women of the greatest country on earth are going to defeat this coronavirus and reclaim our future. After sleep deprived nights and marathon negotiating sessions, we have a bipartisan rescuent on the largest package in American History. Host republican and Democratic Leaders in the u. S. Senate announcing a deal at 1 30 a. M. This ...