Why they think its okay to fly. And pen pals. Students are reaching out and providing comfort to isolated seniors the oldfashioned way. Something to be said about the oldfashioned way. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. He wants to play all sides of the equation. I was surprised by his answer, actually, because, to me, its not an acceptable answer. President trump at odds with the nations top Infectious Disease expert over when to safely reopen schools. The president views this as a political problem. He doesnt view this as a Public Health problem that hes got to solve. Another nearly 3 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week alone. The National Bureau of Economic Research predicting that 42 of the layoffs now could be permanent. According to nsa documents released by two, obama officials requested flynns identity be released. The fbi has served a search warrant on North Carolina senator richard burr. Theyre investigating his stock trades. Al
Gov. Cuomo good morning. A pleasure to be with you. Everyone knows the doctors, the budget director. Today is day 62. Feels like just yesterday. Before we look at the numbers, i want people to recall the context of these numbers and remember what we have accomplished. We were faced with the situation where the infection rate numbers were going straight up. That was only 30 days ago that we saw the number of cases, the number of people coming to hospitals, everything was going straight up. That number would have just continued to go straight up. And that is why all the projections, national projections, state projections, local projections turned out to be incorrect. Excuse me. Because they were all believing that that line was going to continue to keep going up. When happened is, new yorkers, americans, changed reality. Literally changed reality. They literally changed the path of the virus spread and reversed the spread, and that is what the closedown procedures did. That is what the
Gov. Cuomo pleasure to be with you. Today is day 62. Feels like just yesterday. Before we look at the numbers, i just want people to recall the context for these numbers and remember what we have accomplished. We were faced with this decision where the infection rate numbers were going straight up. Thatwas only 30 days ago cases, thenumber of infection rate, everything was going straight up. Projections, national projections, state projections, that number would have just continued to go straight up. And that is why all the projections, national projections, state projections, local projections turned out to be incorrect. Excuse me. Because they were all believing that that line was going to continue to keep going up. When happened is, new yorkers, americans, changed reality. Literally change reality. Literally changed reality. They literally changed the path of the virus spread and reversed the spread, and that is what the closedown procedures did. That is what the masks have done. Th
Vulnerable to the sheer amount of disinformation that is spreadinonline. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. M or funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by when it comes to wireless, ucumer cellular gives its litts leomcu talk, text and data as you want, and our u. S. Based Customer Service team is on hand to help. To learn more, go to consumercellular. Tv fidelity investments. Bnsf railway. Financial Services Firm raymond james. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Communities. Engaged more at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions s togram was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributns to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff parts of the country are moving ahead tonight with pns to get up and running. Others are wting and watching the pandemics progress. Meanwhile, the u. Scrosses another sobering marker over one million infections, d nearly 58,000 deaths. Amna nawaz begins
The origin of the corona virus has been a politically sensitive issue for china and a bone of contention between democrats republicans and President Trump who refers to it as the chinese virus now to the u. S. States and germany plan to sue china accusing the country of lying and covering up the virus what it 1st appeared back in the fall of 2019 for more on this will bring in our chief. Parent how significant are these lawsuits and do they have any bearing so many of the short answer to that is probably not missouris attorney general eric schmidt is leading the case and after talking with economists at the university of missouri the state is looking to get upwards of 44000000000. 00 and now you also have mississippis a. G. Saying that. Shes getting ready to file suit now missouri is the 1st state to file against china mississippi the 2nd all the seek damages and it could be the 1st of many states doing this now according to the missouri lawsuit it reads quote during the critical weeks