President after an historic election victory in mississippi legislators prepare for a final vote on whether to remove a confederate battle emblem from the states flag. Hello thank you for joining us it began as an unknown virus among a few dozen patients in china at the end of last year now 6 months later the coronavirus pandemic is fast approaching another tragic milestone almost half a 1000000 people are known to have died and the virus is still spreading across the planet more than 10000000. 00 people are now confirmed to have been infected thats a 900 percent increase in less than 3 months a quarter of all those infections and deaths are in the United States by far the worst hit country with over 2 and a half 1000000 cases and the 125000 fatalities but the true toll is likely to be much higher a recent survey by the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention found many more americans that antibodies for the virus suggesting the real case count may be up to 10 times higher tha
2 years into tension calls for saudi arabia to release a group of womens rights activists. The coronavirus is wreaking yet more havoc in the u. S. Jobs market almost 3000000 people filed for Unemployment Benefits in just the past 7 days its down from previous weeks but it brings the number of those seeking benefits to more than 36000000 since the lock down of a crowd of virus began our White House Correspondent kimberly health that joins us now live with more kimberly so even though this number is down on previous week its weeks its still obviously not good news and certainly not what the Trump Administration will be wanting to hear. Absolutely i mean the numbers are down in terms of the number of claims from the previous week but the number overall continues to clive and it is predicted to continue to climb potentially another 10000000 american somewhere in the neighborhood of 46000000 americans is where this number is supposed to settle in terms of the number of americans that filed