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Covid19 crisis. It has brought tremendous hardship and tragedy, placing a heavy on frontline workers, straining our health care and Distribution System and imposing a deadly toll on seniors in particular. It has hit close to home for sure thatny and im all of our members want to join condolencessing our to senator elizabeth warren, who lost her 86yearold brother to the coronavirus. Elizabeth, we are very sorry for your loss. Visitor Nursing Homes has affected even those relatives who do not have...

Wit, heumann served in bill Clintons Administration shaping disability policy in the department of education and was appointed by barack obama as the special adviser on disability rights for the state department. She is also a former senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and advisor to world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work, and new book, being human, an unprepen tent enemy interior of a disability rights activist. She will in conversation with tam la edwards. The science your...

Think. That is wonderful with social distancing its great to see we can get it done and it was an honor truly to read your book it is a running theme people who should know say i had no idea people joining the conversation tonight on what your fight has been about and the changes you have made to give People Perspective compare and contrast what it was like as a young person coming into the world with a disability and what it is like now. On the one hand the difference is very significant becaus...

Pamela edwardss, anchor of 6 abc action news morning edition. The screen is yours. Thats wonderful. Andy, in this new age of social distancing its great we can get it done and judy an honor to read your back. A running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea. And im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made and in fa...

Long distances to their home villages. And mali pushes ahead with a long delayed election despite the coronavirus conflict and the kidnap of an Opposition Leader. And install chinas top Football League is aiming for a quick return to action it seems of back in training now and hoping to kick off this season. We begin this news on in europe where 2 countries have released concerning new numbers about the krona virus pandemic lets look 1st at spain it has seen another 832 people die in just 24 hou...

Shooting down of a malaysian airliner trial begins in a dutch Court Without the 4 men accused of murder. By joining us youre still with the sports tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams is called off as all the nicest cancel indian wells overthrowing a virus. So that we begin with the breaking news coming out of sudans capital where an explosion has hit a convoy carrying the Prime Minister abdullah was traveling through khartoum when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in...

Following the meeting, health and Human Services secretary zar followed by democrat katie orter. Thank you for being here. We got some of the leaders of the task force that the Vice President is leading as well as senior medical and technical experts from the department. We just concluded what are now regular briefings that we are doing that are open to the full senate, open to the full house of representatives trying to make sure that we are being radically transparent what we know when we know...

Experts from the department. We have just concluded what are now regular briefings that we are doing that are open to the full senate, open to the full house of representatives, trying to make sure that we are being radically transparent what we know when we know it as well as the uncertainties we face. We acknowledge this is a time of angst and concern by many people and trying to educate people about what we know and dont know in these times. We had a lot of discussions especially about lab te...

Crisis, with dr. Christopher mores, a Global Health professor at George Washington university, and Adriane Casalotti from the National Association of county and city Health Officials. This is the washington journal for march 6. President trump expected to sign 8illiondollar billion emergency funding bill, this has mike pence said yesterday there were not enough testing kits to meet demands Going Forward. Its will be disturbing to by the end of this week. Maryland has announced three new cases an...

Reflects and builds upon the economic policies of this president which have unleashed one of the most powerful economies in american history. Unemployment is down across the board. People are coming back into the work force. Wages are rising. Pensions and College Savings accounts are growing. This budget continues these economic policies and once again provides a path for enduring economic expansion by tacking the very real problem of deficits in our nations debt. The plan offered today proposes...