And joe bidens relationship with the communist regime. Theecently talked about pandemic and how the global spread was made worse by chinas efforts to cover it up. You also said the u. S. Will be asking tough questions about our relationship with the Chinese Communist party. From concealing information to threatening whistleblowers to donating faulty protective communist the Chinese Party has exacerbated this virus, harming people and nations around this world. How is the Senate Working with President Trump to remain tough on china and hold them accountable for this behavior . Sen. Mcconnell even before the pandemic, President Trump was tried toho really stand up to the chinese and the way they operate with intellectual property, taking advantage of us in our commercial relationships for years. One of the hallmarks of any communist regime, whether it is in moscow or in beijing, is there not transparent with their own people. And that is an example where the lack of honesty is not just a
A sacred celebration for the worlds christians. One other International News story taliban prisoners have been released by afghanistans government raising new hopes for a delayed exchange. After a week in hospital in i. C. U. The u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has today been discharged in a statement mr johnson said he owes hospital staff his life he will continue his recovery from the coronavirus at his official country residence checkers in spain a rise in the number of deaths there has been reported for the 1st time in 3 days 619 people have died in the past 24 hours and the United States has now surpassed italy to have the worlds highest death toll from the virus more than 20600 people on known to have died since the outbreak began. Weve got 3 correspondents covering the story marta hero is standing by in madrid weve got mike hanna waiting for us there in washington with the latest from the u. S. 1st to london and my colleague barbara mr johnson i guess given his personality wi
Toll. At least 139 and nearly 5,000 across the county. No cases. The total there now in contra costa, 539. Santa clara, more than 1600 coronavirus cases. Religious services for Easter Sunday moved on up today. Parishioners sell brayed aun usual holy day. Reporter some for Live Streaming services, others have an easter we spoke with one paster who said they were going to gear up for this since they have to shut the pa pastor there says they taped easter mass on friday and loaded it online so people could watch. He want withed people to be able to watch at their leisure. And large gathers are prohibited to reduce the spread of coronavirus making it impossible to have inperson services. I think all of us who are online, particularly in the context of what were doing on Easter Sunday, are acknowledging both the Online Presence and just the nature of the pandemic, and how all of us are being asked to respond the way we never thought we could respond before. Having technical difficulties the
Treatment to stop the coronavirus, also talk of vaccines possibly available in less than a year, china is in a world of trouble, reported the economy contracted in four decades, china again raised the official death toll in wuhan, this time by 50 . But spring and former wisconsin Governor Scott walker, great to see you governor. Great to be with you, thank you for having me on. Liz were seeing a growing number of states possibly reopening in the next couple of weeks, this is about the administration shut down exit plan or are we heading into pandemic summer, what do you think, we have several western governors in their pack to reopen their economies like its happening in northeastern west coast, what do you think will happen. I hope that we are actually able to walk and chew gum and by that i hope are able to continue to provide the care that we need to make sure citizens are healthy and safe and we defeat the coronavirus, but at the same time put in place plans that allow us to gradua
The coronavirus surpass 20,000. You can see numbers right now on your screen check it out nearly 19,000 people have died so far. Yesterday Health Officials reported more than 2000 deaths and thats the highest number of deaths in one day here in the u. S. But despite that number Health Officials say that the curve in the u. S. Is leveling out. You can see for the first time that in the United States were starting to level on the logarithmic phase like italy did about a week ago and so this gives us great that occur not only in specific places but were starting to see that change to well here in california were actually seeing a positive trend, according to state Health Officials right now there are more than 21,000 coronavirus cases in california and nearly 600 deaths now thats according to Johns Hopkins university. And also in the bay area there are more than 4600 confirmed cases since Santa Clara County continues to be the hardest hit locally with more than 1400 cases there, 50 people