Declaration and we concluded that prefectures across the country have met that standard. The remaining prefectures are tokyo and three others in the surrounding area. As well as the northern most prefecture of hokkaido. The state of emergency once covered the entire country, but it was scaled back in recent weeks as the number of new infections declined. The Prime Minister says that Business Activities will restart in phases. Professional baseball games will resume next month but without spectators in the stands. Abe says he aims to create what he calls a new normal in the country. Translator our businesess a daily routines will be severely affected. From now on its important to think about how we can conduct business and live our lives while still controlling the risk of infection. The governments Coronavirus Task force is set to meet shortly to finalize the decision. Tokyos governor that afternooned people for their cooperation but urged them to remain cautious. Translator there coul
Narrator under the spreading chestnut trees, the smithy stands, so said the poet longfellow. Times which we sometimes call the good old days, but just how good were the good old days . The blacksmith of olden times, a mighty man he had to be. The tiller of the soil, the mighty man was he also and he had to be, he was the Food Industry toiling for the necessities of life. The woman in the home. Not often do you hear her for theldren sigh good old days, not if they really know how she labors from dawn to dusk. We need to know from whence we have come, how we have advanced to appreciate what we have achieved and to have faith and opportunities to come through the american system. Founded upon liberty and freedom of initiative, we have created progress that is envied by other nations. Go back 50, 100 years and watch the system work, america marching forward. Forward on the road to the marvels of today and a more widespread distribution of the benefits of industry than any other nation the
Welcome you to this primetime edition of washington journal. House Speaker Pelosi outlining a new stimulus plan. The price tag, 3 trillion. Votes this friday. Live on cspan. We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. If you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide, the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner
Staff and short of resources to need in a normal time to have responded to quickly and to work so closely in coordinating with all of the different departments under the leadership of mayor breed. And i think across the country of all of the different places and the tragedies that many of our vulnerable population and community are experiencing, i just wish that there was a way to transport the kind of leadership in community and sense of common good that we have here in San Francisco. Even with all the questions and all the kind of wanting to be better sentiments that are expressed by many of our advocates. I do feel that San Francisco is most fortunate. Words cant quite express, but again, justice want to express thanks and gratitude, respect, and i know that we have a lot more to go. A lot more road to go and we will be there. We are all in this together. A commissioner green. Yes. It was said so eloquently by all of you. I am on the front line. I am in the hospital every day. And t
We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. For those of you out west if you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner from 2014 to 2015. Dr. Wen happy to be with you. Host i want to begin with new projections new 4, the withy august death toll could exceed 147,000.