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Joining us now this morning on washington journal is dr. John andrews. Andrus who is an adjunct professor of Global Health at George Washington university. Your take on the president s announcement yesterday after the grim forecast, president is extending the social distancing limits until the end of april. What do you make of that move . I think thats excellent. I think the evidence has to be in the drivers seat and i have to commend him for taking that action. Host let me show you the Johns Ho...

Total deaths approaching 35,000. We have been reviewing the u. S. Numbers this morning. The numberssee in and recent trends and other news from recent days. Put this in perspective for us. When i personally try to put this in perspective i think about my 35 years working in Global Health and there are two events that i think i use personally as touchstones in dealing with this current crisis. One is india. I worked in the 1990s in india and saw firsthand in 1994 how the ague crisis brought the c...

To referred them for testing for coronavirus . The one main difference of coronavirus versus the flu and we can go into this. Three main symptoms everyone has been talking about. Fever cough and shortness of breath. With the coronavirus. I tried to say those letters every time im on the news. So you remember what you need to look out for. Shortness of breath does not occur in the common cold. Shortness of breath does not occur in the flu. It is only sometimes present when you have allergies. Let...

Mr. Biden i want thank my sister, valerie and my soninlaw, dr. Howard krien here. Folks, look, we were planning a big rally in cleveland tonight. But the governor of ohio asked the president ial campaigns to cancel their indoor Public Events in cleveland with large, large crowds of people and thats what we did, due to the coronavirus and he was concerned about that. And as ive said all along that we would follow the guidance of the cdc, state and local officials and Public Health officials with ...

To the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States than that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological change. Within a f...

We have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to about emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of the sudden change we will significantly reduce Opening Stateme...

San francisco, mid 60s oakland, upper 60s, fremont as well as for san jose. Big changes for the we can. Tracking our next, i will time at all out for you on future cast coming up. If you plan on taking the san mateo bridge this morning, heads up we do have reports of an accident. A couple cars doing love you might see some delays as you work your way westbound in the commute direction. It is just before where this live shot is on the bridge. You can see traffic is pretty light once you get past ...

Fog along the coast and especially for the northbay once again dealing with some dense fog. Our temperatures will be in the 60s, a mild day, we will talk better storm system timing that out for you, details coming up. Good morning, we are still monitoring a Traffic Alert. It is been out there for quite some time. Two lanes are blocked for a minor injury accident. So crews are now on scene and traffic is backing up off of add getting onto 92. Once were past that it looks a lot better heading towa...

In e n plan walmart to take on amazon and save you money. Plus, the shocking figure. How much money americans are spending on coffee each year. And one new way to save big. Cut off, the new cash crisis for prince harry and meghan markle. Later, the new sport catching speed and you dont even have to stand up. Good friday morning, everyone. We begin with several developments in the coronavirus emergency. Stocks were down sharply once again overnight amid concern that this crisis could plunge the e...

Are being told, President Trump is expected to speak in the next few minutes and it could be a declaration of a National State of emergency, we are also being told that it will be dealing with the coronavirus, less than an hour ago House Speaker nancy pelosi said house lawmakers are moving forward on a relief bill that will ensure one keeping, testing, testing, testing. The bill would also have free coronavirus test kits and there will be paid emergency leave and strengthening the Food Security ...