Bay area unite during the coronavirus pandemic. Good morning. We are looking aat you live picture of the bridge there. Partly cloudy. We missed you. The three of us are back together again. Strange time not to be actively working. I wasnt feeling that great. I was in constant check the with my doctor and i told myself, and mike, you and this too, i didnt want to enter the health care system. I didnt want to take a minute of my doctors inperson time. Didnt want to have to take test or even enter that. So i was lucky. It was a virus, not the virus an im back in action. Great to have you back. I was sick three, four weeks ago but that came across my mind. Im like i dont know to go in unless it is really serious right now. Stayed at home. Everything turned out. I was fine. But that definitely popped into my mind. I did not need to take up a bed or any seat in that emergency room during that time. Something new im doing to both of you, im plan ill Birthday Party for my son right now and he
Governor newsom giving his Daily Briefing on the covid 19 response, right now number wise we know there are 31,000 cases in california and close to 1200 people so far have died from coronavirus in the state and here in the bay area there are more than 6400 confirmed cases with close to 200 people who have died. Now lets go to Governor Newsom right now with just stepped up to the microphone. We have been able to organize this and help support our 6 million kids not physically in the classroom but we hope and expect are learning every day. The issues of equity and the issues of access and availability of laptops and computers, screens, issues of connectivity as it relates to internet and broadband, all of those issues we see on the natural but particularly under the circumstances made more acute and more foundational in terms of our ability to not just promote the promise of education during this time to actually deliver on it. I have been very proud of the work that many have done from
Then, national nationally syndicated talk show host on free speech. He joined us on this mornings washington journal. Host pamela constable, longtime Foreign Correspondent for the washington post. I feel like i should start off by saying welcome home. Pamela thank you. Im delighted to be home. Host all told, how many years of your reporting career or percentage have you spent overseas . Half. i guess close to first with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. That was close to a decade. Half. Off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. Host when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward a foreign reporting . My earliest, interest in journalism was more about domestic issues. Poverty, drug addiction, social ills you may say. I did a lot of work on that in the early years. Then i guess, i dont know, i traveled overseas as a tourist, two unusual places, and i began to think some of these same issues were definitely th
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School safety against targeted violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I actually want to thankour witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and your families and the other families of the families for attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that can prevent tragedies for other families, its remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which date back to about 1998 is where we had the first directed attack, numbers of 56. I know in your testimony youre talkingabout 710 shootings since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed, 12 students, one teacher, 21injured, sandy hook in 2012, 26 killed. Two were injured and parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Anthe death and casualty toll is simply unbelievable, quite honestly. I grew up in the